Artist
The Pretty Things
The Pretty Things is a rock & roll artist from London, England formed in 1963. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock & Roll · London, England · Best rock & roll albums
- 30
- Releases
- 1965–2024
- Active years
- 1963
- Formed
Artist
The Pretty Things is a rock & roll artist from London, England formed in 1963. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Rock & Roll · London, England · Best rock & roll albums
Most popular
Parachute
2002
Get the Picture?
1965
Emotions
1967
The Pretty Things
1965
Bare as Bone, Bright as Blood
2020
Balboa Island
2007
Silk Torpedo
1998
Freeway Madness
2002
Cross Talk
2002
...Rage Before Beauty
1999
Savage Eye
2002
S.F. Sorrow
1968
A Whiter Shade of Dirty Water
1994
Electric Banana
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BBC Seventies (Live)
2024
BBC Sixties (Live)
2024
Copenhagen Beat Festival 1970
2023
The Final Bow (Live at Indigo at the O2)
2019
Live at the BBC Paris Theatre 1974
2018
Singapore Silk Torpedo – Live at the BBC & Other Broadcasts
2018
Greatest Hits
2017
The Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, Of Course...)
2015
Live at the BBC
2015
The Pretty Things (Live at the 100 Club)
2014
Resurrection (S.F. Sorrow Live at Abbey Road)
1998
The EP Collection...Plus
1997
Out of the Island
1987
The Pretty Things are an English rock band from London, who originally formed in 1963. They took their name from Bo Diddley's 1955 song "Pretty Thing". Their most commercially successful period was the mid-1960s, although they continue to perform to this day. David Bowie covered two of their songs on his album Pin Ups. Early stages The Pretty Things were preceded by Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, which consisted of Dick Taylor, fellow Sidcup Art College student Keith Richards, and Mick Jagger. When Brian Jones was recruiting for his own band, all three joined Brian and Ian Stewart and were dubbed "Rollin' Stones" by Jones. Taylor would briefly play bass guitar in the nascent Rolling Stones who employed a variety of drummers during 1962. Taylor (born Richard Clifford Taylor, 28 January 1943, Dartford, Kent) quit the Stones several months later when he was accepted at the London Central School of Art (to be replaced by Bill Wyman), where he met Phil May (born Phillip Arthur Dennis Kattner, 9 November 1944, Dartford, Kent) and they formed the Pretty Things. Taylor was once again playing guitar, with May singing and playing harmonica. They recruited Brian Pendleton (born 13 Apri…
