{"id":771188,"date":"2026-07-19T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771188\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T00:59:13","slug":"me-and-mick-we-never-stop-wanting-to-play-ronnie-wood-says-its-still-possible-the-rolling-stones-will-tour-again-but-it-depends-on-keith-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771188\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMe and Mick, we never stop wanting to play\u201d: Ronnie Wood says it’s still possible The Rolling Stones will tour again, but it depends on Keith Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite being in their 80s \u2013 with the exception of Ronnie Wood<\/a> who is 79 \u2013 the Rolling Stones<\/a> are still very much active. In fact, the group just this month released their 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But as for whether they plan to tour the record? That\u2019s still up in the air, Ronnie Wood explains in a new interview with Classic Rock<\/a>. Asked whether he and his bandmates Mick Jagger<\/a> and Keith Richards<\/a> plan to hit the road in support of the record, he replies: \u201cLet\u2019s hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot this year, but maybe next year \u2013 we\u2019d love to,\u201d Wood says. \u201cIt\u2019s an obvious thing that we would love to, because the Stones\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Any rockstar approaching their 80s would be forgiven for wanting to slow down a bit, and even call time on touring entirely, but Wood goes on to reveal his and Jagger\u2019s never-ending love of playing music.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Mick, we never stop wanting to play,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m going to take my solo band out to do a few gigs, to keep the chops together in my fingers. It\u2019s got to be done. You\u2019ve got to keep it warm, keep the music warm.<\/p>\n

Back in April, Ronnie Wood added two new shows in the UK and Germany<\/a> to his live schedule later this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great,\u201d he continues. \u201cAnd if the Stones can tour next year, let\u2019s do it. That\u2019s our attitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing that might get in the way of plans to tour, though, is guitarist Keith Richards\u2019 arthritis. Last year, the band cancelled a string of planned tour dates as Richards \u201cdidn\u2019t think he could commit\u201d to the gruelling schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But Ronnie Wood remains optimistic. \u201cAnything\u2019s possible,\u201d he asserts. \u201cWe just, you know, toss a coin and see how it lands. That\u2019s the way we\u2019ve always played it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mick Jagger echoed Ronnie Wood\u2019s comments in May, saying he would \u201cabsolutely love\u201d to tour Foreign Tongues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Foreign Tongues is out now. Listen below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/p>\n

Sam is the Associate News Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Thoroughly immersed in music culture for the majority of his life, Sam has played guitar for 20 years, studied music technology and production at university, and also written for the likes of Guitar World, Total Guitar, Metal Hammer and MusicRadar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being in their 80s \u2013 with the exception of Ronnie Wood who is 79 \u2013 the Rolling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[12566,88,216],"class_list":["post-771188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artist","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}