Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake

Presented here on limited edition gold vinyl, Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake is the third studio album, and only concept album by the Small Faces.

Originally released in May 1968, the LP peaked at number one on the UK Album Charts the following month, where it remained for six weeks and is the Small Faces’ best-known and most successful album. Including the hit tracks ‘Lazy Sunday’, ‘Ogdens Nut Gone Flake’ and ‘Rene’, side two of the LP is based on an original fairy tale concept about a boy called Happiness Stan – six songs interlinked with narration provided by comic performer Stanley Unwin in his unique, nonsensical private language. It ultimately became the group’s final studio album during their original incarnation.

The album title and distinctive packaging design was a parody of Ogden’s Nut-brown Flake, a brand of tinned loose tobacco that was produced in Liverpool from 1899 onwards by Thomas Ogden.