Between 1965 and 1968, the Small Faces had multiple top ten hits in the UK, but cracked the U.S. top twenty only once, with "Itchycoo Park." Steve Marriott, the brilliant and distinctive lead vocalist (and guitarist), left the group in 1969 to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton and moved in a more hard blues rock direction, which led to great success in the U.S. in the early 1970s; the remaining Small Faces joined forces with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood to form the hugely successful Faces, which also had a good run in the early 1970s. But here the Small Faces are at the peak of their U.K. success, with a great single (lip synced here) that never made it in the U.S.:
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