OmniFootball (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The introduction to Paulo Hewitt and John Hellier’s wonderful book on the late, great Steve Marriott reads: ‘Steve Marriott – All Too Beautiful’ – “I can’t live to anyone else’s rules.” ‘Steve Marriott was one of the music world’s most extraordinary individuals. A supremely gifted songwriter, singer and…schemer. A vocalist from...
Haystak Music (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Their late-1967 single "Itchycoo Park" (single released Nov. 11, 1967) is Small Faces' best-remembered songs and was also the first of the band's only two charting singles in the United States, reaching No. 16 (Jan. 27, 1968 for 3 weeks). "Itchycoo Park" was the first British record to use flanging, the technique of playing two identical master tapes simultaneously but altering...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
SEVENTIES chart stars The Faces are to reform for a one-off show – without frontman Rod Stewart.
It's Just My View (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Of all the classic British bands from the 1960's perhaps the band who have been dealt the most unfair deck has been the Small Faces. Rather unjustly viewed as a mere forerunner for Humble Pie and The Faces by many, or just a vehicle of convenience for two of the finest singers to have been produced in these isles in Rod Stewart and Steve Marriott, their own more than ample achievements seem to lie...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Well, here's another one that got away. From 1980, please enjoy my old pals The Mix and their sprightly cover of Van Morrison 's "Glad Tidings." These guys should have been big; they were managed by Leber & Krebs, who also handled some band called Aerosmith (their album -- American Glue -- came out on L&K's custom label), and they were a genuinely exciting live act. Frontman Stu Daye...
Pannage (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
I was listening to Brian Matthews' Sounds of the Sixties on Radio 2 this morning in the bathroom (on a 26 year-old radio) when he played a Humble Pie album-track version of Buddy Holly's 'Heartbeat'. Yes, it has been made over-familiar by the television series but this was distinctively Humble Pie and later I looked it up on Spotify - and it isn't here. No doubt it's for complex contractual reasons,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
It’s more than 18 years since Steve Marriott died after fire swept through his 16th century Essex home and yet, with the help of Facebook, the greatest of mod icons has become a hero to a fanbase more international than he ever had when he was alive.
Haystak Music (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
First verse: "Jimi gave us rainbows" is Jimi Hendrix. "Janis took a piece of our hearts" is Janis Joplin. "Otis took us all to the dock of the bay" is Otis Redding. "Remember Jim that way" is Jim Morrison. Second verse: "Jimmy touched us with that song" is Jim Croce. "Bobby gave us 'Mack the Knife'" is Bobby Darin. This video tribute has artists...
EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
EMI Music Publishing has struck a new merchandising partnership with Transport For London (TfL), to create a new range of mugs and T-shirts featuring lyrics from songs about London. The range features lyrics written by EMI Music Publishing songwriters including Peter Doherty, Eddy Grant, Steve Marriott & Ronnie Laine, Sir John ..
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EMI Music Publishing has struck a new merchandising partnership with Transport For London (TfL), to create a new range of mugs and T-shirts featuring lyrics from songs about London.
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental unendurable pleasure indefinitely prolonged specialist Gal Friday Fah Lo Suee and I are off to New Canaan, Connecticut, where we'll be joining Fox News commentator and cocaine addict Glenn Beck when he goes to the dry cleaner . Seems Glenn will be having his hood cleaned and pressed, with some repair work done around the eyeholes. So...
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
After leaving the hugely successful Small Faces in early 1969, Steve Marriott formed Humble Pie with Peter Frampton (Herd - guitar/vocals), Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth - bass) and Jerry Shirley (Valkyrie - drums). The new ‘super group’ attracted considerable media attention and quickly decamped to Essex, using Steve’s cottage in Moreton and a nearby village hall for writing and rehearsal...
Aversion Music (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
The Small Faces usually aren't remembered at all, or are remembered for helping launch Rod Stewart's career, but the British garage act could really stick the psychedelia in its heyday.
Paris DJs Podcasts (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
Lack Of Afro - International (12") Freestyle Records FSR077, 2009-09 The first single extracted from Lack Of Afro 's second album, My Groove, Your Move , to be released late october, 2009. Continue reading
SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
The fifth 45 release from the Small Faces, hitting the #1 spot on the British singles chart two weeks after its release on August 5th, 1966; sharing the top position with The Beatles' " Yellow Submarine ", quite bizarrely. Think Rod Stewart's cover of P.P. Arnold's " First Cut is the Deepest " pipping the Pistols' " God Save the Queen " to the post in 1977, and the jubilee...
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