Rod Stewart wants The Faces to play Glastonbury in 2016
Rod Stewart has said he wants to play at Glastonbury with The Faces.
Stewart reunited with Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones to headline a gig at the Rock 'N' Horsepower event at Surrey's Hurtwood Park Polo Club in September.
The Faces reunited in 2010 with Simply Red's Mick Hucknall on lead vocals in place of Rod Stewart and played a headline set at the Vintage at Goodwood Festival. That line-up of the band then went on tour in 2011.
The band have no confirmed plans to tour again, but Stewart told BBC Radio London that there is one gig he wants and that is at Worthy Farm. "I just wish someone would phone us up from Glastonbury and ask us to do that," he said. "They have never done it. We would be up for it. There are only three of us standing now."
Stewart will be hoping any future Faces gigs will be more memorable than their last, with the frontman admitting the show passed quickly. "It is like sex sometimes," Stewart joked. "It goes by too fast."
Queen Elizabeth II’s annual birthday honors list is out and, among the more-than 1,000 British statesmen, actors, athletes and others who will be recognized for their service to the United Kingdom, one name in particular stands out from our perspective. Rod Stewart will receive a knighthood.
The BBC reports that Stewart, who was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by the Queen in 2007, is being recognized not just for his music but also his charitable efforts. We’re presuming the Queen has forgiven him for leaving the U.K. in 1975 to avoid paying British taxes and that she doesn’t know that he used to take cocaine anally.
“I’ve led a wonderful life and have had a tremendous career thanks to the generous support of the great British public,” he said. “This monumental honour has topped it off and I couldn’t ask for anything more.”
That admission makes the young Rod sound kind of jerky, but you have to respect the brutal honesty. It's more than some of his contemporaries would admit to, still trying to present themselves as protestors and rebels fifty years and millions of dollars later.
I suppose what Kenney says could apply equally to a lot of his contemporaries. They partied pretty hard, all those boys, but I think they produced some solid stuff that stands the test of time. The Faces still have a place in my heart.
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