Walking the Small Group Tightrope: Meeting the Challenges Every Group Faces
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...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
For a special Monday morning edition of Cratedigger, Ken Shane revisits Rod Stewart's classic first solo album.
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.
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...
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Lost Rock with Nick Sampson -- The Faces After the Small Faces lost Steve Marriott, before Rod Stewart lost his taste and before Ronnie Wood took a ‘short term’ job in the Stones, there was the Faces. And they were undoubtedly one of the best, good-fun rock n roll bands of all time. Born by accident when Wood and Stewart (recently late of the Jeff Beck Group) started hanging around with...
Dubious Quality (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
We went to a charity benefit concert last Thursday, and one of the groups was Ian McLagan & The Bump Band. Some of you are floored right now, but more of you (especially if you're younger than I am) may never have heard of Ian McLagan. Well, he's a musical legend, and "legend" should be in all caps. He played in both the Small Faces and the Faces, and he's a renowned keyboard player and...
SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The Small Faces was a mod group founded in 1965 and included Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane. They were very influential in my youth and had a string of hits including Itchycoo Park , Lazy Sunday, All or Nothing and Tin Soldier . After they disbanded Steve helped form Humble Pie (1969-1975 and 1980-1981) I like Black Coffee A very R&B tune is Thirty Days In A Hole Steve was influenced from an early...
Entertainment (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
Ronnie Wood’s new solo album is expected to be inspired by his marriage break-up with wife Jo Wood and subsequent romance with Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova.
Metroblogging San Francisco (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Lots of good music has been, and continues trickling through the local live music stream lately, and this week is no exception. Tonight, the amazing and amusing Dengue Fever is at The Castro Theater, while the Red Devil Lounge offers up a rare opportunity to see Ian ‘Mac’ McLagan’s latest band. The silver haired Brit [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
One of rock's most distinctive and respected keyboard players, Ian McLagan has appeared on a long list of hits by other artists -- and he's got an excellent new album out, all of which were topics of discussion during his recent chat with Ken Shane.
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 03/18/2009
A profile of Ronnie Lane, bassist and songwriter of The Small Faces and The Faces, creator of such 60s and 70s classic pop songs as 'Itchycoo Park' and 'Maggie May'.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Do you think I'm sexy, Rod? Rocker Stewart kisses OAP fan in the street
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