Pete Townshend co-writes tribute to Ronnie Lane

Pete Townshend has co-written a song about Ronnie Lane with Lane’s wife, Kate.

The song, “Chameleon“, features on the new album by Des Horsfall’s Kuschty Rye. You can hear it below.

Townshend plays guitar and sings on the song, and composed the music; Kate Lane composed the lyrics for her husband.

“Chameleon” appears on The Bastard’s Tin, which is the second of a proposed trilogy of Kuschty Rye albums, names after Ronnie Lane’s 1979 song.

The project is dedicated to Lane and Slim Chance, the band Lane formed after leaving the Faces in 1973.

Townshend and Horsfall are accompanied on the song by Slim Chance’s Steve Simpson and Charlie Hart.

“Chameleon” is described as a “devotional love letter” from Kate Lane to her husband. It was written following their separation, after he was diagnosed with the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

You can find more information on the Kuschty Rye project by clicking here.

Meanwhile, Uncut are currently hosting a series of online exclusives taken from the forthcoming Faces box set, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything.

The box set is released by Rhino on August 28 and contains newly remastered versions of all four of the band’s studio albums, plus a bonus disc of rarities.

You can click here to listen to our first exclusive: “Flying (Take 3)”, which is one of the unreleased bonus tracks from The First Step.

The surviving members of the Faces – Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Kenney Jones – are to reunite to play a show for Prostate Cancer UK.

They will perform at Rock ‘n’ Horsepower at Hurtwood Park Polo Club in Ewhurst, Surrey on Saturday, September 5, 2015.

In other news, a new Small Faces box set will include rarities, outtakes and alternative versions.

The Decca Years is released on October 9, 2015.

The 5-CD box set compiles everything that the Small Faces recorded for Decca during their 18-month record deal with the label, along with the last remaining recording sessions that the group made for the BBC during the same period.

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Meanwhile, the September 2015 issue of Uncut is on sale in the UK on Tuesday, July 28 – featuring David Gilmour, a free Grateful Dead CD, Bob Dylan and the Newport Folk Festival, AC/DC, Killing Joke, the Isley Brothers, Julien Temple, Ryley Walker and more.

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