There's been a good deal of buzz the past couple of weeks about the possibility of a reunion of the surviving original members of Faces.

Thumbnail history: when lead vocalist Steve Marriott left Small Faces to form Humble Pie, the remaining band members -- bassist Ronnie Lane, drummer Kenney Jones and keyboardist Ian McLagan -- reconstituted themselves as Faces, with the additions of vocalist Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood (both from Jeff Beck Group.) Faces released five albums between 1970 and 1974, and broke up in 1975 when Wood went off to join Rolling Stones and Stewart wanted to concentrate on a solo career. Jones eventually replaced Keith Moon as The Who's drummer and McLagan did some work with the Stones, then formed his own band. Lane died in 1997.

Stewart, who has reportedly been the main holdout when the subject of a reunion has come up, is now reportedly looking at potential openings in his schedule in which to accommodate recording an album and/or performing a few concerts with Faces.

Possible complication: Wood recently fell off the wagon and is back in rehab getting treatment for the alcoholism he has openly battled for years. The Stones won't be touring again for a while, but it isn't known what effect this latest development may have on the various Faces members coordinating their schedules.

Stay tuned for further updates.

^{(l-r) Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart at the 2004 Fashion Rocks concert in New York City. Photo by Mike Mainz / Getty Images}

It seems that some people can really hold a grudge. I mean for, like, 249 years.

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, Paul McCartney played a free concert Sunday (7/20) for a crowd of people (something over 200,000 as close as anybody can figure) as part of the city's celebration of its founding. Everyone seemed quite happy to (a) be at a free concert on a summer Sunday afternoon and (b) to be the audience for McCartney's only scheduled North American gig this year.

The venue was a 100 acre park known as Plains of Abraham, and therein lay the rub for some of the locals who apparently aren't able to get over the fact that the concert was staged at the site of a battle in which Britain defeated France in 1759. McCartney being British and Quebec City being about 95% French-speaking ... well, you get the picture.

Really? Come on, people. Let go of it already. McCartney said as much (albeit somewhat more diplomatically) in an interview last week. "I think it's time to smoke the pipes of peace and to just, you know, put away your hatchet because I think it's a show of friendship," Sir Paul told Radio-Canada.

In the end, McCartney rocked, the crowd was stoked, and Plains of Abraham did not become the scene of another bloody battle.

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