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DR STRANGELY STRANGE: FITTING PIECES TO THE JIGSAW
Adrian Whittaker With Tim Booth, Tim Goulding & Ivan Pawle OZYMANDIAS
Exceptionally engaging acid-folk biography, doubling as socio-cultural history.
Who could have dreamed that the band who closed 1969’s seminal prog sampler Nice Enough To Eat carried a back story that, 50 years later, would furnish possibly the definitive account of the era’s craziness, hijinks and musical cross-pollination? Dublin trio Dr Strangely Strange were acid-folkies among the underground future titans that placed Island Records at the forefront of late-60s prog rock, Strangely Strange (But Oddly Normal) heralding the promise of their Kip Of The Serenes debut. Amid drug-fuelled mayhem,
