Listen back here for the re-broadcast of the band's 2012 Studio 5 Live session.
It cannot be overstated the enormity of the impact The Pretty Things had on the UK music scene when they burst upon it with the dirty garage 1, 2 punch of 'Rosalyn' and 'Don’t Bring Me Down'. Prettier than the Stones and grittier than The Who, the band racked up a huge history of musical and cultural "firsts" – the longest hair in the world, first ever rock and roll drugs bust, most arrests of any band, first ever rock-opera, arrested for discharging a sawn-off shotgun, first U.K. band to win Rolling Stone Record of the Year – The Pretty Things are an indelible part of the fabric of popular music and the social influence that it has created.
