June 1999

Today

Yesterday The Pretty Things The Pretty Things Snapper Music SMMCD548 Picture this: England 1965. Five young kids hooked on one Ellas McDaniel, aka Bo Diddley. One of them has just been kicked out of The Rolling Stones. So why not grow your hair to ridicilous length, start playing Diddley songs and - to top it all - name your group after one of his songs. Throw some Chuck Berry and Jimmy Reed in the stew. The result is this album. The Pretty Things eventually wrote their own material and are these days even credited with making rock's first concept album, SF Sorrow, in 1967. But they were never again this unpolished. This optimistic. This...eh...fun...