It was 1965 with bells on, the year the singles charts got wilder, heavier, druggier. Twelve months of traumas, transgressions and transvestism, experiments and explosions. How 20 revolutionary platters from 1966 revealed "the secrets of space and time". "Intensity was the keynote," says JON SAVAGE.

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

74-75: Night Life / Fighting UMR

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