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Fact #130365

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Short story:

The Pretty Things enter the UK Top 30 singles chart at No25 with Cry To Me, which had first been a hit in 1962 for Solomon Burke.

Full article:

Dick Taylor (guitarist, Pretty Things) : Fontana Records had picked up on us in the first flush of post-Beatles, Rolling Stones type bands. They picked up on us and were quite good for awhile. We had Bobby Graham as our producer and he was great.

And then he had a falling out with Fontana and we had a guy named Steve... I can't remember his name. He was an American guy and I must say there was a level where he didn't understand the band. Because we'd made some reasonable singles with him but he wanted us to be something we weren't.

Hence, that's how the Emotions album sort of got blanded-out with them. I still quite like it but I think it's less than what we could have done. Maybe it's something we had to go through. After that we got fed up with Fontana. And probably Fontana got fed up with us too.

And then we had a period of "no label" before we went to EMI. And EMI artistically were absolutely brilliant because we had a lot of freedom to do what we wanted. Which led to SF Sorrow. And a few pre-SF Sorrow singles. It was also at that point that I left the band.
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