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Fuelled by amphetamine psychosis and the music of Bob Dylan and the Fugs, a band of the people playing for free from flatbed trucks or on bills with the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Deviants and Pink Fairies were a key in shaping a London that was still swinging. Deakin tells the fascinating story of a musical and social movement that left psychedelia behind and pre-empted punk rock. Also features Pink Floyd, the Incredible String Band, the Edgar Broughton Band and Hawkwind.
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Michael Anthony Farren, founder member of the Social Deviants and the Pink Fairies All Star Rock' n' Roll Motorcycle Club was born on September 3, 1943, in Cheltenham, a sleepy Spa town in the Cotswolds with a reputation for being the preserve of retired colonels. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Michael Anthony Farren, founder member of the Social Deviants and the Pink Fairies All Star Rock' n' Roll Motorcycle Club was born on September 3, 1943, in Cheltenham, a sleepy Spa town in the Cotswolds with a reputation for being the preserve of retired colonels. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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ABOUT TIME TOO,
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About time too.The Pink Fairies led the way for the Punk era, and proved better at it than many.
Free gigs in anybody's basement, and plenty of female company too.What more could be asked for.Pleasure being there.Good Luck with the book from your former Postman in Bassett Road W10
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If You're Reading This, You Need This Book!,
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Contrary to the info above, this fabulous tome actually has 304 pages, so don't hold back on clicking to buy a copy, as it's well worth its weight. Suffice to say if you are a Pink Fairies and / or Deviants fan and are here reading this, then you need to click to buy; because there ain't never gonna be a better companion to those two band's music than this.
Rich Deakin has carried out a painstakingly exacting, albeit enjoyable job here in interviewing the various member's of these bands, and to draw some sort of logic and perfection out of the encumbered and highly complex (stoned) lives they lived, worked and gigged in is no mean feat. And it takes a certain kind of investigative nature to even tackle, let alone sort it out and write it down with some degree of chronology; but this guy has pulled it off admirably. A darned excellent read, never tiresome, very page-turning and, oh, blimey, just buy a copy and you'll see what I mean! You won't regret it!
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Play em & read em,
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Hats off to Mr Deakin, for it was this brave fellow who descended into the soft white underbelly of Ladbroke Grove to pull apart the true story of the The Pink Finks. Lets face it if you are even reading this review you know what I am talking about. If you are like me and the limited canon of four PF studio albums have peppered your teenage to adult years with a soundtrack of drugged abandon & mescaline fueled dreams then you will find yourself gripped to this tome as I have for the last four days. The author has done an excellent job, an unpretentious but informative writing style is engaging & rewarding to the reader, my only quibble is that it barely wets my appetite for more detail (particularly in the Wallis-Kings Of Oblivion period) & I would have hoped for more pictures. That aside its a book that had to be written of a story long over due in being told and Deakin deserves a medal for his attention to detail, thank you sir!! I have been a resident of Northern California for many years and it took me back to my youth seeing the Fairies live several times during the crazy summer months of '87, it also is a book that echoes the poignant social history of London in the late sixties & early seventies...it made me home sick!
Cruisin at speed...we got more than we will ever need ...Oh aint life sweet!
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