{"product_id":"xray-the-unauthorized-autobiography-9781585679393","title":"X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eX-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography\u003c\/strong\u003e by Davies, Ray. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781585679393.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work of high-concept genius―the most original rock memoir ever written.\nSir Ray Davies―the mastermind behind The Kinks and the poet laureate of British rock―doesnt do \"traditional.\" In this subversively brilliant, one-of-a-kind memoir, the man who gave us \"Waterloo Sunset\" and \"Lola\" deconstructs the very idea of the rock autobiography.\nX-Ray is not a standard autobiography. It is a psychological interrogation disguised as a rock-and-roll odyssey. Through the \"X-Ray\" lens of a narrator you can’t quite trust, Davies deconstructs his own myth―from the jagged, distorted riffs of \"You Really Got Me\" to the pastoral melancholy of The Village Green Preservation Society.\nThis one-of-a-kind rock memoir captures the friction between Ray and his brother Dave, the crushing weight of the music industry \"Moneygoround,\" and the melancholic genius of a man who was always Not Like Everybody Else. For fans of David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and literary rock history, X-Ray remains a gold standard of the genre.\nIn a chillingly familiar near-future, a global \"Corporation\" controls the narrative of history. Their latest assignment for a young, nameless investigator: extract the truth from R.D.D.―an aging, reclusive cultural icon known to the world as Ray Davies.\nAs the investigator probes deeper, the lines between the 1960s London \"Swinging\" scene and a sterile, controlled future begin to blur. This is a story of two brothers at war, a band banned from the very country they helped define, and a songwriter who predicted the corporate takeover of the human soul decades before it happened.\nWhy this is essential reading: The Original Rock Meta-Memoir: Experience the experimental narrative structure that predated the modern \"post-truth\" era. A Prophet of the Ordinary: Revisit Davies’s uncanny social commentary on British identity, suburban isolation, and the \"Moneygoround\" of the music industry. Beyond the Music: A literary achievement thats ripe for rediscovery, proving that Ray Davies was always Not Like Everybody Else.\n\n\"In an age when everybody’s in show business and writes a lousy book about it, Ray Davies is to be honored for not doing the usual thing.\" ―Rolling Stone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44935018250293,"sku":"ByrdShop_1585679399","price":48.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1585679399.jpg?v=1792918981","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/xray-the-unauthorized-autobiography-9781585679393","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}