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    Permissive (1972)

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    Naive duffel-coated teen runaway Suzy (Maggie Stride) turns up in London and seeks out her old school friend Fiona (Gay Singleton), who is a groupie with drab prog rock no-hopers Forever More.

    Fiona takes Suzy under her wing, but the band aren’t quite so keen – throwing her out when they leave London for a short tour. Forced to live rough, she hooks up with the Nick Drake-like Pogo (Robin Daubigny), making a living from busking, sleeping amongst the rubble of the capital by night.

    But when Pogo is knocked down and killed, Suzy is forced to seek out Fiona again, this time carving out a niche with the band – working her way through the members (so to speak) and the manager – before picking up the main prize of lead singer Lee (Allan Gorrie) – and ousting Fiona from her position of ‘queen of the groupies’ at the same time.

    In one scene, a hippy asks Suzy what she wants in life. “Something to eat,” she replies, neatly summing up the death of the 1960s dream.

    Prog bands Comus and Titus Groan also star and nobody has any fun whatsoever.

    Suzy
    Maggie Stride
    Fiona
    Gay Singleton
    Jimi
    Gilbert Wynne
    Lee
    Allan Gorrie
    Kip
    Stuart Francis
    Mick
    Mick Travis
    Onnie
    Onnie McIntyre
    Lacy
    Debbie Bowen
    Pogo
    Robert Daubigny
    Rick
    Stuart Cowell
    Coral
    Nicola Austin
    Groupies
    Nicole Yearne
    Suzy Randall
    Juliet Adams
    Linda Dean
    Greta Nelson
    Maria Vasilou
    Susanna East
    Cathy Howard
    Samantha Bond
    Maria Frost
    Louisa Livingston
    Madeleine Collinson
    Mary Collinson

    Director
    Lindsay Shonteff

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