{"product_id":"sean-egan-long-agos-and-worlds-apart-2024-hardback","title":"Sean Egan: Long Agos And Worlds Apart [2024] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eSmall Faces epitomised the maxim, \"Never mind the width, feel\u003cbr\u003ethe quality.\" In their brief original lifespan, they released\u003cbr\u003ejust three official albums and a dozen-and-a-half authorised\u003cbr\u003enon-album singles and B-sides. Yet more than five decades after the\u003cbr\u003eLondon quartet's split the phenomenal quality of that compact body of\u003cbr\u003ework has ensured a continuing and unassailable musical esteem\u003cbr\u003ebordering on legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGut-bucket\u003cbr\u003evocalist Steve Marriott brought a bluesy grit to both compositions of\u003cbr\u003egravitas and effervescent pop numbers. Bassist Ronnie Lane\u003cbr\u003ecollaborated with him to form one of the most formidable songwriting\u003cbr\u003epartnerships of the era. Ian McLagan was an exhilaratingly\u003cbr\u003eblurred-fingered keyboardist. Kenney Jones brought up the rear with\u003cbr\u003eblistering drum patterns, with his rolls often used to provide an\u003cbr\u003eexplosive fanfare to Small Faces singles. Such a talent-oozing\u003cbr\u003eline-up was virtually predestined to conjure excellence. 'Tin\u003cbr\u003eSoldier', their exquisitely sophisticated psychedelic-soul release of\u003cbr\u003e1967, regularly appears in polls to decide history's greatest\u003cbr\u003esingles. However, the band are just as much loved for rip-roaring\u003cbr\u003epower-pop like 'Sha-La-La- La-Lee' and 'All or Nothing' and storming\u003cbr\u003einstrumental B-sides such as 'Grow Your Own' and 'Almost Grown'.\u003cbr\u003eTheir acknowledged masterpiece is \u003ci\u003eOgdens' Nut Gone Flake\u003cbr\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e1968), an album that was not only artistically superb but\u003cbr\u003eboasted a second-side narrative suite that paved the way for rock\u003cbr\u003eoperas such as the Pretty Things' SF Sorrow and the Who's Tommy.\u003cbr\u003eRegardless of style, quality and innovativeness, the Small Faces'\u003cbr\u003emusic was characterised by a life-affirming joyousness. All this\u003cbr\u003eexplains why their catalogue is endlessly recycled and why their\u003cbr\u003eoeuvre has been disproportionately inspirational.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong\u003cbr\u003eAgos and Worlds Apart\u003c\/i\u003e covers the Small Faces' full,\u003cbr\u003etumultuous story. The book draws on lengthy new interviews, including\u003cbr\u003eones with Jones, Lane's close friend Pete Townshend and original\u003cbr\u003eSmall Faces member Jimmy Winston. It features contributions from many\u003cbr\u003eassociates and intimates, including managers, agents, publicists,\u003cbr\u003esongwriters, auxiliary musicians, fan-club personnel, recording\u003cbr\u003eengineers, journalists, friends and wives. It also draws on numerous\u003cbr\u003einterviews the author conducted down the years with both Jones and\u003cbr\u003eMcLagan, much of which material is previously unpublished. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt\u003cbr\u003eis a revealing, impartial, exhaustive and definitive exploration of\u003cbr\u003ethe corpus and career of a truly great band.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Egan, Sean","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50247646970195,"sku":"9781800505377","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/egan-sean-sean-egan-long-agos-and-worlds-apart-2024-hardback-9781800505377-60988585640275.jpg?v=1737522309","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/sean-egan-long-agos-and-worlds-apart-2024-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}