Editing Small Faces (section)

====''Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake'' (1968) ====
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At home in England, their career reached an all-time high after the release of their classic psychedelia-influenced album ''[[Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake]]'' on 24 May 1968.<ref name="allmusic7">{{cite web|title=Ogden's Nut Gone Flake|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r18273/review|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=2011-02-08}}</ref> It is widely regarded as a classic album, and featured an innovative round cover, the first of its kind, designed to resemble an antique tobacco tin. It stayed at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart for six weeks, but reached only No. 159 in the US.<ref name="allmusic7"/><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Sexton |first=Paul|title=UK Rock Acts Fete Small Faces on Nice charity Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgcEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22UK+Rock+Acts+Fete+Small+Faces+on+Nice+charity+Set%22&pg=PA13|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|volume=108 |date=September 1996 |page=13}}</ref>

The two-act concept album consisted of six original songs on side one and a whimsical [[psychedelic music|psychedelic]] [[fairy tale]] on side two relating the adventures of "Happiness Stan" and his need to find out where the other half of the moon went when it waned. It was narrated by [[Stanley Unwin (comedian)|Stanley Unwin]], after original plans to have [[Spike Milligan]] narrate the album went awry when he turned them down.<ref name="allmusic7"/><ref name="ianmclagan5">{{cite web|title=Small Faces Talk to You: The Story of the Small Faces in their own Words – Ogden's Nut Gone Flake|publisher=Ian McLagan Official Site|url=http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/ogdens.htm|access-date=2011-02-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206173338/http://www.ianmclagan.com/sf/ogdens.htm|archive-date=6 February 2011}}</ref>

Critics were enthusiastic, and the album sold well, but the band were confronted by the practical problem that they had created a studio masterpiece which was virtually impossible to recreate on the road. ''Ogdens''' was performed as a whole just once, and memorably, live in the studio on the BBC television programme ''[[Colour Me Pop]]''.<ref name="ianmclagan5"/>