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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.

rod confirmed for tonight i'm yours with lil stevie winwood in philly............thats about how far predictions go

Hell it will still be 50 And Counting in 2015!

"In the meantime - buy our box set!"

I take it that no fucker has told Tetsu about all of this?

Do we have a member in Austin?  Tonight is the last show of the year for Mac @ The Lucky Lounge. We need true confirmation this is happening.   As always, if Mac says it's happening, take it to the bank..

Ian McLagan, the former keyboard player in the Faces has poured cold water on Rod Stewart’s recent claims that the band could be set for a reunion. Earlier this month the singer told Boston radio station WZLX: “Ronnie [Wood]'s office is talking to my people, and we're ear-marking 2015."

Speaking to Uncut, however, McLagan says there’s no chance of a Faces reunion in 2015, as he and drummer Kenney Jones are keeping the year free for celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of The Small Faces – a band whose line-up did not include Stewart.

“It’s interesting that Rod announces these things without talking to me or Kenney,” McLagan says. “Why would we fuck around with the Faces when we’ve got bigger fish to fry? We’ve done the Faces and he didn’t turn up.”

The Faces reformed for concerts and festival dates in 2010 and 2011, with Mick Hucknall as vocalist after Stewart declined to take part. “Rod says he’s keen to do it now, and I believe him,” McLagan adds. “But he’ll have to wait until 2016 because 2015 is The Small Faces’ year.”

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