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SM ALL FACES ON TRACK
EVERY ALBUM, EVERY SONG
Andrew Darlington
ISBN 978-1-78952-316-4
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Publication: 28 MARCH 2024
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ISBN: 9781789523164
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback
Format: 210 x 148 mm
Extent: 176 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music
Comparative title: 9781789522761 Humble Pie On Track
• Best known for 1960s singles ‘Itchycoo Park’
and ‘Lazy Sunday’
• Produced one of the great early concept
albums in Odgen’s Nutgone Flake
• The breeding ground for 1970s and Humble
Pie and The Faces
Small Faces. Big Sound. There were but four Small Faces.
Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ First they were the sharp little Mod fourpiece of the ‘All Or
Nothing’ Decca years, Carnaby Street, Ready Steady Go!
Andrew Darlington is a hack writer, a self-educated acrobat juggling and Rave magazine. Then they were the irreverent
words. Jefferson Airplane musician Grace Slick once politely Freakbeat experimentalists of the Immediate years, with
declined his offer of marriage. His latest poetry collection is Tweak ‘Tin Soldier’, ‘Lazy Sunday’ and classic album Ogdens’ Nut
Vision: The Word-Play Solution To Modern-Angst Confusion and his Gone Flake. An arc of hits praised, covered and imitated by
Science Fiction Novel In The Time Of The Breaking are both from subsequent Rock musicians such as Paul Weller and Noel
Alien Buddha Press, USA. He’s also written a biography of Beatles Gallagher.
PR Derek Taylor called For Your Radioactive Children: Days In The
Life Of The Beatles Spin-Doctor, published by SonicBond, who also When The Small Faces split, they became Humble Pie
publish his 2021 book The Hollies On Track. His writing can be found with Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton, and a different
at Eight Miles Higher: http://andrewdarlington.blogspot.co.uk/ batch of musicians became The Faces with the addition of
future Rolling Stone Ron Wood, and vocalist Rod Stewart,
to become one of the biggest rock bands of the seventies.
Sales: Star Book Sales LLP When those bands came to a natural end, and with
T: 01404 515050 ‘Itchycoo Park’ returned to the Top Ten, The Small Faces
E: enquiries@starbooksales.com reformed for two more albums – ill-advised maybe, or
Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. possibly ripe for re-evaluation? The evidence is laid out
Email: orders@combook.co.uk here.
Phone: 01892 837171
For this is the full story, track-by-track, song-by-song,
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change
without notice. 16/10/2023 from the very start, to the final end…