Americana : the Kinks, the riff, the road : the story

Davies, Ray 1944- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1402778910
ISBN: 9781402778919
Physical Description: 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
print
Publisher: New York : Sterling, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.