Ron Wood: “I’m co-writing with Rod Stewart”

In the last episode of Desert Island Discs the guitarist of Rolling Stones Ronnie Wood revealed, among other things, that he is working together with his old partner nei Faces Rod Stewart to some songs before a possible reunion of Faces.

Ron Wood on the BBC Radio 4 program he revealed that “absolutely nothing has changed” since the band formed in the late 1960s. As reported by the British newspaper The Guardian, speaking with the presenter Lauren Laverne he said the only thing different from before is that Stewart no longer allows the use of amplifiers on stage.

About a reunion of the Faces 78-year-old Wood said: “We would love to. We have these songs that we’ve been working on for a while, but it’s hard to match the timing. When we get a chance to get back into the studio, we’ll finish these songs. We’ve got quite a few songs.”

He then remembered the old days when i Faces they went on tour and were banned from the hotel chain Holiday Inn so they had to book hotels by posing as another rock band. “We weren’t allowed in any hotel. We had to register as Fleetwood Mac. The situation came to a head in Detroit. Her name was Ramona she was at the front desk and she reported us to the police, just because we had taken the room into the corridor, we had just silently placed all the furniture in the corridor. The manager came, the elevator door opened and there was this room with all the paintings on the walls, sofas and slippers. He said, ‘She’s very beautiful, but she better not be here when I get back,’ and took the elevator back.”

Wood also mentioned the Rolling Stones and to the new album they plan to release: “We’re always raising the bar, and miraculously, the bar keeps going higher and higher. We just finished a new album, which is very exciting, and we’re in the mixing stage… so I’d say by the end of the year, early next year.”

In the conversation he talked about his addiction to drugs and alcohol which stopped in 2010, not without the support of other people. “There was a time where I had to grit my teeth and needed encouragement not knowing which direction to go, it takes a while to be able to see yourself in the perspective of healing, for lack of a better expression, staying on the right path, it’s quite difficult. Encouragement and a hand on the shoulder just before going on stage, like from Mick, telling me it’s going to be okay and to let it go. And OK, let’s go.”