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The trailblazing ’60s rockers who the press loved to hate
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The Pretty Things Live At The BBC
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DURING the 1960s British R&B boom The Pretty Things were the band the UK press loved to hate.
Lead singer Phil May’s shoulder length locks were the subject of public debate. Appearing on the BBC’s Saturday Club in 1964, the cardigan-clad presenter Brian Matthew tackles May about his shoulder-length hair and fashionable threads — before they launch into their coming hit Don’t Bright Me Down.
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