The Pretty Things: Greatest Hits 1964-1967
Mick Farren, NME, 6 December 1975
FOR A SHORT time, around the London clubs and art school dances, back in 1964, it seemed as though the Pretty Things might just unseat the Stones from the position as the south of England's primo R&B band.
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