This week’s news and gossip

Main photo by Anderson Hildebrando

Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

Rod ended last week with a Friday night gig at Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

Early arrivers were greeted by The Wolfie’s Whisky backdrop

Mary Nigri met Rod and the band while they were in Brazil and got some great photos

Andre Huntercwb also met up with Rod after 15 hours of waiting!

Allianz Parque, São Paulo, Brazil

On Saturday Rod played his second Brazilian show the Legends in concert 2023 with Ivete Sangalo at Allianz Parque, São Paulo and lucky Mary Nigri met Rod for a second time.

Photographer Anderson Hildebrando was at the show and took some stunning photographs including our main photo that he let us share with our readers

Ivete Sangalo sang with Rod on Da ya Think I’m Sexy and Sailing

Martin Bonavita also got some good shots of Rod

Later the band attended a party and the band got our LV up to sing..not sure if he knew the words though!

After the two amazing shows it was time to relax and Penny posted a great shot from Iguazú Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil

And Rod had more fun!

Rod was shown around the Full moon tour main attraction of Foz do Iguaçu and the Triple Border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay by Chemical Reaction drummer Carlos Ivan Pereira who was the tour guide and told him “I’ve seen many things in my life, but nothing compares to this beauty (the Falls under the light of the full moon)”.

Buenos Aires Estadio Geba

On Wednesday Rod was in Argentina for his big show but took in a trip to Teatro Colon for a Tango show and Penny posted some shots of the stunning venue

And later shared a photo of herself with Rod while wearing a black mini-dress.

And then it was show time..

Before the show Rod and Kevin got to hold the World Cup

Kevin commented Speechless…. Argentina’s glorious World Cup trophy!

And Rod commented Is this as close as Scotland will ever get to the World Cup ? 😉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Thanks Argentina

Maria Laura Martinez was at the show and got some superb shots to share with us..

Maria also told us about Joanne Harper, Holly Brewer and Becca Kotte.who sang an a capella version of the musical classic Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, Rod seemed to love it and could hardly hold back his tears on stage, he just waved a hand and disappeared, he couldn’t speak.. it was a very emotional night..

Shoemaker to the stars Daniel Marra met up with Rod who showed him what he had learned at the Agentine Tango show!!

Faces At The BBC

It was this week officially announced by Rhino that as part of RSD Black Friday the first official release from The Faces will drop on November 11th

Faces – Had Me A Real Good Time… With Faces! In Session & Live at the BBC 1971-1973

Limited Edition of 8,000 worldwide copies on 1-LP 140-gram Orange Crush vinyl

Note: this ia a 1 album sampler not a double album.

50 Years of Tina

To celebrate 50 years since the start of Tina Turner’s iconic solo career, ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ is a huge compilation of 55 tracks that compiles an incredible anthology of Tina’s legendary solo career through her singles. From her cover of ‘Whole Lotta Love’ all the way up to the Kygo remix of ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ in 2020, this is the first time her whole singles collection has been released as one set.

Available to pre-order now, it will be released on November 24, 2023. It comes as triple-CD and 5LP sets as well as digitally with a cut-back 12 track vinyl version. All sets come with a foreword from Bryan Adams – her longtime friend and collaborator.

Tina’s first release as a solo artist was the 1974 album ‘Tina Turns The Country On!’ whilst still touring and releasing albums as duo Ike & Tina Turner Revue. The album spawned no singles but in 1975 upon the release of her second album – ‘Acid Queen’ – her cover of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ was released which kicks off this set which goes on to including duets with other legendary performers like David Bowie, Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart as well as some of the most unforgettable and celebrated pop and rock singles of all time such as ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’, ‘Private Dancer’, ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’, ‘The Best’, ‘Steamy Windows’, ‘I Don’t Wanna Lose You’, ‘Disco Inferno’ to name but a few.

To celebrate the legacy of the undeniable and inimitable Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, this collection also features a new version of ‘Something Beautiful Remains’ retitled to simply ‘Something Beautiful’. The track has been reworked by legendary producer and long-time collaborator of Tina, Terry Britten, and is an emotive and fitting final tribute to the power of her legacy that Terry made shortly after her passing, he said “Dear Tina, the experience of working with you could never be repeated, but in my heart something beautiful remains. Love, Terry”.

Tina is revered around the world, inspiring millions through her own personal story, her singing, her dancing and beyond, her music legacy is a collection of some of the best-known songs of all time.

She is unquestionably one of the most important artists ever inspiring, amongst many others, Beyoncé who, at the Kennedy Center Honours tribute event for Tina in 2005 said, “I will never forget the first time I saw you [Tina Turner] perform, I had never in my life seen a woman so powerful, so fearless and so fabulous” and their performance of ‘Proud Mary’ together is regarded as some of the most iconic Grammy moments ever.

Tina has sold over 200 million records and has had ten UK top ten hit singles and nine UK top 10 albums and was the first female artist to have a top 40 hit in six consecutive decades in the UK. Her albums combined are 20x platinum in the UK and 9x platinum in the US whilst also achieving huge sales throughout the rest of the world. She has won eight Grammy Awards and been nominated for 25. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, has stars on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and St. Louis Walk of Fame. Her 1988 Break Every Rule tour, broke the world record for the largest paying audience at a solo concert, with 184,000 at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro and Rolling Stone Magazine named her #17 in 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and #63 in 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Yet, regardless of all the success and fame through her career, Tina remained relatable and adored for the person she was. In Bryan Adam’s beautiful and personal foreword, he sums up perfectly the effect she has had on him that reflects on so many around the world…

“From obscurity to the stages of the UK and Europe, I credit Tina for changing the course of my life and I’m so grateful to have had some of her precious time. She was a force of nature, no one had her energy or her voice, I suppose it’s fitting to say, it’s only love, and that’s all.”

This week’s Rod Art

This week we feature an amazing Pencil and charcoal drawing from an artist who has featured on SMILER in the past , TJ Wright is an artist from Milton Keynes,who currently produces portrait work in pencil and charcoal.he been creative his whole life, working as a spray painter and sign writer, and producing drawings, watercolours and oil paintings in his spare time. Talking of his Rod drawings TJ told SMILER that thet were “Part of my many sketching experiments in my pursuit for perfection. Or a close as possible”

To see more of TJ’s stunning work go to https://www.instagram.com/tjwright.art/

Forever Young Hits Number One

Great news this week from Daniel Grindstaff who’s excellent cover of Rod’s Forever Young has hit the Number One slot on the Bluegrass charts!

The track features Paul Brewster and Dolly Parton and we featured the story of it’s release in August in the SMILER news https://www.rodstewartfanclub.com/news/this-weeks-news-and-gossip-93/?swcfpc=1 If you have not heard the track you can check it out here https://sc.lnk.to/jJnih0

Sing it Again Rod

Artist Tim Jeffs is working on the last couple of batches so don’t worry if you have not had yours yet..only 2 left to buy now so get in quick if you want one

Any questions contact me [email protected]

Penny
Penny received a dyslexia diagnosis at the age of 46. Speaking to The Mirror, she said: “I’m dyslexic – something I’ve always known and kept secret until I recently got diagnosed. Rod has given me so much confidence.”

And finally..

Congratulations to Wolfie’s Whisky who won a gold medal in The Spirits Business Autumn Tasting…well done!

See you next week..