Speakers are brought into the boardroom of their Manchester Square HQ. Producer Norman Smith, noted for his work with the Fabs and Pink Floyd, is along too. The band have even gone to the trouble of ...

Minutes into my roadie debut at Seattle's Bumbershoot in 1999, I'm thrown to the fire. Pretty Things manager-producer Mark St. John reminds me three times to get liquids to drummer Skip Alan, a burly ...

Viv Prince in 1965 drinking a Coca-Cola, shortly after he had been fined £1 for being drunk and disorderly - R McPhedran/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Viv Prince, who has died aged 84, was a ...

The DC5 wouldn’t have been bothered by their relatively poor UK chart position as their focus was now on the States: “Anyway You Want it” reached 14 on Billboard’s Top 40. The Pretty Things would ...

A drummer for the 1960s British band the Pretty Things, “the high priest of lunacy” set a high bar for fiery performances and offstage misbehavior. By Alex Williams Viv Prince, a drummer for the ...