This week’s news and gossip

Main Photo from The Kelly Clarkson Show Instagram

The One Show

Rod and Jools ended last week with a guest spot on The One Show on BBC 1

Celia Hammond’s Animal Trust

On Saturday Rod joined Johnny Depp to raise money for an animal charity based in Lewisham by performing at a private charity event to raise funds for Celia Hammond’s Animal Trust, a non-profit organisation dedicated to neutering, rescuing and rehoming animals.

Their performance was a success, raising around £250,000 for the cause. The event was hosted by the charity’s founder, Celia Hammond, a former supermodel from the 1960s, who used her fame to provide care for animals.

Rod sang some of his greatest hits including Maggie May, Forever Young and First Cut is the Deepest and Johnny played Elvis Presley’s original and most famous Red Hagstrom Viking II guitar 

The Lewisham branch of the Celia Hammond’s Animal Trust opened in October 1995, It primarily provides affordable neuter and vaccination services, for pet owners on a low income, The branch is also a cat rescue and homing centre for unwanted or abandoned cats.

The charity event for the animal trust took place at the luxury Ned Hotel with ticket auctions taking place last year.

COPS Winter Ball

On Saturday Penny hosted this years COPS Winter Ball that raises more than £50,000 for the charity, COPS is the only UK charity that solely supports the families of police officers and staff who die on duty

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

On Tuesday Rod and Jools Holland were guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on NBC.

During the interview while talking about the track Lullaby of Broadway Rod started singing and clapping as he gave an impromptu performance of the song with the studio audience, Jools, Jimmy, and house band The Roots all joining him.

“Come on. That’s how you do it. I’d start tapping now,” Jimmy said.

“My man,” Rod said as he pointed toward frontman Questlove and The Roots. The proceeded to start tap dancing and was joined by Jimmy and Jools as The Roots provided some music.

Rod and Jools performed the song Almost Like being In Love.

Young Rod Stewart + Angus

Chris Southwood has published the twin book edition of ‘Young Rod Stewart + Angus’ in paperback

And so SMILER members can get the book at a reduced price Chris has set the UK launch price to £8.50 UK, He will keep that price for a week from today [Friday]. It will be around £10.50 from then onwards although that will vary over time. The hardcover version is still available at £13.99 – so this is quite a saving.
The UK link is https://amzn.to/3UpC3oE

Synopsis on Amazon

In this paperback, I have combined two popular books for the price of one.
‘Young Rod Stewart’ and ‘Angus’.  Two books in one. Both stories, both lives, intertwined.

‘Young Rod Stewart’ is an enigmatic photo album of Rod back in the swinging sixties enjoying the fleshpots of London, Hastings, and Brighton. Replete with hippies, mods, rockers and my trusty motorbike. This was when we were both broke and young and before he became the rock legend he is today. A small section of our lives and friends in black and white. An epoch frozen in time.

‘Angus’
Is the story of Clive Amor affectionately known as Angus. This is about our schooling, about us kids growing up in the sixties, about swinging party life and drugs and our friendship with Rod set against the backdrop of London and the beaches of Hastings and Brighton.

This is about his death caused by Mandrake, about the press reports of the mysterious ‘parsnip’, witchcraft, and toads, about the coroner’s and pathologists’ inept conclusions, and why no one connected so many obvious pieces of evidence.

“We owe it to his memory to find out,” said the coroner in 1967.
We did find out, and it’s not what the coroner concluded.
This book, Angus, party animal, is in memory of our friend.

This week’s Rod Art

This week we feature the work of an underrated painter from Pennsylvania..Ashley

Ashley painted these 70’s Rod portraits and told SMILER this week “I’ve always been a huge Rod fan. I’m pretty sure I posted on his birthday. Rod is great nostalgia for me”

To see more work from Ashley go to https://www.instagram.com/abrslr/?hl=en or https://www.abrslr.com/

Wolfie’s Tesco Watch

Last week we asked for your photos of Wolfie’s whisky in your local Tesco, Maureen Gale sent in this shot of herself and friend Barbra with their bottles of Wolfie’s from America..great photo so we are posting it but unfortunatly not taken in Tesco.

Has Wolfie’s arrived at your local Tesco yet? If so let us know, Take a photo and let other Rascals know where they can find it..send me your photos by the end of February at [email protected]  and we will show them in the news, get yourselves in the shots as best one will win some Wolfie’s merch .

Dave Wyatt found Wolfie’s in his local Tesco Llansamlet in Swansea

And SMILER ‘s Yve Paige found Wolfie’s in the Borehamwood branch of Tesco

Tour Dates Cancelled

On Thursday it was announced that Fans hoping to see Rod live in Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Hong Kong on on the “Live in Concert, One Last Time” world tour, would be disapointed as the concerts had been cancelled “due to unforeseen circumstances.”

Rod will still be performing in Bangkok, Singapore, and Tokyo.

The Kelly Clarkson Show

On Thursday Rod and Jools were guests on The Kelly Clarkson Show

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven will be the next single taken from the album Swing Fever and will be released on February 14th

The song is a 1936 American popular song with music by Arthur Johnston and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra in the 1936 film of the same name. The recording by Louis Prima on the soundtrack of the 2003 movie Elf helped bring the song to prominence to new generations. Announcing the release on social media Rod said “Next up is a very well-known one, Pennies from Heaven. Here we go, Pennies from Heaven… because she is!”

And finally..

Ronnie Wood and the late Jeff Beck are involved in a landmark in rock music history, in a new, very special recording of Mark Knopfler’s anthemic ‘Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)’ that has been recorded to raise funds for Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.

Performed by Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes and produced by Knopfler’s longtime collaborator Guy Fletcher, the track features an unprecedented line-up of some of the greatest guitarists and musicians in history.

Full list of contributors:

Joan Armatrading, Jeff Beck, Richard Bennett, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Brown, James Burton, Jonathan Cain, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Jim Cox, Steve Cropper, Sheryl Crow, Danny Cummings, Roger Daltrey, Duane Eddy, Sam Fender, Guy Fletcher, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Keiji Haino, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, John Jorgenson, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Hank Marvin, Brian May, Robbie McIntosh, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Orianthi, Brad Paisley, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Connor Selby, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey, Sting, Andy Taylor, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Ian Thomas, Pete Townshend, Keith Urban, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Louis Walker, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, Glenn Worf, Zucchero.

To pre- order go to https://markknopflersguitarheroes.tmstor.es/

Anyone going to Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana on Saturday, Hollywood Hard Rock Live At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Complex on Tuesday or Wednesday have a great night and please send in any photos or thoughts on the shows

See you next week…