
Then I saw him drive down College Avenue in a new, black and pink Pontiac Catalina convertible. Davis was inspired to become a musician by the example of a boy a few years above him at Lubbock High School in Texas: “Buddy was on the radio,” he recalled, “but we thought they just played him on the Lubbock stations.

Mac Davis, who has died aged 78, was a singer, actor and entertainer, at the peak of his success in the United States as a country and pop performer in the mid-1970s but his work was perhaps most widely known through songs he wrote for others, notably hits for Elvis Presley such as In the Ghetto and A Little Less Conversation.
