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PublisherPenguin Random House

ISBN-100099554089

ISBN-139780099554080

eBay Product ID (ePID)219165315

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Book TitleRay Davies : a Complicated Life

Number of Pages800 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicCultural Heritage, Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Individual Composer & Musician, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJohnny. Rogan

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height2.4 in

Item Weight34.7 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"[Rogan is] adept at relating the social history of the 1950s and 1960s to Davies's brooding character and lyric obsessions . . .He uncovers psychological traumas everywhere and is fascinating on the bitchy rivalries between 1960s pop titans. . . .Such tales make this . . . oceanically researched biography go with a swing." -- Sunday Times

Dewey Decimal782.42166092

SynopsisThe definitive biography of The Kinks' legendary frontman and one of the most tumultuous tales in Rock history. Ray Davies, legendary frontman of The Kinks, is one of the all-time greatest rock 'n' roll musicians -- and also one of its most troubled and enigmatic. In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led The Kinks to fame with their number one hit 'You Really Got Me'. Within months, they were challenging The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in the charts, swamped by fans and renowned for the rioting at their gigs. Over the next three decades, Davies wrote a string of enduring classics -- 'All Day and All of the Night', 'Sunny Afternoon', 'Waterloo Sunset', 'Lola' -- that secured his status as one of the handful of people to have redefined pop culture over the last fifty years. But Ray's journey from working-class Muswell Hill to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was tumultuous in the extreme, featuring breakdowns, bitter lawsuits, spectacular punch-ups and a ban from entering the USA for almost four years. His relationship with his brother Dave, The Kinks' lead guitarist, is surely the most ferocious and abusive in music history. Based on countless interviews conducted over several decades, this richly detailed and revelatory biography presents the most frank and intimate portrait yet of Ray Davies, and promises to be the definitive biography of this most fascinating and complicated life., NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to fame with their number one hit 'You Really Got Me'. Within months, they were established among the pop elite, swamped by fans and fast becoming renowned for the rioting at their gigs. But Ray's journey from working-class Muswell Hill to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was tumultuous in the extreme, featuring breakdowns, bitter lawsuits, spectacular punch-ups and a ban from entering the USA. His relationship with his brother Dave is surely the most ferocious and abusive in music history. Based on countless interviews conducted over several decades, this richly detailed and revelatory biography presents the most frank and intimate portrait yet of Ray Davies.

LC Classification NumberML420.D25