Small Faces: Playmates
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 voice, but their new album is no happy event.
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