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Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment
Review by Mark Leviton, Words & Music, November 1972
ONE CAN ALWAYS COUNT on Rod for superb vocalizing, but his recordings sometimes slip because of the spottiness of the material, from marvelous to mediocre. ...
Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 21 August 1976
ROD STEWART has never been predictable. As a songwriter he thrives on controversial topics. Sandwiched between more conventional songs like 'Maggie May' or 'You Wear ...
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Long John Baldry: The Walking Skyscraper
Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 16 May 1964
IT IS NOT often that you see a skyscraper actually walking around the streets of London. ...
Standing Ovation For Jeff Beck
Report by June Harris, New Musical Express, 29 June 1968
THE GREATEST thing happened in New York last Friday. On his first performance in this country, Jeff Beck became a star. Even in his Yardbird ...
Rod Stewart: An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (Vertigo)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 14 February 1970
AT LAST Rod The Mod has his chance! ...
Rod Stewart: An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (Vertigo stereo VO4; 37s 6d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 February 1970
ROD IN TOP FORM ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Circus, July 1970
IT'S BECOMING increasingly obvious that Rod Stewart is an unusually gifted singer and writer. His new album, Gasoline Alley, even more than his first solo ...
Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley (Vertigo) ***
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 September 1970
ROD GOES SOLO — BUT NOT ALONE! ...
Rod Stewart: How Rod's Old Raincoat Didn't Let Him Down
Profile and Interview by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970
ROD STEWART is a walking synopsis of British rock music. He's been in there from the golden days of CND, through the Rod The Mod ...
Rod Stewart: Rod Remains a Face
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 10 October 1970
GASOLINE ALLEY is Rod Stewart's second solo album. Out here this month it has already, in America, put him streaks ahead in the solo champ class. ...
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 24 December 1970
"I was very pleased with it when we finished, and I still am," Rod Stewart said of his first solo LP. With good reason. ...
Profile by Steve Turner, Beat Instrumental, March 1971
‘Another Remarkable Englishman’ ...
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells A Story
Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 8 July 1971
HE HAS IT IN him, has Rod Stewart, to save a lot of souls, to rescue those of us who are too old for Grand ...
Ronnie Lane — the Story of a Face
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 25 November 1971
LONDON — Tuesday afternoon and it's raining with a vengeance. Tomorrow the weather forecast people will proudly announce that it was in fact the wettest ...
Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment/T. Rex: The Slider
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 22 July 1972
TEENAGE TEARDROPS... Or, would you buy a used riff from these men? ...
Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, September 1972
WELL, IT TOOK AWHILE, but Rod Stewart is back again with his fourth straight formula solo album. He's rounded up roughly the same crew of ...
Albums from David Bowie, T. Rex, Rod Stewart and Roxy Music
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 2 September 1972
Stars of rock: T. Rex: The Slider; Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment; David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars; Roxy Music: Roxy ...
Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment (Mercury 6499-154)
Review by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, October 1972
RIGHT NOW, a new album by Rod Stewart can't fail to be a success: at the time of writing the album is already No.1 on ...
Python Lee Jackson: In A Broken Dream (GNP-Crescendo)
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 28 October 1972
THERE'S OBVIOUSLY more of a story behind Python Lee Jackson than GNP Crescendo would care to tell, probably because they're just as caught up in ...
Rod Stewart: The Scarecrow Harlequin
Overview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 20 January 1973
STRANGE AS it may seem, there was a time when Rod Stewart used to hide behind Jeff Beck's amplifiers and only come out front if ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973
I AM DEATH. Huddled in my anorak. Alone and palely loitering in the stalls of the empty Rainbow Theatre. I am miserable with cold in ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 August 1973
"GOOD LUCK Rod!" People like Rod Stewart. And he likes the people. As he stood forming a queue outside ye old Marquee Club (home of ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 25 August 1973
ROD STEWART and I have been talking about the Liberal party and their chances in the next election. Now he's standing – one long green ...
Rod Stewart: The Familiar Face
Report by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1974
THROUGH THE colonnades they come, along freezing passage-ways. Girls look like ventriloquist-dolls, in black plush and rouge, puffing as dolls do on big cigarettes; boys ...
Rod Stewart: I Dream Of A Solo Concert
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 31 August 1974
"ANYTHING I say is not meant to be a blot on anyone's character...or trousers." ...
The Faces: The Episodic Adventures of Rod Kool & The Tartan Gang
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975
OR, CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR... BUT, FOR ROD STEWART, EVERY BLEEDIN' NIGHT (jammy git) Being a crisp resume of three nights in the life ...
Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #3: What did Rod Stewart, Bobby Womack and Mick Jagger sing...
Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 12 April 1975
...in a tune-up room on the last night of the Faces' 1975 LA gigs? Why, the closing aria in D from 'il Cavalleria Rusticana', of ...
Rod Stewart: Atlantic Crossing (Warner Bros.)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 2 August 1975
Producer: Tom Dowd. Musicians include Barry Beckett (keyboards), Steve Cropper (guitar), Duck Dunn (bass), Al Jackson and Nigel Olsson (drums), and Memphis Horns (brass). ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 2 August 1975
The Faces may split ...
Rod Stewart: Atlantic Crossing
Review by Bud Scoppa, Circus, November 1975
HAPPILY, THAT HORNY, rank, exuberant rascal who romped through Rod Stewart's masterpieces Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells a Story and Never a Dull Moment has ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, November 1975
CAN HE CUT IT IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE? ...
Rod Stewart Faces the American Dream
Report and Interview by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 6 November 1975
BY SUNDOWN the 55,000 people packed into the Los Angeles Angels' Anaheim Stadium for this "sunshine festival" have stolidly endured six hours of a rather ...
The Faces: Vocalist Wanted for Pro Band
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 29 November 1975
IT SEEMED like a good idea. After Rod Stewart's predictably flamboyant statements over the Faces future, the band deserved equal time. Would Ian McLagen turn ...
Rod Stewart: Atlantic Crossing
Review by John Morthland, Creem, December 1975
COMING AS IT does amidst sweeping changes in Stewart's career and personal life, the unsettling nature of Atlantic Crossing isn't that much of a surprise. ...
The Faces Dossier: An Everday Saga Of Mick&Rod&Keef&Ron&Mac
Report by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 27 December 1975
MARCH, 1973. ...
Rod Stewart: A Night On The Town
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 12 June 1976
IT'S A long way from Gasoline Alley. Young Rodney is up in the world, aye 'appen. He's going out with a classy lady, he's worth ...
Rod Stewart: A Night On The Town
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 12 June 1976
ROD STEWART is back in prime form. Gone are those sterile sounds that plagued Atlantic Crossing and robbed Stewart of his true vocal excellence, replaced ...
Rod Stewart: It's My Party... And I'll Pose If I Want To...
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976
TONY STEWART visits Rod and Britt's (retch!!) love-nest. A Time-Life and Vogue special. Exciting revelations (no, really!!). ...
Rod Stewart: Never Too Rich To Rock
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 26 June 1976
"I'M GOING to be evasive," Rod Stewart warned. "More evasive than usual. You evil bitch." ...
Rod Stewart: A Night On The Town
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, August 1976
AFTER HIS LAST great album, 1972's Never a Dull Moment, Rod Stewart began casting off much of what we'd come to love him for: the ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, September 1976
YESTERDAY ROD STEWART wanted his picture taken. Today he's not so sure. Flaunting a carefully arranged scruffy look, the singer strolls into a rented London ...
Rod Brings It All Back Home: A Night On The Town
Review by John Morthland, Creem, September 1976
FIRST THINGS FIRST: this is as brilliant an album as any Rod Stewart has made, fully the equal of his first three solo efforts, all ...
Rod Stewart: The Redeeming Of Roderick
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 6 November 1976
"WHY DON'T you come up and see me some time," Mae West drawled one recent Sunday evening on BBC2. ...
Rod Stewart: A Night On The Town
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 27 November 1976
Whole lotta fun – that's the password in this entertainment-packed land of the Emperor's New Clothes and foil wrapped butter as the bright young Oscar ...
Don't Knock on (Ron) Wood, He's Busy Face-ing the Stones
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Creem, March 1977
"IT'S IN THE contract, you know," says Ronnie Wood, trying to lock his features into a suitably stern Rolling Stones scowl. "You can't be seen ...
Rod Stewart: The Best of Rod Stewart, Vol. 2; The Face: Snakes and Ladders — The Best of the Faces
Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 28 April 1977
AS HIS ORIGINAL output grows slighter (in both senses) with each successive album, the case for Rod Stewart as supreme interpreter of other peoples' songs ...
Would you pay 1,000 dollars for Rod Stewart's heart?
Report and Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 29 October 1977
Rosalind Russell finds out the hard way ...
Rod Stewart: The Latest Rod Stewart Album
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 19 November 1977
TONY STEWART makes the Atlantic Crossing to queue up for a Night On The Town down Millionaire's Row (oops, sorry, Gasoline Alley) with ol' Smiler ...
Rod Stewart: Foot Loose and Fancy Free
Review by Joe McEwen, Rolling Stone, 29 December 1977
Rod: forever a dull moment ...
Special Feature by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 6 April 1978
What can a poor boy do when the gossips., the punks and the critics want his henna-haired head on a platter? ...
Rod Stewart: Blondes Have More Fun
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 25 November 1978
OR BLOATED egos with lots of money get to see more of the world. ...
Rod Stewart: Blondes Have More Fun (Rlva RVLP8)
Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 25 November 1978
MORE LIVE THAN DYED ...
Rod Stewart: The Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 21 July 1979
YOU DON'T have to be hungry to make good rock and roll, but it helps. Sitting through a Rod Stewart show is like watching a ...
Rod Stewart: Foolish Behaviour (Warner Bros. HS3485)
Review by Laura Fissinger, Trouser Press, February 1981
FOOLISH BEHAVIOUR is Rod Stewart's first studio LP in two years, written entirely by Rod and band and produced almost entirely by same. Gee, it's ...
Rod Stewart: Tonight I'm Yours (Warner Bros.)
Review by Paul Nelson, Rolling Stone, 4 February 1982
Owning up for posterity ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 28 August 1982
WHAT BUT the magic of cassette (and the greed of the Decca Corp) could possibly bring you "True" Britt Ekland, Svedish accent und all, whispering ...
Eleganza: Hairy Monsters (In Need Of Sleep)
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, January 1984
A COUPLE OF issues back, Eleganza admitted that it was at a loss for what to tell you to do with your hair. Wear it ...
Box Of Frogs: Bench Strength/Rod Stewart: Camouflage/Vanilla Fudge: Mystery
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, October 1984
IT'S BEEN ONE Old Timers Day after another for Hall of Fame axe-handler Jeff Beck over the past year or so. ...
Rod Stewart, The Faces: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 12 July 1986
BIG NOSE STRIKES AGAIN! ...
Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 23 May 1993
THE PENINSULA Hotel's presidential suite is not your standard overnight business accommodation, even for Fifth Avenue. There are three bedrooms, a library, two living rooms, ...
Honey and Sandpaper: Sam Cooke's disciples
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1995
The deep and enduring influence of Mr Soul. ...
Rod Stewart: Reasons To Believe
Guide by Nick Hornby, MOJO, May 1995
A fevered fan replays Rod's most ecstatic moments: hear the RBP playlist on Spotify! * ...
Rod Stewart: Roderick Of Hollywood...
Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, May 1995
ROD STEWART IN THE '80S? HERE'S WHERE THE MEMORIES really fly. While it's true that the man had just produced some of the most commercially ...
Rod Stewart: Soddy In Gomorrah
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, May 1995
"The '90s saw a new rock piety rise up against Rod Stewart and his 10 gallons of come." (Stephen J Malkmus, 'Vedder As Merton: 2001', ...
Interview by Mick Brown, MOJO, May 1995
THE WOMAN FROM ROD Stewart's management office suggests we should meet at her office in Beverly Hills; she would lead the way to Rod's house, ...
Guide by Fred Dellar, MOJO, May 1998
"A WHITE person can sing the blues with just as much conviction as a negro. All these negro singers singing about 'walking down the railroad ...
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 2000
DECEMBER 1973. It's the time of the Middle East oil crisis; the miners' strike that they got away with; the national three-day working week; constant ...
Rod Stewart: It Had To Be You ... The Great American Songbook
Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 15 November 2002
IN BRITAIN, Rod Stewarthasn't a hope of ever being hip again. Like Elton John, he can still sell out shows, but only if he stuffs ...
All rock stars have a price, even Mick Jagger
Report by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 28 June 2009
The biggest names in music have been enjoying a nice little earner – getting paid millions to perform for the super-rich. ...
Jeff Beck talks about Rod Stewart and answers some questions for Classic Rock
Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2011
JEFF BECK confirmed to Classic Rock that the two old buddies would renew a partnership that first saw light in the late 1960s when the two rock ...
Special Feature by Ted Kessler, The Times, 21 May 2016
Rod Stewart's dad gave him football lessons; Chris Martin's joins him on tour; Shaun Ryder's broke his nose on stage; Leonard Cohen is funnier than ...
Sir Rod Stewart: "Maggie May? I prefer Theresa May!"
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 28 May 2017
Wake up, Theresa, I think I've got something to say to you... which is that you may be PM, Mrs May, but you're also "a fair ...
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see also Faces, The
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