Ian McLagan was the best. A rock legend and a regular guy at the same time.
I'm still not over his death, and I can't begin to say how much I miss the guy.
I once asked him about the line in "La De La" that goes,
"...I read every Lee & Kirby comic book...", and yeah, he was a comic book fan. I wrote a letter to the Jack Kirby Collector magazine informing readers about that tune, and then sent Mac a copy when it was published. He was delighted.
A couple years later Mac was on the cover of DISCoveries magazine, and I was surprised that there was no mention of this song that was fairly new at the time:
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Since that publication was all about records, it seems a no-brainer that they would have highlighted it.
After I first heard that song, I sent Mac an email telling him how as a record collector, that song personally terrified me. I told him it needed a Warning Label, and that he wrote back that he got a laugh out of that.
Having heard him play a Faces tune solo vs. the clip of Stewart-Wood-Jones performing a couple years back confirmed that Mac was the essential piece of the Faces, and when he died he took the sound and spirit of that band with him.
God bless Mac.