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This is my first (and probably only!) attempt at building a website, I intend to do some fine tuning to it to get it as perfect technically as I can, but if you have any problems reading this site, please contact me at pendleton _girl@yahoo.com and I will attack the user guide! Similarly, I have done my utmost to ensure that everything on this site is factually correct, but if anyone sees a glaring error, please tell me! This site was produced with Softpress Freeway 3.5 on a Mac. Terry Coates first and foremost! Your interview with Brian the only one he is believed to have ever given provided me with a crucial source of information and the photographs you have provided to me, especially the lovely colour sequence of Brian playing accoustic guitar, look fantastic. Without this, and your encouragement and support of this project, it simply wouldn't have been the same or possibly even got off the ground. I am forever in your debt Terry. Dick Taylor thank you so much Dick for your kindness and patience to me during our phone conversations and for all the fantastic help and information you gave me, as well as permission to quote you about various matters. As with Terry I am indebted always. Simon White for taking the trouble to telephone me one evening (and wake me from a deep festival-induced slumber) and provide me with a valuable insight into Brian's time with So What! and his later years, and some brilliant photos...can't thank you enough! Simon's website is at www.sawhite.co.uk Andy Fletcher I cannot thank you enough too, Andy, for contacting me and allowing me to share your memories of Brian on this site. Your insight into Brian's last years are very very much appreciated! Alan Lakey without your kind and helpful replies to me when I first started writing to you I might never have found the confidence to research and put together this site and you put me in touch with Terry Coates which was a massive help. There must have been many times when I wrote and you thought “Oh no, what does she want now!” although I have tried not to trouble you too much recently as you are so busy working on the rewrite of your book The Pretty Things Growing Old Disgracefully which I am very much looking forward to and is a must read. Just writing the material for this website seems a massive job, let alone a whole book! Peter Innes Many thanks Peter for taking the trouble to go through your archive and send me some very interesting info, and for sending me some music including Brian's performance with the Pretties at the 100 Club in 1995. Philip Pendleton thank you so much Philip for answering my questions about your father. It was a very nervous Nicola who rang you that day in September to talk to you; I really appreciate your honesty and patience when we spoke. I do hope you like my site. Paul May who played with Brian in So What! and who very kindly agreed to meet me in Maidstone on my second visit to the town and not only provided me with much interesting information but also took me on a guided tour of many of Brian's old haunts. Cheers Paul! Mike Stax for your encouragement and support. If you have not already been to Mike's Ugly Things site go to www.ugly-things.com it links to his Pretty Things site with various interesting interviews! Mike has now (April 2006) together with Andy Neill and John Baker written a book about the notorious 1965 New Zealand Tour called Don't Bring Me Down...Under a detailed account with lots of photographs including some lovely ones of Brian. Mike has also very kindly allowed me to reproduce the interview Brian gave contained in the book. Details are on the Ugly Things site. Viv Broughton (Andrews) thank you for giving me permission to use that lovely black and white early photograph. Jorgen Angel I can't thank you enough for letting me use your picture of Brian! Jorgen's website is at www.angel.dk Roy Meyfarth for providing the one place Pretties fans can hook up and chat; his site is www.pretties.de. Also thanks to many of those fans who visit Roy's discussion forum, for their kind words of encouragement. Many thanks to many people including Barry Clark, Adrian Line, Andrew Dobbie, Peter Pike, Tom Holliday, Sidney Palmer, Julie Davies (nee Ives), Derek Roberts, Geoff Baker and Robert Stock for sharing their memories of Brian with me and providing valuable info. Thanks to Uli, Knud Theut and many other kind people I have mentioned for providing me with some lovely photos. Clare Bristow of Maidstone Reference Library thanks for the copy of Brian's death announcement and all the searching you did for me. I am also grateful to John Stax,Mark St John and Phil May for information received, in Mark and Phil's case courtesy of Alan Lakey. Tony Pearce a.k.a. Boogiefool one of my many mates from the Harley Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain site, thanks for your support and your copy of “Don't Look Back”. Also to Badnamemike and Kim Tebbett for an unforgettable weekend in August which gave me the opportunity to go and pay my respects to Brian (and meet 'DantheMan' and extended family among others). All my mates on the Harley Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain website provided encouragement, advice and offers of assistance, I must mention in particular Roger, Moley and Bexx. Plus a special hello to "Steve". Cheers from Mrs C! My other friends, in particular Bob and Joyce Baker, and work colleagues, especially Janet Cheeseright - who as a teenager saw the Pretties including Brian play live - were most supportive too “Got your site online yet?” I'd also like to say a big thankyou to the many people who have taken the trouble to write to me and say such nice things about this site. Last but not least... Chris for his love, support and patience throughout without which I couldn't have done this; patiently listening to my repeated readbacks as I put the words together, reassuring me that people I hadn't heard from would get back to me (he was mostly right) and helping with the layout and design. Most of all however, for his understanding about my fascination with 'the other man' in my life: Brian Pendleton.
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