Michael Anthony Farren was an English rock musician, singer, journalist, and author associated with counterculture and the UK underground.
10 Facts About Mick Farren
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Mick Farren was the singer with the proto-punk band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums.
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Mick Farren contributed song ideas and music for short-lived Ladbroke Grove ensemble Warsaw Pakt's 1977 Needle Time LP.
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Mick Farren provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" during the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.
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Mick Farren later wrote for the mainstream New Musical Express, for which he wrote the article The Titanic Sails At Dawn, an analysis of what he considered the malaise afflicting then-contemporary rock music and which described the conditions that subsequently resulted in punk.
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Mick Farren wrote 23 novels, including the Victor Renquist novels and the DNA Cowboys sequence.
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Mick Farren wrote eleven works of non-fiction, including a number of biographical, autobiographical and culture books, and much poetry.
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Mick Farren has long been associated with the Hells Angels who provided security at Phun City; they even awarded Farren an "approval patch" in 1970 for use on his first solo album Mona.
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Mick Farren was a prominent activist in the White Panthers UK movement, a group that most notably organised free food and other support services for free festivals from the Windsor Free Festival onwards.
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Mick Farren died at age 69 in 2013, after collapsing while performing with the Deviants at the Borderline Club in London.