The Pretty Things: Growing Old Disgracefully

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Summary: rather disappointing
Review: i felt that this book kind of raced through the early years of the pretty things. it paid too much attention to their post-PARACHUTE career. while it is interesting to see what the band has been up to lately, this book is bound to disappoint fans of their great r&b and psychedelic tracks from the sixties and early seventies. this band was one of the greatest english bands of its time, their s.f. sorrow album is a masterful concept album from an era where great albums came out practically every week. while i think the who are great,s.f. sorrow is earlier and better than the who's tommy album. that they never really got the acclaim they deserved in this country is a shame. fans expecting a truly in depth analysis of their music will probably be disappointed. the book isn't terrible, but it is disappointing

Rating:
Summary: Exceedingly dull!!!
Review: More about the machinations of the music business in regard to the band. The anecdotes about them are very dull and the book fails to paint a picture of a band that was supposedly so outrageous. I wanted rock n' roll debauchery and instead was lulled to sleep....Boring!

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Summary: Too little on the early years!
Review: The author became a fan in 1970. Well, that's about the time when I was about to give up on the Pretty Things. That being the case I would have loved to read more about the early years, as well as seen more pictures from those same years (there's not a picture of the young Viv Prince in the book...).
There is no denying that the band has done quite a lot of good music over the years (if you enjoy harmony singing - which I don't) but taste vary as everyone knows. So the bottom line is I for one would have liked it if the two first albums had been treated with same thoroughness as the rest.

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Summary: More pictures, please!
Review: Well written, but it could have used some more pictures.