THE PRETTY THINGS
REDIRECT: The Pretty Things
In about 1970, Mick Farren formed the Pink Fairies with Steve Peregrine Took – formerly the other half of Tyrannosaurus Rex with Marc Bolan, who then shortened the name to T. Rex – and Twink, the drummer for a terrific R&B band in 1964-1965 called the Fairies; he was also in Tomorrow and drummed for the Pretty Things for a while. The Pink Fairies had the same great sound as the Deviants sans the politics, though Farren dropped out almost immediately and kept his earlier band alive instead.
(August 2011)
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The Outcasts song "I'm in Pittsburgh (and it's Raining)" is the opening track on Pebbles, Volume 1 , the second compilation album of 1960's garage rock and psychedelic rock music (after Nuggets). In the original liner notes, Greg Shaw calls the song "a blistering punk-rocker, which has been compared to the Pretty Things at their best".
(September 2011)
