It was written by Rob Jovanovic (sp?) and I can’t remember how many times X-Ray was mentioned or if it never was mentioned at all. While the constant fighting between Ray and Dave, and the big falling out in 1973-74, were both certainly well-detailed in that book, I never got the impression that Ray was autistic, nor do I remember anything being mentioned of the sort. Lots of fighting, lots of Ray being a control freak or a bit neurotic, and the hilarious way the book would spend 10-20 pages detailing the making of, and the songs on, the big 1964-71 albums, but could barely find a paragraph for forgettable dreck like UK Jive (which is more than I would have given it–I can’t remember a fucking NOTE of that album!) But autistic? I know lots of people apply that criticism to themselves, or others, all the time (I certainly do) but it seems like it’s being used to describe anyone without the confidence of General Patton these days.

I didn’t know the Kinks were your favorite band, I knew they were one of your favorites but thought you’d pick the Replacements or Big Star.

Dirty sexual details? I don’t remember them, except for one big one–that Dave’s first sexual experience as a teenager involved being, what was it, molested by some man? Some older guy? I sure hope he was okay!

As you well know, Alex Chilton and Ray Davies became friends in New Orleans in their old age, until Chilton had that heart attack and ate it. The Jovanovic book is from 2013 and I think Chilton’s death (2009) was indeed mentioned, but I can’t remember what it said about Ray’s reaction to it. Or what Ray thought of Chilton’s version of “Til The End Of The Day.” It’s mentioned in the Chilton biography A Man Called Destruction, which probably has every single detail you could possibly want to know about Alex Chilton’s life in it, certainly more than the numerous liner notes, obituaries, Rolling Stone articles, box sets and Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me ever had to say about it, including that Chilton had two kids (one of whom he fathered in the 1960s while still very young and certainly did nothing to raise, and who grew up to be a criminal, and the other of which he only found out about due to a DNA test very late in life, and whose name isn’t even given in the book–we’re just told that, indeed, Alex Chilton found out late in life he’d fathered a bastard child somewhere along the way), that he ended up washing dishes and living in his mom’s old house after the Big Star debacle was over, and that he treated that girlfriend who Sister Lovers is named for like SHIT, including physically abusing her.