\n Earlier this month the band featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood released Foreign Tongues – their 25th studio album which went to number one on the UK Official Albums chart.\n<\/p>\n
\n Steve Winwood, who lives in the Cotswolds, achieved fame during the 1960s and 1970s as a member of three successful bands – The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and supergroup Blind Faith – which also featured Eric Clapton,.\n<\/p>\n
\n During the 1980s, his solo career took off, and the album Arc of a Diver reached number three on the Billboard 200 album chart.\n<\/p>\n
\n Steve Winwood (Image: Brian Marks)\n<\/p>\n
\n Now the musician, who was made an MBE in 2025 for services to music, has revealed how he got to play on The Rolling Stones’ latest record.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said in a post on his official Instagram account: “I think Ronnie Wood called me first, when they were cutting\u2018Hackney Diamonds.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He said, \u2018Hi, man. Come and play a track.\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah, sure, just let me know where and when.\u2019<\/p>\n
“I think I was asked just to play on one song, then they said, \u2018There\u2019s another couple you can do.\u2019 I did a couple more and then they said, \u2018Come next week and do some more.\u2019”\n<\/p>\n
\n The singer, who performed at Cropredy Festival in 2009, added: ” Everything they do has this wonderful vintage Stones thing going on.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Much of the album was done with everyone playing together, which is a rarity these days and adds some magic and temperament.”\n<\/p>\n
\n There are other guests on the album, including Paul McCartney, Robert Smith (The Cure), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Bruno Mars.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stones singer Mick Jagger stunned pub goers at the Half Moon in St Clements, Oxford earlier this year with an impromptu rendition of folk song Handsome Molly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month the band featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood released Foreign Tongues – their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}