SMILER Rod Stewart fanclubBeing a lifelong Faces enthusiast (those who know me would say fanatic) I have often thought (and wished), that the two Ronnie Wood solo releases while he was still a member of the group, 1974’s I’VE GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO and 1975’s NOW LOOK, two very solid efforts, should have been recorded with…
1981s RELEASE WITH A NEW TITLE, COVER, AND RUNNING ORDER.TONIGHT I’M YOURS, Rod’s second studio album from the 80s, and arguably his best of the decade, almost hit a bull’s-eye creatively if it wasn’t for two disposable cuts, “Tora, Tora, Tora (Out With The Boys)” and the regrettably titled “Sonny”. Critically and commercially it was…
As a long-standing enthusiastic Rod Stewart devotee, I deeply look forward to any new Rod material, but I seem to be more and more in the minority. It appears that most Rod fans nowadays only want to see him live, and they are more than happy just to be fed nothing but the big hits…
It was a bitingly cold early November morning, the 24th to be exact – Record Store Day on Black Friday! With my third cup of coffee in hand (I can quit at any time, but I choose not to!), and a mission to accomplish, I stood outside in line behind 32 (yes, I counted) other…
The corporate-sanctioned Faces font over one that works…
KENNEY JONES: SESSION MAN
The exclusive Ark Royal single
An in-depth analysis of the SMILER album
The bawdy NOD poster
One of Rod’s most underrated albums has got to be 1986s ROD STEWART, which was curiously also released as EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART.