Steve Marriott

Steve Marriott ruled. Lead singer with the Small Faces, and then with Humble Pie, he had one of the all-time best voices in Rock music. He died in 1991, in a housefire because he fell asleep while smoking.

It sucks, because he never really saw any money from his Small Faces efforts, because of various rights issues and mismanagement, and despite being in some primo Rock bands, he really was, at heart, an R&B singer, the archetypal Blue-eyed Soul singer.

The Small Faces had such a good Mod thing going; after the Who, they were the top Mod band. Great, soulful sound. Robert Plant totally based his own vocal style on Marriott, who was the gold standard for frontmen back then...

Small Faces, "Whatcha Gonna Do About It"

Small Faces, "Tin Soldier"

Small Faces, "Song of a Baker"

Small Faces, "The Autumn Stone"

And Humble Pie rocked, too...

Humble Pie, "Natural Born Boogie"

Humble Pie, "I Don't Need No Doctor" (second half of this clip; first half is the Small Faces's "Itchycoo Park")