Ronnie Lane and an Unexplained Rockette Perform Ooh La La

Ronnie Lane was a founding member of the Small Faces, and eventually just regularly sized Faces. He wrote several hits in the ’60s, including Itchykoo Park. He had an interesting and varied career after that. This is a combo he headed called Slim Chance. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis around the time this video was made. That’s an especially hard lot for a musician.

Ronnie’s girlfriend asked record producer Glyns Johns to organize a concert to fund a charity called Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis. Ronnie’s friends were glad to help out. Ronnie’s friends were, according to the wikiup, “Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Andy Fairweather Low, Steve Winwood, Ray Cooper, James Hooker, Fernando Saunders, Chris Stainton, Tony Hymas, Simon Phillips and others.”

No man is a failure, who has friends. It’s not possible to get farther away from failure than Ronnie Lane.