The British band was formed in Hertfordshire in the mid-1960s by drummer Steve Townsend, bassist Jez Turner and singer Dek Boyce. After several name changes and the addition of Barry Clark (g/voc) and Peter Whiteman (keyb) to the line-up, the quintet took the name Pussy. Clark had connections within the London music scene and made contact with Danny Beckerman, a staff songwriter, producer, arranger and musician at Morgan Recording Studios. This led to them securing a record deal with the newly founded, legendary label Morgan Blue Town. The recording sessions for their debut album, featuring additional vocal and instrumental contributions from producer Beckerman, took place in the spring of 1969. Pussy Plays was released as the second album on the Morgan Blue Town label and offered psychedelic pop-rock characterised by fuzz and wah-wah guitars, stormy keyboard sounds, swirling sound effects and occasional bizarre vocal distortions, all embedded in a classic 1960s production.

However, a lack of distribution channels was the main reason for the failure of the British release, which went just as unnoticed as the Italian release on the even more obscure Saint Martin label, where they were credited as The Pussy Group. Today, this band’s first and only LP, alongside Motherlight by Bobak, Jons and Malone, ranks among the rarest and most idiosyncratic albums of the entire British progressive psych scene, having attained immense value.