78 in the Shade is a Small Faces album released on the Atlantic

Atlantic Records

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 label in 1978 and re-issued in 2005 on Wounded Bird

Wounded Bird Records

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. The album was created during the brief re-union of the band in the 1970s. Ronnie Lane

Ronnie Lane

Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Lane was an English musician, songwriter, and producer who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of two prominent English rock and roll bands; the Small Faces where he was nicknamed "Plonk", – and, after losing the band's frontman, Faces, with two new...

 is notably absent from the album, this is due to him starting to show symptoms of multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

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.

Reception

78 in the Shade generally gained lukewarm to negative reviews. Allmusic gave the album a review of 2 stars out of five.

Track listing

Personnel

• Steve Marriott
  Steve Marriott
  Stephen Peter Marriott , popularly known as Steve Marriott, was an English musician, songwriter, and frontman of several notable rock and roll bands, spanning over two decades...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Jimmy McCulloch
  Jimmy McCulloch
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   – guitar (only credited as Thanks on LP)
• Ian McLagan
  Ian McLagan
  Ian McLagan is an English keyboard instrumentalist, best known as a member of the English rock bands Small Faces and Faces.-Small Faces and Faces:...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , vocals
• Rick Wills
  Rick Wills
  Rick Wills , is a British bass player. He is best known for his work with rock band Foreigner and his associations with the Small Faces and Bad Company.-Career:...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
• Kenney Jones
  Kenney Jones
  Kenneth Thomas "Kenney" Jones is a veteran English rock drummer best known for his work in Small Faces, Faces, and The Who.-Small Faces to the Faces:...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals

Thanks to

• Vicki Brown
• Helen Chappelle
• Lavinia Rogers
• Madeline Bell
• Liza Strike
• Sam Brown
• Jimmy McCulloch
• Stephen Smith
• Greg Cobb
• Nick Webb