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<\/figure>\u201cWhat\u2019ll it be like, Ray, when we\u2019re famous?\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \ufeff\u201cOh well, Pete, there\u2019ll be chicks waiting to go out with us and hold us tight. There\u2019ll be so many, we\u2019ll get to choose.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want one who looks like Natalie Wood. Hey, Pete, you\u2019ll be the world\u2019s most famous drummer, and I\u2019ll be the most famous singer.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want one who looks like Marilyn Monroe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKids all over the country will dance to our songs!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ll be the number one band in New Zealand!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The memoir of New Zealand entertainment icon Ray Columbus \u2014 The Modfather: The Life and Times of a Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Pioneer<\/strong><\/em> \u2014 garnered great reviews and much feature coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am delighted with the job you did. You got stuff out of me that amazed the people closest to me. It is so good I’m gob smacked…really thrilled with the ways you shaped my story\u201d \u2013 Ray Columbus<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was very much looking forward to this. Ray is such an icon in New Zealand popular music, and to get the story of those early days with the Invaders in his own words was a real gem. The book in itself and what it covers is terrific. It\u2019s a great read. It\u2019s a very engaging style of writing that he\u2019s got. His personality really does come though. It\u2019s a really valuable document in our history and I\u2019m very glad he\u2019s written it\u201d – Ian Chapman, Executant Lecturer in Contemporary Music, University of Otago, reviewing Modfather on Radio New Zealand National, Speaking Volumes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n \u201c<\/strong><\/em>He never took drugs and when he found groupies in his hotel bed he called security. For a rock\u2019n\u2019roll memoir, that doesn\u2019t sound too promising. Yet Ray Columbus: The Modfather is the most engaging and entertaining book of its kind I\u2019ve read since Keith Richards\u2019s Life’ \u2014 Nick Bollinger, NZ Listener<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Penguin Books, 2011 \u201cWhat\u2019ll it be like, Ray, when we\u2019re famous?\u201d \ufeff\u201cOh well, Pete, there\u2019ll be chicks waiting to go out with us and hold us tight. There\u2019ll be so many, we\u2019ll get to choose.\u201d \u201cI want one who looks like Natalie Wood. Hey, Pete, you\u2019ll be the world\u2019s most famous drummer, and I\u2019ll be … <\/p>\n