The Pretty Things

About

Pretty Things were an English rock band formed in September 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, taking their name from Bo Diddley’s 1955 song “Pretty Thing”, and active in their first incarnation until 1971. They released five studio albums, including the debut The Pretty Things and S. F. Sorrow, four EPs and 15 UK singles, including the Top 20 UK Singles Chart “Don’t Bring Me Down” and “Honey I Need”. They reformed later in 1971 and continued through to 1976 issuing three more studio albums, and reformed once again from 1979 to 2020 releasing another five studio albums finalising with Bare as Bone, Bright as Blood.

Albums/Songs:

• Bare as Bone, Bright as Blood
• Electric Banana
• Balboa Island
• Midnight to 6
• A Whiter Shade of Dirty Water
• The Pretty Things 1967-1971
• Singles A’s & B’s
• Emotions
• Out of the Island
• The Vintage Years
• More Electric Banana
• Freeway Madness
• Cross Talk
• The Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, of Course)
• Closed Restaurant Blues
• The Pretty Things / Philippe DeBarge
• Get a Buzz: The Best of the Fontana Years
• S.F. Sorrow
• Silk Torpedo
• The Pretty Things
• S.F. Sorrow / Parachute
• Savage Eye
• …Rage Before Beauty
• Get the Picture?
• Parachute

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