This week’s news and gossip

Main Photo Beatriz Melossi

It’s Friday Night..

This week we started back at the 02 for the second show..And Rod made a big announcement Amanda and Adrianna are both expecting..congratulations to both of you from everyone at SMILER

Once again Johnny Mac & The Faithful plyed a great set and went down a storm

Yve Paige was on hand again to get some photos for SMILER and said

‘My 2nd Rod concert went well, good to see some old faces again. I thought it was a much livelier concert than Tuesday with Rod seeming much happier too.I had a tear when he mentioned his Brother Don and I so missed my friend Sue who couldnt come with me too’.

Jackie Bearman was also up front at the 02 and took some great shots

Among the special guests was the lovely Dee Harrington who said she had a fantastic night in the middle of Rod’s World Tour

Another very special guest at the show was ex band member Lucy Woodward who sent us these shots of her reunion with the band

Proud Mum

On Sunday a proud Penny posted a photo of herself and son Alastair out celebrating his 17th birthday captioned ‘So proud of my boy 💕 happy 17th’

The Bhoys Are Back in Town

On Tuesday Rod played The Glasgow OVO Hydro to an amazing crowd that Rod said was ‘Loudest Crowd of the Tour!’ fellow Celtic fan Johnny Mac also said he was excited to be playing his home town

Maureen Davison was up front and got some front of stage photos

And Lesley Robinson took these great shots..

Gus and Amy from Pulse Breakfast Show 98.4 were also at the show and got this photo taken with Rod

Set List…

Addicted to Love
You Wear It Well
Ooh La La
Some Guys Have All the Luck
It Takes Two
Forever Young
The First Cut Is the Deepest
Maggie May
I’d Rather Go Blind
Young Turks
Rhythm of My Heart
Call Me (Girls Vocals)
Acoustic Set:
I Don’t Want to Talk About It
Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
You’re in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
Have I Told You Lately
Lady Marmalade (Girls Vocals)
Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?
Baby Jane
Encore: Sailing

Special thanks to Beatriz Melossi who took our main photo, Couldn’t be more fitting!

The Killing of Georgie Fame

Back in 1976 David Hamilton was one of the main presenters on the legendary music show Top of The Pops, he loved the job and made it a rule to never drink while working, the BBC loved David as mistakes in filming were very costly and he made very few.

In September 1976 Rod’s segment of The Killing Of Geogie was to close the showand David introduced it saying “Now on Top of the Pops this is Rod Stewart and The Killing of Georgie Fame” the filming stoped and the producer told David of his mistake David said sorry and again said “Now on Top of the Pops this is Rod Stewart and The Killing of Georgie Fame” David was confused and couldn’t understand what was going on , he managed to nail it at the third attempt but by now a lot of valuable time and tape had been wasted and it was the last time the now not so reliable David was asked to present the show.

Talking to SMILER this week David told us “I was known as One Take Hamilton but on this occasion I got it wrong twice and stood there feeling rather foolish. Some time later two blokes from a record company told me they had spiked my drink for a laugh.
Incidentally, I played football with Rod Stewart on occasions. I always tell people he was the best player in the Showbiz X1″.

Catch David weekday lunchtimes 12-2 on Boom Radio – and on Saturdays with his Million Sellers. ttps://www.boomradiouk.com/david-hamilton/

Vintage Rod T’s

Are any members interested in any of these mint condition Rod T’s if you are they are £4 each plus £3.50 postage and packing, Please contact [email protected]

This weeks Rod Art

This week we feature silk screen artist Peter Bainbridge from Sydney Australia, Peter uses handmade French and German cotton rag paper and produces limited edition silkscreen prints using Oil/Acrylic based archival pigments including this fantastic Rod print

Peter told SMILER this week ‘I’m doing a book (100 pages) on rock stars from the 60’s to the present, through https://www.highvoltagepublishing.com/ Titled ‘The Lime Casper’. We love Rod. Rod got a huge reaction on my socials. A rough publishing due date is June next year’

To see more of Peters work go to ..

Art work….…https://www.peter-bainbridge-artist.com
Linkedin…….https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbainbridge
Facebook……https://www.facebook.com/peterbainbridge28
Instagram…….https://www.instagram.com/bainbridge1981/

Let it sew

It was announced this week thay Penny will be taking part in The Great British Sewing Bee: Celebrity Christmas Special .

Penny posted this teaser shot of the show and captioned it

Let it sew, let it sew, let it sew!
Join me and my lovely fellow sewers for a festive special of Sewing Bee:

The Great British Sewing Bee: Celebrity Christmas Special airs in the TV schedule on Thursday, 22 December at 8PM on BBC One.

The Princes Foundation

Rod attended The Princes Foundation event on Thursday at The Garrison Chapel in Chelsea and met American singer and guitarist Brix Smith

And later visited The Chelsea Pig bar and restaurant.

BFI Missing Believed Wiped Night

Any one in the London area on Saturday might want to pop into the BFI Southbank and catch the showing of Missing Believed Wiped Session 2: oddities and rarities a highlight of the evenings finds is a first screening anywhere of an exciting new find. Earlier this month the BFI learned of a precious collection of over 20 missing performances from Top of the Pops (in 1973) recovered from Roger Hill, a private collector who had filmed the material from the TV screen (on Super 8) and taped the sound on ¼” tape. At this year’s Missing Believed Wiped event we will get the first glimpse of some of these wonderful finds including performances from The Faces [Cindy Incidentally] T-Rex [The Groover], and other gems from Roxy Music, 10CC, Hot Chocolate and Gladys Knight.

Saturday 03 December 2022 14:20
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And Finally ..

Don’t forget any fans in Scotland attending Aberdeen P&J Live, Tonight or Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on Saturday or fans at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena on Tuesday please send in any thoughts and pictures for next week’s news and gossip

See you next week