LONDON:

Ronnie Wood will never forget the first time his bandmate Keith Richards met his future wife. Wood had arranged to meet his then-new girlfriend Jo for a romantic rendezvous in a hotel room in Paris in 1977, but was several hours late after his plane was delayed. When he did finally arrive at the hotel in the middle of the night, Jo was shocked to find Wood accompanied by Richards, who was in desperate need of a shot of heroin. Writing in his autobiography Ronnie, Wood recalls, “I walked in (to the hotel room) and so did Keith. He went straight past Jo to a tiny table, never said a word and started cooking up a hit. Jo stood there speechless; with her mouth wide open because she’d never seen anything like this. Keith shot up, then looked at her and said, ‘You must be Jo, hello darling,’ and gave her a big kiss. Jo glared at me. I simply said, ‘You have to excuse my friend, we go everywhere together.’”