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Established in 1998,
Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture
and social history
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THE BAND
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The Purple Gang
A jug band put together by a bunch of Stockport art students and
discovered by Joe Boyd, their washboards, kazoos and harmonicas
sound astonishingly innocent today, but in 1967 The Purple Gang
evoked a BBC ban with their single Granny Takes A
Trip.
Despite the band's protestations to the contrary,
the Beeb sensed the whiff of drug culture in the song which became
a great favourite at the UFO Club, and lent its name to
a hippie boutique on the King's Road in London.
According to guitarist Joe Beard the band were cursed due to
singer Peter Walker's adherence to Wicca magic. A member of the
Alderly Edge Coven, Walker's nickname was Lucifer - a moniker he
used to record a self-financed single in 1972 called Fuck You which
was sold through Oz magazine for 50p.
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