Birthdays : Happy 78th birthday to Ronnie Wood, born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on this day in 1947. How can it be now? | Route / Don’s Tunes

the scallywag hisself!

“We were in Chicago,” he remembers. “I got a call from Bill Wyman and he said, ‘Woody, come to my room, I’ve got some people you might like to meet.’ So I walked in and there’s Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Junior Wells.” Wood recites the names like a prayer.

“So I’m just sitting there soaking up the atmosphere. It was mind-blowing. Muddy always put the emphasis on Rolling Stones. And he called Mick ‘Micky Jaguar’.” Wood throws back his head and laughs. Little Richard, he says, would call him up whenever he was in London. “He’d say, ‘Hey, come and play with me.’ I loved that. I thought that was the greatest honour.”

Then there was Chuck Berry. “I was looking at some photographs recently that made me realise we were actually living together for a bit, somewhere, I can’t remember where it was; we were just on this silly adventure. My mind erased all that time together.” He laughs. “I think I was up in the clouds too much.”

Interview: Mick Brown / The Telegraph

Photo: Gentileza.

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How Can It Be?

Ron Wood

Before he was a Rolling Stone, a Face, or a member of the Jeff Beck Group, Ronnie flew the nest aged just 17, with his first band, the Birds. Here is his 2015 version of their killer track, 'How Can It Be?’

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