The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society   The Kinks became something of an anachronism as the sixties progressed, the band’s rock’n’roll ethos playing alongside music hall and memories of an England that was fast fading from view. By 1968, when the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society was released, the band itself was fading, too. The album’s making was fraught with difficulties, with Ray Davies first withdrawing the album from release, then