Kenney Jones remembers the Small Faces’ masterpiece

Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake is being reissued on Kenney Jones’ Nice Records, along with unheard outtakes discovered when the original master was found in one of his battered old drum cases. He talks to us here – with the compiler Rob Caiger – about the chaotic construction of the Small Faces’ 1968 masterpiece and his mission to “carry on the legacy”. Are you all sitting comftybold two-square on your botty? Then we’ll begin. Among the highlights …

… the Thames boating accident that inspired the album

… booking Stanley Unwin when Spike Milligan turned them down – and the day Stanley invented ‘Unwinese’

… insomniac days in the band’s Westmoreland Terrace

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… the value of Marriott’s stage school background: “he could always ham things up”

… hidden treasures on the original tape – “you hear Steve and Ronnie talking”

… the magic of that fragile tobacco-tin artwork

… possession is nine-tenths of the law!

… Marriott’s wall-banging Chiswick neighbours that inspired Lazy Sunday

… “I’m the only one left and want to carry on the legacy”

… other lost Immediate sessions to be released on Nice Records

Order the Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake expanded 3CD set here, direct from Kenney’s Nice Records imprint: https://www.nicerecords.co.uk/collections/ogdens-nut-gone-flake

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