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The Kinks' Davies Shot in New Orleans
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Ray Davies, the lead singer of the British rock
group The Kinks, was released from the hospital on Monday after being shot
in the leg while chasing a mugger.


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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.


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 honors 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.