“You could never call us pretentious. We were a rock’n’roll band. A rock’n’roll band that liked to experiment”: The wild story of Family, the British hellraisers that John Lennon loved and Middle America hated

Family posing for a photograph in 1969.

Family were one of the great cult bands of the late 60s and early 70s. Spanning the worlds of rock, prog and blues, the notched up a string of hits before imploding before they ever truly became massive. In 2012, ahead of their reunion the following year, Classic Rock sat spoke to the surviving members of the band to look back on a story of missed opportunities and thwarted ambitio.n.