How would you summarise The Pretty Things in 1964?
We were an R&B band that wanted to be popular but didn’t want to be a pop group. We wanted to be a bit different and true to our artistic principles. We had ambition and incompetence. What we didn’t want to do, and Phil was very hot on this, was to try and reproduce somebody else’s work. We wanted to do Bo Diddley songs but in our own way, which was rough and ready. We wanted to put our own mark on things.
When did you and Phil