Editing Small Faces (section)

====Breakup and ''The Autumn Stone'' (1969)====
{{Main|The Autumn Stone}}
Marriott officially quit the band at the end of 1968, walking off stage during a live New Year's Eve gig yelling "I quit".<ref name="rough"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Muise|page=95|year=2002|title=Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: their lives and music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JI4LHXgz7YEC&q=New+Year%27s+Eve++Steve+Marriott&pg=PA95|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780634029561}}</ref> Citing frustration at their failure to break out of their pop image and their inability to reproduce the more sophisticated material properly on stage, Marriott was already looking ahead to a new band, [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie]], with [[Peter Frampton]].<ref name="rough"/> On the subject of the group's breakup, [[Kenney Jones]], in an interview with John Hellier (2001), said:

{{blockquote|I wish we had been a little bit more grown up at the time.  If we had have [''sic''] played Ogdens' live it would have boosted our confidence so much.  We were labelled as a pop band, which definitely got up Steve's nose more than we realised.   I wish we had been more like The Who in the fact that when they have problems they stick together until they've overcome them.   Steve just thought well how do we top Ogdens' and he was off.  Ogdens' was a masterpiece if we had played it live we would have gone to even greater things.   I reckon we were on the verge of crossing the great divide and becoming a heavier band.<ref name="wapping">{{cite web|title=An interview with Kenney Jones|publisher=Wapping Wharf.com|url=http://www.wappingwharf.com/kenney.htm|access-date=2011-02-09}}</ref>}}

After fulfilling outstanding live performance commitments, including a European tour in January, Small Faces' dissolution was formally announced in March 1969, and Marriott and Frampton's plans to form a new group together were unveiled (although the band were already formed and had been rehearsing together since January).<ref>Hewitt, Paulo and Hellier, John. ''[[Steve Marriott – All Too Beautiful...]]'' Helter Skelter (2005). {{ISBN|1-900924-44-7}}</ref> 

A posthumous album, ''[[The Autumn Stone (album)|The Autumn Stone]]'', was released later in 1969, and included the major Immediate recordings, a rare live concert performance, and a number of previously unreleased tracks recorded for their intended fourth LP, ''1862'', including the classic Swinging Sixties instrumental "Wide Eyed Girl on the Wall" and "Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass", co-written by Ian McLagan.<ref name="allmusic8">{{cite web|title=The Autumn Stone|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r711499/review|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=2011-02-17}}</ref> The final single, "[[Afterglow (Of Your Love)]]", was released in 1969 after the band had ceased to exist and the single only reached No. 36 in the UK Singles Charts.<ref name="bib"/>