Born on the outskirts of London in 1945, Ian McLagan was one of the valiant architects of English rock in the 1960s and 1970s, playing with The Small Faces and then The Faces, as well as The New Barbarians (with Ron Wood and Keith Richards) and Billy Bragg's band The Blokes. A child of the British Blues Boom, the pianist and organist made his contribution to English psychedelic rock and, when The Faces split up, played for a host of artists including The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Joe Cocker and Bruce Springsteen. At the same time, Ian McLagan recorded a handful of his own albums: Troublemaker (1979), Bump in the Night (1980), Best of British (Ian McLagan & the Bump Band, 2000), Rise and Shine (2004), Never Say Never (2008) and United States (2014). Established in Austin, Texas, in 2000, he died on December 3, 2014, aged 69, after a stroke. He published the autobiography All the Rage, A Riotous Romp Through Rock & Roll History in 2000.
