RICHARD HOUGHTON

Tell Everyone – A People’s History of The Faces' is a lavishly illustrated collection of memories of one of the most celebrated bands in British rock history.

The Faces formed in 1969 when singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood quit the Jeff Beck Group to team up with the remaining members of ’60s chart toppers the Small Faces - Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones - whose own lead singer had left. Inheriting followings from their previous bands, the Faces went on to play over 500 concerts worldwide and were acclaimed as the greatest live rock act in the early 1970s, ahead of the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Their shows could be brilliant or shambolic, depending on just how much alcohol had been imbibed beforehand. Legendary BBC DJ John Peel, an early champion of the band, was to nominate a 1973 Faces gig in Sunderland as his favourite live concert of all time. In 1971, Rod Stewart’s best-selling single ‘Maggie May’ and album Every Picture Tells a Story topped the UK and US charts simultaneously, making him the first solo act to achieve this feat. It catapulted his career into an orbit that, along with Ronnie Wood joining the Rolling Stones – initially on loan - ultimately led to the Faces breaking up in 1975. Written and compiled by Richard Houghton, this book brings together over 500 previously unpublished accounts of live Faces concerts and tells the story of one of the most-mourned bands in rock history as it’s never been told before.