Sydney’s sixties Missing Links were without doubt one of the most extraordinary rock band ever. In barely three years of existence, the legendary Links managed to survive one complete line-up change; make headlines with their outrageously long hair; incorporate feedback and onstage destruction while many bands were still politely trotting out Beatles and Shadows covers in shiny suits — and finally got to release the most startlingly experimental and uncommercial album of the 1960s before swiftly self-destructing in a haze of overindulgence, paranoia and general Rock & Roll craziness. Yes, the Missing Links were punk pioneers. Too loud, too outrageous, too unstable, too provocative, too young, too dirty, too destructive, too scary — too much.
