- HOW TO “BEST” BRAND THE FACES WITH THE PROPER BAND FONT/LOGO
The corporate-sanctioned Faces font over one that works… - MANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. KENNEY JONES ABOUT HIS SESSION WORKS FROM 1970-75
KENNEY JONES: SESSION MAN - COLLECTOR’S SHOWCASE #16
The exclusive Ark Royal single
Meet our bloggers:
John Gray, music enthusiast and founder of SMILER fanclub, was born in Romford, Essex in 1960. He bought his first Rod Stewart record (Maggie May) in 1971 and has been a keen fan and collector ever since. He first witnessed Rod live on stage when he was just 13 years old and has now seen well over 100 different Rod Stewart concerts all over the world.
- STONE COLD SOBER (again)
- STILL A FIRST CLASS ACT
- PLAY IT AGAIN ROD – 21 April 2018, BFI London
- ROD THE MOD – 52 YEARS LATER
Mike Walton – job title ‘General dogs body’ – has been around SMILER in one form another since day one, starting by submitting small bits of artwork and even helping John Gray set up the table to sell the very first issue of SMILER magazine in an upstairs room in a pub in London. Although he was that stressed, he probably won’t remember! Join him and our guest bloggers at the Forever Young bar:
Irishman Pat Brett is a mere novice fan having first become aware of Rod when Baby Jane topped the charts 30 years ago and only discovering SMILER in 1990. Despite his first purchase being the much maligned Camouflage album, Pat was hooked and has stuck around to champion Rod’s middle years – after the heights of the seventies and before the crooner era.
It was late ’77 shortly after the passing of Elvis who was his childhood musical idol, that Dan Perreira first heard Rod’s “distinctive voice”, singing “Tonight’s The Night” on a television comercial for a K-Tel various artists LP. Lucky for him and his curiosity, located at his local library were two books about Rod which would educate him very well on both Rod and the Faces. He was completely intrigued, especially by the Faces years and became an instant fan. From then on he would buy and collect anything he could get his hands on and still continues to do so to this very day.
Neal Webb has been a Faces/Rod Stewart fan for over forty years; he has been fortunate enough to have seen the Faces live and the very first Rod Stewart solo shows. His first love has always been The Faces and he has followed each member of the bands solo careers since the band split in 1975. Favourite Faces album is Oh La La and Rod Stewart solo album is Gasoline Alley.
- Every Picture Tells A Story Don’t It!
- TARTAN 2014
- SEEMS LIKE A LONG TIME ?
- I WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING!
