the teenage round of parties, cigarettes, booze and casual sex.

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In February 1966, they made their debut at The Marquee Club in London’s Wardour Street at an event which came to be known as The Spontaneous Underground. The invitations read: “Who will be there? Poets, pop singers, hoods, Americans, homosexuals, 20 clowns, jazz musicians, one murderer, sculptors, politicians and some girls who defy description, are among those invited.” The audience organised its own entertainment. A girl in white tights played a Bach Prelude and Fugue while The Ginger Johnson African Drummers pounded out furious rhythms all around her. The loudest and most outrageous of all were Pink Floyd who played lengthy, muffled versions of ‘Roadrunner’ and Chuck Berry songs, or simply built up layer upon layer of feedback by turning everything up to full volume.