Post by Tom on Dec 11th, 2013 at 2:04pm
Original article here http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/rod-stewart-confirms-2015-faces-664843
The iconic singer tells a Boston radio station that he and his former bandmates plan to mark the 40th anniversary of the group's breakup.
Rod Stewart Confirms Faces Reunion: 'We're Earmarking 2015'
By Tim Appelo, The Hollywood Reporter
December 11, 2013 12:37 AM EST
Rod Stewart, who told The Hollywood Reporter in May, "Me and Ronnie [Wood] were out plotting the Faces’ future," confirmed in a Dec. 2 interview on Boston's WZLX radio that the Faces, founded in 1965, would reunite as a live band after Wood's next tour with the Rolling Stones.
Said Stewart, "We're earmarking 2015," which is the 40th anniversary of the band's breakup.
The Faces were named after the 1960s British hipster expression for a fashionably mod "mover" on the pop scene -- in fact, the first time Ron Wood introduced himself to Stewart, they both said, "Hello, face." The band began life as the Small Faces, because the original lineup comprised fashionable short guys: lead singer Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, and Jimmy Winston, soon replaced by Ian McLaglan. (Lane died of MS in 1997; and Marriott died in 1991.)
After a 1967 hit urging Oxford students to skip school ("Why go to learn the words of fools?") to get high and "feed the ducks with a bun" in the park, Marriott quit the band to start Humble Pie -- the band that breaks the heart of Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) by buying her favors for $50 and a case of Heineken in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous.
Stewart replaced Marriott in the Faces from 1969-75, as his solo career simultaneously soared. Wood joined the Faces in 1969, too. When Mick Jagger wooed Wood away to the Stones -- after repeatedly promising Stewart never to do so -- Stewart quit too.
The iconic singer tells a Boston radio station that he and his former bandmates plan to mark the 40th anniversary of the group's breakup.
Rod Stewart Confirms Faces Reunion: 'We're Earmarking 2015'
By Tim Appelo, The Hollywood Reporter
December 11, 2013 12:37 AM EST
Rod Stewart, who told The Hollywood Reporter in May, "Me and Ronnie [Wood] were out plotting the Faces’ future," confirmed in a Dec. 2 interview on Boston's WZLX radio that the Faces, founded in 1965, would reunite as a live band after Wood's next tour with the Rolling Stones.
Said Stewart, "We're earmarking 2015," which is the 40th anniversary of the band's breakup.
The Faces were named after the 1960s British hipster expression for a fashionably mod "mover" on the pop scene -- in fact, the first time Ron Wood introduced himself to Stewart, they both said, "Hello, face." The band began life as the Small Faces, because the original lineup comprised fashionable short guys: lead singer Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, and Jimmy Winston, soon replaced by Ian McLaglan. (Lane died of MS in 1997; and Marriott died in 1991.)
After a 1967 hit urging Oxford students to skip school ("Why go to learn the words of fools?") to get high and "feed the ducks with a bun" in the park, Marriott quit the band to start Humble Pie -- the band that breaks the heart of Penny Lane (Kate Hudson) by buying her favors for $50 and a case of Heineken in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous.
Stewart replaced Marriott in the Faces from 1969-75, as his solo career simultaneously soared. Wood joined the Faces in 1969, too. When Mick Jagger wooed Wood away to the Stones -- after repeatedly promising Stewart never to do so -- Stewart quit too.