With longer hair than The Stones, a wilder drummer than Keith Moon and some searing R&B, The Pretty Things were the bad boys of the British Blues Boom. Their landmark SF Sorrow album was the first rock opera, predating and influencing Pete Townshend's Tommy, and their 1970 album, Parachute, was Rolling Stone's Album of the Year.

Alan Lakey documents trashed hotel rooms, sexual ambiguity, infighting - and a host of remarkable albums filled with some of the greatest music of the era. Growing Old Disgracefully explains why The Pretty Things were a hugely underrated and confirms their rightful place in rock's history.

Fully illustrated and heavily researched, this is the first biography of a band that was as notorious as the Stones in the development of British rock music.

ISBN: 0 946719 45 4 Publication: July 2002

224 pages (illustrated). Hardback.

Price UK £20 US $25

THE PRETTY THINGS
Growing Old Disgracefully

Alan Lakey

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