Steve Marriott
Background information
Birth name	Stephen Peter Marriott
Born	30 January 1947, in Upton, East London
Origin	East London
Died	20 April 1991 Arkesden, Essex
Genre(s)	rock and roll
Occupation(s)	actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Instrument(s)	singer & guitarist
Associated acts	Small Faces (1965-1969) Humble Pie (1969-1975)
Website	Official site

Steve Marriott (30 January 1947 in Upton, East London, – 20 April 1991 in Arkesden, Essex.) was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best remembered for his musical work in the groups Small Faces (1965-1969) and Humble Pie (1969-1975). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Upton is the name of numerous places: United Kingdom Upton, Berkshire Upton, Buckinghamshire Upton, Cambridgeshire Upton, Cheshire Upton, Cornwall Upton, Cumbria Upton, Devon Upton, Dorset Upton, Hampshire Upton, Leicestershire Upton, Lincolnshire Upton, London Upton, Norfolk Upton, Northamptonshire Upton, Nottinghamshire Upton, Oxfordshire Upton, Pembrokeshire Upton, Slough Upton, Somerset Upton, Warwickshire Upton... East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: Imonti) is a city in southeast South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32. ... East London is the name commonly given to the eastern part of London on the north side of the River Thames. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arkesden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... The Small Faces were a British rock and roll band of the 1960s, led by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane with Kenny Jones and original organist Jimmy Winston. ... Humble Pie was an English rock music band, best known for their hard-rocking recordings and concert performances. ... January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Upton is the name of numerous places: United Kingdom Upton, Berkshire Upton, Buckinghamshire Upton, Cambridgeshire Upton, Cheshire Upton, Cornwall Upton, Cumbria Upton, Devon Upton, Dorset Upton, Hampshire Upton, Leicestershire Upton, Lincolnshire Upton, London Upton, Norfolk Upton, Northamptonshire Upton, Nottinghamshire Upton, Oxfordshire Upton, Pembrokeshire Upton, Slough Upton, Somerset Upton, Warwickshire Upton... East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: Imonti) is a city in southeast South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arkesden is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The Small Faces were a British rock and roll band of the 1960s, led by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane with Kenny Jones and original organist Jimmy Winston. ... Humble Pie was an English rock music band, best known for their hard-rocking recordings and concert performances. ...

Biography

Child Actor

Steve Marriott (Born Stephen Peter Marriott) was born at East Ham Memorial Hospital, London, England. Music was in his blood and the young Steve started to earn cash by busking around the bus queues of Stepney with his ukelele. He worked as a juvenile actor in his youth; he appeared in an early London stage production of Oliver! with Ian Carmichael and Tony Robinson, (who claims Steve took him to Itchycoo Park one day and got him 'high'), and featured in two British films in his early teens, including one starring Peter Sellers. London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. ... Ukulele The ukulele (Hawaiian: , IPA pronunciation: ; Anglicised pronunciation usually IPA: ), sometimes spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or uke, is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four strings or four courses of strings. ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey Ian Carmichael OBE (born 18 June 1920) is a British film, stage and television actor. ... Tony Robinson as Baldrick in Blackadder. ... Located in a London suburb known as Manor Park Itchycoo Park referred to the nickname given to a local park located in that area which went by the official name of Little Ilford Park. ... Richard Henry Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English comedian, actor, and performer, who came to prominence on the BBC radio series The Goon Show and later became a film star. ...

Small Faces

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.

Small Faces, along with The Who, were the most respected mod band, highly regarded by the youth cult's followers. Marriott was 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 Jimmy Page's benchmark when selecting a lead singer for Led Zeppelin (the other being another rowdy-voiced Brit, Terry Reid), and there are unmistakable stylistic and timbral similarities between the voices of Marriott and Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant. The legend goes that Marriott's manager Don Arden threatened Page with broken fingers if he tried to steal Marriott away. That can be verifyield in the Zeppelin Bigoraphy, "Hammer of the Gods".^{[citation needed]}, leading to one of the great "what-ifs" of rock. Paul Weller, of The Jam and The Style Council, has also cited Steve Marriott and Small Faces as a strong influence. The Who are an English rock band who first emerged in 1964. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For the bands 1969 self-titled debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ... James Patrick Jimmy Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist and producer. ... Terry Reid (born 13 November 1949, Huntingdon, England) is a rock singer and guitarist noted for his soulful voice in the same vein as contemporaries Paul Rodgers and Rod Stewart. ... Robert Anthony Plant (born August 20, 1948, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England) is an English rock singer, most famous for his membership in the rock band Led Zeppelin, but also for his successful solo career. ... Don Arden (born Harry Levy, January 4, 1926) was an English music manager, agent and businessman, best known for overseeing the careers of rock groups Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath. ... Paul Weller (born John William Weller, 25 May 1958, in Stanley Road, Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Style Council were a British musical group formed in 1983 by ex-The Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot. ...

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". Ronald Lane (April 1, 1946 - June 4, 1997) was an English singer, songwriter and bass player (nicknamed Plonk) best known for his membership in two prominent English rock bands, Small Faces (1965-69) and Faces (1970-75). ... Located in a London suburb known as Manor Park Itchycoo Park referred to the nickname given to a local park located in that area which went by the official name of Little Ilford Park. ...

Marriott 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. Their failure to "break" America in spite of "Itchycoo Park" being a massive hit during the Summer of Love was most likely due to their failure to tour there. The Summer of Love is a phrase given to the summer of 1967 to try to describe the feeling of being in San Francisco that summer, when the so-called hippie movement came to full fruition. ...

Humble Pie

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 Is on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label, and scored a UK Top 5 hit with "Natural Born Bugie". This was followed by their second album on Immediate, 'Town and Country'. Humble Pie almost disbanded after their first American tour however —when they returned to England they discovered that Immediate had gone into liquidation. For the hard rock band of the same name, see Humble Pie (band). ... Peter Kenneth Frampton (born April 22, 1950 in Beckenham, Kent) is a Grammy winning English musician, best known today for his solo work in the mid-1970s as an arena rocker. // By the age of ten, he played in a band called the Little Ravens. ... The Herd were an English pop group, formed in the Beckenham area in 1965. ... Jerry Shirley, (born 4 February 1952 in Wattenham Cross, London) drummer for Humble Pie, started a new version of the popular 70s band shortly after the death of Steve Marriott, being the sole surviving member of the band and, therefore, owning all the rights to the name. ... Spooky Tooth was an English progressive rock band from the late 1960s. ... Andrew Loog Oldham (born 1944) is a British rock and roll producer, impresario and author. ... Immediate Records was a British record label, started in 1965 by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, concentrating on the London based British blues scene. ...

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 Kenney 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. However, 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. Kenneth Thomas Kenney (or Kenny) Jones (born September 16, 1948 in Stepney, London) is a veteran English rock drummer best known for his work in the Small Faces, the Faces, and The Who. ... Ian McLagan is a British keyboards player, best known as a member of The Small Faces in the 1960s and The Faces in the 1970s. ... See also: 1991 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1991 Record labels established in 1991 other events of 1991 list of years in music 1990s in music // 1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. ...

After the Immediate fiasco, the band transferred to A&M Records. They toured constantly, which helped increase their popularity. The band's next 2 releases Humble Pie and Rock On, benefited from this and were reasonably successful. Their live album Performance Rockin' the Fillmore became the band's most successful release to date. During the process of these recordings, Marriott's vocals began to become the focal point of the band and he began to take creative control of the band away from Frampton, which resulted in Frampton's departure. A&M Records is an American record label, owned and operated by Universal Music Group. ... Humble Pie was Humble Pies third studio album and their first with A&M Records. ... Rock On is a 1970 album by Humble Pie. ... Performance Rockin The Fillmore is a 1971 live album by Humble Pie. ...

After Peter Frampton left, Marriott took creative control of the band. The group's first album with new guitarist Clem Clempson, Smokin', was their most successful release ever. However their next release, the double album Eat It, failed to crack the top ten, and the band's popularity quickly declined, and they eventually disbanded in 1975. Dave Clem Clempson (b. ... Viewed as Humble Pies best album in the public eye Smokin sure is a strong album, drenched in hard rocking guitars and blues (probably die to Peter Framptons departure and the arrival of new guitarist Clem Clempson) with Marriott wailing at his soulful best. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... See also: 1974 in music, other events of 1975, 1976 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 2 - New York City U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle John Lennon and his lawyers can have access to Department of...

Solo career

Marriott also had a solo career after the breakup of Humble Pie, appeared on recordings by French pop singer Johnny Hallyday 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. For the hard rock band of the same name, see Humble Pie (band). ... Johnny Hallyday Johnny Hallyday (born June 15, 1943 in Paris, France) is a French singer and actor. ... The New York Dolls are a rock band formed in New York City in 1972. ... Johnny Thunders Johnny Thunders, born John Anthony Genzale, Jr (July 15, 1952 - April 23, 1991), was a rock and roll guitarist and singer, first with the New York Dolls, the proto-punk glam rockers of the early 70s. ... The Dingoes were an Australian rock band from 1973 to 1979. ... For other uses, see Soul music (disambiguation). ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004). ...

Marriott's dog Seamus made a notable appearance in the song "Seamus" 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. The former track appears on the video Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, however, the dog featured in the live recording is not the original Seamus. His vocal styling was reprised by a female Afghan Hound named Nobs with similar musical talents, and in the film the title was altered accordingly to read "Mademoiselle Nobs". Seamus is the fifth song on Pink Floyds Meddle and also the name of a dog, owned by close associate of the band Steve Marriott. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde progressive rock music. ... Meddle is an album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. ... The Afghan Hound is a very old sighthound dog breed. ...

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 starring Ian McShane. There are other articles with similar names; see Lovejoy (disambiguation). ... Ian McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor. ...

Death

Marriott died in a house fire in his home on 20 April 1991. The accident 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, although two recorded songs from this final effort, "The Bigger They Come", and "I Won't Let You Down", with Steve Marriott on vocals (and guitar), appear on Peter Frampton's album "Shine On." A third song, featuring both Marriott and Frampton entitled "Out of the Blue" was featured on the first solo recording Frampton made after Marriott's death. A fourth song, "An Itch You Can't Scratch" has been found on many "bootleg" compiliations and even on one of two "authorized" British releases, but recording date, and whether Frampton played on it has never been verified. April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Kenneth Frampton (born April 22, 1950 in Beckenham, Kent) is a Grammy winning English musician, best known today for his solo work in the mid-1970s as an arena rocker. // By the age of ten, he played in a band called the Little Ravens. ...

Solo discography

See also the Small Faces and Humble Pie for respective discographies Small Faces, left to right: Ian McLagan, Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane For the Scottish film, see Small Faces (film). ... For the hard rock band of the same name, see Humble Pie (band). ...

• Marriott
• 30 Seconds to Midnite
• Live at the Sir George Robey 23-1-85
• Dingwalls 6.7.84
• Packet of Three
• Steve Marriott's Scrubbers
• All Shapes & Sizes The Family Tree
• Clear Through the Night
• Steve Marriott & the Official Receivers
• The Legendary Majic Mijits
• Live in Germany
• Sing the Blues Live
• Afterglow
• Voice of Humble Pie
• Signed Sealed
• About Face
• Rainy Changes

External links

• Marriott's official site
• Steve Marriott Images
• Steve Marriott at the Internet Movie Database
• Steve Marriott discography