| Led by shaggy-haired vocalist Phil May and professorial-looking guitarist Dick Taylor, the Pretty Things burst on the U.K. scene at the beginning of the British Invasion by out-Rolling Stone-ing the Rolling Stones. Louder and brasher in sound and more menacing in appearance and deed than Jagger & Co., the Pretties commandeered the English charts like a pack of highwaymen, leaving exasperated parents of ga-ga teenagers thinking that maybe the Stones weren't so evil, after all! |
