Last Orders Please: Rod Stewart, The Faces And The Britain We Forgot

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' There was this terrible trough in the mid-70s: England didn't qualify forthe 1974 World Cup, Miss Hall our English teacher left school, & the Faces split.' Billy Bragg Do you remember The Faces? The group that was born out of the ashes of the legendary sixties band the Small Faces, but with the addition of Ron Wood on guitar (later to join the Stones) & Rod Stewart on vocals. Last Orders, Please is the first biography of the band who have acquired legendary status in the annals of rock 'n' roll history. It's also a book about Britain in a forgotten era
- the early seventies. Not the seventies of Glam Rock, Sweet & Gary Glitter, but the real seventies of the three day week, trade union strikes, blackouts, the IRA, steak, chips & warm beer. In these difficult times it was the Faces
- a soulful, goodtime band who drank & played hard, who didn't dress to impress, but just got on with the job
- that the working class adopted as its own. In the days before football was fashionable the Faces played soccer on stage on TOTP. In 1974 this was a near-political act that confirmed The Faces as truly a people's b&, & they are still loved, & revered to this day.