Cleveland Browns Stadium, Ohio
Rod ended the week on Friday opening the show with a double header concert with Billy Joel at Cleveland Browns Stadium, Ohio
Rod opened the night with a ‘Hits’ set and later came back onstage to join Billy Joel for a performance of Faces ‘Stay with Me’ with Billy saying: “He’s one of my heroes.”
Roland Macher was at the show to bring us some photos
Maria Durant was also at the show
“These are the colors of a flag—the flag of Ukraine,” Rod told the crowd of about 50,000. “There’s an evil war going on in Ukraine. Russia has invaded Ukraine. This song is for Ukraine, for its soldiers. For [Volodymyr] Zelensky.”
“And whoever is next in the White House—don’t stop helping Ukraine,”
On social media Rod commented Friday night in Cleveland with Billy Joel will go down as one of the most memorable nights of my career…WOW, did we rock the place! It was a beautiful sunny evening with 50,000 fans dancing and singing, such a powerfully needed antidote to the troubled, divided world we live in. Billy and I sang ’Stay with Me‘ together. He was fantastic and I was ok too.’
Thank you Billy!
Thank you Cleveland!
The Rainbow Room
On Saturday Rod and Penny attended The iconic Rainbow room in the heart of New York City it was the setting for a very special charity event. in aid of ‘Memories that Matter’ and The Kings Foundation. Rod sang with the Anglo Italian Soprano singer Carly Paoli and also played a set for the 160 guests.
Photo credit @laneoliveri From Penny Lancaster Instagram
Niagara Falls OLG Stage At view Casino Resort
On Sunday Rod was in Canada at the Niagara Falls OLG Stage At view Casino Resort Ian Macaulay got some great photos to capture the night
And Roland Macher was also at the show
Rod collectors
As we always try to help Rod collectors complete their collections you might be interested to know eil.com have new in this week the saught after Oh! No Not My Baby in the original Tartan sleeve Sleeve UK
Rod Stewart Oh! No Not My Baby + Sleeve UK 7″ vinyl single (7 inch record / 45)
Tracklisting / Additional Info: 1. Oh! No Not My Baby 2. Jodie
Condition : This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description).
Year of Release: 1973 – 51 years old
£ 8.00, USD 10.56, € 9.52 change currency
Champions League
The Champions League was back this week and on Wednesday Rod was at Celtic Park to see Celtic’s biggest ever win in the Champions League proper.
There were five different scorers on the night as Liam Scales, Kyogo, Arne Engels, Daizen Maeda and Adam Idah fired Celtic to a brilliant win.
This happened to be Celtic’s first-ever Champions League league phase match after the competition was completely revamped for the 2024/25 season onwards.
After the match Rod met our good friend James Frew better known to SMILER members as Simply Rod Stewart
James said ‘I was so honoured to get to meet the man himself (and his son) and spend some time chatting..A lovely, down to earth and incredibly humble family man. That’s a day I won’t forget any time soon I can tell you’
Rod also had his photo taken with fans in Murphy’s Basement Bar
And also met RTE broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan who told her social media followers it was a ‘Fab night’
Loose Women
Explaining the choice of loud prints and golden touches in their home Penny told her fellow Loose Women presenters on Thursday, “My husband is colour blind and when we’re going he’d go ‘darling does this go with this? ‘ and I’m like ‘on you, it does, honey’ because I think you’re flamboyant and that’s your style and it’s great.'”
And Finally..
I was announced this week that a new un-official bootleg will be released for Christmas by Rythm and Blues
It is a live recording from Edmonton Sundown 1973, We have not heard the sound quality yet so your choice..Or you could wait for the official version as Faces own the copyright!
And don’t forget if you bump into Wolfie’s cut out Rod..get a photo!
See you next week…