OGDENS’ NUT GONE FLAKE
Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake is the third studio album and first concept album by the English rock band Small Faces. Released on 24 May 1968, the LP peaked at number one on the UK Album Charts on 29 June, where it remained for a total of six weeks. The title and the design of the distinctive packaging was a parody of Ogden’s Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tobacco that was produced in Liverpool from 1899 onwards by Thomas Ogden. (More from Wikipedia)
Small Faces’ response to the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album was a remarkable psychedelic achievement called Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake; the album was originally released in a round cover and had the appearance of a vintage tobacco tin. And I sure wish it would show up from the LP’s in the Katrina mud that I still haven’t cleaned up, because I miss it!
(April 2014)
