From the Underground: The Deviants
Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 23 November 1968
IT'S BEEN SAID of the Deviants that they are the only real underground group. Like roots of the underground perhaps – because Mick Farren, first of the Deviants, has an almost political attitude to his group and his music, and nearly everything that happens in the gloom beneath the earth.
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