Faces’ Keyboardist Ian McLagan Dead at 69
This is truly sad news for all who loved the Small Faces and their music.
Ian McLagan, a fun-loving keyboardist who played on records by such artists as the Rolling Stones, Lucinda Williams, Bruce Springsteen and his own bands — the Small Faces and its successor, the Faces — died Wednesday, according to a statement from his record label, Yep Roc Records. He was 69.
The cause of death was complications from a stroke, according to Yep Roc.
Kenney Jones, the Faces’ drummer who later joined the Who, expressed his sadness in the statement.