Last year, Chineke! delivered one of the Proms’ more hard-hitting offerings, in a programme including Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, “50 minutes of brutality, despair and terror”, and Valerie Colman’s Fanfare for Uncommon Times, reflecting on the COVID pandemic and social upheaval.
Exactly how Ronnie Wood has reached the age of 79, after decades of rock’n’roll debauchery with the Faces and the Rolling Stones and surviving cancer twice, passeth all understanding. He even seems to have managed to hang on to a full head of hair, though advanced tonsorial technology may have had a part to play here.
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