You Know Who... (Didn't Bother With a Title Today)
Ronnie Wood Photo by Rick Diamond Happy Pride Month, everybody! I hope everyone is getting ready for this month-long celebration, however you want to do it. It is an interesting bit of synchronicity that not only is it the birthday of the British long-time LGBT rights activist Tom Robinson, but that he was performing stateside on this day in 1979, and we have tape of it to boot! Another birthday boy who will receive our tribute today is Ronnie Wood, who was born on this day in 1947, and it seemed right to focus on him. I think people need to be reminded that his career was more than just being a junior member of the Rolling Stones. Now, calling him a “junior member” may be unkind, but it is true that he did not join the band until the tail end of its glory years, and that his work with that group, particularly writing, is largely overshadowed by the Glimmer Twins (i.e. Jagger and Richards). Long before that, however, he already showed that he could be a reliable side-man with the...