The Steve Marriott Saga: How The Mob, Peter Frampton And Daddy Osbourne Snuffed Out The Small Faces And Humble Pie

By Don Jacobson

Published in the Beachwood Reporter on November 26th 2007

The other day I was listening to a great old album on WREK-FM, one of our better non-commercial, student-run stations, from Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The program was Stonehenge, WREK’s weekly “deep tracks” classic rock show, and the album was Humble Pie’s first effort, 1969’s “As Safe As Yesterday Is.” It was so good, it got me wondering, why didn’t Steve Marriott ever become the ultra-special hyperstar he should have been? What happened to him in the years between Humble Pie’s break-up in 1975 and his premature, accidental death in a 1991 house fire?

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http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/music/steve_marriott_humbled_by_the.php

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