Last year, Ronnie Lane, the heart of both the Faces and Small Faces and a solo artist in his own right, would have turned 60. Although Lane died in 1997 from complications associated with multiple ...
Ronnie Lane, despite never achieving the same level of stateside fame as his friends Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page, was no less one of the seminal figures in the early years of the ...
He helped created the sound and character of two seminal British bands: the Small Faces and the Faces. He set the mood, and penned half the material, for one of the greatest collaborative albums of ...
There's nothing quite like a Ronnie Lane song. Endlessly able to slice down to real things with a poetry that never feels lofty, Lane made one feel understood while simultaneously imparting practical ...
The Faces made their place in the music world with their ramshackle image, a rollicking blues-rock sound, and Rod Stewart’s soulful vocals and magnetic presence as a frontman. You usually didn’t ...
A new DVD documentary on the late Ronnie Lane, former bassist for the Small Faces and Faces, returns the rocker who died of multiple sclerosis in 1997 to the spotlight, CHRIS MORRIS writes. By Chris ...
Terrific to see the old Track logo resurrected and equally good to hear Ronnie "Plonk" Lane again. In 1973, he boldly left The Faces two years before Rod Stewart to pursue his interest in rural blues, ...
Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane, the keyboardist and the bassist of the famed UK groups the Small Faces and the Faces, eventually made Austin their home—Lane in the mid-eighties, McLagan about a decade ...