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Nearly 50 years on from their final hit Ooh La La, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wooden and Kenney Jones are again collectively to launch a group of songs together with stuff that did not make it within the previous days
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Get up Faces followers, Rod’s received one thing to say to you.
It’s late September and the band are returning with one thing cool.
Their songs will hold you amused, although they’ve been unused – previous numbers they as soon as discarded as not adequate.
Rocker Rod Stewart’s lyrics from his solo hit Maggie Might may simply be the right promote for a shock new album from the band that shot him to fame.
Nearly 50 years on from their final hit LP Ooh La La, Faces heroes Rod, Ronnie Wooden and Kenney Jones are reuniting to launch a group of songs that includes tracks that didn’t make it of their heyday – with an excited Rod telling me: “F*** me, they’re good.”
The trio met at Ronnie’s London residence in July to flesh out a brand new batch of songs which will likely be a mix of previous and new – and so they’re planning a tour in 2023.
Rod, 76, mentioned: “I’ve received to let you know we’ve got received some nice tracks. Woody went again and dug up a number of stuff and a few of it’s like, ‘Wow, did we do this?’ It’s stuff we by no means received spherical to finishing – and on the time we thought it was not adequate.
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“We’re ending some songs off and I’m including vocals and new lyrics. So it’s a cross between actually previous and new.”
Drummer Kenney, 73, admits after they received again collectively at Ronnie’s residence this summer season it was just like the band had by no means been aside.
He says: “We exit so much and we do see one another so much so we aren’t like strangers. However once we all come again collectively it’s like nothing ever modified. We nonetheless take the p*** out of one another.”
He insists it’s solely love of creating music that’s behind the reunion.
“It’s not in regards to the cash,” he says. “We received again collectively to have a good time our 50th anniversary and now it our 53rd so that’s the reason we’re doing this album.”
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The trio have beforehand reunited for a handful of transient reside appearances lately, however there hasn’t been a brand new Faces album since 1973’s Ooh La La.
The band was fashioned in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer/guitarist Steve Marriott left to type Humble Pie.
The remaining Small Faces — Ian McLagan (keyboards), Ronnie Lane (bass guitar), and Kenney—have been then joined by Ronnie and Rod.
The band broke up in 1975 as a result of Rod’s success as a solo act whereas guitarist Ronnie, 74, joined the Rolling Stones later that yr, and drummer Kenney changed tragic Keith Moon within the Who in 1979.
Ian turned a session musician and solo act, and bassist Ronnie minimize a 1977 collaborative album Tough Combine with Pete Townshend earlier than he was sidelined by a number of sclerosis.
He died in 1997, with Ian killed by a stroke in 2014. The next yr, Rod, Ronnie, and Kenney have been again collectively on stage at Rod’s 70th party and a charity occasion.
Then final yr, they did a rousing rendition of the Faces’ 1971 smash hit single Keep With Me to shut the Brit Awards.
The basic line-up first reunited at a Wembley Stadium Rod Stewart live performance in 1986.
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And some small get-togethers adopted till the surviving members, minus Rod, toured because the Faces in 2010 with Merely Crimson’s Mick Hucknall on vocals and Glen Matlock of the Intercourse Pistols on bass.
Rod was meant to reunite with them when The Faces have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2012, however he needed to pull out due to an sickness and once more Mick was introduced in to take his place.
On the peak of their fame, the band launched 4 albums in all – with the final, Ooh La La, topping the UK charts in 1973.
Their third album A Nod Is As Good As A Wink… To A Blind Horse in 1971 went Gold within the US – bolstered partly by Rod’s single success the identical yr with Maggie Might.
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In July, Ronnie instructed The Occasions: “Me, Rod and Kenney have been recording some new Faces music.”
And Kenney says a Faces UK and American tour is within the pipeline – however that they must wait till the Rolling Stones No Filter tour ends and Rod finishes excursions in autumn and spring.
He mentioned: “When all that’s out of the best way we’ll get again collectively. It’s within the pipeline and we must do America.”
When requested if the band would take into account replicating ABBA’s newest announcement that they are going to tour as digital avatars, he laughed and mentioned: “Provided that we’re lifeless.”
However he added: “I’m happy about ABBA. I’ve heard the brand new music and it’s good.
They have extra money than f******* Volkswagen.” However Rod jokingly dismissed the Swedish group’s new tech strategy including: “We play actual rock and roll.”
