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"Eric Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight at ours, sitting on a wheelbarrow": What happened when the bassist with one of the UK's biggest bands quit rock'n'roll for life on the farm and a travelling musical carnival

Swapping champagne and private jets for a rundown farmhouse on the Welsh border

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"Sweat was dripping off the walls!" Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood looks back on the '60s, shares memories of The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple's Jon Lord

Ronnie Wood hasn't lost his enthusiasm for rock 'n' roll

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“One day Ronnie came in and said he was leaving. I went: ‘Yeah, right.’ He said: ‘No, I really am. Plus I’m running off with my best friend’s wife’”: These 70s icons were rock’s ultimate party band – and gave the world Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood

They were the greatest party band of the 70s

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Tetsu Yamauchi, former bassist of Free and the Faces, has died at 79

The bassist, who kickstarted his professional career with Japanese prog rockers Micky Curtis & The Samurais, went on to record on Free's final studio album and joined the Faces until the band's disbandment

Guitar World

Former Free and Faces bassist Tetsu Yamauchi dead at 79

Tetsu Yamauchi replaced Andy Fraser in Free and Ronnie Lane in the Faces

Louder

“I said, ‘If you let me borrow one for tonight, I promise I’ll come back.’ I didn’t go back until 5 or 6 years later”: The Rolling Stones legend who stole his first guitar

Before he became rock royalty, Ronnie Wood couldn’t afford the Fender Jazz Bass that he needed to gig

Guitar World

“We’d Love to Do That”: Ronnie Wood Fuels Hopes for a Faces Comeback With Rod Stewart

Ronnie Wood revealed he’s working on new songs with Rod Stewart, teasing a long-awaited Faces reunion fans have hoped for since the 1970s.

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Ronnie Wood reveals new Faces music in the works

Ronnie Wood and Sir Rod Stewart are "working on" new Faces songs but find it hard to get their diaries to match up.

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Rolling Stones’s Ronnie Wood says he is working on new songs with Rod Stewart

Speaking on Desert Island Discs, guitarist says pair, who were in the Faces in 1960s, have ‘good body of songs going’

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Guitarist Ronnie Wood says Faces are working on songs and would ‘love’ a reunion

The 78-year old guitarist recently performed with his former Faces bandmate, Sir Rod Stewart, during his Glastonbury set.

Evening Standard

Review: What kind of a monster would you have to be not to like Ronnie Wood's Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025?

Honest Ron’s finest moments, starring the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, the Faces, Chrissie Hynde and more

Louder

Mud, mayhem and four-hour Grateful Dead sets: The chaotic story of Weeley and Bickershaw, the early 70s festivals that time forgot

Not every festival could be Woodstock or the Isle Of Wight

Louder

Olivia Rodrigo performs The Cure songs with Robert Smith during Glastonbury set

The US pop star said she was ‘so honoured’ to play with him.

Evening Standard

Rod Stewart joined by trio of veteran superstars for rousing Glastonbury set

He was also joined by the festival’s founder, Sir Michael Eavis, who was wheeled on to the stage by his daughter.

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Ronnie Wood drops major new release ahead of Glastonbury stage return with Sir Rod Stewart

The Rolling Stones guitarist announced a surprising update ahead of his Glastonbury slot with fellow rock icon

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Rod Stewart: From busking in the 1960s to starring at Glastonbury

The 80-year-old will appear at Worthy Farm in the Sunday tea time legends slot.

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Rod Stewart comes out in support of Reform UK and Nigel Farage

SINGER Rod Stewart has said that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is “coming across well” and that voters have “got to give [him] a chance” ...

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Rod Stewart reveals his one big complaint about Glastonbury as he prepares for legends slot

The Maggie May rocker, 80, will perform in the coveted Legends slot on the Pyramid stage on Sunday

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Sailing towards Glastonbury: Rod Stewart’s greatest solo songs – ranked!

As the 80-year-old gears up for Worthy Farm, we pick the best of his post-Faces career, from moving ballads to silly, sleazy pop, and cover versions that became definitive

Evening Standard

Rod Stewart cancels second Las Vegas gig in a week due to illness

The Maggie May singer is due to perform the Legends slot at Glastonbury later this month

Evening Standard

Rod Stewart cancels Las Vegas concert over health issues just weeks before Glastonbury

The rocker, 80, also cancelled three concerts in his mammoth world tour earlier this year

MusicRadar

Rod Stewart just accidentally confirmed who’ll be joining him on stage for this year’s Legends slot: “We're gonna do Glastonbury together”

With a history of duets as long as his list of exes, Stewart has no shortage of superstars to pick from

Evening Standard

Rod Stewart to reunite with Faces band member Ronnie Wood at Glastonbury

Sir Rod will play the coveted tea-time legends slot at the festival in Somerset.

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Rod Stewart has 'so much more music' to make and has 3 albums in the works

Legendary music icon Sir Rod Stewart has three albums in the pipeline - a covers, a country and a Faces LP - and the star has "so much more music" he wants to make.

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The Faces have completed 11 tracks for an album, says Kenney Jones and “most of them are good”

But it won’t be released until 2026 at the earliest

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