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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' ...

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Steve Marriott (1974)

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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Now they're the BIG FACES

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 ...

Small Faces: Big Problems!

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 ...

New singles from the Beatles, Small Faces, Percy Sledge et al

Review by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 6 August 1966

THIS IS THE BEST BEATLE SONG EVER! ...

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 ...

Small Face Kenny Keeps Quiet

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! ...

Blind Date: The Four Tops

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 ...

Pop Romance?

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 ...

The Beach Boys, Small Faces, Dusty Springfield et al: NME Poll Winners Concert, Empire Pool, Wembley, London

Live Review by Keith Altham, Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 13 May 1967

POLL SHOW THRILLS ALL THE WAY ...

The Worshippers

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' — ...

Small Faces Fun World

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 ...

Small Faces Shatter Old Image

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 ...

Small Faces Sink Australia

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. ...

Faces Shatter Country Calm

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 ...

Helpings of Humble Pie

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. ...

The Record Rapper: All the way to the West, by God, Virginia (Like, how obscure is West Virginia, Santa Claus?)

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 ...

Small Faces: The Autumn Stone

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 ...

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 ...

Steve Marriott: Humble As Pie

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, ...

Don Arden: The Hit Man

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Steve Marriott

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 ...

Small Faces: Playmates

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 ...

The Small Faces Story

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. ...

Small Faces: Playmates

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 ...

London: Ditty Old Town

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 ...

The Ronnie Lane Story

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 ...

All Ian McLagan's Rage

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 ...

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