After 52 years do the Faces come back?
A new album of Facesthe first after “Ooh la la” of 1973 (the one with Petrolini on the cover), could be published next year, according to the drummer Kenney Jones.
And it is not the only new “product” of the Faces during the design phase, apparently. The legendary English rock’n’roll band – composed of the singer Rod Stewartby the guitarist Ronnie Wood and from the drummer Kenney Jones – He met (briefly) several times in recent decades, the last one in 2020, when the trio performed the 1971 single classic “Stay with me“At the Brit Awards.
The news that the band was working on new music had already emerged during an interview that Ronnie Wood had given to the newspaper The Times in 2021.
On this occasion, Wood said that he and his wife Sally moved to a new house in Little Venice, in the west area of London and that Stewart and Jones worked with him in the home recording studio.
“I saw Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart and Kenney Jones here in the studio from me,” Wood said on that occasion. “Mich and I made nine new songs for the re -edition for the 40th anniversary of” Tattoo You “. We took advantage of it and I, Rod and Kenney we recorded the new Music of the Faces”.
In another interview in the same year Rod Stewart also revealed that he, Wood and Jones had “15 extremely valid songs, some old, others new”.
“We will finish it, I promise it,” Stewart said at the time thinking about the album. “No other band sounds like us.”
Now, in a new recent interview published on Telegraph, Kenney Jones says that the trio recorded “about 11 songs” in the Rak studios north of London, with the pianist Jools Holland guest in a song. “Not everyone will be fine for the album,” says Jones. “But most are good.”
“I don’t think it will come out this year,” the drummer admitted. “But I see it ready for next year (2026). Everyone is doing different things. We do small registration sessions whenever possible. Then, suddenly, the Stones are on tour again and Rod is around …”.
In the article, the interviewer also reveals that Jones’ wife said she was in London a few days earlier for a meeting “with Rod and Ronnie” about a documentary on the Faces.
When the journalist (Craig Mcclean) asked the drummer if the films shot by the band members in 1972 could be included in such a project, Jones replies: “It could be. You guessed! They are unpublished. And there are rough pieces in there!”.
Further details on the documentary are for the moment secrets.
The Faces were activities between 1969 and 1973. The band was born after exit from Small Faces guitarist Steve Marriot which went to form, with Peter Frampton The Humble Pie. To survivors Ronnie Lane (Bass), Ian McLagan (keyboards) (both disappeared) e Kenney Jones(drums) joined the singer Rod Stewart and the guitarist Ron Wood from Jeff Beck Group. From 1970 to 1973 they published 4 LP.
