Steve Marriott’s Children and Bandmates Fight to Stop AI-Generated Recordings of Small Faces/ Humble Pie Singer’s Vocals (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music A long list of artists including Robert Plant, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Peter Frampton, Bryan Adams and more have joined the late British singer Steve Marriott’s children and bandmates in opposing the release of “new” recordings featuring AI-generated versions of his vocals.
The former frontman of the Small Faces and Humble Pie (and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee) was one of the most influential rock singers of the 1960s, renowned for songs like “All or Nothing,” “Tin Soldier,” “Itchykoo Park,” “I Don’t Need No Doctor” and more.
He died in a fire in 1991 at the age of 44. The AI-generated recordings, which are said to be incomplete, were authorized by Marriott’s third wife, Toni Marriott, whom he married less than two years before his death.
Marriott’s key surviving former bandmates — the Small Faces’ Kenney Jones and Humble Pie’s Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley — have signed on to a statement supporting Marriott’s daughter Mollie and her three siblings’ opposition to their release, along with Plant, Gilmour, Paul Weller, Paul Rodgers, Bryan Adams, Glenn Hughes, Gary Kemp and others. “The Marriott Estate is due to release an AI solo album of old and new songs of my father, Steve,” Mollie Marriott said in a statement. “Sadly, the surviving family which comprises just my siblings Lesley, Toby, Tonya, and I, have nothing to do with the Estate as there was no will.
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