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Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Rod Stewart's unlikely fake name given at hotels after they banned his band
Sir Rod Stewart first teamed up with Ronnie Wood as part of legendary band The Faces in 1969 and famously 'had me a real good time' - now they're reuniting for Glastonbury - but what can fans expect? It's been 55 years since Sir Rod Stewart first teamed up with Ronnie Wood as part of legendary band The Faces and famously 'had me a real good time.. Now the rather more wrinkly rockers are to reunite on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage later this month, when they take the Legends slot. In the five decades or so since they played their unique fusion of rock 'n' roll, blues and psychedelia - with hits like Stay With Me (1971), Ooh La La (1973) and Had Me a Real Good Time (1970) - the faces of The Faces have changed … a lot! Just as well known for their drinking, drug-taking and debauchery as they were for their hit songs, wrecking hotel rooms grabbed the band as many headlines as their music. Back then, Rod Stewart was a fresh-faced 24-year-old singer with the five piece band, known as 'Rod the Mod.' Now 80, the Da Ya Think I'm Sexy star recently revealed, enthusiastically, of him and Ronnie on That Peter Crouch Podcast: 'We're going to do Glastonbury together." Playing together in The Faces from 1969 to 1975, when Rod left and the band split, the music he and Ronnie helped create was said to have influenced The Sex Pistols - although their concerts were either brilliant or shambolic, depending on how much alcohol they'd consumed. Ronnie, now 77, wrote in The Faces' biography: 'We were the sponsors of Holiday Inn and Marriott, and anywhere we could get banned from. We used to call them the Holiday Out. We used to check in as Fleetwood Mac; no hotel chain would have the Faces because of the damage and madness that went on... Half the audience would come back with us to the hotel. We would party with whoever was there and they'd all end up staying with us.' Touring America, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the UK, the band played more than 500 concerts. DJ John Peel was an early champion of their music and said a 1973 Faces gig at Sunderland Locarno was his all time favourite live concert. While Rod and Ronnie were the band's most famous faces, there were other notable musicians. These included other bassist Ronnie Lane, who died in 1997 after a battle with multiple sclerosis. He left in 1973 and was replaced on bass by Tetsu Yamuchi. There was also keyboardist Ian McLagan, who died in 2014 following a stroke, and drummer Kenney Jones, who joined The Who in 1978, replacing Keith Moon after his death. He also formed the band The Law with Paul Rodgers and The Jones Gang, touring the United States in 2005. In 1975, the year Rod left, Ronnie joined the Rolling Stones. Over the years, they reformed a number of times - one of them being for the encore of Rod's Wembley Stadium concert in 1986. That year, Ronnie Lane appeared on stage with the band, but by then he had multiple sclerosis and was in a wheelchair, so Bill Wyman played bass for him. At the Brit Awards in 1993, the same line-up (minus Lane) reunited once more when Rod was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award - finally coming together again in 2015 at Rod's private 70th birthday party. In a birthday speech, Rod said: 'Being in The Faces was a mad and brilliant time for all of us and although we don't have Ronnie and Mac with us anymore this is our chance to remember them and say 'Had Me a Real Good Time'.' Then in 2021, Jones, Stewart and Wood announced they were recording new music for an album due to be released in 2026 - their first in over 50 years. In fact, they have been working together a fair bit, with Rod revealing recently that he was reuniting with Ronnie and Kenney Jones, 76, to work on a new documentary. Rod, who has twice been inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, has won a Grammy and a Brit Award and holds the World Record for staging the largest free rock concert in history. His New Year's Eve concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1994 was attended by 3.5 million people - and he looks set for a busy 80th year, as he prepares to embark on a world tour. He said: "I enjoy going on tour now more than ever, at this ripe old age of 80. I'm doing seven concerts in Vegas and then I am around the world. It keeps me fit. You have got to be fit to do it. I would probably die if I didn't do it. I have seen so many guys that have to give up and retire and they have nothing to wake up in the morning for." Wrinkly they may be, but Rod and Ronnie are still clearly rocking it!
Perth Now
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
The Faces have recorded 11 tracks for their next album
The Faces have recorded 'about 11 tracks' for their comeback album. Drummer Kenney Jones has revealed the surviving members of the 'Stay With Me' group - also including Sir Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood - laid down the tunes at RAK Studios in London. Jools Holland is featured on one of the tracks. In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Jones said: 'Not all of them are going to be right [for the album]. But most of them are good.' The sticksman suggested it could be released in 2026. He said: 'I can't see it coming out this year. But I can see it coming out next year. Everyone's doing different things. We do little snippets [of recording] here and there. Then all of a sudden, The Stones are out [on tour] again, Rod's out again…' Stewart is set to play Glastonbury's Sunday afternoon legends slot in June. The 'Maggie May' hitmaker previously admitted The Faces were "struggling" with the album. The group originally revealed they were recording new music in summer 2021. Asked the best unreleased song he's written, Rod told Vulture last year: "I've sent a lot of them to Ronnie Wood. I told him, 'This is stuff we've recorded with my band, maybe the Faces would like to do it instead?' We're still struggling to make this album. We'll see. Some of them might see the light of day." Jones previously explained The Faces' record - which will mark their first since 1973's 'Ooh La La' - would be a "mixture of old and new". He told Uncut magazine: 'What we've decided to do is work on some of the original stuff that we didn't use, so the album is going to be a mixture of old and new. 'The songs we've been revisiting are from right across the board. 'It's very difficult to go into specifics because many of them didn't even have titles. 'I think the fans may have heard certain things before and might recognise them. 'Ronnie and I, in particular, have been working on lots of the old stuff together and we've re-recorded a couple of those songs with more of a modern feel.'
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones have recorded 11 songs for a new Faces album
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new album from the Faces, their first since 1973's Ooh La La, could be released next year, according to drummer Kenney Jones. And that's not the only new Faces 'product' in the planning stages it seems. The legendary English rock 'n' roll band - featuring vocalist Rod Stewart, guitarist Ronnie Wood and drummer Jones - have (briefly) reunited a number of times over the past decades, most recently in 2020, when the trio performed their classic 1971 single Stay With Me at the Brit Awards. News that the band were working on new music emerged during an interview that Ronnie Wood conducted with The Times newspaper in 2021. Wood told writer Michael Odell that he and his wife Sally had moved to a new home in Little Venice, west London, and that Stewart and Jones had been working with him in the house's recording studio. 'I saw Mick [Jagger] here last week and Rod [Stewart] and Kenney [Jones] were here yesterday,' Wood revealed. 'Me and Mick have done nine new tracks for the [40th anniversary] re-release of [the Rolling Stones' 1981 album] Tattoo You. And me, Rod and Kenney have been recording some new Faces music.' When music writer Craig McLean interviewed Rod Stewart that same year, the singer revealed that he, Wood and Jones had "15 tracks that are extremely worthy, some old, some new.""We will get it finished, I promise," Stewart said at the time. "No other band sounds like us."Now, in a new interview with McLean in The Telegraph, Kenney Jones says that the trio have recorded "about 11 tracks" at RAK studios in North London, with Jools Holland guesting on one song. "Not all of them are going to be right [for the album]," Jones says. "But most of them are good.""I can't see it coming out this year," the drummer admitted. "But I can see it coming out next year. Everyone's doing different things. We do little snippets [of recording] here and there. Then all of a sudden, The Stones are out [on tour] again, Rod's out again…"In the article, McLean also reveals that Jones's wife mentioned that they'd been in London a few days previously for a meeting 'with Rod and Ronnie' about a Faces documentary. When. the writer suggests to the drummer that perhaps footage the band members filmed in 1972 could possibly be included in such a project, Jones says, "It could be. You're guessing right! It's never been seen. And there's some rude bits in there!" Further details on the documentary are apparently "under wraps" for now.
Forbes
08-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Are You Stuck? Maybe You Need Advice From Your Younger Self
Close up view of wood core. What advice would you give your younger self? The assumption underlying this question is that older = wiser. If our older selves could only have advised our youthful selves, just imagine what pain and heartache we might have been spared, what bad choices we could have avoided! 'I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger,' sings Ronnie Wood in the Faces song 'Ooh La La.' Oh, yeah. Maybe you would counsel your younger self to study harder or to worry less about what other people think. If I had the chance, I might tell young Hanna not to quit piano lessons (you'll regret it later!) and I would definitely tell her to go to the Galapagos with her boyfriend (now husband ) instead of working. I'm still kicking myself about that one. Our older, wiser selves could also provide much-needed perspective in times of difficulty, reassuring us that we will get through the hard time and emerge stronger. (This is the premise of the 'it gets better' project aimed at LGBTQ kids.) But what if the reverse is also true? What if our younger selves also have wisdom to offer us? I got to thinking about this on a walk with a client who is a successful engineering leader in a tech company and has reached a plateau in his career. He's not driven to attain a higher title or salary, nor by prestige or power. I asked him to recall what motivated him when he was younger in his career. One motivation was proving himself, but that is no longer a driver for him. But his other source of youthful energy was building things. 'I haven't built anything in a while,' he said. So he plans to build something—get back to writing code—and see what sparks. I wonder: what other drives, values, beliefs and assumptions have we left behind or forgotten that could help us live and work better now? What advice might your younger self give you? Here are some pearls of wisdom that might come from youth: As these examples demonstrate, childhood's developmental milestones can remind adults of what life has to offer, even as we also navigate our own ongoing adult development. Jennifer Garvey Berger, author of 'Changing on the Job,' proposes that adult development is not about linear progression through stages where we leave it all behind, but instead an expansion of our ability to make sense of the world and relate to ourselves, with each progressive stage building like rings of a tree. Sometimes, perhaps, we need to be reminded of the wisdom of our earlier stages. The beautiful and quirky coming-of-age movie from 2024, 'My Old Ass' explores the idea that Elliott, an 18-year-old girl could, by virtue of a mushroom trip, establish contact with her 39-year-old self. Her older self, played by the brilliant Aubrey Plaza, advises her to be nicer to her mother and spend more time with her brothers before going off to college—good advice that she follows. But she also warns young Elliott to stay away from a boy named Chad, hoping to save her(self) pain. [Spoiler Alert] Wisdom can flow in both directions. So what about you? What earlier version of yourself do you need to hear from now?
