Pack, Not A Herd

Pack, Not A Herd - You can keep your Lennons and McCartneys. Jagger? Fuggettaboutit.

Even Pete Townshend, who wrote most of my favorite Brit Invasion music, is just a tad ofay and hyperintellectual in person for my tastes.

Nossireebob - two of my other three favorite British Invasion figures (besides Townshend) were George Harrison and Ray Davies.

Harrison, several years before his untimely death, disinguished himself by wrestling a burglar in his house; even after he was stabbed (and critically injured). The guy had moxie.

Now, this:

Singer-songwriter Ray Davies of the Kinks was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who snatched a purse from a woman he was with, police said Monday. He was not seriously injured.

Police said Davies, 59, and the woman were walking along the Quarter's Burgundy Street around 8:30 p.m. Sunday when the theft and shooting happened.

Davies was treated and released at a hospital, Capt. Marlon Defillo, a police spokesman, said. One suspect was captured within hours of the shooting and another was being sought.

On the one hand, losing Ray Davies would be one of the few baby-boomer age deaths that'd still affect me any more.

On the other hand - you go, Ray.

Now, I can see Roger Daltrey ripping a burglar's arms off at the shoulders...

Posted by Mitch at January 6, 2004 05:48 AM