third time getting me to feel OLD @Magic truly lol
Sorry! @joker1961 but the best music is over 30 years old. I feel privileged to have lived through the best decades for rock music
Rod Stewart (Official Thread)
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Sorry! @joker1961 but the best music is over 30 years old. I feel privileged to have lived through the best decades for rock music
joker1961
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Sorry! @joker1961 but the best music is over 30 years old. I feel privileged to have lived through the best decades for rock music
don't worry its a bit of my of the wall comedy
rtbuck
Senior Member
In the late 70’s along with my hard & heavy bands like Kiss, AC/DC, Nugent, Sabbath, BOC..ETC...I was heavy into The Rolling Stones & Chuck Berry. I knew of the radio hits of Rod Stewart like Your in my Heart, Maggie May, Tonight’s the Night, Do ya think I’m Sexy...etc. One night on Don Kirshners Rock concert tv show they showed a video of Hot Legs which I really liked the tune but still looked at Stewart as a AMRadio pop star. I was at my friend’s house who had HBO & Showtime & there was a Rod Stewart concert on and wow what a rock & roll show that was. That show rocked kind of like a Stones show and I loved it(other than Rod dry humping the stage floor). I became a fan and bought a couple Rod Stewart albums and then discovered the Faces and Ronnie Wood was in that band! Even the album Tonight I’m Yours which was very pop with tunes like the title track & Young Turks rocked with tunes like Tora Tora Tora & a rockin cover of Johnny Burnette Trio’s hit Tear it up. I love all Stewart hits and of course those rockers like Blondes have more Fun, She won’t Dance with Me, Better off Dead,Tora Tora Tora, Tear it up...etc I became a huge Faces fan and A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse is in my top 10 favorite albums of all time
Some trivia for y'all. Youngsters think The First Cut is the Deepest is Sheryl Crow's song. Of course we know the Rod Stewart version is the best. Some of you might even know who originally wrote the song. But I think it would be a rare person who would know who first performed this song (i.e. released a recording of it.) High five and my respect to anyone who knows without looking it up:
a) the writer
b) the first released performance
c) the second released performance
a) the writer
b) the first released performance
c) the second released performance
Blondes Have More Fun turns 45 November 2023
blondes have more fun
aint love a bitch
(these old videos are poor quality)
full album
en.wikipedia.org
blondes have more fun
aint love a bitch
(these old videos are poor quality)
full album
Blondes Have More Fun - Wikipedia
Rod Stewart - Blondes Have More Fun
Rod Stewart - Blondes Have More Fun album reviews
www.superseventies.com
Wanted to weigh in on Rod Stewart but never looked for the official thread here.
One of those great gravelly bluesrock voices used well in the early years from 68-74...with Jeff Beck and with The Faces as well as his first 3-4 solo lps (all good work imho)....and an early bluesrock icon in his own right then. After that he turned into some weird version of a pop singer(crooner) doing crap songs imho. One wonders.... why?
He had always had a following when he was in those early bands and his early lps were well received, so what happened.? Why just do mediocre covers and nothing songs on solo lps the next 30 plus years.
Was it just about the money and the need for mainstream acceptance? I'm not trying to bash him but I dont understand his choices.
One of those great gravelly bluesrock voices used well in the early years from 68-74...with Jeff Beck and with The Faces as well as his first 3-4 solo lps (all good work imho)....and an early bluesrock icon in his own right then. After that he turned into some weird version of a pop singer(crooner) doing crap songs imho. One wonders.... why?
He had always had a following when he was in those early bands and his early lps were well received, so what happened.? Why just do mediocre covers and nothing songs on solo lps the next 30 plus years.
Was it just about the money and the need for mainstream acceptance? I'm not trying to bash him but I dont understand his choices.
E-Z
Senior Member
Rod was BIG NEWS in the UK back in the early 1970s cos I lived through it with both the Faces group featuring Ronnie Wood (The Rolling Stones) & Ronnie Lane (The Small Faces) amongst others and his solo stuff running concurrently and scored a MASSIVE HIT with Maggie May which was played all day long on BBC Radio One for weeks on end (or it felt like it was?) back 1971 and of course also appearing on the BBCs TOTPs tv show singing it obviously had all the females aged between 18 & 75 wanting to do 'naughty things' to poor old Rods body!!. Yeah it definitely was a hard life being a pop singer back in the day without a doubt
Funnily enough about 10-12 years ago I read that Rod and his parents use to live not far from where I live myself in north London around the top end of the Holloway Road near the Archway back in the 1950s & 1960s and I also read about 30 years ago that Rod as a young guy just out of school in the early 1960s once worked in a 'paint & decorating shop' selling wallpaper & paint in Kentish Town again just down the road from where I live as well, anyway I guess being a 'pop star' had more appeal than selling wallpaper!.
Funnily enough about 10-12 years ago I read that Rod and his parents use to live not far from where I live myself in north London around the top end of the Holloway Road near the Archway back in the 1950s & 1960s and I also read about 30 years ago that Rod as a young guy just out of school in the early 1960s once worked in a 'paint & decorating shop' selling wallpaper & paint in Kentish Town again just down the road from where I live as well, anyway I guess being a 'pop star' had more appeal than selling wallpaper!.
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BeatleMatt
Senior Member
His Storyteller anthology is really good. Really covers his career well and contains some great music. I highly recommend the set. I do have studio albums from his early solo work. Those first few on the Mercury record label are easily my favorites but by the 80’s he was very hit and miss with me. From then forward, I stopped listening to his songs and remain satisfied with his past glory.
