At the same time there's nothing that emerges from the saga that has really prompted me to head out and chase down First Step, Long Player, A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse or Ooh La La, though those early Stewart albums may end up joining An Old Raincoat in the iTunes Library if they're priced below $10 at the same time as I have an inclination to spend some money and a lack of alternative inspiration.
Neill's book, with its fairly detailed description of the circumstances that led to descriptors like drunk, loose, fun and shambolic being associated with The Faces was probably never going to change that. They may have rocked the joint, they weren't the only ones to cut a swathe through the U.S. concert scene, and as for suggestions that they were the world's second greatest rock band…
The biography, while interesting and comprehensive ends up, like its subject, interesting but definitely non-essential.
But I'll be rereading the Jeff Beck and Small Faces content before it goes back to the Library.