The Pretty Things - Freeway Madness (Japan Edition) (1972)

Year: December 1972 (CD 2006)
Label: Warner Bros. Records (Japan), POCE 1004
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Classic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 70:11
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 469 Mb

The Pretty Things was an English rock band formed in September 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, with their name from Willie Dixon's 1955 song "Pretty Thing". They pioneered a raw approach to rhythm and blues (and later, psychedelia) that influenced a number of key bands of the 1960s British 'invasion', particularly The Rolling Stones, and David Bowie whose first hero was Phil May (born 1944; died 2020). The band did their final tour in 2018.

The Pretty Things was 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 joined Little Boy Blue and the Blues Boys as guitarist, Taylor was pushed from playing guitar to bass and the Rolling Stones were formed.

Several months later Dick Taylor (born Richard Clifford Taylor, 28 January 1943, in Dartford, Kent) quit the newly formed Rolling Stones to pursue his schooling when he was accepted at London Central School of Art, where he met up with Phil May (born Phillip Arthur Dennis Kattner, on 9 November 1944, in Dartford, Kent: died 15 May 2020) and they formed Pretty Things.

Taylor was once again playing his preferred guitar with May singing and playing harmonica. They recruited Brian Pendleton (born 13 April 1944 in Wolverhampton–died 16 May 2001 in Maidstone, Kent) on rhythm guitar; John Stax (born John Edward Lee Fullegar, 6 April 1944 in Crayford, Kent) on bass; and, after trying a couple of different drummers, including Pete Kitley and Viv Andrews, stuck with Viv Prince (born Vivian St John Prince, 9 August 1944, in Loughborough, Leices).

(last.fm/music/The+Pretty+Things/+wiki)

01. Love Is Good (06:53)
02. Havana Bound (03:55)
03. Peter (01:26)
04. Rip Off Train (03:18)
05. Over the Moon (04:31)
06. Religion's Dead (04:12)
07. Country Road (04:48)
08. Allnight Sailor (01:55)
09. Onion Soup (03:49)
10. Another Bowl? (03:00)

Bonus Tracks:

11. Religion's Dead (Live) (04:47)
12. Havana Bound (Live) (04:20)
13. Love Is Good (Live) (06:43)
14. Onion Soup (Live) (08:23)
15. Over the Moon (Single Edit) (04:08)
16. Havana Bound (Single Edit) (03:55)

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