Americana The Kinks, the Riff, the Road

Name: Americana The Kinks, the Riff, the Road
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ISBN: 9781402778919

ISBN-10: 1402778910

ISBN-13: 9781402778919

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ray Davies

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As a boy in post-War England, legendary Kinks' singer/songwriter Ray Davies fell in love with America—its movies and music, its culture of freedom, fed his imagination. Then, as part of the British Invasion, he toured the US with the Kinks during one of the most tumultuous eras in recent history—until the Kinks group was banned from performing there from 1965-69. Many tours and trips later, while living in New Orleans, he experienced a transformative event: the shooting (a result of a botched robbery) that nearly took his life. In Americana, Davies tries to make sense of his long love-hate relationship with the country that both inspired and frustrated him. From his quintessentially English…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



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 1077



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


Index


Credits