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Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie

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About Me


Rich Deakin - Born in Leicester, 1965. After leaving school became a full-time wastrel and occasional disc jockey. By the mid-90s seriously needed to get shit together and completed a Masters thesis on the British underground press. Live in Cheltenham with girlfriend and two Persian cats, Maumau and Owsley.

Keep It Together! : Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and Pink Fairies - the biography of legendary 1960s and 70s British underground bands - The Deviants and Pink Fairies.
THE LADBROKE GROOVE (edit)
by Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun


Abridged version of Mick Farren's introduction to Keep It Together!
put to music, and recorded at Andy Colquhoun's Cyber Music Studios, Los Angeles, March 2007.

KEEP IT TOGETHER!This is the remarkable story of London's anti social communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s, from the perspective of two of its most crucial exponents.
Fuelled by amphetamine psychosis and the music of Bob Dylan and the Fugs, The Deviants and Pink Fairies were bands of the people playing for free from flatbed trucks, and alternatively on bills alongside the likes of Led Zeppelin.
Keep it Together! tells of the musical and social movements key in shaping a London that had been swinging but was rapidly moving away from psychedelia into far more brutish territory. It is a tale that includes the Edgar Broughton Band, the Pretty Things, Tomorrow, Hawkwind, and a host of other influential bands and dodgy geezers, with many exclusive interviews and photographs.
Published by Headpress
AVAILABLE SOON!Click for more details
ISBN-10: 190048661X ISBN-13: 978-1900486613
BINDING PAPERBACK PRICE £13.99
Extent biography & autobiography: film, television, music, theatre ;rock & pop music; London, Greater London; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to 1990
Publication summer 2007
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Charlie; Child of the Sky; Nothing Man; Bun; Sparrows; Jamie; Papa-oo-Mao-Mao; Slum Lord; Blind Joe McTurk; Sidney B. Goode; Last Man; Billy the Monster; The People; Black George; Mona; Charlie (again!); The Ravens; The Horsemen; Mary; Junior Narco Rangers; The Snake; Heavenly Man; Wargirl; Thor; Teenage Rebel; Uncle Harry; A Bunch of Sweeties; Marilyn; The Pigs of Uranus; Kings of Oblivion; City Kids; Chambermaid; Street Urchin, White Girls on Amphetamine etc. P.S. I Wish I Was A Girl as well

My Blog

Keep It Together! 4-star **** review in Record Collector, February 2008

OK.  So Record Collector and Grahame Bent have got a few of their facts wrong in this review, but hell, accidents and typos do happen!  I know Keep It Together! itself ain't entirely immune ...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:17:00 PST

Keep It Together! Amazon review by Alan Burridge

Alan Burridge has written the first Amazon review of Keep It Together! and very favourable it is too! Cheers Al - now where did you want me to send that cheque to? ha, ha, ha! -------------...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:40:00 PST

Sex, Drugs and Yuletide Cheer - Mick Farren recalls the ghosts of xmas past

(l-r - Mick Farren, Boss Goodman and Larry Wallis - pic courtesy of Larry Wallis) 'tis the season to be jolly, so I thought I'd resurrect a Crimble tide tale by Mick Farren from the Funtopia arc...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:45:00 PST

Keep It Together! Book launch report by Tony Davidson - Pink FA drummer

(Pink FA drummer Tony Davison meets Pink Fairies bassist Duncan "Sandy" Sanderson - pic by James Hawkes) Tony Davison has kindly provided me with this great account of the book launch party for Keep ...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:58:00 PST

Keep It Together - launch party at the Inn on the Green

To paraphrase the chorus from the Deviants' only single You Gotta Gold On; "It was a long time coming, but I'm glad you held on!" Although completed a year ago, and originally mooted for publication ...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:43:00 PST

Four Great Acts - Keep It Together! Book Launch

Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie With The Deviants and the Pink Fairies Book Launch Extravaganza  Friday 7th December(start time 7:00am - until 1:00am) at The Inn On The Green, 3-5 Thorpe Clo...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:28:00 PST

Keep It Together! Pink Fairies book launch - 7 December 2007


Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:42:00 PST

The Tale of Willys Rats

Twice in the space of less than two months Farren gets in a mention in The Times newspaper.  Firstly in August with Stewart Lee's backhanded compliment of sorts in a review of Cries from th...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:15:00 PST

Cries from the Midnight Circus: Ladbroke Grove 1967-78

Included on this rather excellent compilation are tracks by the Deviants, Pink Fairies, Mick Farren, Twink, Larry Wallis, Motorhead, Hawkwind, Robert Calvert and Michael Moorcock.  Not forgettin...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:40:00 PST

Who’s Watching You?

I originally posted this book review of Mick Farren and John Gibbs' Who's Watching You? The Chilling Truth About The State, Surveillance and Personal Freedom on the Funtopia website in early August 2...
Posted by Keep It Together! Cosmic Boogie on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:45:00 PST