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The Faces

Interview by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, 1 January 1972

AS FAR AS AMERICA is concerned, the Small Faces were notable for one single, 'Itchycoo Park', and one album, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake; the former ...

The Faces: The Best Of The Faces (Riva)****

Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 30 April 1977

"AAALRIGHT: HERE'S one you may well know, you may not know it; and if you don't know it, I really don't know where you bin." ...

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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.

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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 ...

The Faces: New Faces In The Old Band

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 21 February 1970

A SOUND not unlike a braying mountain goat echoed across the West End of London this week. The Faces — no longer Small — were ...

The Faces: First Step (Warner Bros)

Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 28 February 1970

BACK WITH a bang are the Faces with Ronnie Wood (guitar) and Rod Stewart (vocals) added to the old line-up of Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan ...

The Faces: The Lyceum, London

Live Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 7 March 1970

THE FIRST thing you notice about them is why they're not "The Small Faces" anymore. Rod Stewart, the new vocalist, is head and shoulders above ...

The Faces

Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, April 1970

EXACTLY one year ago Beat Instrumental reported the Small Faces' last gig with Steve Marriot. After the show Ian 'Mac' McLagen said: 'We're going to ...

The Small Faces: First Step

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 ...

The Faces: From Pop to Euphoria

Interview by Bud Scoppa, Circus, July 1970

CROWD SOUNDS from the English Soccer Championship [actually the FA Cup Final replay – RBP Ed. and Chelsea fan!] flooded the fourteenth floor of New ...

Rod Stewart: Rod Remains a Face

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 10 October 1970

GASOLINE ALLEY is Rod Stewart's second solo album. Out here this month it has already, in America, put him streaks ahead in the solo champ class. ...

Rod Stewart: In Conversation

Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 24 December 1970

"I was very pleased with it when we finished, and I still am," Rod Stewart said of his first solo LP. With good reason. ...

The Faces: Long Player (Warner WS 3011, £2.15); Tim Buckley: Starsailor (Straight STS 1064. £2.19)

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 13 March 1971

Hot strong rock in the mod tradition ...

Faces: Long Player (Warner Bros.)

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 18 March 1971

BEING ONE OF the few English bands left willing (nay, all too happy) to flaunt their Englishness, and moreover ranking no lower than third on ...

The Faces: Here Comes Britain's Biggest Rock And Roll Band

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 17 April 1971

Penny Valentine talks to a Face and makes a prediction ...

Smiling Faces make it at last

Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 24 April 1971

STRANGE. PEOPLE keep telling the Faces they've made it at last in this country. Strange because they themselves don't quite know where they stand in ...

Faces "jam" — in a midget studio, or... A Night in the Life of Disco 2

Report by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971

IT'S THURSDAY at the BBC Television Centre, which means it's Disco 2 day, and there's feverish activity in a tiny studio high up in the ...

The Faces: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971

IF ANYONE still doubts that the Faces haven't yet "made it," talk to one of the 2,000 or so who visited Thursday night's show at ...

The Faces: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 8 May 1971

They're fantastic! ...

The Faces: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Nancy Lewis, New Musical Express, 4 December 1971

FANTASTIC FACES DRIVE NEW YORK WILD! ...

The Faces: A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse (Reprise)

Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, 1 January 1972

The original Small Faces were quite a band in their day, and although before this album I had my doubts, I have now answered the ...

A Nod's as Good as a Wink to the Faces...

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 22 January 1972

IT'S BEEN a long hard rest for Ronnie Wood — as indeed it has been for the rest of the Faces. Days when there wasn't ...

The Faces: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse (Warner Brothers 2574)

Review by Ken Barnes, Fusion, April 1972

ROD STEWART or no Rod Stewart, this album just doesn't make it. The top-ranking male vocalist of our time manages along with his bosom buddies ...

The Faces: A Nod Is As Good As A Wink

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972

A Nod Is As Good As A Wink is the first signal that the Faces have matured as a band. Their infatuation with variations on ...

The Faces Under The Big Top

Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc, 6 May 1972

AFTER A WHILE, you get the feeling you're part of the scenario for one of those colossally far-fetched paperbacks with titles like Rock God (make ...

Kenny Jones: The Face in the Shadows

Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 20 May 1972

THE FACES phenomenon started eight months ago when they supported T. Rex at the Weeley Festival. They followed that appearance with another crowd pleaser at ...

The Faces: The Daring Young Man And The Flying Chimpanzees

Report and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1972

THE LAST WEEK of April, the American Retreaders Association shared the Executive Inn, Louisville, Ky., with a collection of dwarves, freaks, dope dealers, high wire ...

The Faces: Hollywood Bowl, CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, November 1972

DOES THE FACT that Faces were able to elicit a thunderous response from their Hollywood Bowl audience with what was definitely a sub-par performance say ...

Rod Stewart: The Scarecrow Harlequin

Overview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 20 January 1973

STRANGE AS it may seem, there was a time when Rod Stewart used to hide behind Jeff Beck's amplifiers and only come out front if ...

The Faces: And Along Came Jones

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 20 January 1973

BASICALLY SAYS Kenney Jones, the Faces have to be busy because if they're not working pretty regularly they get bored, very bored. And a bored ...

The Faces: Natty Mac, Incidentally

Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 17 February 1973

IAN McLAGAN talks to JAMES JOHNSON ...

The Complete Works of Ronnie Wood

Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 3 March 1973

REMEMBER A BAND called the Birds? Nope friend, I do not mean the Byrds, Bobby Dylan's old honchos from Los Angeles, nor am I alluding ...

Rod Stewart: Oo La La

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973

I AM DEATH. Huddled in my anorak. Alone and palely loitering in the stalls of the empty Rainbow Theatre. I am miserable with cold in ...

Private Lives, Public Faces

Report and Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 7 April 1973

JAMES JOHNSON DROPS IN ON A FACES PARTY, AND FINDS THE BAND ITCHING TO GO ...

The Faces: Ooh La La (Warner Bros.)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 7 April 1973

FIRST THERE'S this rolling piano lick, then in comes Ronnie Wood's guitar. Nice tough chording, anchored down with a bent note descending to the root ...

The Faces: Jo Jo Gunne: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY

Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 17 May 1973

SOME PIZZAZZ ...

The Faces: Yes, All You Rock Fans, Your Idols Love Letters

Interview by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 20 May 1973

IF YOU'VE ever wanted to write to Rod Stewart or any one of the Faces, now's your chance. I don't want to sound like the ...

The Faces: Ooh La La

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, July 1973

SOMETIME ROD STEWART or the Faces (or both) should make a record that is enjoyable without being enervating. The effect of each of their records ...

Strangely missing that barrow boy stagger: in Frankfurt with the Faces

Report and Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 4 August 1973

IT'S EARLY Sunday evening and three large Mercedes limousines are skimming through the outskirts of Frankfurt in rather regal convoy. In one, Keith Moon reclines ...

Rod Stewart

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 August 1973

"GOOD LUCK Rod!" People like Rod Stewart. And he likes the people. As he stood forming a queue outside ye old Marquee Club (home of ...

Rod Stewart: Swashbuckler Rod

Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 25 August 1973

ROD STEWART and I have been talking about the Liberal party and their chances in the next election. Now he's standing – one long green ...

Rod Stewart: The Familiar Face

Report by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1974

THROUGH THE colonnades they come, along freezing passage-ways. Girls look like ventriloquist-dolls, in black plush and rouge, puffing as dolls do on big cigarettes; boys ...

Rod Stewart & The Faces: Live Coast To Coast/Overture And Beginners (Mercury)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974

LADIES AND gentlemen, a study in disintegration.When the Faces began their current incarnation, their boozy looseness helped to add some riotous vibes to a tight, ...

The Faces: Live — Coast To Coast (Mercury)

Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 11 March 1974

MIND YOU, it's not that I dislike Rod Stewart, for I think he sings very well despite the fact that it sounds like some hostess ...

Ron Wood: Not Just Another Pretty Face

Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1974

LOS ANGELES — I've Got My Own Album To Do is a good title for Ron Wood's first solo album: It fits his sly, impish ...

Ron Wood Romps To A Royal Solo Debut

Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, November 1974

IN A SMALL, homemade studio in the depths of Ron Wood's British home, an array of the most famous faces in rock gathered one night ...

Ronnie Wood: Is This The Face Of Violence?

Interview by Rosalind Russell, Disc, 23 November 1974

Ros Russell finds Woody on the warpath ...

The Faces: Lewisham Odeon, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 November 1974

"NOW THIS is serious," said the dazzling figure of Rod Stewart, calling for order. "Me brother and sister are here and I'd like you to ...

Ian McLagan's Top Ten

Interview by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, December 1974

I'VE GOT sixty records on my juke box and I had a hell of a job whittling my singles collection down to them. But ten!?!... ...

The Faces, Strider: Kilburn State, London

Live Review by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 4 January 1975

THE FAILURE of a headlining group to earn the expected encore from its partisan fans must be almost unheard-of these days, but Rod Stewart and ...

The Faces: Kilburn State, London

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975

"YES, MY PEOPLE, you make me strong," sighed the Golden Catarrh with a de rigeur flexing of the neck muscles as The Faces knocked into ...

The Faces: Kilburn State, London

Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975

"YES, MY PEOPLE, you make me strong," sighed the Golden Catarrh with a de rigeur flexing of the neck muscles as the Faces knocked into ...

The Faces: The Episodic Adventures of Rod Kool & The Tartan Gang

Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975

OR, CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR... BUT, FOR ROD STEWART, EVERY BLEEDIN' NIGHT (jammy git) Being a crisp resume of three nights in the life ...

Raunchy Faces Back on Tour

Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 27 February 1975

LONDON – "We're playing as one now like our life depended on it," Rod Stewart announced, looking down eagerly at his game pie in a ...

The Faces, Blue Oyster Cult: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 March 1975

Faces bring back the fun ...

Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #3: What did Rod Stewart, Bobby Womack and Mick Jagger sing...

Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 April 1975

...in a tune-up room on the last night of the Faces' 1975 LA gigs? Why, the closing aria in D from 'il Cavalleria Rusticana', of ...

Faces Survive Solo Syndrome

Interview by Ron Ross, Circus, May 1975

The Faces were afraid America might forget them while they were busy getting some individual ambitions out of their system. But their first Stateside tour ...

'Now Read' Ronnie Wood

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 July 1975

"HEY MICKIE BAAABY," a disc jockey screams loudly after playing 'Get Off Of My Cloud' for the third time that afternoon for the greater metropolis ...

Rod Stewart: Sorely Taxed

Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 2 August 1975

The Faces may split ...

Bands On The Run From The Taxman?

Report by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 11 October 1975

THE PIONEER of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, defined the artist's aims as "fame, wealth, power, and the love of women." Though no one has yet found ...

Rod Stewart: Rod Jumps Teams

Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, November 1975

CAN HE CUT IT IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE? ...

Rod Stewart Faces the American Dream

Report and Interview by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 6 November 1975

BY SUNDOWN the 55,000 people packed into the Los Angeles Angels' Anaheim Stadium for this "sunshine festival" have stolidly endured six hours of a rather ...

The Faces

Interview by Lester Bangs, New Musical Express, 22 November 1975

In 1975 the economy ground to a halt, the potato crop failed and suicides were more in vogue then ever before. The Faces aren't feeling ...

The Faces: Vocalist Wanted for Pro Band

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 29 November 1975

IT SEEMED like a good idea. After Rod Stewart's predictably flamboyant statements over the Faces future, the band deserved equal time. Would Ian McLagen turn ...

Ron Wood

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, December 1975

DURING THE musically bountiful years of the late Sixties, the Jeff Beck Group emerged; it was an outfit of undisciplined nature and unabashed energy. ...

The Faces Dossier: An Everday Saga Of Mick&Rod&Keef&Ron&Mac

Report by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 December 1975

MARCH, 1973. ...

Introduction

Book Excerpt by Mick Gold, 'Rock on the Road' (Futura), 1976

THE IDEA OF doing a book of photo-essays about live music was sparked by a desire to examine two areas: what the job of being ...

The Small Faces

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. ...

Ron Wood: Cast Your Fate To The Wind, The Faces, Or The Rolling Stones

Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 24 January 1976

THE MINI-CAB DRIVER was confused. "Ron Wood," he kept repeating all the way to Richmond. The name was familiar but it's origin was a mystery. ...

Faces Break Up – Wood a Stone?

Report by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 29 January 1976

LOS ANGELES – After a six-year association, Rod Stewart is leaving the Faces. The news was revealed at a London press conference called by Stewart ...

Rod Stewart: It's My Party... And I'll Pose If I Want To...

Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976

TONY STEWART visits Rod and Britt's (retch!!) love-nest. A Time-Life and Vogue special. Exciting revelations (no, really!!). ...

Don't Knock on (Ron) Wood, He's Busy Face-ing the Stones

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, March 1977

"IT'S IN THE contract, you know," says Ronnie Wood, trying to lock his features into a suitably stern Rolling Stones scowl. "You can't be seen ...

Rod Stewart: The Best of Rod Stewart, Vol. 2; The Face: Snakes and Ladders — The Best of the Faces

Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 28 April 1977

AS HIS ORIGINAL output grows slighter (in both senses) with each successive album, the case for Rod Stewart as supreme interpreter of other peoples' songs ...

Rod Stewart, The Faces: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 12 July 1986

BIG NOSE STRIKES AGAIN! ...

Ian McLagan: Face the Face

Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, October 1993

On the finer points of three-chord karate ...

Rod Stewart & The Faces: Changing Faces: The Very Best Of; Ronnie Lane: Ain’t No One Like

Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, 2003

HAD IT NOT been for the existence of Rod Stewart & The Faces, I’d probably have a proper job by now. ...

Booze Brothers: The Faces

Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Times, 28 March 2003

The Faces liked their fun, but our correspondent discovers a darker side. ...

The Faces Underrated

Essay by Adam Blake, Cosmik Debris, 25 April 2004

I DECIDED TO make a compilation of The Faces for the usual reason: an anally retentive desire to put all my favourite tracks in one ...

Last Orders: The Faces’ Five Guys Walk Into a Bar… (Rhino)

Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2004

Ian McLagan-compiled 4-CD box of scattered odds/sods from ultimate ‘70s boogie’n’ballads lad-band fronted by Rod the (Ex-)Mod. Dedicated to the late Ronnie Lane. ...

Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones on the Faces' Five Guys Walk into a Bar…

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, January 2005

Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones recall the birth of history's booziest band. Phil Sutcliffe listens in. ...

Remembering Ronnie Lane

Retrospective by John Pidgeon, Rock's Backpages, July 2009

IT MAY WELL have been his 'Song Of A Baker' on the Small Faces' Ogden's Nut Gone Flake that first had me believing that Ronnie ...

The Faces: British Music Experience, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, August 2010

SO MUCH FELT wrong about the first official comeback show by 1970s Britrock veterans the Faces on Wednesday. Ominously held at the O2 Arena's new ...

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 ...

The Faces

Interview by Alan Light, Relix, July 2012

"WITH THE FACES, you never know what's going to happen." It's a theme that comes up again and again in conversation with Ronnie Wood and ...

John Pidgeon, 1947-2016

Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 21 July 2016

Rock writer turned broadcasting executive who did much to reinvigorate BBC radio comedy. ...

see also Ronnie Lane

see also Ian McLagan

see also Small Faces, The

see also Rod Stewart

see also Ronnie Wood

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