“There’s only me and Mick and David Bowie and Willie Weeks and Kenney Jones on it – the basic track”: Ronnie Wood on the first Stones song he helped to create – before he was in the band

Ronnie Wood.

The way Ronnie Wood describes it, his home in London in the early ’70s was an open house for musicians – the famous and the not-so-famous. And it was in this house, in 1974, that the guitarist played his part in creating a classic song for the band he was about to join – The Rolling Stones.

Speaking on the BBC Radio 2’s programme Tracks Of My Years, alongside singer Mick Jagger, Wood recalls the years he spent living in The Wick, a four-storey Georgian mansion overlooking the River Thames in Richmond.