In Aphrodite’s Children Jay Marshall is the archetypal Syd Barrett-type stoned out freak:

“Because Jay was special. His fame went before him. It was legend: his bean sprouts in plastic, inch-slice scrapings, two-second dips with herbal tea bags. His algebra on shirt sleeves and see-through socks. People all knew. Jay Bird they called him, remarking on the absence, the bag spills in cupboards, the smell of hemp and fruit. The acid tabs in eggcups. The half-eaten fungi. The recycled platefuls of beans on toast.”

The Pink Fairies were an English rock band active in the Ladbroke Grove underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug taking and anarchy and often performed impromptu gigs and other agitprop stunts, such as free outside the gates at the Isle of Wight pop festival, the Windsor Free Festivals as well as appearing at the first Glastonbury outing and Phun City. They recorded DO IT in 1971. Taking the title from Jerry Rubin’s Yippie book, it expressed the drive to live in the now, wild, crazy, expressive, instinctive, and quite without inhibitions:

Don't think about it
Well all you've got to do is, do it
Well don't talk about it
All you do is do it, do it
Don't lie about it
Do it, do it
Write about it honey
Then we'll just do it
Yeah,do do do do do do do do do do do it
Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it
You all just do it
Don't sing about it
If you ain't gonna, do it