<P> At home in England, their career reached an all - time high after the release of their classic psychedelia - influenced album Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake on 24 May 1968 . It is widely regarded as a classic album, and featured an innovative round cover, the first of its kind, designed to resemble an antique tobacco tin . It stayed at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart for six weeks, but reached only No. 159 in the US . </P> <P> The two - act concept album consisted of six original songs on side one and a whimsical psychedelic fairy tale on side two relating the adventures of "Happiness Stan" and his need to find out where the moon went when it waned . It was narrated by Stanley Unwin, after original plans to have Spike Milligan narrate the album went awry when he turned them down . </P> <P> Critics raved, and the album sold well, but the band were confronted by the practical problem that they had created a studio masterpiece which was virtually impossible to recreate on the road . Ogdens' was performed as a whole just once, and memorably, live in the studio on the BBC television programme Colour Me Pop . </P> <P> Marriott officially quit the band at the end of 1968, walking off stage during a live New Year's Eve gig yelling "I quit". Citing frustration at their failure to break out of their pop image and their inability to reproduce the more sophisticated material properly on stage, Marriott was already looking ahead to a new band, Humble Pie, with Peter Frampton . On the subject of the group's breakup, Kenney Jones, in an interview with John Hellier (2001), said: </P>

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