interviews with journalists these days. But I was no regular journalist... I was a super fan. I emailed Kenney and set up a one hour phone conversation. This time around, there was no need for small talk... One of the albums being reissued is the first record you released on Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Records label; 1967's The Small Faces . What are your memories of making it? It was a huge turning point for us as a band. For that record Steve (Marriot), Ronnie (Lane), Ian and I each wrote different songs in different styles and were a hundred percent behind them. We weren't looking for a hit, we just wanted to capture great tunes... it just so happened that some of them were hits! We always had this incredible telepathy between us. We never told each other what to do or what to play. It just happened. It's a unique phenomenon that I've only ever experienced with them. That was the magic of the Small Faces and that record captures that. The LP that followed was Ogden's Nut Gone Flake -- arguably one of the best psychedelic albums of the 60's and one of the finest concept albums ever made. What inspired the story of 'Happiness Stan' and his quest to find the missing half of the moon? Andrew Loog Oldham told us that we needed to go away and open our minds and write some new songs... so he hired us all a boat each on the