The Small Faces – Lazy Sunday Afternoon

“Lazy Sunday” – Single by Small Faces from the album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake, released on 5 April 1968.

It was written by the Small Faces songwriting duo Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, and appeared on the band’s 1968 concept album Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake. Against the band’s wishes, it preceded the album as a single release.

“Lazy Sunday” has a traditional cockney East End of London music-hall sound. The song was inspired by Marriott’s feuds with his neighbours and is also noticeable for its distinct vocal changes. Marriott sings large parts of the song in a greatly exaggerated cockney accent, partly due to an argument he had with the Hollies, who said that Marriott had never sung in his own accent. Drummer Kenney Jones told Uncut: “Steve had been a child actor, he was the first Artful Dodger in Lionel Bart’s Oliver in the West End. He brought back that theatricality to this.”

At 51 seconds, the vocal backing quotes the “Colonel Bogey March” by F. J. Ricketts and, at 1 minute 45 seconds, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones. At the end of the song the tune dissolves into birdsong and church bells.

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The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday Afternoon

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Lazy Sunday, este un single al grupului Small Faces, din 1968, inclusă pe albumul Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake. 

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