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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…
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