Book DetailsCountry: UK
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Mayflower
Publication Date: 1974
Fictional Artist:
Band: Willy's Rats
Genre: R&B
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: Probably Farren's own real band The Social Deviants. Charles Shaar Murray likened them, in his 1975 review of the book, to the Rolling Stones, MC5 and Blue Oyster Cult in terms of their 'evilness'.
Jacket Blurb:
You wouldn't let your dog near Willy's Rats, let alone your sister. They are about the most corrupt, depraved band imaginable in your worst hallucinations. But oh, they play the sweetest, raunchiest rock, and joints aren't the only things the Rats roll after those searing, whip-cracking concerts... the groupies they attract are the weirdest women around.
But it's not all dope and roses. There's the hatred as well as adulation. There are exhausting tours, police raids, and hip-gangsters to contend with. And a madman in that darkened auditorium fondling his luger...
Lou Francis, king Rat, documents the lost legendary British R and B scene of the sixties in relating the Rats' rise. And Mick Farren, formerly leader of the late-lamented Social Deviants, the brains behond Nasty Tales and a well respected man in that most anarchic of high societies - the English underground - should know.
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