Love is blind and you're far too kind

Dear Megan,

I just read this line in some liner notes for The Best of Faces: Good Boys When They're Asleep and I wanted to put it here for posterity's sake (because these words will live on forever on the interweb!). It's written by a guy named Dave Marsh, who, according to his byline, "has written about rock music in every major publication for over 30 years." What a job!

Anywhos, he's just gone through the story of the Faces, and about how the band just sort of disintegrated over a period time. He writes about what the various members did (Ronnie Wood joined the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart became "the Bod", etc.), and finally ends with a discussion of Ronnie Lane, the bassist and one of the band's founding members (as the Small Faces).

Here's the build-up:

"Lane kept going until June 1997, when he died after a long battle with MS, but the story was not entirely over, even then. The following year, Rod Stewart released a new album, on which, after 25 years he finally got round to singing perhaps Lane's best song ever, 'Ooh La La.' [On the original recording, Ron Wood sang it.]"

He ends with: "All such tales of friendship found and lost should have endings so bittersweet."

How great is that?

I miss you, Megs!

love, molly

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