Pretty Things: Decade Of Dues Now Pays Off
Jonh Ingham, Rolling Stone, 1 February 1973
THE ENGLISH BANDS that have survived since the first days of the British Invasion can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The Stones, the Who, the Kinks, and paradoxically, the Pretty Things.
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