Ronnie Wood gets his second induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is getting his second induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which has announced that the Faces will be among those inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Wood was in the Faces before he joined the Rolling Stones in the mid-1970s.
As previously reported, the Faces were among several artists who were nominated for the ceremony, which will take place at the Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 14, 2012. HBO will televise an edited version of the show on May 14, 2012.
The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Wood is the only member of the Rolling Stones to have two inductions in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees of 2012 are the Faces, the Small Faces, Guns N'Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Donovan, Laura Nyro and Freddie King. In addition, producers Cosimo Matassa, Tom Dowd and Glyn Johns will be honored with the Award for Musical Excellence, while TV producer/host Don Kirshner is receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.
The members of the Faces in their early 1970s heyday were lead singer Rod Stewart, Wood, bassist Ronnie Lane, keyboardist Ian McLagan and drummer Kenney Jones. After Lane quit the band in 1973, he was replaced by Tetsu Yamauchi.
The Faces, formed in 1969, were a spinoff of the Small Faces. The members of the Small Faces were Lane, Jimmy Winston (later replaced by McLagan), Jones and lead singer/guitarist Steve Marriott. After Marriott left the Small Faces to form Humble Pie, the remaining band members created the Faces with Stewart as the lead singer and Wood as the lead guitarist.
The Faces are best known for their songs "Stay With Me," "(I Know) I'm Losing You" and "Ooh La La." The band's last studio album was 1973's "Ooh La La," and the last Faces album was the 1974 live set "Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners," which was credited to Rod Stewart and the Faces. The Faces occasionally reunited in the 1980s and 1990s for one-off performances.
In 2010 and 2011, a revamped lineup of the Faces that included original members Wood, Jones and McLagan went on tour. Stewart declined to take part in this Faces reunion, so Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall stepped in as lead vocalist. Lane died of multiple sclerosis in 1997, so former Sex Pistols bass player Glen Matlock became the bass player of the revamped lineup of the Faces.
Stewart is expected to perform with the surviving members of the Faces at the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. Matlock will likely be the bass player filling in for Lane.
In 2011, the first official Faces autobiography, "Faces 1969-1975," was released as a limited-edition book by Genesis Publications.
Artists eligible for the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony are artists who released their first single or first album in or before 1986.
The artists who were nominated for the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but who did not get enough votes to be inducted are Heart, the Cure, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Eric B. and Rakim, War, the Spinners and Rufus with Chaka Khan.
Wood is not the only original member of the Faces who already has a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Jones was the Who's drummer for several years, and he got his first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction when the Who was inducted in 1990. In 1994, Stewart was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artis***THANKS TO ''EXAMINER''***
