Living on a Thin Line
The 'Heartfelt and Hilarious' Autobiography

The summer was great, but I could not either sit still to read, or could not stay awake. I pretty terrible dearth. When in a reading rut, I go to rock autobiographies, they are my light reading, the books read themselves. Not saying they are necessarily good, but they go down easy. I love the Kinks a......more

The Harry to William's Ray? Dave Davies is a bit like the ginger Royal - much of what he feels went wrong in his life finds its roots in his older brother's attitude and behaviour towards him. Nothing to do with his screwing around or failure to take real responsibility for, well, anything much real......more

Dave's latest book on his life with and without the Kinks welcomes the reader into the famous front room where the music began. We are introduced to the entire extended family of sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts, grannies and grandads, friends and lovers. It feels warm and cosy like a sit-down with a......more

Navigating kinks on a tightrope I read Dave Davies’ first autobiography, ‘Kink’, about seventeen years ago and was quite impressed because there was so much previously unknown insight about Dave who, although he was the lead guitarist and backup singer of the Kinks, was always in the shadow of his ol......more

[I read the hardcover book, not the Kindle edition.] My favorite rock group is the Kinks, so I'm always willing to read about them and learn more. When it first came out, I read Dave Davies's prior book, "Kink", which made me wonder why this book was written since it covered much of the same ground.......more