Ian McLagan Dies

A local television station said McLagan had suffered a brain injury but the official Small Faces fan club page said McLagan had a “massive stroke.” Paste Magazine had a reporter at the hospital when McLagan passed away.

McLagan, who has also worked with The Rolling Stones and has backed artists ranging from Chuck Berry to Jackson Browne to Izzy Stradlin, joined Small Faces when he replaced original member Jimmy Winston in the mid ’60s.

Although the band broke up in 1969, McLagan and two other members joined with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood to form Faces. McLagan was to appear tonight at First Avenue in Minneapolis as part of Nick Lowe’s Holiday Revue.