Ronnie Wood, 'Renoir of Rock'

Ronnie Wood's autobiography, Ronnie, is a great (well, for £3.49 in paperback, it is) tour around his west London beginnings from a long family history of water gypsies, through the 60s' London band scene to his rise to fame with the Faces and on the Rolling Stones' worldwide tours. 

Fascinating read, with enough detail to keep the interest going, not least his ability to wade through money like it was water (training race horses in Ireland doesn't help, neither did the booze, drugs or bad business deals). 

His art is always interesting, in a naive way, because of the subject matter and is an integral part of his creative life (and clearly lucrative, since it's got him out of financial trouble a few times).

Former model Jo Wood was his 'rock'n'roll chick' wife, by his side for 23 years until she pocketed a reported £6.5m in their quickie divorce settlement last year - but the story runs out before then... 

However, Jo's dedication to all things organic (after being 'mis-diagnosed' with Crohn's disease) vested itself in a cleaner-living Ronnie (well, at least for part of the time they were together - how clean is clean when you've lived a rock'n'roll lifestyle like he has?) and her own organic line of skin care, Jo Wood's Organics. 

"Don't fuck with nature", she says - nicely put, dear...