Item #40299 Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie With The Deviants And The Pink Fairies. Rich DEAKIN.
Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie With The Deviants And The Pink Fairies.
Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie With The Deviants And The Pink Fairies.
Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie With The Deviants And The Pink Fairies.
Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie With The Deviants And The Pink Fairies.

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Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie With The Deviants And The Pink Fairies.

London: Headpress, 2007. First edition. Wrps. (no h/c issued), 304pp. Illustrated throughout.

Rich Deakin’s “remarkable story of London’s communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s”. Introduction by Mick Farren, who has SIGNED this copy on the title page, together with Duncan ‘Sandy’ Sanderson; Brian James; Dave ‘Boss’ Goodman; Nik Turner; Russell Hunter; George Butler; Twink; Austpig (Austen Gates); the author; and one other (unidentified).

“Fuelled by amphetamine psychosis, the Deviants and Pink Fairies were bands of the people, gate crashing festivals and playing for free…[the book] is a tale that includes the Pretty Things, Hawkwind, MC5, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Edgar Broughton Band, Motörhead and a host of other influential bands and pilled up geezers desperate for a revolution” (cover blurb).

Near Fine.

Together with:

an original “I’ve made a Fairy” promotional badge for the Pink Fairies’ 1973 album “Kings of Oblivion”. 4.5cm. diameter. Verso slightly tarnished, o/w Very Good plus.

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