Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has said he could have joined Led Zeppelin back in the Sixties after being made aware of the fledgling band by his manager.
Speaking on Absolute Radio, Wood explained how his manager Peter Grant was working on behalf of a band which were then known as The New Yardbirds, leading to an offer being made to him.
“He was behind a band that was going to be called The New Yardbirds, which I had an offer to join, and I said, ‘I can’t join that bunch of farmers’,” Wood explains. “They turned out to be Led Zeppelin, he managed them as well.”
Instead, Ronnie Wood became a part of the band which would eventually become known as The Faces and, following a period of recording and touring with The Rolling Stones in the mid-Seventies, was officially confirmed as the replacement for Mick Taylor in 1976 after the Faces had announced their split.
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