Keep It Together!: Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and the Pink Fairies
Oct 2012 · SCB Distributors
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This is the remarkable story of London’s communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s, from the perspective of two of its most crucial exponents.
Fuelled by amphetamine psychosis, the DEVIANTS and PINK FAIRIES were bands of the people, gate crashing festivals and playing for free on a flatbed truck, and on some days sharing a bill with Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.
KEEP IT TOGETHER! tells of the underground movement that was key in shaping a London that had been swinging but was quickly moving toward more brutish territory. It is a tale that includes the Pretty Things, Hawkwind, MC5, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Edgar Broughton Band, Motörhead and a host of other influential bands and pilled up geezers desperate for a revolution. Or at the very least, Top of the Pops.
Fuelled by amphetamine psychosis, the DEVIANTS and PINK FAIRIES were bands of the people, gate crashing festivals and playing for free on a flatbed truck, and on some days sharing a bill with Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.
KEEP IT TOGETHER! tells of the underground movement that was key in shaping a London that had been swinging but was quickly moving toward more brutish territory. It is a tale that includes the Pretty Things, Hawkwind, MC5, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Edgar Broughton Band, Motörhead and a host of other influential bands and pilled up geezers desperate for a revolution. Or at the very least, Top of the Pops.
About the author
Born 1965, in Leicester, England. Rich Deakin was influenced by punk in his formative years, and left school as soon as he could. For the next twelve years he dedicated his time to being a full-time wastrel and occasional disc jockey, until he reached a crossroads, and made the pivotal decision to re-educate himself. He eventually went on to a complete a Masters thesis on the British underground press and now works at the University of Gloucestershire. He lives in Cheltenham with his long-time girlfriend and two Persian cats, Maumau and Owsley.
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