Andy Miller

Ray Davies: part of Swinging Sixties London — and apart from it too

Andy Miller finds Johnny Rogan’s biography scrupulously fair,though Ray Davies himself remains an enigma

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  • Ray Davies: A Complicated Life

    Johnny Rogan

    Bodley Head, pp. 756

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