Born on the outskirts of London in 1945, Ian McLagan was one of the valiant
architects of English rock in the 1960s and 1970s, playing with The Small Faces
and then The Faces, as well as The New Barbarians (with Ron Wood and Keith
Richards) and Billy Bragg's band The Blokes. A child of the British Blues Boom,
the pianist and organist made his contribution to English psychedelic rock and,
when The Faces split up, played for a host of artists including The Rolling
Stones, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Joe Cocker and Bruce Springsteen. At the same
time, Ian McLagan recorded a handful o...