Ray Davies Shot in New Orleans

Ray Davies was shot in the leg yesterday evening during a robbery in New Orleans.

The fifty-nine-year-old Kinks frontman was walking on Burgundy Street, just east of the French Quarter, with a female companion when two thieves stole her purse at gunpoint. Davies gave chase and one of the men turned and shot him in the thigh.

Davies was treated and released at the Medical Center of Louisiana and he's expected to make a full recovery. "The wound was quite clean," a rep at Davies' Konk Studio said. "Luckily nothing was broken and they say he should be fine." Local police said that one suspect had been apprehended in the incident and the second suspect is still at large.

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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