Americana : the Kinks, the riff, the road : the story
Title:
Americana : the Kinks, the riff, the road : the story
Author:
Davies, Ray, 1944- , author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Sterling Publishing, c2013.
© 2013
Physical Description:
311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
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.
Corporate Subject:
ISBN:
9781402778919
Format :
Book
