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The Faces
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, 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 for ...

The Faces: The Best Of The Faces (Riva)****
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 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 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 start ...

The Small Faces: First Step
Review by Joel Selvin, Rolling Stone, 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 has ...

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 York's ...

Rod Stewart: In Conversation
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 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. ...

Faces: Long Player (Warner Bros.)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 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 ...

The Faces: A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse (Reprise)
Review by Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, 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 question ...

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 similar ...

The Faces Under The Big Top
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, Disc and Music Echo, 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 sure ...

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 acts, ...

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 more ...

The Complete Works of Ronnie Wood
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, NME, 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 in ...

Rod Stewart: Oo La La
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 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 a ...

The Faces: The Rock'n'Roll Circus
Report and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1973
THE LAST WEEK of April 1973 the American Retreaders Association shared the Executive Inn, Louisville, Kentucky, with a collection of dwarves, freaks, dealers, high-wire acts, aerial ...

The Faces: Ooh La La (Warner Bros.)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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 of ...

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 is ...

Rod Stewart
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 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 the ...

Rod Stewart: Swashbuckler Rod
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, August 1973
"Something's bound to happen soon. I've been a golden boy for too long" ...

Rod Stewart: Swashbuckler Rod
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 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 chiffon ...

Rod Stewart: The Familiar Face
Report by Philip Norman, 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 and ...

Rod Stewart & The Faces: Live Coast To Coast/Overture And Beginners (Mercury)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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, powerful, ...

The Faces: Lewisham Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 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 meet ...

The Faces: Kilburn State, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, 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 'You ...

Raunchy Faces Back on Tour
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 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 posh ...

'Now Read' Ronnie Wood
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 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 of ...

Rod Stewart: Sorely Taxed
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, August 1975
The Faces may split ...

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, 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 warm ...

The Faces Dossier: An Everday Saga Of Mick&Rod&Keef&Ron&Mac
Report by Max Bell, NME, December 1975
MARCH, 1973. ...

The Small Faces
Retrospective by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 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, 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. "Ron ...

Faces Break Up – Wood a Stone?
Report by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 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 on ...

The Faces: Good Boys....When They're Asleep
Review by David Cavanagh, Mojo, September 1999
WHEN THE FACES got together in the summer of 1969, they were not expected to amount to much. Three of them – Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan ...

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 ...

The Faces Underrated
Essay by Adam Blake, Cosmik Debris (cosmik.com), 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 place. ...

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 ...

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 Lane ...

see also Ronnie Lane

see also Ian McLagan

see also Small Faces, The

see also Rod Stewart

see also Ronnie Wood