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((Short description|English journalist, author and singer (1943–2013)))
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((Infobox musical artist
| name = Mick Farren
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Michael Anthony Farren
| image = MickFarren.jpg
| caption = Farren in January 1970
| birth_date = ((birth date|1943|9|3|df=y))
| birth_place = [[Cheltenham]], [[Gloucestershire]], England
| death_date = ((death date and age|2013|7|27|1943|9|3|df=y))
| death_place = London, England
| genre = ((Flatlist|
* [[Acid rock]]<ref>((cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mick-farren-20130807-story.html |title=Mick Farren dies at 69; British rocker embodied '60s spirit |last=Appleford |first=Stece |date=6 August 2013 |newspaper=LA Times |access-date=30 December 2021))</ref>
* [[garage rock]]
* [[proto-punk]]
* [[psychedelic rock]]<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mick-farren-mn0000892495|title=Mick Farren Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=28 October 2023))</ref>
))
| occupation = Singer, journalist
| website = 
))

'''Michael Anthony Farren''' (3 September 1943 – 27 July 2013)<ref>((cite web|title=Mick Farren collapsed on stage at The Borderline on 27th July while playing with his old friends, and failed to recover|url=http://www.reallylivemusic.com/the-atomic-sunshine-one-day-festival-borderline-saturday-27072013|website=Reallylivemusic.com|access-date=28 July 2013))</ref> was an English rock musician, singer, journalist, and author associated with [[counterculture]] and the [[UK underground]].<ref name=Guardian>((cite news|author=Richard Williams |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jul/29/mick-farren |title=Mick Farren &#124; Music |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=1943-09-03 |access-date=2013-07-29))</ref>

==Early life==
Farren was born in [[Cheltenham]], [[Gloucestershire]], and after moving to [[Worthing]], [[Sussex]],<ref name="LarkinGE">((cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=842/3))</ref> attended [[Worthing College#Grammar school|Worthing High School for Boys]], which was a state grammar school. In 1963, he moved to London, where he studied at [[Saint Martin's School of Art]].<ref name=Guardian /><ref name=Independent>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mick-farren-musician-and-writer-who-played-a-leading-role-in-the-uks-counterculture-8737151.html Mick Farren Obituary ''The Independent'']. Retrieved 31 July 2013</ref>

==Music==
((main|The Deviants (band)))
[[File:Thedeviants.jpg|thumb|Farren performing with The Deviants]]
Farren was the singer with the [[proto-punk]] band [[The Deviants (band)|The Deviants]]<ref name="archive1">((cite web|title=Mick Farren on Outsight Radio Hours|url=https://archive.org/details/MickFarrenOnOutsightRadioHours|work=Archive.org|access-date=24 September 2012))</ref> between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums.
During 1970 he released the solo album ''[[Mona – The Carnivorous Circus]]'', which also featured [[Steve Peregrin Took]], [[John Gustafson (musician)|John Gustafson]] and [[Paul Buckmaster]], before ending his music business to concentrate on writing.<ref name="LarkinGE"/>

During the mid-1970s, he briefly revived his musical career, releasing the single "Play With Fire" featuring Marky (soon-to-be Ramone) Bell, Jon Tiven, and Doug Snyder, the EP ''Screwed Up'', album ''[[Vampires Stole My Lunch Money]]'' and single "Broken Statue". The album featured fellow ''[[NME|New Musical Express (NME)]]'' journalist [[Chrissie Hynde]] and [[Dr. Feelgood (band)|Dr. Feelgood]] guitarist [[Wilko Johnson]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> He also contributed song ideas and music for short-lived Ladbroke Grove ensemble Warsaw Pakt's 1977 ''Needle Time'' LP.

He sporadically did musical work after that, collaborating with [[Wayne Kramer (guitarist)|Wayne Kramer]] on ''Who Shot You Dutch?'' and ''Death Tongue'', Jack Lancaster on ''The Deathray Tapes'' and Andy Colquhoun on The Deviants albums ''[[Eating Jello With a Heated Fork]]'' and ''[[Dr. Crow]]''.

Aside from his own work, he provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He collaborated with Ian Fraser Kilmister ([[Lemmy]]), co-writing "Lost Johnny" for [[Hawkwind]], and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for [[Motörhead]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> With [[Larry Wallis]], he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the [[Pink Fairies]] and several tracks on Wallis' solo album ''Death in the Guitafternoon''. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" during the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.

== Discography ==
===Singles===
:'''Solo'''
*1976 – "Play With Fire" / "Lost Johnny" (Ork records)
*1978 – "Half Price Drinks" (Logo Records)
*1978 – "Broken Statue" / "It's All In The Picture" (Logo records)

:'''Other appearances'''
*1968 - The Deviants - "You've Got To Hold On" / "Let's Loot The Supermarket" (Stable Records)<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Deviants-Youve-Got-To-Hold-On-Lets-Loot-The-Supermarket/release/2151534 |title=Deviants, The (2) - You've Got To Hold On / Let's Loot The Supermarket (Vinyl) at Discogs |website=Discogs.com |access-date=2013-07-29))</ref>
*1977 – Mick Farren and The Deviants – ''Screwed Up'' EP ([[Stiff Records]])
*1987 – [[Wayne Kramer (guitarist)|Wayne Kramer]] & Mick Farren – ''Who Shot You Dutch?''
*199? – Lunar Malice – "Gunfire In The Night" / "Touched By The Fire"

===Albums===
:'''With The Deviants'''
((Main article|The Deviants (band)))

:'''Solo'''
*1970 – ''[[Mona – The Carnivorous Circus]]'' (Transatlantic Records)
*1978 – ''[[Vampires Stole My Lunch Money]]'' (Logo Records)
*2005 – ''To The Masterlock'' – live ([[Captain Trip Records]], Japan)

:'''Other appearances'''
*1991 – Wayne Kramer – ''Death Tongue'' (Progressive Records)
*1993 – Tijuana Bible – ''Gringo Madness''
*1995 – Mick Farren and Jack Lancaster – ''The Deathray Tapes'' ([[Alive Records]])
*2013 – Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun - ''[[Black Vinyl Dress]]''

===Compilations===
*1996 – Mick Farren and The Deviants – ''Fragments of Broken Probes''
*1996 – The Social Deviants – ''Garbage'' ([[Alive Records]])
*1999 – The Deviants – ''The Deviants Have Left The Planet''
*2000 – Mick Farren and The Deviants – ''This CD Is Condemned'' ([[Alive Records]])
*2001 – Mick Farren and The Deviants – ''On Your Knees, Earthlings'' ([[Alive Records]])

==Writing==
During the early 1970s he contributed to the UK [[Underground press]] such as the ''[[International Times]]'', also establishing ''Nasty Tales'' which he successfully defended from an obscenity charge. He later wrote for the mainstream ''[[New Musical Express]]'', for which he wrote the article "The Titanic Sails At Dawn", an analysis of what he considered the malaise afflicting then-contemporary rock music and which described the conditions that subsequently resulted in [[Punk rock|punk]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk/damagedfiles/articles/titanic.htm |title=The Titanic Sails At Dawn |access-date=2008-06-12 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607212655/http://www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk/damagedfiles/articles/titanic.htm |archive-date=7 June 2008 )), ''NME'', 19 June 1976, pp. 5–6</ref>

He wrote 23 novels, including the ''[[Victor Renquist]]'' novels and the ''DNA Cowboys'' sequence. His 1989 novel ''The Armageddon Crazy'' dealt with a post-2000 United States dominated by [[Fundamentalism|fundamentalists]] who subvert the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]]. He began writing fantasy literature in the 70s.<ref name="archive1"/>

Farren wrote eleven works of non-fiction, including a number of biographical (including four on [[Elvis Presley]]), autobiographical and culture books (such as ''[[The Black Leather Jacket]]''), and much poetry.

From 2003 to 2008, he was a columnist for the weekly newspaper ''[[Los Angeles CityBeat]]''.

In his 3 May 2010 Doc40 blog, Farren announced that he was writing another Victor Renquist novel, with the working title of ''Renquist V''.

[[File:Mick Farren & Patrick Boissel, 2007.jpg|thumb|Farren in 2013]]
In 2013, he worked with digital imprint Ink Monkey Books on audio inserts (with Andy Colquhoun of The Deviants) for reissues of ''The Texts of Festival ''and the ''DNA Cowboys sequence''.

==Bibliography==
===Fiction series===
====Car Warriors====
:* ''Back From Hell: Car Warriors #2'' (1999)

====Flame of Evil====
# ''[[Kindling (Mick Farren novel)|Kindling]]'' (2004)
# ''Conflagration'' (2006)

====Jeb Stuart Ho====
:Also known as ''The DNA Cowboys Trilogy''.
# ''The Quest of The DNA Cowboys'' (1976)
# ''Synaptic Manhunt'' (1976)
# ''The Neural Atrocity'' (1977)
# ''The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys'' (1989)

====[[Victor Renquist|The Victor Renquist Quartet]]====
# ''The Time of Feasting'' (1996)
# ''Darklost'' (2000)
# ''More Than Mortal'' (2001)
# ''Underland'' (2002)

===Novels===
* ''The Texts of Festival'' (1973)
* ''The Tale of Willy's Rats'' (1974)
* ''The Feelies'' (1978)
* ''The Song of Phaid the Gambler'' (1981), reissued as:
# ''Phaid the Gambler'' (1986)
# ''Citizen Phaid'' (1986)
* ''[[Protectorate (novel)|Protectorate]]'' (1985)
* ''CORP*S*E'' (1986), aka ''Vickers''
* ''Their Master's War'' (1987)
* ''Exit Funtopia'' (1988), aka ''The Long Orbit''
* ''The Armageddon Crazy'' (1989) aka ''Armageddon Crazy''
* ''Mars – The Red Planet'' (1990)
* ''Necrom'' (1991)
* ''Jim Morrison's Adventures in the Afterlife'' (1999)
* ''Road Movie'' (2012)

===Story collections===
* ''Short Stories (1972–1973)'' (2001)
* ''From the anthology - Dead Cats Bouncing, edited by Gerard Houarner and GAK, Bedlam Press'' (2002) a short story: Dead Cat Meets Slide
* ''Zones of Chaos'' (2009)

===Nonfiction===
*''Watch Out Kids''
*''Get On Down''
*''Elvis In His Own Words''
*''The Rolling Stones In Their Own Words''
*''The Rock & Roll Circus''
*''Elvis – The Illustrated Record''
*''[[The Black Leather Jacket]]''
*''Elvis And The Colonel''
*''The Hitchhiker's Guide to Elvis''
*''The CIA Files''
*''Conspiracies, Lies And Hidden Agendas''
*''Give The Anarchist A Cigarette''
*''Gene Vincent: There's One In Every Town''
*''Words of Wisdom From the Greatest Minds of All Time''
*''Who's Watching You?: The Chilling Truth about the State, Surveillance and Personal Freedom''
*''(Who put the) Bomp! Saving the World One Record at a Time''
*''Zones of Chaos'' (an anthology)
*''Speed-Speed-Speedfreak - A fast history of amphetamine''

==Counterculture activity==
Farren organised the [[Phun City]] Festival in 1970. He has long been associated with the [[Hells Angels#Worldwide charters|Hells Angels]] (UK) who provided security at Phun City; they even awarded Farren an "approval patch" in 1970 for use on his first solo album ''Mona''.((fact|date=December 2023))

He was a prominent activist in the [[White Panthers]] UK movement, a group that most notably organised free food and other support services for [[free festival]]s from the [[Windsor Free Festival]] onwards.((fact|date=December 2023))

==Death==
Farren died at age 69 in 2013, after collapsing while performing with the Deviants at [[The Borderline (music venue)|The Borderline]] in London.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.reallylivemusic.com/the-atomic-sunshine-one-day-festival-borderline-saturday-27072013 |title=Mick Farren |publisher=Really Live Music |access-date=2013-07-29))</ref> The cause of death was stated to be a heart attack.<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/arts/music/mick-farren-british-rock-n-roll-renaissance-man-dies-at-69.html|title=Mick Farren, British Rock 'n' Roll Renaissance Man, Dies at 69|work=The New York Times |date=August 2013 |access-date=31 October 2018|last1=Weber |first1=Bruce ))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((YouTube|TO0tCvkzC4E|Video of 1967 interview by John Peel))
* [http://doc40.blogspot.com/ Doc 40] Mick Farren personal blog
* ((isfdb name|id=208|name=Mick Farren))

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