Very ‘Eavy: Remembering Steve Marriott and 'Umble Pie
Paul Gorman, Rock's Backpages, December 2003
IT SEEMS inconceivable now, but Humble Pie were once very, very big, albeit for a short while. In recent years – post-Loaded, post-Britpop, post-lad, post-PC and post-Rachel Hunter – the Faces have been fully reinstated into the pop pantheon, but a similar reassessment of Steve Marriott's career after he split as leader of the Small Faces appears most unlikely.
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