Ronnie Wood interview: The Stones' new album, a new Faces album, and Einstein. "We have to be honest about the sickness in the land. There's a lot of bad things going on"

Ronnie Wood studio portrait.

Ronnie Wood might have spent more than half a century with the Rolling Stones, and they were around for years before he joined, but Foreign Tongues, their latest album, is far from a nostalgic victory lap. Spurred on by producer Andrew Watt, the band recaptured the studio discipline of their golden era. The result finds Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards tackling today’s political turmoil and the “sickness in the land”.