Mick Farren
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Mick Farren (left) with Patrick Boissel at the signing of the Bomp! book at Freakbeat Records in Sherman Oaks, California
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Anthony Farren |
| Born |
3 September 1943 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 27 July 2013 (aged 69) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Genres | Rock, proto-punk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, jouranalist |
| Associated acts | The Deviants |
Michael Anthony 'Mick' Farren (3 September 1943 – 27 July 2013) was an English journalist, author and singer associated with counterculture and the United Kingdom Underground.
Farren was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and after moving to Sussex he attended Worthing High School for Boys which was a state grammar school. In 1963 he moved to London where he studied at Saint Martin's School of Art. Mick was Jewish.
Farren was the singer with the proto-punk band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums. During 1970 he released the solo album Mona – The Carnivorous Circus which also featured Steve Peregrin Took, John Gustafson and Paul Buckmaster, before ending his music business to concentrate on writing.
During the mid-1970s, he briefly revived his musical career, releasing the single Play With Fire featuring Marky (soon-to-be Ramone) Bell, Jon Tiven, and Doug Snyder, the EP Screwed Up, album Vampires Stole My Lunch Money and single "Broken Statue". The album featured fellow New Musical Express (NME) journalist Chrissie Hynde and Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.
He sporadically did musical work after that, collaborating with Wayne Kramer on Who Shot You Dutch? and Death Tongue, Jack Lancaster on The Deathray Tapes and Andy Colquhoun on The Deviants albums Eating Jello With a Heated Fork and Dr. Crow.
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