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Ian McLagan, keyboardist with Small Faces and latterly the Faces, has died at the age of 69.
Ultimate Classic Rock is reporting that McLagan suffered a massive stroke in Austin, Texas – where he lived for many years – yesterday (December 3rd) and died in hospital.
McLagan was the last of the classic Small Faces line-up to join the band when he replaced Jimmy Winston in 1965. He remained on board beyond the Steve Marriott years when the band, under the guidance of Ronnie Lane, evolved into a stadium-filling seventies outfit as the Faces, led by new recruits Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood.
His passing means only drummer Kenney Jones remains with us from that legendary Small Faces line-up, after the deaths of Marriott and Lane in 1991 and 1997.
McLagan had been hoping to tour with Jones next year, previously telling Uncut that Rod Stewart would ‘have to wait until 2016’ for any Faces comeback because ‘2015 is the Small Faces’ year’.