Ian McLagan performs in the Current's studios

Update, Dec. 3, 2014: We are saddened to learn that 

 is a legend of popular music. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Small Faces and the Faces, McLagan has played with the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and any number of other musical luminaries.

McLagan has also been making and releasing music under his own name for 35 years, and he stopped by the Current's studios as he released his tenth solo album, 

. Between songs, McLagan talked with host Mark Wheat about topics including the Minnesota show that was the Faces' last American performance; what he learned from Billy Bragg and Willie Nelson; and digital music versus vinyl. McLagan even improvised a theme song for England's ailing World Cup team.

Listen to the whole session in the player above.

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Music legend Ian McLagan dies at 69

Mark Wheat grew up near Cambridge, England, where he regularly listened to the late great BBC DJ John Peel. Like Peel, Wheat came to the USA to start his radio career. Emigrating in 1983, Wheat lived in St. Louis, in Kure Beach, N.C., and in Hoboken, N.J. It was while living in Hoboken that Wheat learned how to push the buttons at the legendary free-form station WFMU.


Mark Wheat

McLagan had been making and releasing music under his own name for 35 years, and he stopped by the Current's studios as he released his tenth solo album, 'United States'.


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