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The Pretty Things is tagged as: psychedelic, psychedelic rock, 60s, classic rock, british invasion

The Pretty Things were a 1960s and 1970s rock and roll band from London. They pioneered a raw approach to rhythm and blues (and later, psychedelia) that influenced a number of key bands of the 1960s British invasion, particularly The Rolling Stones, and David Bowie whose first hero was Phil May.
Pretty Things was preceded by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys which consisted of Dick Taylor, fellow Sidcup Art College student Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. When Brian Jones joined Little Boy Blue and the Blues Boys as guitarist, Taylor was pushed from playing guitar to bass and the Rolling Stones were formed.
Several months later Dick Taylor (born Richard Clifford Taylor, 28 January 1943, in Dartford, Kent) quit the newly formed Rolling Stones to pursue his schooling when he was accepted at London Central School of Art, where he met up with Phil May (born Phillip Arthur Dennis Kattner, on 9 November 1944, in Dartford, Kent) and they formed Pretty Things.
Taylor was once again playing his preferred guitar with May singing and playing harmonica. They recruited Brian Pendleton (born 13 April 1944 in Wolverhampton–died 16 May 2001 in Maidstone, Kent) on rhythm guitar; John Stax (born John Edward Lee Fullegar, 6 April 1944 in Crayford, Kent) on bass; and, after trying a couple...
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Top 10 The Pretty Things Songs
Don't Bring Me Down
S.F. Sorrow Is Born
Rosalyn
Bracelets of Fingers
She Says Good Morning
Private Sorrow
Baron Saturday
Balloon Burning
Old Man Going
Death
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Top 10 The Pretty Things Albums
S.F. Sorrow
The Pretty Things
Parachute
Get the Picture?
Emotions
The EP Collection... Plus
Rockin' The Garage
Unrepentant: The Anthology (disc 1)
Balboa Island
The Pretty Things 1967-1971
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