Rees left the band in June 1967 to be replaced by Farren’s flatmate Duncan Sanderson (born Stuart Duncan Sanderson, 31 December 1948, in Carlisle , Cumbria died 21 November 2019, Hampstead Heath , North West London ) and the band released a second album Disposable through the independent label Stable…
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When Bishop married and left the band, Farren recruited Canadian guitarist Paul Rudolph (born Paul Fraser Rudolph, 14 June 1947, in Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada) at the suggestion of Jamie Mandelkau. This band recorded and released the album The Deviants 3 through Transatlantic Records .
The Social Deviants were founded by singer/writer Mick Farren in late 1966 out of the Ladbroke Grove UK Underground community, featuring Pete Munro on bass, Clive Muldoon on guitar, Mike Robinson on guitar, and Benny (surname unknown) on drums. This group played at UFO in Tottenham Court Road and opened…
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1945–2015
During a tour of North America ‘s west coast the relationship between Farren and the musicians became personally and musically strained, and the band decided to continue without Farren, who returned to England, where he teamed up with ex- the Pretty Things drummer Twink (born John Charles Alder, 29 November…
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The band claimed that they got their new name from a scene in a Frankenstein movie, stating “where a woman dreams that her husband, whose name is Herman, gets turned into a dog,” although the phrase actually occurs in the 1933 horror The Vampire Bat . When the band started,…
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“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” was strongly influenced by the band’s interest in reggae and dub , styles in which the bass and the drums play prominent roles. The recording was completed on the first take. It was also the first time that Murphy had sung into a studio microphone, although he…
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The band had chosen the name Bauhaus 1919 , a reference to the German Bauhaus art movement of the 1920s, because of its “stylistic implications and associations”, according to David J. The band also chose the same typeface used on the Bauhaus college building in Dessau , Germany, as well…
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