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The Pretty Things (1965)
Get the Picture (1965)
Emotions (1967)
S.F. Sorrow (1968)
Parachute (1970)
Freeway Madness (1972)
Silk Torpedo (1974)
Savage Eye (1976)
Cross Talk (1980)
Rage Before Beauty (1999)
Balboa Island (2007)
Philippe DeBarge (2009)
Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys were the predecessors of both The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things which consisted of Dick Taylor, Kieth Richards and Mick Jagger who attended Sidcup Art College in London in 1962. Brian Jones recruited all three for his band and along with him and Ian Stewart called themselves the "Rollin' Stones".
Taylor briefly played bass for the band before being accepted at the London Central School of Art where he met Phil May and they formed The Pretty Things in 1963. Taylor switched over to guitar as Phil May was singing and playing harmonica and recruited Brian Pendleton on rhythm guitar, John Stax on bass, and Viv Prince on drums. A fellow student at the art college, Bryan Morrison took the reigns as thier manager and he himself developed a well known agency that represented Pink Floyd amongst others.
The band took thier name from Bo Diddley's 1955 song "Pretty Thing". The British press dubbed them the "uglier cousins of the Rolling Stones". One of the original British invasion bands, the Pretties played a nasty, raunchy R&B/garage rock that was more raw than the Stones of that period.
The band released a handful of singles in '64-'65 which included "Rosalyn"(#41), "Don't Bring Me Down"(#10), and "Honey I Need"(#13) on the UK singles charts, however they never had a hit in the US.
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