ROLLING STONES - STONES TO ROCK ON 'WITH OR WITHOUT WOOD'

STONES TO ROCK ON 'WITH OR WITHOUT WOOD'

THE ROLLING STONES are intending to tour next year with or without their troubled guitarist Ronnie Wood.

Wood recently checked himself into rehab for alcohol addiction after going on a ten-day bender with a 19-year-old Russian waitress.

However, frontman Mick Jagger is adamant that the band will go out on a European tour, whether or not Wood is fit enough to join them.

"Mick officially becomes a pensioner when he turns 65 at the end of July and Keith Richards at the end of the year, and I think Mick wants to get another tour under his belt in case it gets to the point where he can't do any more," a source told the Daily Express.

"Mick is still dead set on going on tour and has even said that they will do the shows without Ronnie if it comes to it."

The source added that the rest of the band has been left shocked by Ronnie's latest antics, which may have destroyed his 23-year marriage.