- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing; Third Edition edition (May 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1905139276
- ISBN-13: 978-1905139279
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #143,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A wonderful book . . . wonderfully researched, eminently readable"Uncut
This is a revised, expanded, and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed music books of recent years: the best-selling account of the Small Faces and Humble Pie mainman, Steve Marriott.
About the Author
Paolo Hewitt brought black music to the NME, and penned the sleevenotes to the Oasis mega hit 'What's The Story Morning Glory'. His other books include 'The Beat Concerto: The Story Of The Jam (1985); 'Getting High: The Story Of Oasis' (1999) and 'Paul Weller: The Changing Man' (2007). John Hellier is a Small Faces expert and editor of 'Here Come The Nice: A Small Faces Songbook.'
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4.2 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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The stuff operas are made of, Jan 27 2006
By Madame Meow - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful (Hardcover)
Paolo Hewitt has done a good job of describing the tragi-lovely life of Steve Marriott, a serious rock and roller who lived to make music, instead of making music to get rich. (Readers will be shocked by how little money he made.) Clearly Marriott was gifted, funny, infuriating, and damaged by years of betrayal. The tragic parts were mitigated by Steve's optimistic outlook. The book is well researched, well-written, non-judgmental, and has a good selection of photos. I recommend Ian MacLagan's book, "All The Rage", as a good follow-up read. (MacLagan's book has a happy ending, which you will crave after reading the Marriott bio.)
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Cheers to the Pieman!!!!! R.I.P., Oct 26 2006
By D. Burke - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful: Fully Revised, Expanded and Updated (Paperback)
I've always thought Marriott was a truely gifted musician and Humble Pie was a truely exceptional ban, but I knew very little about Steve's earlier times with the Small Faces and before. My only complaint about this book is it was written by Mods and mainly for Mods. By this I mean that almost 2/3 of the story takes place before Humble Pie happened and the authors lament endlessly through out the remainder of the book about how the quality of Marriott's music was never as good after the Small Faces. That is simply untrue. There are certainly many Humble Pie fans around that would disagree. The great Humble Pie albums like 'Rock On' are scarcely mentioned, 'Smokin' gets a whopping 1/2 page review. 'Eat It' which is certainly the best Pie album gets slammed. Everyone always complains about the sound quality of 'Eat It', it's been years since I listened to the album, but I think the reissued CD certainly does the sound justice. 'Thunderbox' is deemed the best Humble Pie album but in reality is probably the sixth out of nine. Anyway the entire Humble Pie saga runs 40 pages. Steve's life after Humble Pie is really kind of sad and at times funny. He would tell anyone where to get off. He also had a very chronic drug and alcohol problem which was surely the cause of most of his bad luck and untimately claimed his life. Having said that it was a great read and I couldn't put it down. Marriott was a huge talent and his music is alot better that 99% of the dribble that passes for song nowadays.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Steve Mariott - always all too beautiful, May 1 2011
By happy camper - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful (Paperback)
This is a great read for anyone interested in Steve, or the story of The Small Faces and/or Humble Pie. The author is non judgemental, and appears to have researched the life and times of Steve Mariott in detail
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