![Listen to Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings (1970-1973) [Live] by Faces](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/be/f3/78/bef37860-9bd6-328a-02dc-b1c32f28e159/603497820771.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Faces at the BBC: Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings (1970-1973) [Live] by Faces")
About Faces
Hometown
London, England
Formed
1969
Genre
Rock
The early-’70s unit Faces might be best known as the launching pad for lead singer Rod Stewart’s career. However, the London-formed group owed its few years in the limelight to the inventive blues-folk hybrids of its bassist, co-founder, auxiliary singer, and lead songwriter, Ronnie Lane. The band rose from the ashes of the baroque-pop-rock unit Small Faces, fronted by Steve Marriott, who left the group in 1969. The remaining members—Lane, keyboardist Ian McLagan, and drummer Kenney Jones—moved toward a roughneck, blues-centric sound, recruited guitarist Ronnie Wood, and replaced Marriott with Rod Stewart—a magnetic presence who breathed singular life into material with his raspy, soulful delivery. Faces’ third album, 1971’s A Nod Is As Good As a Wink… To a Blind Horse, a mix of rave-up rock tunes and torch songs with shades of R&B and country, would be the band’s breakthrough; the more muted, pop-forward 1973 release Ooh La La became a UK No. 1. The group disbanded in 1975 in the wake of Lane’s departure, Wood’s increasing time commitment to The Rolling Stones, and the success of Stewart’s solo career.
Members of Faces include, or have included, Rod Stewart, Mick Hucknall, Ronnie Lane and more.
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