| Description |
311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Opener: New Orleans. The empty room -- Wings of fantasy -- The fake world -- The invaders -- Americana -- The big weird -- Thanksgiving Day -- Celluloid heroes -- Life on the road: diary of 1977 -- Sleepwalker -- The big guys -- Misfits -- Low budget -- Better things -- Unknown purple -- The morning after -- State of confusion -- After the fall -- Scattered -- Phobia -- Still searchin' -- Over my head -- Storyteller -- The voodoo walk -- A street called Hope -- Epilogue: security. |
| Summary |
The British Invasion musician discusses his love/hate relationship with America, from his first U.S. tour in the early 1960s to being nearly murdered during a botched robbery in New Orleans in 2004. |
| Subject |
Davies, Ray, 1944-
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Davies, Ray, 1944- -- Homes and haunts -- United States.
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Kinks (Musical group)
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Rock musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Rock musicians -- Homes and haunts -- United States.
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| Added Title |
Kinks, the riff, the road |
| ISBN |
9781402778919 |
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1402778910 |
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