Steve Marriott talks about Small Faces - splitting up and who wrote the hits...
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Steve Marriott talks about why he left the small faces, who wrote the hits and how he gets bored easily in this radio broadcast from circa 1988
Thanks for the upload. He’s the best blue eyed soul singer of the sixties and since. It’s sad he passed so young. A true legend.
He was certainly my favourite...
If I could go back and save Steve Marriott from dying in that house fire, then the world would be better. Steve Marriott was an excellent guitarist, and along with Pete Townshend, the innovators of the mod rock era of the sixties.
Nice sentiments.
An AMAZING singer he was.....he could whale away like a proper rock n roller AND could sing a love song so sweet as in 'Autum stone'
Definitely there was something so special about him.
I only recently realised that if you don’t respond to youtube comments they sit there in the area marked ‘not responded to’ forever so I’ve decided to put this note - and my gratitude on every comment I’ve not responded too over the last 10 years.
The alternative is that I delete them which is not right - apologies that it has taken me so long to be courteous…
It really pisses me off that the Small Faces got ripped off by their management and didn't get rich. Maybe the guys who stuck around for Rod Stewart made money, but Steve Marriot died tragically, and broke.
None of them made much money and their work with Rod finished quite quickly. Ronnie died pretty penniless and had to be helped by friends. Mac had to keep gigging although Kennie seems to have done ok.
The greatest rock vocalist of all time. Ever.
Love his honesty and his approach
me too.
Oh it’s really nice to hear him talking :)
Oh yes.
Such a perfect band in all respects and by pure coincidence they were all the same height 🤯
Lucky!
Such a great singer and guitarist. It’s criminal how the music industry ripped him off.
The music industry always has and probably always will rip off the artists. Steve didn't seem that bitter about it in the end. I think he was enjoying gigging with his band and just playing music for not a lot of return.
That blue plaque needs to go up on Stevies old house in Strone rd..
Agreed!
class act ⚡️💙⚡️
Absolutely!
Every band wanted his talent. Toshy Liverpool
True!
Nice! Thanks for sharing
Pleasure.
Steve Marriott said he wrote the hits, but Ronnie Lane wrote their only American hit, Itchygoo Park. I will never stop missing The Small Faces.
Not quite true. Steve wrote the bridge as follows.
A great Summer song Itchycoo Park (so called because of the stinging nettles.) was a bit of laugh from the small faces. They were not all hippy trippy but they thought it would be a laugh to make this. It also had some of the earliest flanging/phasing on the drums.
Mostly written by Ronnie Lane who was inspired by the 'dreaming spires' of Oxford , Steve Marriott wrote the more basic verse for the bridge;
I feel inclined to blow my mind
Get hung up, feed the ducks with a bun
They all come out to groove about
Be nice and have fun in the sun
I loved it then and now but I guess what sold it was the 'It's all too beautiful' chorus in 1967 which was very much the Hippy era.
It was the only small faces single which ever made the top 20 in the US charting at number 16. It got to number 3 in the UK.
They have always been my favourite band.
Top man
Absolutely.
Anyone know the name of the first song in the background?
Song of a Baker from Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
@@NickBloomfield Thanks a lot, I had eventually found it after looking through all of their albums haha. Again, thanks, much appreciated.