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Ron Wood
  • Birth Name:
    Ronald David Wood
  • Common Name:
    Ronnie Wood, The Rolling Stones
  • Nickname:
    Ronnie, New Kid, Woody
  • Date of Birth:
    June 1, 1947
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Gemini
  • Place of Birth:
    Hillingdon, London, England
  • Height:
    5' 9"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Hair Color:
    Grey
  • Eye Color:
    Brown
  • Nationality:
    British
  • Religion:
    Christianity
  • Education:

    St Stephen's Primary School

    St Martin's Church of England Secondary School

Family

Ron Wood
  • Brother:
    Arthur, Ted
  • Spouse:
    Jo Howard
    Krissy Findlay - Divorced
  • Son:
    Tyrone
  • Daughter:
    Jesse Wood, Jamie, Leah

Career

Ron Wood

Trivia

Ron Wood
  • In addition to numerous Faces and Rolling Stones concert films, broadcasts and documentaries, Wood performed alongside The Band, Bob Dylan and many others in the finale of the documentary The Last Waltz, filmed in 1976.
  • To date, Wood has three books to his credit: a short collection of autobiographical anecdotes entitled The Works, illustrated with Wood's artwork, co-authored by Bill German and published in 1988; a limited-edition art book entitled Wood on Canvas: Every Picture Tells a Story, published in 1998; and his 2007 autobiography Ronnie.
  • Wood is an accomplished artist. When he was a child his drawings were featured on the BBC television programme Sketch Club; he won one of that programme's competitions, an achievement he refers to as his "awakening to art". He went on to train at the Ealing Art College, as both his brothers had.
  • Grandfather of Arthur, Leo and Lola (Jesse's children with Tilly), Maggie Dylan, born on May 18th 2009 (Leah and Jack Macdonald's daughter).
  • Revealed in an interview with the British Sunday Mirror that his doctors have discovered traces of emphysema in both his lungs, and therefore ordered him to quit his 30-a-day smoking habit immediately. Ronnie already gave up drinking alcohol before the Stones embarked on their worldwide Forty Licks tour, since prior to that he had been getting through a bottle and a half of vodka every day. (March 2004).
  • His brother was the singer Art Wood who died in 2006.
  • He was the original choice to replace Brian Jones in the Stones in 1969, but lost out to Mick Taylor due to the fact that for some reason he didn't receive the message that Jagger and Richards had sent him an invitation to join. He eventually did join when Taylor quit the band.
  • Ron elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 (as a member of the Rolling Stones).
  • Is the guitarist with the Faces and the Rolling Stones.
  • Wood began his career as a professional musician in 1964 as a guitarist with The Birds, an R&B band based in Yiewsley, West London.

Biography

Ron Wood
Last Updated: Friday, August 21, 2009

ron woodWood was born into a family of English "water gypsies" (river/canal barge operators, sometimes also called "bargees") and says that his generation was the first in the family to be born on dry land.Wood began his career as a professional musician in 1964 as a guitarist with The Birds, an R&B band based in Yiewsley, West London. Following Mick Taylor's departure from the Rolling Stones in December 1974, Wood participated in the band's March 1975 recording sessions for their forthcoming album Black and Blue.

Although still a member of the Faces, he toured North America with the Rolling Stones in 1975; the Faces announced their break-up in December of that year, and Wood was officially declared a member of the Rolling Stones in February 1976. Throughout the 1980s, Wood played as a member of the Rolling Stones; continued his solo career, releasing the album 1234 in 1981; painted; and collaborated with a number of other artists, including Prince, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Ringo Starr and Aretha Franklin. Wood toured with the Rolling Stones in 2002-03; in 2004 he performed several one-off concerts and guest appearances, including a number of appearances with Rod Stewart.
 

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