Keep It Together!: Cosmic Boogie with the Deviants and the Pink Fairies

"This is British amphetamine psychosis music and if you don't like it you can f*ck off and listen to your Iron Butterfly albums" Mick Farren of The Deviants in Vancouver "The Pink Fairies make me sick" Peter Jenner, manager of the Edgar Broughton BandKEEP IT TOGETHER is the remarkable story of London's communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s, from the perspective of its most crucial exponents, off their heads on Methedrine. The Deviants and the Pink Fairies were bands of the people, gate-crashing festivals and playing for free on a flatbed truck on some days, while on others they would share a bill with supergroups Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.KEEP IT TOGETHER tells of the Deviants and the Pink Fairies' place in a scene that had been swinging but was now ugly and heavy. It is a tale of hard drugs, bad acid, street politics, VU bootlegs, Irish pubs, Hawkwind, the Pretty Things, MC5, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Motorhead, Canned Heat, and a host of influential bands and pilled-up geezers desperate for revolution, or at the very least, Top Of The Pops. Introduction by Mick Farren of The Deviants.