Biography
Friends and Family
Rod Stewart
[Associate]
(Ronnie was part of Rod Stewart`s band "The Faces")
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Charlie Watts
[Associate]
(Drummer of the Rolling Stones)
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Keith Richards
[Associate]
(Lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones)
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Mick Jagger
[Associate]
(Frontman of the Rolling Stones)
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Ted Wood
[Brother]
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Art Wood
[Brother]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Mick will kill me for saying this, but we had a cut-off point a week ago when anyone could say they didn`t want to start up the band again. We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He`s like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
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We`re great, Jo and me. We`re pals, and I guess sex has a lot to do with it. She`s also brilliant at clearing a room. So protective, so devoted. I can`t believe how much she loves me.
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Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I`ll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.
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Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I`d be there in a New York minute.
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I go off into Dublin and two days later I`m spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.
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People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!
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Let`s face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There`s no arguing really, is there?
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I can`t be left unsupervised.
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All of us can`t wait to get out there whatever way.
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This is what I`m looking forward to: brush in hand, whatever I`m painting in my sights, maybe a cigarette on the go, and sunshine, lots of sunshine.
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I`m terrible with money, absolutely awful. I`m always losing it.
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When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I`m a one-woman man.
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I`m thrilled to be in South Florida for our tour and to open the first gallery exhibit this year. It`s a great turn-out and I look forward to speaking with the collectors who have shown me such great support over the years.
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I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
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With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.
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When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I`m being taken seriously. I`ve got highfalutin` art collectors and everything!
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What can I say, I`m an alcoholic. It`s what I do.
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My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.
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Maybe Mick`s a bit happier now he`s been knighted.
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The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.
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You don`t make solo albums to have hits.
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Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he`s seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.
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I just think my body can`t handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that`s it. I`m over it now.
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I`ve got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.
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I like it when journalists are nice to me, and it`s happening more and more.
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I always want to rock.
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There`s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don`t know what it is. But I`ve got it.
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Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn`t about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.
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They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can`t have a line or a drink again.
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I`m a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.
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When I`m left on my own I`m my own worst enemy.
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We`re at our best when Keith and Mick (are/aren`t) getting along, ... As songwriters, they seem to be at their most creative when there`s (harmony/tension). Go figure!
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It`s taken folk a while to come around, hasn`t it? Even the boys in the band weren`t too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
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The only exercise Keith does is lifting the bottle to the mouth.
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In my family, they were all big boozers.
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He`s tighter than two coats of paint.
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My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I`ve got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
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I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He`d cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.
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Charlie doesn`t touch anything now, and Mick will only have a glass of wine on a night off. But then it`s easier for them; alcohol is in my genes.
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Trivia
(February 2002) He recently released a solo album "Not for Beginners" and is at the moment in the middle of a 40th Anniversary Rolling Stones project.
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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)
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His brother is the singer Art Wood
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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.
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Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 (as a member of the Rolling Stones).
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Is the guitarist with the Faces and the Rolling Stones.
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Spouse: Jo Howard (2 January 1985 - present) (separated) 2 children
Krissy Findlay (1971 - 1978) (divorced) 1 child
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Born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK
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