article_snippet: It was yet another traumatic incident in what has been, to quote this book’s barely adequate sub-title, a complicated life.
article_snippet: But shining through the violence, the personality clashes, the litigation with former management, the volatile relationships with women, even a mental breakdown, are the songs
article_snippet: — none of the litigation with former management, the volatile relationships with women, even a mental breakdown more enduringly haunting than Waterloo Sunset.
article_snippet: Yet this book’s barely adequate sub-title, a complicated life reveals this book’s barely adequate sub-title, a complicated life was, at first, tentatively titled Liverpool Sunset, and Ray Davies (far left)  intended this book’s barely adequate sub-title, a complicated life to represent the death of Merseybeat, which Ray Davies (far left)  felt was presaged by the Beatles moving away from the Beatles roots and buying big houses in Surrey and St John’s Wood.