Phil May

I love The Pretty Things, I really do, one of my favourite bands I reckon.

Saw them just a couple of times but, you know, back in their pomp but they went on playing and were playing well in, well, Phil May and Dick Taylor who were the kind of main two guys I really think, although...

I think Wally Waller, the bass player, is still around.

And yeah, he is because he posts stuff on Facebook quite a lot.

But Phil May and Dick Taylor used to go out and play with, they had a younger band and go out and play gigs and they were absolutely fantastic until Phil May died in a bicycle accident.

Can you believe it? He fell off his bicycle and got killed.

I don't know, what a way to go, eh? Dick Taylor, of course, as you probably know, the original Pretty Things were kind of from the Dartford area, where the Stones were from, and they were friends with the Stones, and I think Dick Taylor started off in, actually as a member of the Stones, but then he kind of decided to continue his art project at Art College and didn't go with them, and then later on formed the Pretty Things with Phil May, and that, you know, So they were from the very same area as the Stones, as were Byrne Elliot and the Fen Men.

And some of the Fen Men ended up in the pretty things.

Townsend and adultery, may they live forever.

The Pretty Things also have some dead folks in them, which is sad, but including the singer on that track, the late Phil May, a song written by Phil May and Dick Taylor called Midnight to Six.

That was live from a BBC TV show called A Whole Scene Going, done in London, January 12th, 66.

A song that's a story about missing a whole night while you were doing Well, I bet you everyone would like to know what you were doing from midnight to six.

We all know what you were doing from midnight to 66, Mr. Phil May.

At least if you weren't boasting about something you weren't really doing.

The fifth single by that London band only went to number 46 in the UK charts after three straight hits that went to number 10, 13, and 28.

And [laughs] you know, the Pretty Things were this, you know, very ethereal, eclectic band out of England.

And, uh, the, uh, it was Phil May was the, uh, lead vocalist, and he was a little perplexed how he was opening for Ted Nug- you know, Ted Nugent.

Yeah.

But that was kind of the...

He was Mick Jagger.

He was Phil May.

He was David Bowie.

He was all of those people.