The Kinks - Picture Book (Mimed Performance) (Upscaled to HD) 🇬🇧

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Upscaled to HD but limitations of the source material are obvious. Replaced the mis-synced mono audio from the original track with the stereo version.

"Picture Book" is a song by the English rock band the Kinks from their 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. Written and sung by Ray Davies, the song's lyrics describe the experience of an ageing narrator flipping through a photo album reflecting on happy memories from "a long time ago". Its cheerful sound is defined by the jangle of an acoustic twelve-string guitar and a disengaged snare drum. In continental Europe, the song was issued as the B-side of the album's lead single, "Starstruck", in November 1968. The same single was issued in the United States in January 1969, though it failed to appear in any charts.

While "Picture Book" remained obscure in the decades after its release, the song has subsequently become one of the Kinks' most popular songs, due in part to its usage in a 2004 advertisement for Hewlett-Packard and Green Day featuring the riff in their 2000 single "Warning".

The Kinks recorded "Picture Book" in May 1968 in Pye Studio 2, one of two basement studios at Pye Records' London offices. Ray is credited as the song's producer, while Pye's in-house engineer Brian Humphries operated the four-track mixing console. The riff is played by electric, acoustic and bass guitar, and the song's distinct jangle-sound was achieved by Ray playing a twelve-string acoustic guitar. Mick Avory altered his drum sound by disengaging the snare.

While the sessions for The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society persisted through the summer of 1968, the Kinks mimed a performance of "Picture Book" for the BBC Two programme Colour Me Pop on 22 July.