Some things are just too precious to sacrifice, even if it might be a matter of life and death, it seems. It least, that’s the case with Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.
Wood spoke to the Daily Mail for an interview published Sunday, revealing that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer in May — and that he decided not to undergo chemotherapy, for fear of losing his hair.
“I’ve had a fight with a touch of lung cancer,” Wood said. “There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains — time to say goodbye. You never know what is going to happen.”
Wood, 70, noted that he had an operation to have part of his lung removed. However, he opted not to undergo chemotherapy as part of his treatment, because “I wasn’t going to lose my hair.”
“This hair wasn’t going anywhere. I said, ‘No way,'” the musician said. “And I just kept the faith it would be all right. A week later they came back with the news that it hadn’t spread and I said, ‘Let’s get it out now.’ Just before I closed my eyes for the operation I looked at the doctor and said, ‘Let battle commence.'”
Wood, who quit smoking shortly before the birth of his twin daughters Gracie and Alice last June, said he was prompted to go in for a checkup because he figured that he couldn’t have gotten away with half a century of puffing cancer sticks unscathed.
“‘I had this thought at the back of my mind after I gave up smoking a year ago: ‘How can I have got through 50 years of chain-smoking — and all the rest of my bad habits — without something going on in there?'” the musician said.
The musician says that he’s “OK” now, and in a tweet published Sunday added that he will be hitting the road in September.
“Thank you for all your words of support today ~ I’m feeling great and ready to see you on the road next month,” Wood wrote.
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7 Things Amazon's 'Good Girls Revolt' Gets Totally Wrong About the '60s (Photos)
Creative liberties? Amazon takes a few in its new series "Good Girls Revolt," about a group of women who sue over their treatment at a male-dominated newsweekly in 1969-70.
Genevieve Angelson plays Patti, a young journalist seen in the pilot marching to work through midtown Manhattan ... past a fairly large anti-Vietnam War protest. In December 1969? We can't find any record of such a protest during that month. However, six months later, in May 1970, New York was shaken by the Hard Hat Riot, when hundreds of construction workers attacked students protesting the shooting deaths at Kent State.
Patti works at a magazine called News of the Week. Of course, there never was a major weekly by that name. But there was and is a magazine called Newsweek, which is where the real-life women described in the story (based on the book by Lynn Povich) worked. (Newsweek's print edition ended in 2012 but was revived two years later.)
Jim Belushi plays Wick, the cranky newsroom boss, who in the pilot, after a lot of arguing and hand-wringing, orders his staff to cover the violence at the Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont track in California. Small problem: Newsweek didn't cover the Stones' concert at all at the time, according to a 1970 piece in Rolling Stone (and neither did much of the rest of the mainstream media).
Mick Jagger and the Stones performed at Altamont on Dec. 6. That was a Saturday, which means the news of the violence would have broken over the weekend, and not on a busy workday, which is when the staff on "Good Girls" breathlessly discusses Altamont as if it's happening in real time.
But then chronology just isn't a strong suit for "Good Girls." Wick at one point says that the indictment of Charles Manson happened the day before Altamont. Wrong again. Manson and his fellow cult members were indicted on Dec. 8, two days after Altamont.
Well, at least we have a solid character in Nora Ephron (Grace Gummer), the late writer-director who, it turns out, really did work at Newsweek. Except, oops, Ephron worked there in the early 1960s, and in the mailroom, not as a writer. She had nothing to do with the gender-equality action the show dramatizes. But "Good Girls" does get one detail right: Ephron really did go to Wellesley College.
Even the small details on "Good Girls" require some skepticism. At one point, a character says her boyfriend is going to take her to the "Mark Rothko Retrospective at the Guggenheim." Nice! Except that art show was a cool thing to do ... in 1978, nearly a decade later. Oops, time for a cigarette break.
Guess what? Newsweek didn’t even cover the Rolling Stones’ fateful Altamont concert – and that’s just the start
Creative liberties? Amazon takes a few in its new series "Good Girls Revolt," about a group of women who sue over their treatment at a male-dominated newsweekly in 1969-70.
