After the Penny Lane of the Beatles and the Mr Pleasant Kinks, a sub-genre of charming and psychotronic songs flourished each spring, until the punk movement trampled its way: colorful, wacky, strange characters were described in a way that was both childish and hallucinatory. . Here are 87 examples in an exquisitely presented mini-box. Well-known artists and groups rub shoulders there (The Mindbenders, Bowie before success, the Spencer Davis Group and even the Shadows), among a small crowd of more or less forgotten but surprisingly talented aspirants. Again, what separates the chosen ones from the losers is often random. We therefore discover with delight theEmily Small (The Huge World Thereof) of the Picadilly Line group, the Man in a tea pot of the group Fire, the very brianwilsonesque Happiness Is Toy-Shaped of the Harmony Grass group, and so on. A merry-go-round fueled by magic mushrooms!
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