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Michael Anthony Farren (3 September 1943 – 27 July 2013)[3] was an English rock musician, singer, journalist, and author associated with counterculture and the UK underground.[4]

Mick Farren
Mick Farren (left) with Patrick Boissel at the signing of the Bomp! book at Freakbeat Records in Sherman Oaks, California
Background information
Birth nameMichael Anthony Farren
Born(1943-09-03)3 September 1943
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Died27 July 2013(2013-07-27) (aged 69)
London, England, United Kingdom
Genres
  • Acid rock[1]
  • garage rock
  • proto-punk
  • psychedelic rock[2]
Occupation(s)Singer, journalist

Early life


Farren was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and after moving to Worthing, Sussex,[5] 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.[4][6]


Music


Farren was the singer with the proto-punk band The Deviants[7] 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.[5]

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.[5] He also contributed song ideas and music for short-lived Ladbroke Grove ensemble Warsaw Pakt's 1977 Needle Time LP.

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.

Aside from his own work, he provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He collaborated with Ian Fraser Kilmister (Lemmy), co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead.[5] With Larry Wallis, he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the Pink Fairies and several tracks on Wallis' solo album Death in the Guitafternoon. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" during the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.


Discography



Singles


Solo
Other appearances

Albums


With The Deviants
Solo
Other appearances

Compilations



Writing


During the early 1970s he contributed to the UK Underground press such as the International Times, also establishing Nasty Tales which he successfully defended from an obscenity charge. He 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.[9]

He wrote 23 novels, including the Victor Renquist novels and the DNA Cowboys sequence. His 1989 novel The Armageddon Crazy dealt with a post-2000 United States dominated by fundamentalists who subvert the Constitution. He began writing fantasy literature in the 70s.[7]

Farren wrote eleven works of non-fiction, including a number of biographical (including four on Elvis Presley), autobiographical and culture books (such as The Black Leather Jacket), and much poetry.

From 2003 to 2008, he was a columnist for the weekly newspaper Los Angeles CityBeat.

In his 3 May 2010 Doc40 blog, Farren announced that he was writing another Victor Renquist novel, with the working title of Renquist V.

In 2013, he worked with digital imprint Ink Monkey Books on audio inserts (with Andy Colquhoun of The Deviants) for reissues of The Texts of Festival and the DNA Cowboys sequence.


Bibliography



Fiction series



Car Warriors

  • Back From Hell: Car Warriors #2 (1999)

Flame of Evil

  1. Kindling (2004)
  2. Conflagration (2006)

Jeb Stuart Ho

Also known as The DNA Cowboys Trilogy.
  1. The Quest of The DNA Cowboys (1976)
  2. Synaptic Manhunt (1976)
  3. The Neural Atrocity (1977)
  4. The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys (1989)

The Victor Renquist Quartet

  1. The Time of Feasting (1996)
  2. Darklost (2000)
  3. More Than Mortal (2001)
  4. Underland (2002)

Novels


  1. Phaid the Gambler (1986)
  2. Citizen Phaid (1986)

Story collections



Nonfiction



Counterculture activity


Farren organised the Phun City Festival in 1970. He has long been associated with the Hells Angels (UK) who provided security at Phun City; they even awarded Farren an "approval patch" in 1970 for use on his first solo album Mona.

He 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.


Death


Farren died at age 69 in 2013, after collapsing while performing with the Deviants at the Borderline Club in London.[10] The cause of death was stated to be a heart attack.[11]


References


  1. Appleford, Stece (6 August 2013). "Mick Farren dies at 69; British rocker embodied '60s spirit". LA Times. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  2. [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mick-farren-mn0000892495 Mick Farren] Allmusic. Retrieved 26 March 2022
  3. "Mick Farren collapsed on stage at The Borderline on 27th July while playing with his old friends, and failed to recover". Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  4. Richard Williams (3 September 1943). "Mick Farren | Music". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  5. Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 842/3. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  6. Mick Farren Obituary The Independent. Retrieved 31 July 2013
  7. "Mick Farren on Outsight Radio Hours". Archive.org. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  8. "Deviants, The (2) - You've Got To Hold On / Let's Loot The Supermarket (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  9. "The Titanic Sails At Dawn". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), NME, 19 June 1976, pp. 5-6
  10. "Mick Farren". Really Live Music. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  11. "Mick Farren, British Rock 'n' Roll Renaissance Man, Dies at 69". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 31 October 2018.



На других языках


- [en] Mick Farren

[ru] Фаррен, Мик

Мик Фаррен (Mick Farren, полное имя — Майкл Энтони Фаррен, англ. Michael Anthony Farren; 3 сентября 1943, Челтнем, Глостершир — 27 июля 2013) — британский журналист, литератор, музыкант и певец, в конце 1960-х годов возглавлявший психоделическую прото-панк-группу The Deviants и принимавший активное участие в деятельности лондонского андеграундного сообщества. Как отмечает в биографии на Allmusic Кристофер Тру, Фаррен в полной мере заслуживает также звания философа и социального критика[1].



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