Epigoners (Honorable and Less Honorable) (not-so-slight return) 0 ▲ RETROMANIA 51 minutes ago · 9 min read1840 words · Music · hide · 0 comments In the comments to the previous post about Robyn Hitchcock and his attempt to perpetuate 1967... Phil Knight mentioned that there was quite a bit of it - back-to-psychedelia (specifically English psychedelia) in the early-mid Eighties.... Television Personalities... The Cleaners from Venus, The Monochrome Set... Quite a bit of it - indeed there was, indeed there was.Focused on the UK Eighties uptake of the UK Sixties vibe, what follows is not even the complete inventory...First line of this references Rita Tushingham... Second verse references David Hemmings and David Bailey... the title nods to one of the Men From UNKLE. The entire lyric is a phantasmagoric montage of Sixties referencesPatrick Macnee and Twiggy on the cover, not a collage but apparently a shot taken at a fashion shoot dedicated to the Avengers style... This song by Billy Childish's early band the Pop Rivits might actually just precede the Eighties but I include as a nod to that whole Milkshakes et al scene"I know… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.