“Being on a trip was stimulating… you weren’t covered in blood, but you’d experience it as if you were”: Of their many mistakes, The Pretty Things know which one derailed S.F. Sorrow, the first rock opera

The Pretty Things.

In 1968 The Pretty Things delivered what’s arguably the first rock opera in the form of their fourth album, S.F. Sorrow. Swamped with issues from all sides, they didn’t receive the acclaim they deserved, although they were always convinced of the record’s value. In 2018 guitarist Dick Taylor and late vocalist Phil May told Prog what had gone wrong five decades earlier.

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