Latest Release
- 9 SEPT 2023
- 6 Songs
- S.F. Sorrow · 1968
- Get the Picture? · 1965
- Greatest Hits · 1965
- Greatest Hits · 1965
- Get the Picture? · 1965
- S.F. Sorrow · 1968
- S.F. Sorrow · 1968
- The EP Collection...Plus · 1965
- The Pretty Things (Remastered) · 1965
- Get the Picture? · 1965
Essential Albums
- 1980
- 1975
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- Rough-and-ready rockers were long-time underdogs but critical favourites.
- These tough rockers didn't get trapped in the ‘60s.
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About The Pretty Things
The Pretty Things were one of the toughest and most celebrated artists to rise from the British Invasion era, and among the very best British R&B bands of the '60s. Taking their name from a Bo Diddley song, they were intentionally ugly: their sound was brutish, their hair longer than any of their contemporaries, their look unkempt. The high points of their R&B period are 1965's The Pretty Things and Get the Picture?; 1968's S.F. Sorrow is their psychedelic touchstone; and 1970's Parachute is an ambitious mix of psychedelia, pop, and hard rock. Their cult was drawn to either their vicious early records, where they sounded like a meaner version of the Rolling Stones, or to S.F. Sorrow, which inspired Pete Townshend to write Tommy for the Who.
- ORIGIN
- Kent, England
- FORMED
- 1967
- GENRE
- Rock