The Small Faces - The Complete Collection (1993)

Small Faces was a British rock group whose music was heavily influenced by American rhythm and blues. The band was founded in 1965 by singer-guitarist Steve Marriott, singer-bassist Ronnie Lane, drummer Kenney Jones and keyboardist Jimmy Winston; Winston was replaced that year by Ian McLagan.
The Small Faces remain in the public mind as one of the most recognized and influential mod bands of the 1960s. Their best known hits are Itchycoo Park, Lazy Sunday, All or Nothing and Tin Soldier. From 1967, the band's music began to incorporate elements of psychedelic rock, the best-known example of which is one of the first concept albums of rock music, Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, released in 1968. After the breakup of the Small Faces in 1969, Steve Marriott formed his band Humble Pie. His three friends went on to make music with two members of The Jeff Beck Group, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, under the name Faces.

Despite the band's short career of only four years, Small Faces' songs are ranked among the best mod and psychedelic recordings of the second half of the 1960s. The group's work also had a great impact on the Britpop movement of the 1990s. In 1996, Small Faces was awarded the Ivor Novello Award in the Lifetime Achievement Award category for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.

In 2012, the bands Small Faces and Faces were simultaneously inducted into the ranks of the legends of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.