Small Faces

Small Faces were an English <a href="/facts/Rock_music/zBM2guyQ">rock</a> band from <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London</a>, founded in 1965. The group originally consisted of <a href="/facts/Steve_Marriott/SsVFeyNs">Steve Marriott</a>, <a href="/facts/Ronnie_Lane/LR58cyJa">Ronnie Lane</a>, <a href="/facts/Kenney_Jones/ggXEwo55">Kenney Jones</a> and <a href="/facts/Jimmy_Winston/Vr0QexpN">Jimmy Winston</a>, with <a href="/facts/Ian_McLagan/DukHegdl">Ian McLagan</a> replacing Winston as the band's <a href="/facts/Keyboardist/DBQh5U9T">keyboardist</a> in 1966. The band were one of the most acclaimed and influential <a href="/facts/Mod_(subculture)/t7K4spML">mod</a> groups of the 1960s, recording <a href="/facts/Chart-topper/Ae8LNm9B">hit songs</a> such as "<a href="/facts/Itchycoo_Park/GYIbrton">Itchycoo Park</a>", "<a href="/facts/Lazy_Sunday_(Small_Faces_song)/oQUMdXnl">Lazy Sunday</a>", "<a href="/facts/All_or_Nothing_(Small_Faces_song)/7MJFKoby">All or Nothing</a>" and "<a href="/facts/Tin_Soldier_(song)/sHIkC63T">Tin Soldier</a>", as well as their <a href="/facts/Concept_album/QAyolfv8">concept album</a> <a href="/facts/Ogdens%27_Nut_Gone_Flake/EKsnwg5g">Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake</a>. They evolved into one of the UK's most successful <a href="/facts/Psychedelic_music/RkxWNDTa">psychedelic</a> bands until 1969.
When Marriott left to form <a href="/facts/Humble_Pie/9eEx4p6C">Humble Pie</a>, the remaining three members collaborated with <a href="/facts/Ronnie_Wood/xraQ6u2o">Ronnie Wood</a>, Wood's older brother <a href="/facts/Art_Wood/1malFpRG">Art Wood</a>, <a href="/facts/Rod_Stewart/0C6E62q6">Rod Stewart</a> and <a href="/facts/Kim_Gardner/aKqwjqbq">Kim Gardner</a>, briefly continuing under the name Quiet Melon, and then, with the departure of Art Wood and Gardner, as the <a href="/facts/Faces_(band)/hkEQ3DmW">Faces</a>. In North America, the Faces' debut album was credited to Small Faces.
Following the breakup of both the Faces and Humble Pie in 1975, the classic line-up of Small Faces re-formed (consisting of Marriott, Lane, McLagan and Jones) after a re-release of "Itchycoo Park" became a top-ten hit. Lane left shortly thereafter, and was replaced by <a href="/facts/Rick_Wills/ElREGHvq">Rick Wills</a> (later of <a href="/facts/Foreigner_(band)/Pr0peb50">Foreigner</a>). This line-up (dubbed Mk-II by Marriott) recorded one album <a href="/facts/Playmates_(album)/zHxjC7ak">Playmates</a> before recruiting <a href="/facts/Jimmy_McCulloch/ujcbYwIw">Jimmy McCulloch</a>. This five-piece line-up released only <a href="/facts/78_in_the_Shade/fPt30rrw">78 in the Shade</a> before breaking up.
Small Faces have been considered one of the early inspirations for – and even an early root of – the later <a href="/facts/Britpop/oENLa3l6">Britpop</a> movement. English music journalist <a href="/facts/Jon_Savage/BbRfPKlN">Jon Savage</a> has called them "the one Brit group that prefigures the early <a href="/facts/Sex_Pistols/WeRGWmBA">Sex Pistols</a> [who covered Small Faces' "<a href="/facts/Whatcha_Gonna_Do_About_It/7kbSWDWb">Whatcha Gonna Do About It</a>", and whose member <a href="/facts/Glenn_Matlock/mssrP67g">Glenn Matlock</a> performed with a reformed version of successor band <a href="/facts/Faces_(band)/hkEQ3DmW">Faces</a>]." They were inducted into the <a href="/facts/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame/6hRagsTD">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> in 2012.

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