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The Pretty Things is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of The Beatles, The Who, Edgar Broughton Band, The Kinks and Rainbow. Those roots explain a lot about how The Pretty Things arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Kaleidoscope, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The United States of America, Ultimate Spinach and The Yardbirds, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Stooges, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Deviants and Twink, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around The Pretty Things, reaching back through The Beatles and forward to The Stooges. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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The Pretty Things connections
The Pretty Things grew out of The Beatles, The Who, Edgar Broughton Band and The Kinks, shares an orbit with Kaleidoscope, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The United States of America and Ultimate Spinach, went on to shape The Stooges, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and The Deviants. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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