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Author Description Farren was the singer with the proto-punk English band The Deviants between 1967 and 1969, releasing three albums. In 1970 he released the solo album <i>Mona – The Carnivorous Circus</i> which also featured Steve Peregrin Took, John Gustafson and Paul Buckmaster, before leaving the music business to concentrate on his writing.<br /><br />In the mid-1970s, he briefly returned to music releasing the EP <i>Screwed Up</i>, album <i>Vampires Stole My Lunch Money</i> and single "Broken Statue". The album featured fellow NME journalist Chrissie Hynde and Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson.<br /><br />He has sporadically returned to music, collaborating with Wayne Kramer on <i>Who Shot You Dutch?</i> and <i>Death Tongue</i>, Jack Lancaster on <i>The Deathray Tapes</i> and Andy Colquhoun on The Deviants albums <i>Eating Jello With a Heated Fork</i> and <i>Dr. Crow</i>.<br /><br />Aside from his own work, he has provided lyrics for various musician friends over the years. He has collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead. With Larry Wallis, he co-wrote "When's the Fun Begin?" for the Pink Fairies and several tracks on Wallis' solo album <i>Death in a Guitar Afternoon</i>. He provided lyrics for the Wayne Kramer single "Get Some" in the mid-1970s, and continued to work with and for him during the 1990s.<br /><br />In the early 1970s he contributed to the UK Underground press such as the International Times, also establishing <i>Nasty Tales</i> which he successfully defended from an obscenity charge. He went on to write for the main stream <i>New Musical Express</i>, where he wrote the article <i>The Titanic Sails At Dawn</i>, an analysis of what he saw as the malaise afflicting then-contemporary rock music which described the conditions that subsequently gave rise to punk.<br /><br />To date he has written 23 novels, including the Victor Renquist novels and the DNA Cowboys sequence. His prophetic 1989 novel <i>The Armageddon Crazy</i> deals with a post-2000 United States which is dominated by fundamentalists who dismantle the Constitution.<br /><br />Farren has written 11 works of non-fiction, a number of biographical (including four on Elvis Presley), autobiographical and culture books (such as <i>The Black Leather Jacket</i>) and a plethora of poetry.<br /><br />Since 2003, he has been a columnist for the weekly <i>Los Angeles CityBeat</i>.<br /><br />Farren died at the age of 69 in 2013, after collapsing onstage while performing with the Deviants at the Borderline Club in London.

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