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Vote: | America has done a lot for us, and for me particularly. The audiences are incredible. They are as important on the new album as we are. |
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Vote: | Another thing that has helped me is getting telegrams in America from Pete Townshend saying 'your new single's great'. If he likes it then it must be good.. It's great that he's still digging what I do - because I'm still digging him. We heard the new Who album in the States - great; 'bout time Tommy got the boot!" |
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Vote: | I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again. |
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Vote: | It's just what I used to do in '65 - '66 only I like to think I'm better at it. I'm just a rock n roller, that's what I'm best at. |
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Vote: | It's just working hard that's helped us. The last 18 months I had in the Faces didn't do any of us any good because we didn't work; we didn't even rehearse. I just forgot everything. Since we've been playing in America I've realised what I do best and I'm doing it and enjoying it twice as much as before. |
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Vote: | People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about. |
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Vote: | We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now. Hyde park was the first time over here for ages. |
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Vote: | We thought we'd do a live album because we're more of a live group. When we started we were more of a recording band but since we've been playing in America (they've done five tours this year) we've become a performing band. |
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Vote: | When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right. |
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Steve Marriott (January 30, 1945 in Bow in London – April 20, 1991 in Essex) was a British rock and roll singer, songwriter and guitarist who also worked as a juvenile actor in his youth; he appeared in an early London stage production of Oliver! with Ian Carmichael, and featured in two British films in his early teens, including one starring Peter Sellers.
He is best remembered for his musical work in the groups The Small Faces from 1965 to 1969 and in Humble Pie from 1969 to 1975. Despite his small stature and slight build, Marriott possessed a thrilling and powerful voice; he was (and remains) widely admired as one of the best British rock and soul singers of his generation. He was also an accomplished songwriter.
The Small Faces, and especially Marriott, were one of many influences on the formation and musical style of premier British hard rock group Led Zeppelin. Marriott is also reputed to have been one of Jimmy Page's top choices when selecting a lead singer for Led Zeppelin (the other being another rowdy-voiced Brit, Terry Reid), and there are certainly clear stylistic and timbral similarities between the voices of Marriott and Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant. The legend goes that Marriott's crime-connected manager threatened Page with broken fingers if he tried to steal Marriott away, leading to one of the great "what-ifs" of rock.
The Small Faces were one of Britain's most successful and popular groups of the late Sixties, and Marriott wrote or co-wrote (with bassist Ronnie Lane) almost all of the Small Faces' most successful songs including All Or Nothing, Itchycoo Park, Lazy Sunday, and Tin Soldier. He quit abruptly at the end of 1969, frustrated by the group's inability to break out of their teen-pop image and their failure to achieve major success in the lucrative American market.
Shortly after leaving The Small Faces he formed a new band, Humble Pie with guitarist Peter Frampton (ex-The Herd), drummer Jerry Shirley and bassist Greg Ridley (ex Spooky Tooth). After extensive rehearsals at Marriott's Essex home, they released their first album As Safe As Yesterday on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label, and scored a US Top 5 hit with Natural Born Bugie. Humble Pie almost disbanded after their first American tour however —when they returned to England they discovered that Immediate had gone into liquidation.
It later transpired that much of the company's profits had been siphoned off by one of its senior executives and during their lifetimes neither Marriott nor Lane ever saw any of the royalty money owed to them by Immediate, despite the fact that their work was licensed extensively over the next thirty years, selling millions of units in total.
With the assistance of a lawyer who worked on a 'no win, no fee' basis, Small Faces drummer Kenny Jones and keyboard player Ian McLagan were finally able to secure ongoing royalty payments from Decca, beginning in 1991, and from Charly, the current owners of the Immediate catalogue, beginning in 1997. Tragically, neither Marriott nor Lane lived to benefit from this, and according to Jones there is still a substantial amount of money owing to the group from their music publishing rights.
Marriott also had a solo career after the breakup of Humble Pie, appeared on recordings by French pop singer Johnny Halliday and New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders and wrote and recorded with Australian drummer and songwriter John Lee (ex The Dingoes). Marriott was heavily influenced by American soul music as well as the Beatles. He wore his influences on his sleeve, adding covers of many of his favorite songs to live sets throughout the years. Ray Charles was a particular favorite, with Humble Pie rendering I Don't Need No Doctor, and I Believe to great success.
Marriott's dog Seamus' made a notable appearance on the track of the same name on Pink Floyd's album Meddle. He can also be heard on the Small Faces song The Universal, which Marriott recorded on a cassette player in his backyard. Seamus pops up again on the Pink Floyd live film, Live At Pompeii.
In the 1970s Marriott bought a large country house in Essex and in the 1980s it was used as the location for the home of the title character in the British television series Lovejoy played by Ian McShane.
Marriott died tragically in a house fire in his home on April 20, 1991, which was caused by his falling asleep while intoxicated and leaving a cigarette burning, after arriving home jet-lagged from an overseas trip. Just prior to his death, Marriott and Peter Frampton had begun writing songs together again, but the project was never completed.
External links * Marriott's official site
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