The Small Faces
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Small Faces Thought ‘Sunday’ Too Much Of A Joke
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 4 May 1968
ONCE more unto the magic cave – better described as Andrew Oldham’s emporium from whence all things Immediate happen – and the office where I ...
The Small Faces: 'Itchycoo Park'
Retrospective and Interview by John Pidgeon, Record Hunter, March 1991
The first Small Faces single written by Marriott and Lane, 'I Got Mine', flopped on release as the follow-up to 'Whatcha Gonna Do About It' ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages audio, February 1974
The Pieman tells some splendid road stories; talks about recording their latest, Thunderbox; looks back at his schooldays and the Small Faces, and talks about his immediate plans.
File format: mp3; file size: 25.6mb, interview length: 27' 56" sound quality: ***
The Small Faces' Steve Marriott (1985)
Interview by Chris Welch, Rock's Backpages audio, 29 May 1985
The smallest Face takes us back to the band's beginning: meeting Ronnie Lane and Kenney Jones and starting the Small Faces; the Man with the Van, Jimmy Winston; signing up with manager Don Arden; sacking Winston and Ian McLagan joining; the hits, and wild times on the road; leaving Decca and Don Arden and joing Immediate; leaving the band and forming Humble Pie with Peter Frampton; his uneasy relationship with psychedelics and his cocaine years.
File format: mp3; file size: 85.2mb, interview length: 1h 28' 44" sound quality: ****
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Interview by Dawn James, Rave, December 1965
Four Small Faces whose success with two records has brought them into the middle of the big time. DAWN JAMES meets them to find out ...
Small Faces get hung up — on sounds
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 12 February 1966
Have the Small Faces gone commercial? "We've gotta make some bread" says Steve Marriott. "If we can score two or three big hits, then we'll ...
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 25 February 1966
STEVE MARRIOTT said: "Me muvver and farver kept on at me to get a decent job." ...
Small Talk with the Small Faces
Interview by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 26 February 1966
Steve and Plonk say some 'nice' things to the RM ...
Player of the Month: Ian McLagan
Interview by Kevin Swift, Beat Instrumental, April 1966
HERE'S A bloke who likes to stay in the background. He enjoys keeping just below the surface of the Small Faces' sound, filling in, driving ...
All About The World's Greatest Pop Show: 1966 NME Concert Mightiest Ever!
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 6 May 1966
THOUSANDS upon thousands of fans converging on the massive Wembley Empire Pool for the biggest pop show in the world on Sunday... the staggering, the ...
Steve Marriott: I'm A Raver, Not A Singer
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 May 1966
THE SMALL ("ah! – aren't they cute?") Faces are doing BIG things on the pop scene. Their third big hit, self-penned and called 'Hey Girl', ...
How Far Out Can The Poppers Go?
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 28 May 1966
NOW YOU'RE NEVER ALONE — WITH A SITAR ...
Pop Singles inc. the Beatles, Small Faces, John Mayall with Eric Clapton
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
CUTE & POTTY RINGO ...
Sixth National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor: Jazz on a Summer's Weekend
Live Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
A washout, but still swinging ...
The Beatles, Small Faces et al: New Singles
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 August 1966
Wonderful new Beatles, and 2 versions of America's 'Napoleon' hit. Very good Small Faces & old Righteous Bros & Ike and Tina. Slower Nancy and ...
The Small Faces, Wayne Fontana et al:"Swinging '66", Lewisham Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 August 1966
ANY CONNOISSEUR of bad pop package shows would have been delighted by Radio England's "Swinging '66" opening at Lewisham Odeon on Friday, starring the Small ...
Steve Marriott: Everyone's 'Luv' And 'Mate'
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 September 1966
SHOULD Steve Marriott ever chance to meet royalty it would be safe to assume that within five minutes he would be calling them "luv" and ...
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 September 1966
KENNY JONES is the lost Face. Like a great many group drummers he has been placed in the background and prefers to remain there. ...
Small Faces: Mystery Man 'Plonk' Lane
Profile and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 16 September 1966
RONNIE PLONK LANE, bass guitarist and grand old man of the Small Faces at the age of 20, is the group's "Mysteryman." "Mystery" is Plonk's ...
Pop Think In: Plonk Lane of the Small Faces
Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 17 September 1966
STEVE CROPPER: Oh yeah! He's a sort of idol — somebody I admire very much. Actually I'm past the idolising stage. When you first start ...
The Small Faces: Mac's Flu Is Permanent!
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 23 September 1966
"MAC"-FACE (Ian McLagan) says he was born in "Houns-low-on-mud" on May 12, 1946. of an Irish mother and a Scottish father, and he and his ...
Small Faces: Little Stevie Wonders...
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, November 1966
...about a lot of things now he's a number one rave. He wonders if he deserves all the screams and adoration he gets. He wonders ...
Singles from the Who, Otis Redding, Small Faces, Lorraine Ellison and more
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 12 November 1966
WHO PLUS BATMAN: A MINI BONANZA! ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 November 1966
The stars single out the new singles ...
Steve Marriott: In My Mind's Eye
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, December 1966
The pop scene as seen by Steve Marriott — and Steve Marriott as seen by RAVE! ...
Small Faces in a Tight Green Circle
Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 17 December 1966
NICK JONES at a Small Faces recording session ...
Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967
LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, March 1967
RAVE's Dawn James speaks to Steve Marriott and Chrissie Shrimpton to find out just how true the rumours are about their pop romance! ...
Roy Orbison, Small Faces: Finsbury Park Astoria, London
Live Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 11 March 1967
ORBISON THE STAR ...
The Small Faces, Roy Orbison, Paul & Barry Ryan, Jeff Beck: Finsbury Park Astoria, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 March 1967
A RIGHT phantasmagorical experience was created by the combined powers of the Small Faces and Roy Orbison at the opening of their tour at Finsbury ...
Pop girl Maureen O'Grady gets an amazing interview for you... at a Small Face's place
Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, April 1967
Small Face Mac McLagan hates being interviewed — says he always gets tongue-tied. It was quite by chance that RAVE girl Maureen was invited to ...
The Small Faces: The Many Faces of Steve Marriott
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 29 April 1967
POP STARS and the Establishment seem to be ever at loggerheads. Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley used to be accused of corrupting teenage morals. Quite ...
Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967
POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, June 1967
Fans make success for a pop star — more than money, more than influence, more than talent. But what are fans? Why do they remain ...
Various Artists: Seventh National Jazz And Blues Festival, Windsor
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967
I've got those Seventh National Jazz And Blues Festival blues ...
Small Faces: Youth has saved Faces
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 26 August 1967
IT HAS been an Immediate success story for the Small Faces this year — at No. 15 in the NME Chart with 'Itchycoo Park' — ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 23 September 1967
A FUNNY THING happened to me on the way through Chiswick Park recently to meet the Small Faces. For "starters" there were printed placards pinned ...
The Small Faces: Travel is A Nightmare
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 14 October 1967
THE SMALL FACES – most often through no fault of their own – find great difficulty in getting from place to place, i.e. interviews, photographic ...
A Bird's Eye View of Stevie Marriott
Interview by Dawn James, Rave, 1968
Steve Marriott is a changed person. After drug incidents, broken romances and bad publicity, he's done a lot of growing up, as Dawn James discovered ...
Small Faces star Steve Marriott Declares 'Tin Soldier' The Real Us
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 6 January 1968
ONCE MORE unto Andrew Oldham's inner sanctum off Oxford Street to interview his group — the Small Faces — and discuss the fate of 'Tin ...
Small Faces: Is All Still Well With The Faces?
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 13 January 1968
"MAC LEAVING? No — of course not!" groaned Stevie Marriott and Ronnie Lane in unison. ...
We excite ourselves say Small Faces!
Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 20 January 1968
ONCE KNOCKED for being merely a bunch of mini noise-makers with spots and gravelly voices who were not exactly listed among people you would most ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 27 January 1968
THAT'S my body you're laughing at!" said Ronnie Lane indignantly, having removed his shirt to reveal a torso which could have given Charles Atlas a ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 17 February 1968
THE ABOVE head-line was sarcastically suggested by Ronnie Lane, who declared after the group's recent trip down under –"they would even have accused us of ...
The Small Faces: At Home With Face Steve...What An Experience!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 April 1968
TO VISIT the Thameside abode of Small Face Steve Marriott is something of an experience — to put it mildly! Come with me and you'll ...
The Small Faces: At Last The 1948 Cockney Show...
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 20 April 1968
I WAS DIGGING the sounds of this record called 'Lazy Sunday', and grooving along gently thinking I was listening to Tony Newley singing with a ...
'Lazy Sunday' The Hit Stevie Didn't Want
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 4 May 1968
WHAM! — It's the Small Faces screaming back up the chart with one of their best-ever singles, the fun-packed, all-action 'Lazy Sunday', now at number ...
The Small Faces: Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, June 1968
The Small Faces new album Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake (Immediate), apart from being encased in the first circular sleeve I have ever seen, is a ...
Small Faces, Velvet Underground etc.: New Albums Reviewed
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 8 June 1968
Cockney Rock LP puts Small Faces in West Coast bracket ...
Small Faces: We're Getting Better Ideas
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 20 July 1968
HAVING nipped smartly into the No. 1 best selling album slot with Ogdens Nut Gone Flake, the Small Faces are now deservedly considered big wheels ...
Steve Marriott: Putting A Brave Face On Things
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 August 1968
STEVIE MARRIOTT is not too horrified by the slow progress of 'Universal', the Small Faces' latest vital waxing. ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 10 August 1968
...in their Bucks hideaway invaded by Keith Altham ...
Small Faces: At home with Steve and Jenny
Report and Interview by Maureen O'Grady, Rave, November 1968
Far away from the plush hideaways of most stars, Mr and Mrs Steve Marriott have set up home. Here Rave's Maureen O'Grady visits their cottage, ...
Stevie Marriott is alive and well and living in Essex
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1969
"COR — WE haven't even been in the Raver for weeks!" exclaimed Stevie Marriott on the subject of their mystery disappearance from the affairs of ...
The Rave Interview — Steve Marriott
Interview by Keith Altham, Rave, May 1969
Subject: Steve MarriottInterviewer: Keith AlthamSituation: Marriott's cottage in Essex ...
The Small Faces: At Least Mac Still Has His Sense Of Humour
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 June 1969
CHRIS WELCH meets the remnants of the Small Faces ...
Interview by David Hughes, Disc, 9 August 1969
IF THERE'S one particular impression of Humble Pie that sinks deeper than any other, it's the name. ...
Overview by Gary Lucas, Cogito, February 1970
DUE TO the recent rash release of a rasher of ratified British records, no less, this is more of the same (see last issue if ...
Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 7 March 1970
BEHIND THE KINGS of rock and roll stand the workers who make up the boredom and blarney, the fervour and humbug of pop. They are ...
Review by Joel Selvin, Rolling Stone, 28 May 1970
THE SMALL FACES are now into a more sophisticated and mature commerciality. The addition of Rod Stewart as vocalist and Ron Wood on lead guitar ...
Report and Interview by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, September 1971
AFTER A COMPLETELY satisfying set by Humble Pie at the Capitol Theatre, I went backstage for an interview with Steve Marriott, their trebly-talented lead singer, ...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
He's been called the Al Capone of pop, and the reputation's, shall we say, a little heavy. A nervous Robert Partridge talks to Don Arden... ...
Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 21 September 1974
UP IN EAST HAM, Stratford and, in fact, all the way out to the end of the Liverpool Street suburban line, they liked their acid ...
Retrospective by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 10 January 1976
WELL – WHAT do you make of it lads? There's Rodney, jetting round the world with his blonde bombshell, the very lovely Britt Ekland. ...
Small Faces: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 23 April 1977
WAITING FOR the newly reformed Small Faces to take the stage of Sheffield's City Hall, I was probably more nervous than they were (which is ...
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 23 April 1977
IT'S A bit like having a bull in a china shop, being around Steve Marriott. Like being in the same room as a whirlwind. His ...
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 27 August 1977
OH DEAR, I fear Steve Marriott and his mates are in for a real critical pasting with this, the first Small Faces LP for ten ...
Retrospective by Peter Silverton, Trouser Press, October 1977
IT'S 1968, ALRIGHT. Me and a mate are lounging around in his garden. His parents are out for the day. School's out for the summer. ...
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1977
ONE SOLO CAREER going nowhere, two sidemen left in the, lurch, and a convenient reconciliation. The Faces have gotten Small again, with their original lead ...
Small Faces: Rock Roots: The Singles Album
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1977
NOW THAT STEVE Marriot has put a version of the Small Faces back together, there's been a bit of resurgence (perhaps as a result of ...
A Face in The Who: Kenny Jones
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1979
ZERO HOUR approaches. Soon the Who will be back on stage, and the whole world will be watching. Kenny Jones doesn't mind admitting that he's ...
The Steve Marriott Autodiscography
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, July 1981
As told to Jim Green ...
The Steve Marriott Autodiscography Part Two
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, August 1981
As told to Jim Green ...
The Small Faces: Where Are They Now?
Profile by Martin Aston, New Musical Express, December 1990
SHA LA LA La Lee! Pioneers of mod-psychedelia and decisive hair-parting strategies, The Small Faces. ...
Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Book Excerpt by John Pidgeon, Classic Albums (BBC Books), 1991
WRITTEN, PERFORMED and produced by musicians who, after three years of hit singles, were still not long out of their teens, the Small Faces' Ogden's ...
Andrew Loog Oldham: "Charlie's Good Tonight, Innit?"
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 1 May 1993
Cancel room service! The man who styled and managed those grubby pop hopefuls The Rolling Stones — forever staining the world with the concept of ...
Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993
From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...
Steve Marriott: All Or Nothing
Retrospective by Cliff Jones, MOJO, December 1994
The late Steve Marriott was, in his prime, a writer of transcendent English pop songs. He was, to the end, a blues and soul shouter ...
Small Faces: The Immediate Years (Charly)
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, December 1995
MOD, SCHMOD: THE SMALL FACES WERE SO MUCH more. For a start they were a great band for kids. I should know, I was one. ...
The Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; The Small Faces & The Autumn Stone
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, June 1997
CHECK OUT how many column inches The Small Faces warrant in rock encyclopaedias, compared to the space given to the likes of The Kinks or ...
Steve Marriott: The Lost Interview
Profile and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 12 September 1997
(With the exception of the Peter Frampton quote, the following interviews were carried out in London in early 1982 for a projected biography of John's ...
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Troubadour, June 1998
ON THE fourth of June, 1997 the world of popular music lost one of its finest song writing talents when Ronnie Lane, affectionately known to ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, April 2000
IAN MCLAGAN’S CV reads like a veritable who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll. Over the course of his 54 years the Hounslow-born keyboard player ...
Immediate Records: Happy To Be Part Of The Industry Of Human Happiness
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 2000
Sudden impact: Best of the label that brought us the Small Faces…and Jimmy Tarbuck. ...
Various Artists: British Invasion (Reelin' in the Years)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Steven R Rosen, Blurt, September 2009
Gerry & the Pacemakers, Dusty Springfield, Herman's Hermits and Small Faces get the first-class treatment. ...
The Mojo Interview: Ian McLagan
Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, August 2011
How do you survive "unbelievable" acid trips in the Small Faces, being Don Arden's meal ticket or acting like "drunken bastards" in the Faces? It's ...
see also Faces, The
see also Ronnie Lane
see also Steve Marriott
see also Ian McLagan
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