The Kinks are releasing their first ever box set ‘Picture Book’ next month (December 8) with a lavishly packaged six disc collection of tracks compiled by Ray Davies.

The Kinks’s 40 year career is chronologically represented over the six discs and includes defining tracks such as “You Really Got Me”, “Sunny Afternoon” and “The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society” as well as previously unreleased tracks, rarities and live recordings.

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Picture Book is accompainied by a 60-page, full colour booklet, which as well as telling the story of the band, also features never seen before photographs.

Some of the rare material includes mono versions of “Waterloo

Sunset” and “Lola” and alternate previously unreleased mixes of

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“Dedicated Follower of Fashion” and “Dead End Street”.

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