‘Faces At The BBC’ 8CD & Blu-Ray Box Set Announced
Faces At The BBC – Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973, an 8CD/Blu-Ray boxed set featuring all of the band’s surviving BBC recordings, will be released on 6 September. Listen to Stay With Me (Live on Sounds For Saturday, BBC, April 1, 1972) below
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This new collection – much of it previously unreleased – has been remastered with the full participation of band members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones.
The Blu-ray includes newly restored footage of the Faces’ April 1972 appearance on Sounds for Saturday. The concert finds the ‘Borstal Boys’ in peak form, radiating their swaggering, joyous spirit of rock’n’roll that continues to inspire generations.
The hardback set includes a 48-page booklet with new commentary from surviving band members and archival quotes from Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and legendary BBC broadcaster John Peel. Lavishly illustrated with many previously unseen photos, the booklet details every Faces BBC session, concert, and broadcast. BBC broadcaster Gary Crowley wrote the detailed liner notes, which include a new interview with Jeff Griffin, who produced all of the Faces’ BBC concert appearances.
Once thought lost, many of the band’s BBC recordings were recovered from the Faces’ own archives and private collections. (Notably, only one BBC session of three songs remains missing.) Rarities include a stereo mix of the May 13, 1971, Paris Cinema concert, which was only broadcast in mono, and a February 1973 show that was never aired due to the BBC’s concerns over the band’s on-stage banter with the rowdy audience.
Faces At The BBC – Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 8CD tracklisting
Disc One
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast July 5, 1970)
“You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
“Wicked Messenger” *
“Devotion” *
“It’s All Over Now” *
“I Feel So Good” *
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast November 29, 1970)
“Country Comfort”
“You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)”
“Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man) / Street Fighting Man”
“Maybe I’m Amazed”
“Around The Plynth / Country Honk / Gasoline Alley”
Disc Two
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast May 23, 1971)
“You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
“Cut Across Shorty”
“Love In Vain”
“Bad ’n’ Ruin” *
“It’s All Over Now” *
“Had Me A Real Good Time” *
“(I Know) I’m Losing You” *
“I Feel So Good” *
Disc Three
Sounds For Saturday (Broadcast April 1, 1972)
“Three Button Hand Me Down” *
“Maybe I’m Amazed”
“Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man) / Street Fighting Man” *
“Miss Judy’s Farm”
“Love In Vain” *
“Stay With Me”
“(I Know) I’m Losing You”
Disc Four
John Peel’s Sunday Concert (Broadcast February 26, 1972)
Intro / “You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
“Three Button Hand Me Down” *
“Miss Judy’s Farm” *
“Memphis, Tennessee” *
“Give Me The Moonlight” *
“Too Bad” *
“Last Orders Please” *
“Devotion” *
“That’s All You Need / Country Honk / Gasoline Alley” *
“(I Know) I’m Losing You” *
“Stay With Me” *
“Had Me A Real Good Time” *
“Underneath The Arches” *
“Every Picture Tells A Story” *
Disc Five
In Concert (Recorded February 8, 1973) not originally broadcast
“Silicone Grown” *
“Cindy Incidentally” *
“Angel” *
“Memphis, Tennessee” *
“True Blue” *
“I’d Rather Go Blind” *
“You’re My Girl (I Don’t Want To Discuss It)” *
“Twistin’ The Night Away” *
“It’s All Over Now” *
“Miss Judy’s Farm” *
“Maybe I’m Amazed” *
“Three Button Hand Me Down” *
“(I Know) I’m Losing You” *
Disc Six
In Concert (Broadcast April 21, 1973)
“Silicone Grown” *
“Cindy Incidentally” *
“Memphis, Tennessee” *
“If I’m On The Late Side” *
“My Fault” *
“The Stealer”
“Borstal Boys”
“Angel”
“Stay With Me”
“True Blue”
“Twistin’ The Night Away” *
“Miss Judy’s Farm”
“Jealous Guy”
“Too Bad”
Disc Seven
Top Gear (Broadcast March 28, 1970)
“Wicked Messenger” *
“Devotion”
“Shake, Shudder, Shiver”
“Pineapple And The Monkey” *
Dave Lee Travis (Broadcast March 15, 1970)
“Three Button Hand Me Down” *
“Flying”
“Wicked Messenger” *
Top Gear (Broadcast September 19, 1970)
“Had Me A Real Good Time” *
“Around The Plyth / Gasoline Alley”
“Country Comfort” *
Top Gear: John Peel’s Christmas Carol Concert (Broadcast December 26, 1970)
“Away In A Manger” – Rod Stewart *
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Good King Wenceslas / Silent Night / O Come All Ye Faithful” – Faces & Choir *
Disc Eight
Sounds Of The Seventies (Broadcast May 3, 1971)
“Had Me A Real Good Time” *
“Love In Vain” *
“Oh Lord I’m Browned Off” *
“Maybe I’m Amazed” *
Top Gear (Broadcast October 6, 1971)
“Stay With Me”
“Miss Judy’s Farm”
“Maggie May”
Blu-ray
Sounds For Saturday (Broadcast April 1, 1972)
“Three Button Hand Me Down” *
“Maybe I’m Amazed”*
“Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man / Street Fighting Man” *
“Miss Judy’s Farm”*
“Love In Vain” *
“Stay With Me”*
“(I Know) I’m Losing You”*
* previously unreleased