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The Deviants (formerly The Social Deviants) were a musical group in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s.

History

Out of the Ladbroke Grove UK Underground Community, a number of bands would emerge. Perhaps the most anarchistic band of the Underground was The Deviants, founded and fronted by singer/writer Mick Farren. Originally known as The Social Deviants, and later just as The Deviants, the band made three bizarre albums in two years. Mick Farren states that The Deviants were a community band which "did things every now and then - it was a total assault thing with a great deal of inter-relation and interdependence". Musically, Farren described The Deviants' sound as "teeth-grinding, psychedelic rock" somewhere between the Stooges and The Mothers of Invention. [1]. The Deviants have been described as a transition between classic British psych and the Punk/Heavy Metal aesthetic of the 1970s.[1]. In fact they were the 1st act to ever be introduced as a Punk Rock band by the underground DJ Jeff Dexter at Tiles Club in London’s Oxford Street, August 15th 1967, It just happened to be Dexter’s 21st birthday.
   After The Deviants folded in 1969, Farren recorded a solo album, Mona, with a short-lived Pink Fairies line-up that featured ex-Pretty Things drummer/singer Twink and Steve Peregrin Took. When the first Pink Fairies fell apart and Twink ran off with the name to form Pink Fairies mark 2, Farren initially considered continuing to work with Steve Took using the band name Steve Took's Shagrat with Larry Wallis. However, Took and Farren had a falling-out.
   Many of the band members of The Deviants and the The Pink Fairies were interchangeable and both names have been used for various one-offs over the years. In February 1984, Farren was joined by ex-Pink Fairies member Larry Wallis and original Deviant (as well as Pink Fairies member) Duncan Sanderson. They were billed as the Deviants and played a London gig at Dingwalls which was released as the album Human Garbage. Mick Farren's latest incarnation of the Deviants released an album, Dr. Crow, in 2002, with the opening track "When Dr. Crow Turns On the Radio".
   As a lyricist, Farren provided the words for "Lost Johnny", recorded by Hawkwind(1975) and Motörhead(1977), as well as for several songs on Larry Wallis' first solo album, Death in the Guitarfternoon, released in 2002.

Discography

1967 - Ptooff!
1968 - Disposable
1969 - The Deviants 3
1984 - Human Garbage (live)
1996 - Fragments of Broken Probes (demos, outtakes and live)
1996 - Eating Jello With A Heated Fork
1999 - The Deviants Have Left The Planet (demos, outtakes and live)
1999 - Barbarian Princes (Live In Japan)
2000 - This CD Is Condemned (compilation)
2001 - On Your Knees, Earthlings (compilation)
2002 - Dr. Crow

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