The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is the featured subject in a forthcoming documentary entitled, Somebody Up There Likes Me, which is scheduled to premiere next month (June 6th) via Sky Arts. Directed by Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas, The Sopranos) the feature-length documentary will shine a light on Wood’s turbulent life as a longtime member of arguably the biggest rock band on the planet.
On Wednesday, Wood shared a four-minute clip from the film which highlights his passion for other forms of art in addition to his nearly-lifelong smoking habit (25–30 cigarettes per day, according to Ronnie) which resulted in a lung cancer diagnosis in early 2017. Wood has since been declared cancer-free, but the process left the guitarist with a firm understanding of the severity of the health situation, as discussed in the clip.
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“I got away with having it cut out of one lung, the cancer,” Wood says in the short video, which opens with some peaceful scene of him drawing while calming music plays in the background. “Luckily, it had just stayed there … They said, ‘We got rid of that and while we there we got rid of the emphysema on the top lobe of your lung.’ “I went, ‘Oh great’, and they went, ‘Your lungs now are like you’d never smoked’ and I went, ‘How is that for a get out of jail free card?’”
Watch the four-minute clip in full below.
Ronnie Wood – Somebody Up There Likes Me [Documentary Clip]
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The forthcoming Ronnie Wood documentary will include a mix of archive footage and candid interviews with Wood and his friends.
The Rolling Stones recently performed (virtually) while taking part in the One World: At Home Together online benefit event last month.