{"id":296125,"date":"2025-10-12T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296125\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:00:13","slug":"rolling-stoness-ronnie-wood-says-he-is-working-on-new-songs-with-rod-stewart-ronnie-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296125\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones\u2019s Ronnie Wood says he is working on new songs with Rod Stewart | Ronnie Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronnie Wood and Sir Rod Stewart<\/a> are again working on songs together before a potential Faces reunion, the Rolling Stones guitarist has said.<\/p>\n

Wood told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Desert Island Discs<\/a> that \u201cabsolutely nothing has changed\u201d since the band came together in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n

He told host Lauren Laverne that the only thing different from before is that Stewart no longer allows amps on stage.<\/p>\n

The Faces were formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after singer Steve Marriott left.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s biggest hit<\/a> was the song Stay With Me, and Wood joined Stewart to play it during his set at the Glastonbury festival this year.<\/p>\n

In Desert Island Discs, broadcast on Sunday, Wood said: \u201cWe would love to do that. We\u2019ve got these songs that we\u2019re working on from back in the day, but it\u2019s hard to make our times tally.<\/p>\n

Ronnie Wood, right, and Rod Stewart on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury festival in June. Photograph: Anthony Devlin\/Hogan Media\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we do get a chance to get in the studio again, we will finish off these songs. We\u2019ve got a good body of songs going.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to recall tales of when the Faces would tour, which led to them being \u201cbanned\u201d from the Holiday Inn hotel chain.<\/p>\n

Instead, the musicians would have to book pretending to be another rock band. \u201cWe weren\u2019t allowed in any hotels. We used to have to check in as Fleetwood Mac,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came to a head in Detroit. Ramona her name was, behind the desk, reported us to the police and everything just because we made the hotel room out in the corridor, we just quietly arranged all the furniture out in the corridor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then the manager came up and the elevator door opened, and there was this room there with all the pictures on the walls, settees and slippers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he said, \u2018It\u2019s very nice but it better not be here when I come back\u2019, and he got back in the elevator.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the standard of music being produced keeps getting higher, as the Stones prepare to release a new album. The band have released more than a dozen studio albums. The most recent, Hackney Diamonds<\/a>, came out in 2023.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWe\u2019re always raising the bar, and miraculously, the bar keeps going up and up. We just finished a new album, which is very exciting and we\u2019re at the mixing stage \u2026 so I\u2019d say by the end of the year, early next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say he gave up drugs and alcohol in 2010 but not without support from other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a period of white knuckling where I needed encouragement and I didn\u2019t know which way to turn and it takes a while to be able to see yourself in the light of getting better, for want of a better phrase, of staying on the path, it\u2019s quite difficult,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd encouragement and a hand on the shoulder just before going on stage, like from Mick [Jagger] or something, saying you\u2019ll be OK, and to let it go. And OK, let\u2019s go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie Wood and Sir Rod Stewart are again working on songs together before a potential Faces reunion, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":296126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-296125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115358730038106074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}