All Or Nothing: The Authorised Story Of Steve Marriott

Warts-and-all biography of the Small Faces and Humble Pie frontman.

“No one denied the fact he was a great vocalist… but they didn’t particularly like him,” Small Faces drummer Kenney Jones recalls in this hair-raising biography of arguably British rock’s most gifted singer.

While there is never any question about the epic scale of Marriott’s talents, the diminutive frontman’s music tells only half of his story.

Amassed from 125 interviews, this fascinating new oral history fills in the gaps. So we learn of the irrepressible Marriott’s path from child star to mod icon with the Small Faces to stadium-slaying rock god with Humble Pie, before a self-destructive tsunami of drug addiction and chronic alcoholism combined to destroy his career, finances, talent and personal life.

While it’s a gold mine of trivia for fans – who knew, for example, that the young Marriott and David Bowie hatched plans to form a band called David And