Small Faces peak!

MAY 14

Small Faces’ Lazy Sunday reaches its singles chart zenith of Number 2. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, the last LP recorded by the group’s original line-up, is released on May 24. An advert parodying the Lord’s Prayer (“Give us thy album in a round cover as we give thee 37/9d… For nice is the music/The sleeve and the story”) causes controversy, but the album goes on to spend six weeks at Number 1 over the summer. However, the record proves practically impossible to perform live, though they do play a selection of songs on BBC2’s Colour Me Pop on June 21 with side two’s guest narrator, Professor Stanley Unwin.

In at the deep end: Professor Stanley Unwin narrated on Small Faces’ LP. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake