This summer marks sixty years since All Or Nothing carried four East End boys to the top of the UK charts. To mark the anniversary, we're releasing Small Faces — Decca Singles 1965–1967: a strictly limited hard-shell boxset, available exclusively from Nice Records and capped at 500 individually numbered copies.
Goes on pre-sale on Friday 8th May
Released 17 July 2026
A two-year run that changed British pop
When Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston signed to manager Don Arden’s Contemporary Records management company in June 1965, they were not yet the band the world would come to recognise. Just one month later when Contemporary began licensing Small Faces recordings to Decca Records, the teenage band were plugged into both East End and West End mod scenes, building a large following. With Ian McLagan soon replacing Winstone, they had two years to make their mark on Decca before moving onto Immediate.
What came out of those Decca sessions was a run of singles that helped define British pop in the mid-Sixties — eight 7-inch singles, sixteen sides, one chart-topper and a sound that has lost none of its swagger.
What's in the box
Every Decca A and B side released by the Small Faces is here, mastered to vinyl from the original Decca master tapes by sound engineer Nick Robbins. Each single is presented in the rare Dutch picture sleeves British collectors have spent decades chasing. This includes the cancelled Dutch single I've Got Mine, restored using previously unseen artwork from Kenney Jones' personal Small Faces archive
The cover photograph is Tony Gale's now-iconic shot of the band outside their shared house at 22 Westmoreland Terrace in Pimlico — a snapshot of the moment they stopped being a promising new act and simply became the Small Faces.
Inside the hard-shell box you'll find:
- Eight 7-inch singles on Decca labels in replica Dutch picture sleeves
- A 16-page booklet with rare photos, original memorabilia and full track-by-track notes for every A and B side
- An individually numbered boxset (1 of 500)
Graphic design and artwork are by Phil Smee, given full access to the Small Faces archive, with the entire project curated by Kenney Jones.
The Tracklist
Eight 7-inch singles, sixteen sides:
- Whatcha Gonna Do About It / What's A Matter Baby
- I've Got Mine / It's Too Late
- Sha La La La Lee / Grow Your Own
- Hey Girl / Almost Grown
- All Or Nothing / Understanding
- My Mind's Eye / I Can't Dance With You
- I Can't Make It / Just Passing
- Patterns / E Too D
Why 500?
The Decca masters have been brought out of the vault for a single, limited pressing. Once the 500 boxsets are gone, that's it — no repress, no second run. Each one is individually numbered and sealed in its own hard-shell box, designed to last as long as the records inside it.
Coming this autumn: the Immediate years
If you want to follow the story all the way through, mark 25 September 2026 in your diary. The companion volume — Small Faces — Immediate Singles 1967–1969 — collects all seven of the band's Immediate 7-inches, also pressed from original master tapes and limited to 500 numbered boxsets, again exclusive to Nice Records.
