Pink Fairies: Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor)
Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1980
It must have taken a lot of guts to name a band "Pink Fairies". But considering the amount of mind alteration practised by its British members (journalist/musician Mick Farren, ex-Pretty Thing Twink, Duncan Sanderson, Russell Hunter and Paul Rudolph), anything was possible.
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