Three members of a famous rock band are reuniting for their first new album in more than 50 years.
Kenney Jones, drummer for The Faces (also known as the Small Faces), told The Telegraph in a new interview that he, singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood have recorded 11 new songs together. The trio worked with Jools Holland on one track and plan to release them as a new Faces album in 2026.
“Most of them are good,” Jones said, admitting some might not end up on the final release. “I can’t see it coming out this year. But I can see it coming out next year.”
It would be the first Faces album since breaking up after 1973’s “Ooh La La.” Stewart went on to a legendary solo career, Wood joined the Rolling Stones and Jones performed with The Who for nearly a decade.
Jones told The Telegraph that they’ve been working on “little snippets” of recording new music sporadically due to Stewart’s busy touring schedule and Wood’s work with the Stones. Wood and Stewart first told The Telegraph in 2021 that the band was getting back together to work on “some old” and “some new” material.
“We will get it finished, I promise,” Stewart said at the time. “No other band sounds like us.”
The Faces/Small Faces, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, are best known for hits like “Stay with Me” and “Ooh La La” (featuring Wood on lead vocals). Stewart and Wood were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a second time for their solo work and with the Rolling Stones, respectively.
Jones was an original member of the Small Faces, an English rock band that became simply The Faces in 1969 after singer Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie. Stewart and Wood joined the spinoff group with Jones, bassist Ronnie Lane and keyboardist Ian McLagan.
Stewart, Wood and Jones have reunited several times over the years as a trio. Lane died in 1997, Marriott died in 1997, McLagan died in 2014.
The Faces band members Ronnie Wood, Rod Stewart and Kenney Jones attend The BRIT Awards 2020 at The O2 Arena on February 18, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images)WireImage
The Telegraph reports Jones, Wood and Stewart may also be collaborating on a documentary featuring never-before-soon footage of the Faces filmed in 1972. Details are “under wraps” for now.