Main photo images by Ian Delfin Baring
The Scottish Cup Final
Rod’s week started on a high when he attended the Scottish Cup final with Penny on Saturday and watched Celtic seal a record-breaking eighth domestic treble as they eased to a 3-1 win over Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Cup final.
Kyogo Furuhashi and Liel Abada gave Celtic a comfortable lead and, after Dan Mackay pulled a goal back against the run of play, Jota struck in stoppage time to spark the celebrations and seal an historic treble.
This weeks Rod Art
This week we feature a great pencil drawing by Terri Lynn from Arkansas in the US who told SMILER this week “Rod has been my all time favorite artist since I was a teen. I’m 51 now and he still is #1 in my book. This was my very first drawing of him and I plan on more. I wish I could get him to see it”
House For Sale
Rod’s massive Los Angeles Château came on the market this week for $70 Million
Rod’s house is in Beverly Hills, CA. He lives part-time in the house, which he bought in 1991 for $12 million, according the public records. The property features eight bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and is 18,794 square feet. Rod had the property designed for him by famous California architect Richard Landry.
Also a former home of Rod’s the Wave House listed for $49.5M in Malibu, The cresting casa, widely believed to have been an inspiration for the Sydney Opera House was most recently owned by record executive Mo Ostin who passed away last year, aged 95, and his estate is now selling off his home of 36 years.
Under Rod’s ownership, the Wave House saw railings installed along the decks — “He was very concerned that people at his parties would stumble and fall off the edge,” co-listing representative Gesner, who grew up next door in a building known as the Sandcastle, told The Wall Street Journal
During his time as the “Forever Young” singer’s neighbor, Zen Gesner recalls periodically seeing Stewart dancing on his deck and once encountering the entire Scottish national team playing soccer on the beach, Stewart having invited them over for a game.
Your chance to Send in questions for Stevie
As part of the promotion for his up coming audio book ‘When We Were the Boys: Coming of Age on Rod Stewart’s Out of Order Tour’ Stevie Salas has said he will answer some fans questions about his time with Rod, so email me your questions to me and Stevie will also choose some to answer, not only that he will choose a couple of his favourite questions to get a free download of audio book.
Send your questions to [email protected]
I know many of will also want the CD version of the audio book and you can pre – order a copy now at
We Will Rock You
On Wednesday Rod and Penny attended the “We Will Rock You” Gala Night at the London Coliseum, Rod was in high spirits as he put on an animated display on the red carpet with BGT judge Bruno Tonioli.
Ace photographer Jules Annan was on hand to capture it to see more of Jules amazing photos from the night go to https://www.instagram.com/concertphotography/?hl=en
As Rod and Penny attempted to leave the venue they were mobbed by fans while they tried to make their way to the car.
Annabel’s 60th Anniversary
Rod and Penny attended Annabel’s 60th anniversary party in London on Thursday, Pennylooked stunning in a floaty white mini dress with a V-neckline and silver belt cinching in the loose-fitting, ethereal garment at the waist. and not afraid of clashing prints Rod rocked his jazzy suit, a gold twist on a bold Beetlejuice stripe, teamed with a contrasting leopard print waistcoat and an open shirt.
Swing It Again Rod
On Friday an interview with Rod and Boy George was aired on BBC Breakfast Rod again said he was leaving the ‘Hits’ and moving on
In the pre-recorded interview, presenter Charlie Stayt said: “Rock stars are performing into incredible ages now.”
Rod answered : “I am actually stopping. I’m not retiring, but I want to move on to… I had great success with The Great American Songbook and I’ve just done a swing album with Jools Holland, which is going to come out next year, so I want to go in that direction.
“So I just want to leave all the rock ‘n’ roll stuff behind, for a while maybe… Everything has to come to an end sooner or later.”
adding : “I’m really looking forward to doing something else, especially singing with Jools’ band. It borders on rock ‘n’ roll anyway, it’s just not Maggie May and Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”
And finally
Artist Tim Jeffs has sent the last of the Rod SMILER logo statues out now, this has been a really great project to be involved in, Rod was sent his statue early this week, he said it was great and Penny also mentioned how great it was.
“16 of 25..Thank you Tim Jeffs..Great job..Love it” – Iris L Alexander
“I’ts Great!” – Sir Rod Stewart
And it seems a popular choice to my question from last week..If and when we work with artist Tim Jeffs’s again would you prefer a Faces Rodney or a bang up to date Sir Rod? was a Faces Rodney, So watch this space.
So don’t forget to order your bottle of Wolfie’s on Friday ..
Cheers and we’ll see you next week…