Mickey Finn, a band not a person, did a few non-hit singles in Britain in the mid-1960s, a couple of which are highly esteemed by British Invasion collectors. Originally known as Mickey Finn and the Blue Men, the band were also notable for including Jimmy Page as a member for a while, although only briefly. Whether he was a session man or a full-time member at the time, he probably plays on a few of their records. The best of those is Night Comes Down (produced by Shel Talmy), an R&B raver with a cool jazzy tempo and powerful vocal. Also good is Garden of My Mind, a solid piece of freakbeat psychedelia that was on their last single, in 1967. Night Comes Down was reissued on AIP's Electric Sugarcubes Flashback compilation; Garden of My Mind and its flipside, Time to Start Loving You, are on the same label's English Freakbeat Vol. 2; and the 1965 single This Sporting Life, the other side of Night Comes Down, is on the See For Miles anthology The RB Scene. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi