Ronnie Wood

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Ronald David Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, artist, author and radio personality best known as a member of The Rolling Stones since 1975, as well as a member of Faces and the Jeff Beck Group. Wood began his career in 1964, when he joined The Birds (not to be confused with the American band The Byrds) on guitar.

He then joined the mod group The Creation, but remained with the group only for a short time and appeared on a small number of singles.

Wood joined the Jeff Beck Group in 1967 as a bass player.

The band released two albums, Truth and Beck-Ola, which became moderate successes.

The group split in 1969, and Wood departed along with lead vocalist Rod Stewart to join former Small Faces members Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones in a new group named Faces.

The group found great success in the UK and mainland Europe, though were relegated to cult status in the United States.

Faces released its debut album, First Step, in 1970.

The group went on to release Long Player and A Nod Is As Good As a Wink... to a Blind Horse in 1971.

Their last LP, titled Ooh La La, was released in 1973.

Wood co-wrote and sang the album’s popular title track. As the group began to split, Wood started several solo projects, eventually recording his first solo LP, I've Got My Own Album to Do, in 1974.

The album featured bandmate McLagan as well as former Beatle George Harrison and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, a longtime friend of Wood's.

Richards soon invited Wood to join the Rolling Stones, after the departure of Mick Taylor.

Wood joined in 1975 and has remained a member ever since.Besides I've Got My Own Album to Do, Wood has recorded several other solo efforts.

Now Look was released in 1975, and peaked at NO. 118 on Billboard, and Wood collaborated with Ronnie Lane for the soundtrack album Mahoney's Last Stand.

He released Gimme Some Neck in 1979, which hit No. 45 in the US, 1234 was released in 1981, peaking at No. 164.

He released Slide on This in 1992, Not for Beginners came out in 2002.

and I Feel Like Playing in 2010.

As a member of the Rolling Stones, Wood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.

Personal life

Wood was born in Hillingdon, west London, into a family of English "bargees" (river or canal barge operators, sometimes called "water gypsies"). He has said that his generation was the first in the family to be born on dry land. He grew up in Yiewsley and attended St Stephen's Infant School, St Matthew's Church of England Primary School and St Martin's C of E Secondary Modern School West Drayton.

His elder brothers, Art and Ted, were graphic artists as well as musicians; Ted Wood died in 2004 and Art Wood in 2006.

Wood has six children. Jesse is his son with his first wife, Krissy (née Findlay), a former model to whom he was married from 1971 to 1978. During this time he had an affair with George Harrison's former wife, Pattie Boyd. Findlay died in 2005. In 1985 Wood married his second wife, Jo Wood (née Karslake), mother of his daughter Leah and son Tyrone. He also adopted Jamie, Jo Wood's son from a previous relationship. In addition to his six children, Wood has six grandchildren.

Wood has been frank about his struggle with alcoholism; although reports between 2003 and 2006 had indicated that he had been sober since the Rolling Stones' 2002–03 tour, in June 2006 it was reported that he was entering rehab following a spell of increased alcohol abuse. By July 2008, ITN reported that Wood had checked himself into rehab a total of six times, the last time being before the wedding of his daughter, Leah. He had plans once again for a seventh admission. Wood also took up stamp collecting as part of his alcoholism rehab.

In July 2008 he left his wife for Katia Ivanova, whom he had met in a London club. Wood checked into rehab again on 16 July 2008. Jo Wood filed for divorce, which was granted in 2009.

On 3 December 2009, Wood was arrested over assault "in connection with a domestic incident". He was cautioned for this offence on 22 December 2009.

On 21 December 2012, Wood married Sally Humphreys, the owner of a theatre production company, 31 years his junior. Their twin girls, named Gracie Jane and Alice Rose, were born on Monday 30 May 2016, just before Ronnie Wood's 69th birthday on 1 June 2016.

Wood was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017, necessitating the partial removal of one of his lungs. He said he refused chemotherapy because he did not want to lose his hair. In April 2021, Wood announced that he had been diagnosed with a small-cell cancer but that he had been deemed "all-clear" by his doctors following treatment.

In 2021, Wood stated that he had been sober for 10 years.

He is a fan of English EFL Championship football club West Bromwich Albion.

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Music career

Wood began his career as a professional musician with the Birds, a R&B band based in Yiewsley, Middlesex. The Birds, a well-known live act with a large fan base, released several singles in the mid-1960s; Wood wrote or co-wrote half of the songs.

The Birds had disbanded by 1967, and Wood took part in a venture called Santa Barbara Machine Head, which included later Deep Purple co-founder Jon Lord before joining the Jeff Beck Group as a bassist. Wood, alongside vocalist Rod Stewart, appeared on several tours with Beck and released two albums: Truth in 1968 and Beck-Ola in 1969. Wood was also involved with the Creation of Jeff Beck Group projects.

Wood performed Wood on "Fire" in Wood's radioshow on November 14, 2011, according to Polly Marshall's biography of Arthur Brown, but he must have confused it with the BBC session [of 8 April 1968]. There is no bass guitar on the record, only bass pedals.

Wood began playing with the remaining members of the Small Faces in 1969, bringing his instrument of choice, the guitar, back to his beloved guitar. This line-up features plus Rod Stewart and former Bird Kim Gardner, Wood's brother Art Wood's brother, in a group called Quiet Melon, which made only a handful of recordings in May 1969. Wood and Stewart joined the former Small Faces full-time on July's fifth US tour, and the band's name was changed to Faces. Stewart and Wood's first solo album, known as The Rod Stewart Album in the United States, set the tone for what would be Faces on An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let Down. Ian McLagan, Keith Emerson, Micky Waller, Micky Waller, and guitarists Martin Pugh (of Steamhammer and later Armageddon and 7th Order) and Martin Quittenton (also from Steamhammer).

Faces released four studio albums and were one of the top-grossing live acts of the 1970s in the first half. Wood, in addition to his distinctive guitar work, contributed harmonica, vocals, and bass to the band's recordings, and co-wrote several of the band's songs, including "Stay With Me" and "Ooh La La." He appeared on bandmate Stewart's first few solo albums, and he's co-writer of Rod Stewart's "Gasoline Alley" and "Every Picture Tells a Story," as well as other songs titled "Never a Dull Moment."

Ronnie Lane, a guitarist for Wood and Faces, composed the soundtrack to Mahoney's Last Stand, 1976; the album, which was released as an LP in 1976, also includes Faces bandmates Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones, as well as contributions from Pete Townshend and Ric Grech. In 1973, Wood appeared with Townshend, Grech, Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Eric Clapton at Clapton's Rainbow Concert.

In 1973, Wood asked Mick Taylor, who had been following him since the early 1960s, to help with his first solo album. Wood collaborated with Mick Jagger on the album "It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Love It)" in December 1973. Jagger and Keith Richards later contributed to Wood's solo album. I've Got My Own Album to Do was first released in 1974 after being caught in Wood's private studio in The Wick's basement, his London home.

Wood performed in the band's March 1975 recording sessions for their forthcoming album Black and Blue following Taylor's release from the Rolling Stones in December 1974. Though he was still a member of Faces, he toured North America with the Rolling Stones in 1975; Faces announced their break-up in December of that year; and Wood was officially confirmed as a member of the Rolling Stones on April 23, 1976.

Wood in the Rolling Stones plays the slide guitar as Taylor and Brian Jones had before him, adding both lap steel and pedal steel guitars. In addition, Wood, as did his predecessors, performs regularly on the guitar with Richards, often blurring the boundaries between rhythm and lead, even within a particular song. He also plays bass guitar, as seen during Mick Jagger's 1975 concert appearances on "Fingerprint File" as he played rhythm guitar and bassist Bill Wyman's shift to synthesizer. Wood on bass is also featured in Rolling Stones' single "Emotional Rescue" on bass. He has been recognized as a co-writer on more than a dozen songs, including "Dance," "Black Limousine," "One Hit (to the Body)" and "Had It With You."

Wood released his second solo album, Now Look, in 1975; his third, Gimme Some Neck, came out in 1979. Wood developed and toured with the New Barbarians, appearing in 20 concerts in Canada and the United Kingdom in August and the Knebworth Festival in the United Kingdom.

Wood performed as a member of the Rolling Stones throughout the 1980s; continued his solo career, including Prince, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Ringo Starr, and Aretha Franklin.

In the penultimate set with Bob Dylan, Wood and Keith Richards appeared in the 1985 Live Aid Concert in Philadelphia. One of Dylan's guitar strings broke during a live recording of "Blowin' in the Wind." Dylan played air guitar until a stagehand brought him back a replacement.

In 1990, Wood became a fully fledged member of the Rolling Stones' financial group. The Rolling Stones released three studio albums and three concert albums in the 1990s, as well as touring in 1990, 1994–99, and 1997–99.

Wood also released Slide on This in 1992, his third solo album; he toured North America and Japan to promote this album. The concert album released by Wood in 1993 from his own tour was called Slide on Live: Plugged in and Standing.

Wood appeared on Bo Diddley's 1996 album A Man Among Men" and "Oops!" on the tracks "Hey Baby," "A Man Among Men" and "Oops!" "I Can't abide It" is Bo Diddley's guitar and "I Can't Believe It."

Wood has continued to combine solo work with his Rolling Stones schedule since 2000. Wood, the Ronnie Wood Band, toured England and Ireland in 2001 and 2002 after the release of his album Not For Beginners. Members of his family, Slash, and Andrea Corr were among the band's members. Far East Man, a DVD based on the tour's success, was released.

Wood appeared on the Rolling Stones in 2002 and 2003; in 2004, he appeared in several one-off concerts and guest appearances, including a number of appearances with Rod Stewart. Later this year, the two expressed plans to finish recording on a joint album titled You Strum and I'll Sing. Wood, however, was back in 2005 with the Rolling Stones as the band released their A Bigger Bang album, although he appeared on only ten of the album's 16 tracks. He was on the accompanying tour, which lasted until August 2007.

Wooden Records, Wooden Records, began in 2005, and has released recordings by his daughter Leah, the New Barbarians, and others.

Wood played guitar on three tracks on Beverley Knight's album Music City Soul, which was released in 2007.

Wood, along with Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, Michael "Flea" Balzary, Chad Smith, and singer Ivan Neville performed under the name "the Insects" at the fifth annual MusiCares festival in honouring Kiedis on May 9, 2009.

Wood appeared on "All Along the Watchtower" in London on August 11, 2009, after he appeared on Shepherd's Bush Empire in London.

Wood, Ian McLagan, and Kenney Jones joined forces at a Faces performance at London's Royal Albert Hall on behalf of the Performing Rights Society's Music Members' Benevolent Fund on October 25, 2009. Bill Wyman performed bass and lead vocals, as well as Mick Hucknall. Rod Stewart, who had denied rumors of a Faces reunion in 2009, was not present.

Wood received an "Outstanding Contribution" award at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour ceremony in London on November 2nd, 2009. The award was given to Pete Townshend.

Wood's own radio show on Absolute Radio has been on display since September 9, 2010. Wood's one-hour show features Wood playing tracks by artists he has worked with and other personal favorites, which will air on Saturday night at ten p.m.

Wood received the National Radio Personality of the Year award for The Ronnie Wood Show in May 2011.

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