Danger Zone - The Kink's Davies Shot In New Orleans

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Mon 5 January, 2004 18:18

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Ray Davies, the lead singer of the rock group The Kinks, has been released from the hospital after being shot in the leg while chasing a mugger.

Davies, 59, was walking with a woman in the city's French Quarter Sunday evening when the shooting occurred, police said.

"Two men approached and had taken the woman's purse. He ran after them and was wounded in the right thigh," police spokesman Marlin Defillo told Reuters on Monday.

Police have arrested one suspect in the shooting and are searching for the second.

Part of the "British Invasion" of the 1960s, the Kinks shot to fame with "You Really Got Me" from their debut album in 1964. The band also hit the pop music charts with "All Day and All of the Night" later that year and the major hit "Lola".

Davies was on the 2004 New Year's honours list, and named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. It ranks below the knighthoods earlier given to Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Elton John.

Danger Zone
Written by: Dave Davies
Published by: Dabe Music, Ltd.

Lyrics:
Ooh, I wrote you a letter,
And you never sent a reply.
It's a shame, always money or power,
And it doesn't really matter what you think.

Oh, I'd give you all I had to give,
Over and over again.
While the government hides its head in the sand,
We live in a danger zone.

We're living in a danger zone.
You're living in the twilight zone.
Watch out, fall out, gonna get ya, check it out.

All the sad politicians
Hold the world in the palm of their hands.
It's a lie, just an old film on the late show,
In the end everybody dies.

Ooh, I'll give you all I have to give,
Over and over again.
Oh, when will we get it into our heads?
We live in a danger zone.

We're living in a danger zone.
You're living in the twilight zone.
Watch out, fall out, gonna get ya, check it out.

We're living in a danger zone,
You're living in the twilight zone.
What's wrong with solar power? (No profit)
Money money money makes me sick,
You can't get enough of it, of it.
We're living in a danger zone,
You're living in the twilight zone.