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Small Faces
Small Faces packed a lot into a short life as a band. Out of London, Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Ian McLagan came up as a mod group playing sharp, soulful R&B, then blossomed into one of the most inventive psychedelic acts in Britain, with hits like "Itchycoo Park," "Tin Soldier" and "Lazy Sunday" along the way. Marriott's huge, gritty voice and Lane's warm songwriting made them the band's band of their era, and when Marriott left in 1969 the remaining three joined Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood to become the Faces.
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Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (1968). Their best-known album, a mod-psychedelia high point with the hits "Lazy Sunday" and the soaring "Rollin' Over" on it, plus a daft fairy-tale narration by Stanley Unwin filling out side two. It's the one record that shows everything they could do.
Biography
The Small Faces were an English rock and pop band from London, founded in 1965. The group originally consisted of singer/guitarist Steve Marriott, bassist Ronnie Lane, drummer Kenney Jones and keyboardist Jimmy Winston, with Ian McLagan replacing Winston in 1966. The band were initially one of the most acclaimed and influential mod groups of the mid-1960s, with hit singles such as "Whatcha Gonna Do About It" (1965), "Sha-La-La-La-Lee" and "All or Nothing" (both 1966). From 1967, they evolved into one of the UK's most successful psychedelic bands, achieving further hit singles including "Here Come the Nice", "Itchycoo Park", "Tin Soldier" (all 1967) and "Lazy Sunday" (1968), the latter taken from their critically-acclaimed concept album Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (1968), which reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart.
In 1969, Marriott left to form Humble Pie, while Lane, Jones and McLagan continued under the shortened name Faces with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. Following the breakup of both the Faces and Humble Pie in 1975, the classic Marriott/Lane/McLagan/Jones line-up of the Small Faces re-formed after a re-release of "Itchycoo Park" became a top-ten hit.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 197878 in the ShadeAlbum
- 1977PlaymatesAlbum
- 1968Ogdens’ Nut Gone FlakeAlbum
- 1967There Are but Four Small FacesAlbum
- 1967From the BeginningAlbum
- 1967Small FacesAlbum
- 1967Here Come the NiceEP
- 1966Small FacesAlbum
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