Mick Farren - Definition and Overview

Mick Farren is a UK Underground/counterculture radical and anarchist. Underground press International Times writer. Lead singer with the Deviants. He also went on to write for the main stream UK Music Paper New Musical Express (NME) as well as becoming a prolific sci-fi/horror author, cultural journalist, critic. As well as non-fiction Farren has also written a number of biographical and autobiographical books. To date he has written 23 novels(including the Victor Renquist novels and the classic DNA Cowboys sequence), 11 works of non-fiction (including four on Elvis Presley) and a plethora of poetry. Musically has released at least fifteen albums.

Mick Farren organised (or should that be disorganised??) the legendary Phun City Festival in 1970. He has long been associated with the Hells Angels - UK who provided security at Phun City. They even awarded Farren an 'approval patch' also in 1970 for use on his first solo album the strange and bizarre Mona which also featured Steve Peregrin Took (who was credited as Shagrat the Vagrant). His second solo album was Vampires Stole My Lunch Money which is a Farren solo masterwork. It Dr. Feelgood*s guitarist Wilko Johnson and Chrissie Hynde. His most recent releases are Dr Crow with the Deviants (2002) and People Call You Crazy: The Story of Mick Farren (2003).

See also

• White Panthers

External links

• THE PHILOSOPHY OF MICK FARREN (http://members.aol.com/BYRON4D/)
• Funtopia (http://www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk/undergroundfiles/interview.htm)
• Mick Farren Bibliography (http://www.myunicorn.com/bibl3/bibl0311.html)
• Discography with the Deviants (http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=social_deviants)
• Solo Farren Discography (http://www.trouserpress.com/entry_90s.php?a=mick_farren)