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78 in the Shade

Field	Value
name	78 in the Shade
type	Studio album
artist	Small Faces
cover	Small Faces - 78 in the Shade.jpg
released	9 September 1978
recorded	Beehive Cottage with Island Mobile
genre	Rock, rhythm and blues
length	32:54
label	Atlantic
producer	Kemastri (Acronym for Ke = Kenny Jones, Ma = Ian McLagan, St = Steve Marriott, Ri = Rick Wills)
prev_title	Playmates
prev_year	1977
next_title	The BBC Sessions
next_year	1999

78 in the Shade is the fifth and final studio album by Small Faces, and the second during their reunion. It was released on the Atlantic label in 1978 and reissued in 2005 on Wounded Bird. The album was created during the brief reunion of the band in the 1970s. The follow-up to the reunion album Playmates, 78, like its predecessor, was not successful and the band broke up soon afterwards. Mainstream music in Britain was rapidly changing direction, punk rock having been established around this time.

Guitarist Jimmy McCulloch briefly joined this line-up after leaving Wings. When McCulloch phoned Paul McCartney, who had found him increasingly difficult to work with, to announce he was joining Marriott, McCartney reportedly said "I was a little put out at first, but, well, what can you say to that?" McCulloch's tenure with the band lasted only for a few months in late 1977. 78 in the Shade was his only album with the band.

Reception

78 in the Shade generally gained indifferent to negative reviews. Allmusic gave the album a review of 2 stars out of five.

The album was reissued as part of “The Complete Atlantic Collection” with the previous album “Playmates” and a single on Wounded Bird in 2021.

Track listing

Personnel

;Small Faces

Steve Marriott – guitar, vocals
Ian McLagan – keyboards, vocals
Rick Wills – bass guitar, vocals
Kenney Jones – drums, vocals

with:

Jimmy McCulloch (credited only as "Thanks") – lead guitar on "Thinking About Love" and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
Vicki Brown, Helen Chappelle, Lavinia Rogers, Madeline Bell, Liza Strike, Sam Brown, Jimmy McCulloch, Stephen Smith, Greg Cobb, Nick Webb – backing vocals ;Technical
John Wright – engineer
Larry Franklin – cover illustration
Brian Aris – photography

References

{{AllMusic
"Humble Pie Biography". [[eNotes]].
"Faces Biography".
Carlin. (2009). "Paul McCartney: A Life". [[Simon & Schuster]].
"78 in the Shade". [[AllMusic]].
"78 in the Shade". [[Allmusic]].
http://www.woundedbird.com/
78 in the Shade, Small Faces, Atlantic (1978) LP
"Jimmy McCulloch". ReoCities.

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