He said in December: "We've done the Faces and he didn't turn up." And he added that he was more interested in celebrating the Small Faces' 50th anniversary in 2015, saying: "We would we f**k around the with the Faces when we've got bigger fish to fry?"

Now Jones has explained it was all a misunderstanding � because McLagan didn't know that he, Stewart and guitarist Ron Wood had just opened discussions about getting back together.