The Creation
 Formed
in 1966, The Creation were were the innovative wild men of rock
onstage.
Guitarist Eddie Phillips pummelled his guitar with a violin bow
way before Jimmy Page took up the
practice, and Pete Townshend was so
impressed he asked to form a band with him.
Singer Kenny Pickett, meanwhile, belted out songs with titles
like Biff Bang Pow and pioneered graffiti art with his
spray-painting antics (Pickett also went on to pen Clive
Dunn's one-hit-wonder Grandad).
The Creation hit big in Germany but failed to ever really make
it in Britain.
Their ever-changing line-up didn't help. Neither did manager
Tony Stratton-Smith who paid the group out of the back of a van
then borrowed their wages back.
Having never recorded an album in their heyday, Phillips and
Pickett unwisely decided to rectify the situation in the mid-80s.
The result never surfaced until Cherry Red released the sessions
in 2004 as a "great lost album" called Psychedelic
Rose. It would have been far better if it had never been
found . . .
Slick and cliché-ridden - including a bastardised remake of
their classic single Making Time - the record is a
sad testament to the original band, who could have rivalled The
Who or The Small Faces in their
day.
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