Kinks co-founder and lead guitarist Dave Davies will chronicle his life in rock and roll in a new memoir, the Bookseller reports.
British press Headline will publish Davies’ Living on a Thin Line next summer. The memoir, Headline says, “will be a glorious read for Kinks fans and anyone who wants to read about the heyday of rock ’n’ roll.”
Davies, a London native, founded the Kinks in 1963; his brother, Ray Davies, came aboard not long after the band was formed. They had their first hit, “You Really Got Me,” in 1964, with several others following, including “All Day and All of the Night,” “Lola,” and “Come Dancing.”
The band broke up in 1997. Dave Davies has released several solo albums since then, including, most recently, Decade.
Davies is the author of a previous autobiography, Kink, which was published in 1997. A critic for Kirkus contrasted that book with his brother Ray’s memoir, calling it “a far less ambitious but ultimately more satisfying account of Kinkdom than the colder, more evasive X-Ray.”
“I’ve had a laugh, and shed quite a few tears, thinking back over the last six decades since The Kinks had our first hit in 1964 with ‘You Really Got Me,’” Dave Davies said. “Here are the ups and downs of my life in The Kinks and what happened afterwards. Prepare to be amazed and, I hope, surprised.”
Living on a Thin Line is slated for publication in the U.K. on July 2, 2022. There’s as yet no word on whether the book will be published in the U.S.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
