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Oasis' Maine Road Gigs Turn 20 - Five Reasons Why They Defined The Mid-90s

Edit NME 27 Apr 2016
“It was 20 years ago today…” It feels like you could say that pretty much every week for something seismic related to Oasis at the moment ... Those two gigs were important ... I’d wager that a lot of successful post-Oasis British rock musicians’ first ‘gig’ was that live footage ... Elvis, Hendrix, Sid Vicious, Steve Marriott, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye and finally, as the last throes of the chorus are belted out by Noel, the face of John Lennon....

The pleasure and pains of Royal Headache: 'This band makes us bleed'

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 25 Feb 2016
"Oh, we're gonna suck tonight. These hipsters are gonna hate me, and I want them to.". Unscrew Shogun's cap and the words come in spurts, like ketchup from a bottle ... "We're all too neurotic and emotional," says Lawrence Hall, the band's guitarist. "They go either way, our sets ... He curls up over his knees, never giving it less than everything, shredding his vocal chords like Steve Marriott of the Small Faces ... ....

How 4 Huge Rock Bands Picked Their Band Names

Edit About.com 04 Feb 2016
Naming a rock band can be a tricky proposition. A band name needs to represent the band but it also needs to be unique and identifiable. If a band gets huge, their band name becomes their international brand name. Here are the stories of how some of rock's biggest bands decided on their band names ... Foo Fighters photo ... Vocalists Donovan, Steve Winwood, and Steve Marriott were considered for the project which never came together ... alone ... ....

In the Army and Elvis Presley has his first No.1 hit

Edit The Examiner 30 Jan 2016
In 1959, Elvis Presley had his third U.K. No.1 single “One Night/I Got Stung”. The song was written by Dave Bartholomew and Earl King and was an R&B hit for Smiley Lewis in 1956 ... music chart with “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” ... 126 ... hit ... Steve Marriott – born in 1947, Steve was an English musician, songwriter and the frontman of the two notable rock and roll bands ... Steve was also a guitarist with Small Faces and Humble Pie ... ....

And the Band Plays 'On the Move'

Edit Huffington Post 21 Jan 2016
-- Steve Bingham ... Though Steve Marriott and Rod Stewart may have been the more celebrated faces - you couldn't take your eyes nor ears off the charismatic, ebullient elfin bassist who plied his craft with a decidedly working- class London cockney character pooled with a libretto borne of romance, resignation, and realism ... Among the pleasantly "rummaged" was bassist Steve Bingham....

From Bruce Springsteen to David Bowie: The best box sets of 2015

Edit Toronto Sun 18 Dec 2015
The album may be running out of steam, but the box set is still going strong. This fall brought another sonic tsunami — nearly 100 overhauled classics, archive-raiding anthologies and collectibles for completists ... THE BEST. 1 . Bob Dylan . The Cutting Edge. Bootleg Series Vol ... DISCS ... Steve Hackett ... Go back to the start with all the early releases from these rough ’n’ tumble Mod-rockers led by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane....

Velvet Underground, Steve Hackett, Small Faces, Grateful Dead top this week's new music

Edit Toronto Sun 02 Dec 2015
Steve Hackett ... Just how big a Genesis fan are you? More pointedly, how big a Steve Hackett fan are you? Big enough to be interested in a 14-disc box of the ... For the Small Faces — singer-guitarist Steve Marriott, bassist Ronnie Lane, drummer Kenney Jones and keyboardist Jimmy Winston (soon replaced by Ian McLagan) — that was Decca Records....

Chats with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, Lady Antebellum's Dave Haywood, Oak Ridge Boys and Sky-Pony's ...

Edit Huffington Post 20 Nov 2015
A Conversation with Ronnie Wood. Mike Ragogna. Ronnie, with your new book How Can It Be? A Rock & Roll Diary, you take a snapshot of 1965, a very interesting year in music ... Ronnie Wood ... MR ... RW ... When that was waning I had already made a tight bond with Rod Stewart, we loved Small Faces so when Steve Marriott left them we rang Ronnie Lane and the pair of us kind of morphed into the Faces ... Cutler and DJ Steve Angello; I'm writing the script ... ....

Chats with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, Lady Antebellum's Dave Haywood, Oak Ridge Boys, Marty Balin ...

Edit Huffington Post 20 Nov 2015
A Conversation with Ronnie Wood. Mike Ragogna. Ronnie, with your new book How Can It Be? A Rock & Roll Diary, you take a snapshot of 1965, a very interesting year in music. What inspired it and how did the process begin?. Ronnie Wood ... MR ... RW ... MR ... RW ... When that was waning I had already made a tight bond with Rod Stewart, we loved Small Faces so when Steve Marriott left them we rang Ronnie Lane and the pair of us kind of morphed into the Faces....

Adaptor Clothing - Dress for the beat

Edit Skiddle 10 Oct 2015
Rising from the ashes of The Petty Hoodlums, a band that had earned infamy for their enthusiastic covers of beat classics, inadvertently inventing their own unique Heavy Mod genre, they continue to offer unmatched power and excitement, but this time the likes of Steve Marriott and Pete Townshend are relegated from composer to influence as the ......

I have a question for the BBC - why do you need five orchestras?

Edit The Independent 09 Oct 2015
But let’s just say £32.5m ... Martin Freeman must do justice to Steve Marriott. One film at the London Film Festival that does arouse my interest is a short on the late rock singer Steve Marriott ... Marriott is to be played on screen by The Hobbit star Martin Freeman ... Do what with you want with those hobbits, but we Marriott fans will be unhappy if you fail to capture Steve in all his glory ... BBC London Film Festival Steve Marriott ....

The Small Faces: The Decca Years 1965-1967 review – the story of mid-60s pop in microcosm

Edit The Guardian 08 Oct 2015
“I just can’t stop my brain from running wild,” sang Steve Marriott amid the noisy swirl of E Too D, but not before he’d assured the listener ... Their take on R&B was thrillingly tough and full, bolstered by Marriott’s voice – he could sing a Sam Cooke or Otis Redding number without sounding hopelessly pasty and knock-kneed – and a side-order of feedback and flailing, distorted guitar that kept it from pastiche....

Small Faces: The Decca Years ft. b-sides, outtakes, sessions

Edit Music News 26 Jul 2015
This includes a great Steve Marriott interview with Brian Matthew, which has not been officially heard in the UK since it was made by the BBC Transcription Services for transmission overseas. In total, 5 BBC interviews with Steve Marriott are featured ... Fronted by the charismatic Steve Marriott, perhaps Britain's most soulful white vocalist ever, the band dominated the second half of the 1960s ... Interview with Steve Marriott....
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