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The Flamin' Groovies: Acid Hurt My Brain

Max Bell, New Musical Express, 2 August 1975

WHEN, TOWARDS the tail-end of 1969, the Flamin' Groovies' first Epic single 'Rockin' Pneumonia' crashed the American Hot 100 at No. 27 (with a bullet), no one was more surprised than the band themselves.

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