All the Rage: My High Life with The Small Faces, The Faces, The Rolling Stones and Many More - Softcover

Ian McLagan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033037673X ISBN 13: 9780330376730

Publisher: Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

Ian McLagan was the keyboard player with the Small Faces and Faces, then went on as a backing player with the Rolling Stones. This book looks at his 30 years in the rock`n`roll business, telling of his times with rock icons such as Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger and Keith Richard.

About this title

About the Author:

A transplanted Englishman, Ian "Mac" McLagan is now a resident of Austin, Texas. Dave Marsh, author of many books about popular music, is one of America's most respected rock critics. He lives in Norwalk, Connecticut.

From Booklist:

The Faces were vital contributors to rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and McLagan, the Face's keyboardist, tells their story and his own convivially. Before admitting Rod Stewart and guitarist Ron Wood and willy-nilly becoming the singer's backup band, the Faces had recorded, as the Small Faces, the protopsychedelic hit "Itchycoo Park," with Steve Marriott out front. McLagan's early proximity to the stars makes him a crucial source of inside dope on them. And McLagan not only collaborated with Marriott, Stewart, and future Rolling Stone Wood. He hooked up with Who drummer Keith Moon's ex-wife and experienced sadly characteristic harassment from Moon the Loon. Doin' toot with Ike Turner, trying to get Stewart to record the occasional Faces song in the midst of his burgeoning megastardom, having Pete Townshend intervene when Moon hired goons to get him--McLagan tells all and then some. A fine addition to our knowledge of the relationships within '60s rock and their incidental but vital salacious aspects and a must-read for aging rockers. Mike Tribby
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About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 033037673X
• ISBN 13: 9780330376730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432