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Steve Marriott one of the best vocalists UK has produced, brilliant !

I was the Small Faces road manager in 1965, I got the job through my flat booking agent mate who worked for Ron King, he shared the office building with Don Arden at the end of Carnaby St. I had to pick up the groups old Austin/Morris ? from an East End pub that Jimmy Winston's dad ran. I think it was the Blind Beggar. I drove to a second hand car lot in Stratford and swapped it for a brand new Commer 15 cwt van loaded to the gear in and drove to a gig in Birmingham. Maybe a week later I had to drop Jimmy's organ off at Don's office and drive out to the Hounslow area and pick up Ian Maclagan, now it was a tight squeeze to get the Hammond organ and Lesley speaker in the small Commer van, with a lot of rearranging it was managed. This got even worse later on when Kenny decided to use two base drums. The boy were driven around in a Ford Zodiac, later changed for a Mk10 Jag driven by an ex Beatle driver called Bill Corbet, he arranged to have girls at the front door of gigs to raise a bit of commotion, when there was nobody at the stage doors. Another Don Arden wind up. Sha La La La Le was recorded at a studio in one of the large house's across the street from the BBC, and had the tune taken from Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Kenny Lynch was great fun and had a pocket full of jokes. I spent a year humping their gear and had a lot of fun, but life on the road with a TV appearance in the AM or afternoon followed by a gig at night is no fun. Plus if it was the Birmingham Working Men's clubs they had to do a spot in two different clubs, so getting the gear off stage and back on at the next club was tough. So I went back to digging tunnels on the Victoria Line and my own bed each night. Great memories but not in the order shown in the video.

This group is shamefully unheralded in the United States. Their influence on other bands, then and in later years, was enormous.

What a brilliant, creative, talented group. Small Faces were such a tight little band of brothers. It's very sad that it ended the way it did. Although I do love Humble Pie and Faces, neither of these bands ever recaptured the magic of the Small Faces. RIP Steve, Ronnie and Mac.

Being born in the 70s and American I only get confused looks when I name the Small Faces as one of my favorite bands. . Most people I meet have never even heard of them and that is their loss. I rank them with the Who , Stones. Animals , Kinks Yardbirds . As good as any of the great UK bands of the 60s and Marriott was the best singer in the rock and roll world to me. Nobody had more talent than him.

This was beautiful and also hard to watch .I grew up with the small faces I'm 70 now in bed with a debilitating sickness that I cant seem to throw Muscle spasms daily an aching back unable walk and watching this brought back so many memories that I'm in tears Me and me mates and me girlfriend at the time in the park after school hanging out and listening to the small faces . My Sister went to London and met Ronnie and Steve in Carnaby st and hung out with them for a few days before coming back She Took some photos that she still has I think and I passed them round to me mates one who really fancied my sister but she was too cool for him Those were glorious days every single they brought out Id buy ans we all liked them Right from What ya gonna do about it to The universal I had them all and would stack up the record player and play the lot I really liked Sha la la las la las lee . I had a guitar and learned how to play All or nothing Later on I had my own band and All or nothing was one or our main songs along with My minds eye . which wasn't mentioned in this video I thought the Small faces were heaps better than the Beatles For me it was the Small faces and the stones . It would have been great to stay in the 60s Such a fantastic time with the best music

A band that deserved a lot more credit than they got at the time, what a 3 years and what fantastic records they left us with. Just as good as anything there was and hugely influential. Some of their better songs were LP tracks and b-sides, with the autumn stone track and those early killer instrumental stormer being so overlooked. Easily one of the best bands Of the 60’s and a band I never grow tired of, really enjoyed the documentary. Will have to get my records on the go again!

one of the greatest bands ever, Steve's voice up there and maybe even the best of all in the pantheon of rockers, I suppose Americans did not get their quirky cockney humour - although some are realising their mistake and have now inducted them into the Hall of Fame at last.

Holy fuck Steve. What a frontman. What a voice. Ha. Amazing. That Gretsch looks so huge on him.

I was a fan when I was seventeen.! I'm seventyfuckingfour now, and I'm STILL a fan!

Ogden's is one of my all time favourite albums ever. Marriot was one of the finest vocalists ever.

As a band musician in the late 80s and 90s they were a template musically and performance-wise. For musicians with a good record collection and understanding of what connected the sixties, punk and post-Nirvana 90s guitar music they were neither underrated nor forgotten.

What can I say 🤷 l was 16 in 65 when What you gonna do about it was released by Decca The Small Faces had arrived l loved em being a Mod they could do no wrong, l bought every Single and as many Albums as possible, the best being Ogdens Nutt Gone Flake and as I've tears in me eyes I'm gonna go and play it on my Record Player loved 😍 them and love them now still sound fresh lol Pete 😆 🎶 xx.

Small Faces are great, prefer them to the Who and the Strolling Bones for the classics they recorded

His voice still send shivers down my spine ♥️where did that come from? Magnificent.

Love this band! Never got the recognition in the US that they deserved. Steve❤️a small white version of an amazing BB, Otis, Jackie, Levi. He had SOUL immaculate.

Steve Marriott what a miraculously talented individual. People dont realize Robert plant copied steve Marriott. The best white soul singer ever for my money. Not a great person but such a terrific voice .

One of the most important British bands EVER !! Paul McCartney was a fan of Ronnie Lane and guested him on the Rockestra band of 1978. Also Jimmy Page was a big fan also

The story of the Small Faces is truly heartbreaking. Incredible musians

These guys were the real Deal God Bless them. Cant wait to see them again on the other side and oh yeah Don Arden was piece a crap.

Marriot, what an incredible character...adorable

I'm really puzzled by the fact that The Small Faces despised "Sha La La La Lee": I accidentally found that song in a cassette in 1985 and made me get into one of my favourite bands from the 60s. Obviously, the most underrated band ever

Steve marriott was a great vocalist, they are my third favourite british band, beatles, kinks and small faces

One of very few bands I (*1955) loved in my childhood and still today. My first SF single was ‘All Or Nothing‘, but I liked ’Lazy Sunday’ and ’Tin Soldier’ even more. Besides Marriott‘s unique, powerful voice it was the use of a Hammond organ which made them rock music pioneers, even before The Nice IIRC. I don‘t remember Jimmy Winston, but Ian McLagan probably was the reason I started to play organ in rock bands myself. Listen to the gorgeous Hammond sound in ‘Afterglow Of Your Love‘!

What a great video, cheers for posting. The Small Faces were unbelievably creative. All four members bringing something special to the party. Amazing chemistry. The featured songs are magic, loads of subtleties and nuances, whilst at the same time being big pop hits.

Always amazed me the power of Steve's voice. Loved the group and play the songs today when I'm having malt wiskey.,very underrated band

Tin Soldier is powerful!

I was one of the few who listened to these guys before most of them became The Faces and Steve went onto Humble Pie. Marriott was one of the greatest and most underrated rock vocalists IMO.

My dad was 18 in 1965. He was a 'Rocker', but always professed his love for the singles of The Who and Small Faces, their compilations permanent fixtures in his Jag's 8-track... by the age of 11 I was indoctrinated, in my Mod clobber, in love with The Jam, playing bass and learning Duck Dunn's runs. Five years later I formed 'The Way', playing the last night of the Scarborough Scooter Rally, June '85... we had three Small Faces songs in the set, and the crowd would go nuts for every one. By the end of that year I was writing my own songs and have never performed a cover version since... but crikey do I miss playing those classics.

The 3 Steve’s Marriot Ellis and winwood were kids with fantastic matures voices miles ahead of time

It is interesting to speculate on what would have happened to the Small Faces if 'I Got Mine' had been a hit; maybe the band would have been accepted by the cognoscenti and given more respect. Apparently Marriott was furious when Long John Baldry ridiculed 'the great soul singer' when 'Shalalalalee' came out. 'The Universal' with hindsight, shows that a paradigm shift had taken place with Marriott, his vocals were completely different to anything that he had done before, and reveals that he had moved on. Poor Marriott, an example of self-destruction that fame can bring.

Autumn Stone must be one of the greatest songs to come out of the 60's.

Some major rock stars came out of Small Faces. “Itchycoo Park” is genius

As a band musician in the late 80s and 90s they were a template musically and performance-wise. For musicians with a good record collection and understanding of what connected the sixties, punk and post-Nirvana 90s guitar music they were neither underrated nor forgotten.

As an American teenager in the 60's, the first I heard from the Small Faces was Itchycoo Park, which type-cast them as a psychedelic band in the mold of The Electric Prunes or The Cowsills. At that point, understand The Who were best known for I Can See For Miles and everyone was (justfiably) raving over Sgt. Peppers. If the Small Faces had broken through just a year earlier, Marriott's R&B vocals would've made a much bigger impact. As it was, I didn't even recognize Tin Soldier as a Small Faces song. By the time Ogden's Nut Gone Flake arrived (via import channels) our stashes were thoroughly stocked for the trip.

It was all just so real. It was all too beautiful. Don Arden was a thief. I'm a fan of ELO. He stole their money, for sure. Who was Don Arden's daughter? Sharon Osbourne... "Sharon!!!"

Looking at the titles of the songs in the lower left corner of the screen, Universal deserves *NO CREDIT AT ALL!* Universal, which is really MCA, are a greedy, conniving company that has *GOBBLED UP FAR TOO MANY OTHER COMPANIES* over the past 50 years and should be *FORCED* to *RELINQUISH* every label/record company they've acquired since 1970 and reduce themselves back to their core labels of Coral, Brunswick and Uni. No, they *SHOULD NOT* be allowed to hang on to the Decca brand as that was a British label to begin with. And the name Universal shall *ONLY* apply to the company's movie output.

Nice retrospective. It's great to know new generations are still discovering the music.

Dave Gilmore has Steve’s dog howling on seamus….also played better than Page Sang better than Plant and his replacement Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood

The Small Faces kicked ass. Then when they broke up, The Faces kicked ass. These bands just couldn't help it. It was in their blood.

Ahh, Small Faces, Deep joy of a songload in the eardroves !

If somebody ever inventing a time machine I will do a time warp back to London in the 60' s. Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Animals, Yardbirds, Pretty Things, Small Faces etc. That was the finest era of poprock and it happened in England Europe, not in the US of A. And I was too young and in the wrong place.

4 little cockney sparrows , mixed soul , rock .

There’s a few bands i scratch my head wondering why no one’s done a full length quality production documentary on. The Small Face to The faces is definitely one of those bands.

I have to disagree about Shalalalalee not being a good fit, they made what was maybe ‘Mickey mouse’ and made it a guttural hormonal teenage ripper

I grew up as a teenager in the sixties and the small faces bring back so many happy memories.

Thank you that was brilliant. Been listening to these since late 70's. Own the vinyl. Now it all makes sense 👍

It's so sad. If only certain things had been different the band could have survived. Look at the Stones. They've proven that bands CAN survive. Some factors were external, like poor management. Some factors are internal, like a certain tenacity and commitment to stay together, instead of being so flip like so many rock musicians thinking they can simply quit this band and easily be just as successful in another band, but it doesn't happen. I also think it would've been great if the band could've accepted Peter Frampton. But perhaps that was because of Don Arden not paying them their due. I'm not sure about why they rejected Frampton. That's a juicy piece of history I learned from this documentary. Makes me ask - "What if?"

THE most r'n'b of them all and marriot's voice landed them there.

Steve Marriott, Paul Rodgers, Dave Peverett, Ian Gillan, Jimmy Dewar. Best of the best.

The grubbiness of music management and the exploitation of art.

Arden wasnt a gangster but he was a hustler, any good manager needs to be that.

Odd that they left out (or it was edited out ?) "My Mind's Eye", their big Xmas hit of 1966. Got to number 4 in the Uk charts.

All or Nothing did not do well here in the US but Bob Seger would've had a huge hit if he'd recorded it (too late now!)

A landmark band, genuine talents, total energy, the essence of rock and roll, revolutionary style. I wish I'd been guiding their careers!

Why is that journalists , biographers, 'historians' and the like, always know more about the artists than the artists themselves--prime examples of this here.

Lazy Sunday may be the most British pop song ever.

As a band musician in the late 80s and 90s they were a template musically and performance-wise. For musicians with a good record collection and understanding of what connected the sixties, punk and post-Nirvana 90s guitar music they were neither underrated nor forgotten.

Legends

What a great band who would have thought what downfall marriot would go have in the end though tragic end rip steve and ronny lane

The Elite elite of rock bands

Some of Steve Mariott's stage moves with the guitar are not unlike Jimmy Page's in Zeppelin. No doubt he saw them play a few times.

Using a sausage finger guitarist to show the licks in this just ain't cutting it

Lazy Sunday top drawer sarcasm by Steve I find it superb

God he sounds like he gave Robert Plant vocal lessons

And by coincidence I was in High Street North East ham E6 yesterday - the Ruskin Arms pub, now derelict & in a sorry state. Am I right in saying that Jimmy Winston (the original keyboard player) - his parents ran this pub, and the band sometimes practiced upstairs?

It's great to see John Hellier being interviewed, I've met John a few times at UK Scooter Rallies what a nice guy he is.

The SMALL FACES never went to the US to tour. During this documentary an announcer says just back from their fabulous American tour.... Surely SF are still one of my favorites! I only saw Ronnie Lane and Kenney Jones on the 1983 ARMS tour - thats the closest to SF I have ever gotten.....

Love the history of the British Musuc scene from the early 60 's to the mid 70 's. What a time to be on that scene

Love it, love it, love it!

Steve Marriott was a true musical genius.

Marriott was a great singer song writer , not too bad on guitar either ,his vocals with PP Arnold on Tin Soldier are so good.

Band from London “The Mods” tribute Small Faces brilliantly

I really enjoyed this documentary. Can you do a follow up and do a Humble Pie documentary? 🎸

They didn’t make it to the US with the Whoo and Stones and others… they are somewhat unremembered in the US. Steve was a great voice and guitarist and frontman. Ronnie, Kenney and Ian were all great too but at the back of Rod during Faces. Both two of my favorite bands.

SUCH A GREAT BAND, RONNIE LANE WAS A GREAT BASS PLAYER.

It's noticeable how good German LIVE music TV was and how NOT good UK TV was in the 60s. 😢

My heroes growing up fantastic band

Great stuff 👍

If you really want to know , read Ian McLagan "Mac's" book, its puts you right there in the band, the 60's and more. I'm a California girl and loved itchycoo park the second it hit the radio! I'm an old girl now but still rockin. Had a few beers with Rod in the 80's and just saw him recently, he's still rocking too! lol

40:40 What's this "Sanctuary Records Group bullshit? The records were made b *Immediate Records* which went from EMI to PYE then Decca distribution during the label's lifespan.

Brilliant band. My favourite in the early 1960's - the likes of the Beatles and the Stones never got a look in.

One of the most under rated pop bands, ever!

Were the Small Faces the, or one of the, inspirational sources for ( "60's") Spinal Tap..? (verses, not necessarily chorus- some of the verses remind me of S.T., also the arguing, the walking of stage incident) Anyway, loved this.. thanks!

Steve Marriott what a wonderful voice and great fella too....

On first seeing Steve Marriott singing Tin Soldier I thought it was Paul Weller a decade before The Jam ..

....and to rhyme 'rainbow' with 'lumbago' is genius...

My family has this weird, impossible to prove now but I swear it is real story. I’m American from California with American Anglophile parents. My dad absolutely loved Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake and had this idea (along with another artist friend) to make a Yellow Submarine type movie from it. My dad wrote a letter to their management company. He got a reply from Andrew Loog Oldham granting him permission to make the movie. The movie never got made. 😂

Classic band....Oasis ,The Jam...all drew their influences but regards their best track.. All or Nothing...check out the cover by the Dogs d amour....brilliant ....Small Faces forever...superb band.

As much of a huge fan I am of Ronnie Lane and especially Steve M. - I just do not get the attraction to most of the Small Faces music? Maybe because I first fell in love with rock and roll in America and in America the top 40 on the radio was king....and that was The Beatles, The Monkees, Cream, The Doors etc. etc. the music was very "poppy" or psychedelic. and you just never ever heard a small faces song on American radio...In fact I can not think of even 1 time hearing a song by the small faces on American radio...not once. Then came Humble Pie and I fell in total love with their music. So to this day I think Steve's greatest work ever was the Humble Pie album " Smokin" SO SO GREAT it was IMO. And Rock on was a great album also with Peter Frampton. Then Humble Pie live at the Fillmore...Greatest Live album ever IMO.

The clip of Tin Soldier did not include PP Arnold though her name is shown above the stage. The documentary should at least mentioned her. There is at least one clip on RU-vid where they all mime the song together.

This song is the best guitar work wow underrated song

That's a good video, but from my memory not sure it's correct in some of the details. At the time I was with a band that was signed to a bit immediate and sometimes in the office while the faces and others were around . Me and a band mate once accidentally walked into Don Arden's office while he was having a meeting with Carl Wayne ( ex singer from the move I think) .My point is Andrew Oldham was long gone and Arden was there when it all finished. I am old now so maybe it's my memory but I don't think so. Apologies if I'm wrong.

Aside from Itchycoo Park, I'm really surprised we never really hears Small Faces songs on Chicago radio growing up in the 60's and 70's. They're all good!

Woke up with Itchycoo Park on my mental jukebox. Ended up realizing Steve Marriott was all too beautiful for this crazy world❤

Nice.. Awesome Stuff 👍

My exes dad drove the Small faces for immediate records.....She had a toy rabbit off Steve Marriots mum....Still got that ...Got rid of me

it is disturbing to hear words like `amazing,cool` fantastic..etc bandied about to describe this type of drug fuelled deluded lifestyle in musical applications, seriously ,just `face` it ,some kind of denial within a culture that needs chemical shots in the creative juices renders it all `synthetic` to a degree, its all too `subversive`what is beautiful about superficial,? all or `nothing authentic` it was all a bit of a fraud! looking back with 20/20 hindsight people do seem to get fooled again ,😉🤔😇💉

The Beatles were the best but Small Faces are my favourite !

I was kissing steve in club in Hackney my dad came in at midnight grabbed him by the throat and said keep away from my daughter... I never got to go to the party with him. Where would I be now i wonder. Will always love him ❤️