Richmond & Twickenham Times:

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From the Richmond Informer:

Musical Legend Art Wood Dies

Art Wood, the blues singer and brother of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood died on Friday after a six-month battle with cancer.

The singer formed the Artwoods in the 60's, a rhythm 'n blues band once tipped for greatness. He also formed a band called Quiet Melon with his brothers Ronnie and Ted, before Ronnie went on to join the Small Faces with Rod Stewart, followed by the Rolling Stones.

Mr. Wood's wife, Angie, paid a warm tribute to Art from her home in Teddington where the couple had lived for 16 years. The couple had been together for 21 years and had married in 1990.

"He was a very loveable person, a great singer and showman, and he loved being on stage," she said. "But he had no ego and he always let his fellow musicians shine at gigs too."

Away from the limelight, Angie said her husband was a great person to be around. "He was the funniest person I ever met, and he was so kind-hearted and gentle as well as being creative," she said.

The musician was a regular performer at the Eel Pie Club in Twickenham, where he performed more recently under the name The Art Wood All Stars,

The club's co-owner Gina Way said he was irreplaceable. "He has left a great gap in the Eel Pie which will never be filled and we are deeply saddened," she said. "He was a lovely man and a special friend of the club as well as to us personally."

Ronnie Wood has taken a break from the Rolling Stones tour, currently in America, to be with his family. The funeral will take place on December 1.

What address can condolences be sent to Ronnie?

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> What address can condolences be sent to Ronnie?


1, High Street
London

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

It says he has taken a break from the tour, but if there are no more cancellations it cant be much of a break - 2 nights and having to fly back to london in that time?

Poor guy, it must be dreadful when something as devastating as losing your brother happens, and you are thousands of miles away and all you wanna do is be with your family.

There is another thread talking about a news article that says the remaining stones dates may be cancelled, but it says that art wood's funeral is dec 1st, which is an unusually long time between him passing, so it seems they will go ahead with the shows as they are.

All the best to the Wood family.

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

anyone got a picture of art?

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> anyone got a picture of art?

Little Queenie - go to this thread

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I bet Woodie's parents must have been charatcters as their sons both seemed to have blessed with strong sense of humour. People here talked about Art being really funny and Ronnie is always clowning around. I think he'd be the most fun Stone to actually sit down with.

thanks for that Greenlady- bought it at the weekend.
the guy deserves a special Eel Pie tribute show-
maybe we'll know more after wednesday night.

He also played with Whitesnake (Adje Vandenberg), didn't he? That explains why Adje had tickets for the A'dam arena INSIDE the B-stage back in 1998 (twice I believe)

Oeps, I don't think he did

anyone have a sample of his music to post here, or in hot stuff??

Here's Art Wood singing "Hoochie Coochie Man" from a live performance in 1998:

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The only national newspaper to publish an obituary was the Independent; reproduced on the website here:

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Reading this, I suddenly noticed Art's date of birth: 7th July 1937.
"On the seventh day, of the seventh month…"

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> "On the seventh day, of the seventh month…"

Thanks for posting, I heard him do "Hoochie Coochie Man" so many times at the Cabbage Patch .... brings back great memories.

God bless you and your family

Hmmm - the Independent link doesn't seem to work. Let's try again.

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