{ "item_title" : "X-Ray", "item_author" : [" Ray Davies "], "item_description" : "A work of high-concept genius-the most original rock memoir ever written.Sir Ray Davies-the mastermind behind The Kinks and the poet laureate of British rock-doesn't 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.X-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.This 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.In 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.As 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.Why 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 that's ripe for rediscovery, proving that Ray Davies was always Not Like Everybody Else.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", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/58/567/939/1585679399_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "21.00", "online_price" : "21.00", "our_price" : "21.00", "club_price" : "21.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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