Rod Stewart has confirmed the Faces plan to reunite in 2009. The Faces, featuring Stewart and current Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, broke up in 1975.
The Mirror reports Stewart told them:
“Yes, absolutely. We have our first rehearsal on Monday. It will be next summer and I am looking forward to it. It’ll be great.”
It will be good to hear Rod getting back to singing some good ol’ rock and roll if this comes off.
The announcement reminds me of a local BBC radio DJ trying to run an on-air competition a couple of years ago. He asked the question “What do Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood have in common?”
Of course the phone lines lit up in the studio and everyone kept giving the answer they were both in the Faces. The DJ came back on the air telling people to stop ringing him and telling him they were in the Faces or Small Faces or any other kind of Faces. He was obviously irate because he had never heard of the Faces and didn’t bother to look up Stewart and Wood’s history together before asking the question on air.
I never did hear what the “correct” answer, but I have a feeling it wasn’t that they were both in the Jeff Beck Group, either.
Speaking of the BBC and the Faces, I see tonight’s Children in Need seven-hour BBC One show will see McFly perform their Children In Need songs, Do Ya, and a cover version of Rod Stewart and The Faces’ hit Stay With Me.
Also on the Children in Need broadcast are Girls Aloud, Take That, the Sugababes, former X Factor winner Leon Jackson, Boyzone, the Stereophonics, John Barrowman, Il Divo, and a special edition of Strictly Come Dancing.
I know it’s for a good cause, but this is dire. I would happily donate money to Children in Need if the BBC promised NOT to show this crap.
