ROCK legend Ronnie Wood paid a whistle-stop visit to Birmingham to publicise his paintings – and said the Stones owed their fans a reunion tour.

The guitarist, a highly talented artist whose paintings routinely sell from around £800 upwards, was at the city’s Washington Green Fine Art offices to launch his latest work, including on stage reproductions of the Stones in concert.

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of their first concert and he told the Mail: “It does make you feel like playing; I miss playing with the boys... Charlie is cracking away on the continent with his jazz band, Keith is making his record in New York, Mick is like, forever, getting into different musical... we are not getting any younger.”

The Stone, now 64, said the band were looking forward to next year’s anniversary – and dismissed suggestions of a permanent rift between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

He said: “We are all looking forward to it; we do not know what it is. I said to them we owe it to ourselves and the people to do something. We are just... whatever, we will find a way.

“I wish I could say. We had a great meeting the other week and we all got on great.”

He described himself as the “diplomat” of the band. “You will have to ask the two brothers (Jagger and Richards) – they are like family.”