Pseudonym used by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones for some of their early songs. Jimmy Phelge (http://www.d-filed.com/phelge.html) was an early roommate of Jagger, Richards, and Jones, and is alleged to be the "Mr. Jimmy" mentioned in "You Can't Always Get What You Want." (The song's producer and drummer, Jimmy Miller, seems a more likely candidate.) According to The Rise and Fall of Popular Music (http://www.musicweb.uk.net/RiseandFall/17.htm), "a 'nankie’, said Brian Jones, is a little man who thinks he represents authority; but it is an appropriate rock joke that 'nanker’ rhymes with 'wanker’, one who practises the solitary vice."
The Nanker Phelge, presumably named after the Jagger-Richards pseudonym, were a short-lived Australian rock band (2002-2003) fronted by Rob Younger of Radio Birdman and New Christs.
Other members included the drummer from the New Christs, Stu Wilson, and three of the Navahodads, Brendan Kibble, Brad Fitzpatrick and Mark Busby. The band was formed after the New Christs split up. They never recorded together, although live bootlegs are in circulation.
Their repertoire was mid-1960s British R&B. Their first "gig" was playing to the teenage patients at an institution for the mentally ill where Stu Wilson was a resident nurse.
