Mick Farren
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Peter Stanfield: Pin-Ups 1972 (Reaktion)
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Critic, August 2022
ROCK'N'ROLL years are all the rage these days. Ever since Jon Savage published his monumental 1966 (in 2015), the anni – particularly the 1970s – ...
Goodbye, Mick Farren, activist, rabble-rousing rocker and NME journalist
Memoir by Charles Shaar Murray, The Guardian, 29 July 2013
Mick Farren, who died onstage in London on Saturday, was a "living banner for the psychedelic left". He was also a friend who joined me ...
Mick Farren: Devout Deviant Takes A Trip Down Memory Lane
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, 7 December 2001
Mick Farren: Give the Anarchist a Cigarette ...
Book Excerpt by Charles Shaar Murray, 'Elvis Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine', Spring 2013
MICK FARREN IS a man of many parts, an impressive number of which are still working despite the natural wear and-tear incurred by decades of ...
Mick Farren: Is There Life After Dingwalls?
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 30 September 1978
DESPITE THE SILK shawl wrapped about its neck to prevent its head falling off, there is a dignity, a pride, even a sense of all ...
Mick Farren on the Deviants, Fantasy Fiction and Blowing Things Up
Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, L.A. Weekly, 23 November 2001
PUBLISHING MOGUL Felix Dennis was staring at the Caribbean Sea a few months ago, sucking down cocktails with fellow gazillionaires at Basil's Bar on the ...
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, October 1978
ONE of the less predictable events of this year has been the re-emergence of Mick Farren on the productive rather than critical side of rock'n'roll. ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004
In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...
The Devious Thoughts of Mick Farren
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 21 March 1970
ONCE UPON a time, Mick Farren was a social deviant. Then he became a Deviant. Not satisfied, young Mick decided to deviate and dispensed with ...
Interview by Martin Herron, unpublished, 2001
UK ROCK CRITICISM has produced its fair share of great writers: Nick Kent, Charles Shaar Murray and Barney Hoskyns, to name but a few. ...
Memoir by Paul Gorman, Rock's Backpages, 31 July 2013
GROWING UP IN London in the '60s and '70s with an interest in the counterculture, music and street politics meant that the shaggy-headed figure of ...
You Say You Want A Revolution: Mick Farren Looks Back
Book Excerpt by Paul Moody, 'Search For The Lost Chord', July 2013
RBP contributor Paul Moody interviewed Mick earlier this year while researching his new book Search For The Lost Chord: Looking For The Spirit Of Rock'n'Roll. We're ...
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 23 September 1978
"HELLO, MY name's Mick Farren...I wanna drink!" ...
Mick Farren: Fun Is The Key Word
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 21 February 1970
WATCH OUT, world — Mick Farren is out to accomplish with Shagrat what he couldn't quite get together with the Deviants. ...
Mick Farren: Rock Rebel with a Cause
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 28 August 1971
TWENTY-SIX-year-old Mick Farren, ex-singer with the Deviants, writer, political activist and spokesman for the underground, has been called many things. However, he prefers to define ...
The Pen Is Mightier As A Chord
Report by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 17 March 1979
...sometimes. The rock critic as musician. By Sandy Robertson ...
Mick Farren: Vampires Stole My Lunch Money
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 9 September 1978
MICK FARREN, in case you didn't know it, is a rock journalist and author who very occasionally makes records. Remember The Deviants' amphetamine hippy-boogie, or ...
see also Deviants, The
see also Shagrat
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