The Pretty Things
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Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, January 1975
THE PRETTY THINGS are back, and this time, with a new label and expected tour, can realistically be expected to enter the American top-40 album ...
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The Pretty Things' Phil May (1995)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages audio, 1995
Pretty Things mainman Phil May, joined by manager Mark St. John, talk about the early days of the band, their rivalry with the Rolling Stones, their disappearing bandmates and their legal battles to regain their copyrights.
File format: mp3; file size: 52.3mb, interview length: 54' 28" sound quality: ****
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Peter Jones' New Names: Look At These Pretty Things!
Profile by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 2 May 1964
IN LONDON'S West End, there are a number of night clubs that deal almost exclusively with beat music — but always jazz tinged beat. These ...
The Pretty Things: The Things Hit Back!
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 February 1965
ONE ACCUSATION that can't be levelled against the Pretty Things is that they're dull. In fact this wild-sounding, and equally wild-looking group are one of ...
Report and Interview by Sylvia Stephens, Fabulous, 27 March 1965
Switched on people are definitely animal lovers, and dogs and cats top the pop stars own hit parade... SYLVIA STEPHEN has done some vetting on the subject. For ...
Scotland's Really Wild Report Pretty Things
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 July 1965
APART FROM being banned from swimming pools, finding their dressing-room in the middle of the girls' cloakroom, and being pulled off stage with alarming regularity, ...
The Pretty Things: Why The Things Like Their Hair...
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 17 July 1965
PRETTY THING Dick Taylor was gazing out of the window of his flat in Kensington, London, recently when a group of girls happened to look ...
The Pretty Things: Viv — "It's All Lies"
Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 23 September 1965
'I could sue them' says Viv Prince, about newspaper articles which appeared about him in New Zealand. Norman Jopling reports...' ...
The Nice, Traffic, Pretty Things, the Action, Eyes: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 August 1968
"ALL THIS needs is for John Peel to appear with three loaves and five fishes and he could feed the ten thousand," said an observer ...
Traffic, Nice, Junior's Eyes, Pretty Things: Hyde Park London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
Such a NICE day in the park ...
Pretty Things Kick Off Their Old Image
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1969
ONE OF Britain's oldest and most hallowed group relics are the Pretty Things, who must go down in the pageant of pop history as men ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 10 May 1969
ONE OF the most astounding pieces of news recently has been the signing by Tamla Motown of the Pretty Things, a group famed for its ...
Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, The Pretty Things: Windsor Free Festival, Berkshire
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 September 1972
THE SIGNS were there once again at what was in effect just another one-day festival that a bummer was to be had by one and ...
Pretty Things: Decade Of Dues Now Pays Off
Interview by 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 Pretty Things: Still As Strong As Bo Diddley's Guitar Arm
Report and Interview by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 24 March 1973
FEEL THE svelte red leather. Take in the expensive walnut dashboard surrounding the precision instruments; the speedo flicking between 70 and 80. Experience the full ...
Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1973
PHIL MAY, vocalist with the Pretty Things, is one British rock musician who really has seen it all. ...
Maggie Bell, The Pretty Things: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 12 October 1974
OKAY, FIRST things first. When Maggie Bell's done a few more gigs (and maybe even a couple more rehearsals) with her new band, then there's ...
The Pretty Things: Silk Torpedo
Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 23 November 1974
IT GIVES you faith to know that through all the impermanency and transience of this beast we call rock, The Pretty Things soldier on. ...
New Pretty Things Get a Led Zep Uplift
Interview by Steve Turner, Rolling Stone, 10 April 1975
LONDON – The Pretty Things were there at the beginning. Phil May, the band’s lead singer and only original member, followed Keith Richards out of ...
The Pretty Things: Silk Torpedo
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 8 May 1975
THE PRETTY THINGS are from a different part of town. Once competitors with the Stones in the raunch-and-outrage genre, the Pretty Things began a progression ...
The Pretty Things: Greatest Hits 1964-1967
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 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 ...
Review by Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, March 1976
NOT AS, NOT AT all as, not nearly as, doesn't even come close to being anything at all as good as their last one, Silk ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1976
ANGLOID DROOLERS can breathe a sigh of relief (toot, toot). Although the twittering (sometimes hairy, often comical) falsettos of 10cc and Sparks are cracking under ...
Uriah Heep/Pretty Things: Empire Pool, Wembley
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 19 June 1976
THE PRETTY Things can, on occasion, succumb to being ordinary, but usually they're great. This night was no exception. Using the cavern of Wembley Empire ...
The Pretty Things' Phil May (1995) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1995
This is a transcript of Johnny's audio interview with Phil May and manager, Mark St. John. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
The Pretty Things: Live At The BBC, 1964-2018 (Repertoire)
Review by Tony Burke, Morning Star, 11 November 2021
DURING THE 1960s British R&B boom the Pretty Things were the band the UK press loved to hate. Lead singer Phil May's shoulder-length locks were ...
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