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Brian Pendleton was the rhythm guitarist in the initial lineup from the Pretty Factors, playing on the middle-’60s singles and initial two albums. Just like the band’s business lead guitarist Dick Taylor (and Mick Jagger), he previously attended Dartford Grammar College in the London suburbs. Furthermore to playing tempo electric …

As the drummer for the Pretty Points, Viv Prince was among Uk rock’s first wildmen, using an uninhibited drumming design which influenced the young Keith Moon, who watch Prince using the Pretty Factors in his early Who times. That unstable, sprawling energy would also run into in the drumming on …

The Pretty Things were the also-rans from the Uk Invasion, a band that hardly ever got its as a consequence. Despite this insufficient recognition, these were hardly ever quite disregarded, cultivating a separate cult that trapped with them with the years — a cult which was attracted to either their …

Although his name isn’t identified by most rock fans, Dick Taylor was a significant figure in 1960s British rock as lead guitarist and frequent songwriter for the Very Things, and it has deep ties to the overall birth of the British blues-rock scene. A teenage friend of Mick Jagger, he …