When we think about the British Invasion, we often do so in terms of how it impacted America. Small Faces scored hits again and again in their native UK, but struggled to do so in the U.S. They only ...
Robyn Hitchcock just released his memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, last week, and now he’s announced a companion album, titled 1967: Vacations In The Past, which will be out ...
It didn't take much for a song to get banned from the radio during the 1960s. "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen was investigated by the FBI over suspicions that the lyrics were obscene (they weren't).
The opening verse of the Small Faces' 1967 hit suggests an Oxford setting. Both the Bridge of Sighs and the dreaming spires are phrases well-associated with the university town. Ronnie Lane, who wrote ...