Ronnie Wood documentary 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' to premiere at London Film Festival

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Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesSomebody Up There Likes Me, a documentary about Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, will premiere October 12 at the London Film Festival.

Directed by Mike Figgis, the revealing doc follows the 72-year-old guitarist’s career from his childhood and early days as a musician, to stints in The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces, and finally to his career with the Stones.

The movie features new interviews with Rod Stewart — Wood’s former bandmate in The Faces and The Jeff Beck Group as well as Wood’s current bandmates Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts.

According to the Belfast Telegraph, producers say that Wood is “brutally honest” in the movie about his substance abuse, and talks about his three-year fight to kick an addiction to freebasing.

He also talks about surviving lung cancer, a battle that inspired the title of the film.

“When they operated on my cancer, they took away my emphysema. They said my lungs were as if I’d never smoked,” Wood said, according to the Belfast Telegraph. “I thought, ‘How’s that for a Get Out Of Jail Free card?’ Somebody up there likes me, and somebody down here likes me too.”

No word on a U.S. release date for the film. Meanwhile, Ronnie and the Stones wrap up their No Filter tour tonight in Miami, having moved the show up a day to avoid the impending Hurricane Dorian, expected to make landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane.

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