‘Full speed ahead for the tour!’
Rod posted a video to Instagram on Monday as he ran laps across his football pitch – revealing to fans that he is at ‘top fitness’.
He captioned the video ‘full speed ahead’ adding ‘After a knee replacement and angle fusion surgery, at 77 I’m back to top fitness in preparation for my long awaited tour dates – and maybe a call up Scotland!!! ‘Full speed ahead bring on the tour!!!’
Main photo from Rod’s last show in Florida back in February by Jim Pietryga
Happy Birthday Your Majesty
Ronnie Wood commemorated Her Majesty’s 96th birthday by creating a painting in her honour sharing the picture of his creation to his 620,000 Twitter followers he captioned the shot: “Wishing Her Majesty The Queen a very happy 96th birthday today!
And in return James Grimoldby who was featured in our Rod art section a few weeks ago came up with this superb artwork of Ronnie!
This Weeks Rod Art
This weeks Rod art is a great watercolour painting of Rod in action by Juan Carlos from Del Rio Art, Mexico City.
Talking to SMILER this week Juan told us “I began to paint in watercolor since a year ago, before that, I used to use Chinese ink in other portraits but all my life I wanted to learn how to paint with watercolors. I have been mainly inspired by two artists, one of them is David Mack from U.S. and Charlie Roy from Scotland. By other hand, my professional career is a musician, I’m a drummer and I love music. In this moment I’m presenting an exposition in the showcases that are in the subway in Mexico city”.
Menopausemandate.com
Penny posted this photo of Rod showing the headlines in The Daily Mail and also showing his support for https://www.menopausemandate.com/ [Sign the petition at this link].
And in an interview She went on to praise Rod for making men more aware of the issue by backing the Menopause Mandate campaign – which has been championed by Penny and TV presenters Davina McCall and Mariella Frostrup. Penny told The Daily Telegraph: ‘First of all he had empathy towards me and how I was suffering from it. We’ve always been good at communicating with one another and explaining how we feel, so he got to understand.
‘Then he wanted to encourage men to sit up and take note. He’s going: ‘This isn’t just a women’s problem. We need to recognise it.’ It affects husbands, partners, children.’
Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia #5
This week we head to Southeast Asia, Vietnam where Sonmeo Nguyen took this photo that features a dinner jacket that was worn by Rod, The photo was taken in the Ho Chi Minh City branch.
Speaking to SMILER Sonmeo said ” I am a fan of Rod. I love “Forever Young”, I and my Son sang Forever Young when he was 3, he loves it too, now he is 8. 🙂
I used to work for Hard Rock Cafe Saigon, where Rod’s memorabilia is”.
Have you ever spotted a Rod item in a Hard Rock Cafe while you were visiting?..If you have send it in to [email protected] and tell us about it and I will post them in future ‘This week’s news and gossip’ posts.
Murphy’s Irish Bar
Murphy’s Irish Bar in the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant city thanked Rod for popping into his favourite Irish bar again when he attended the Scottish Cup semi-final and posted this photo of Rod leaving a great souvenir…
David from Murphy’s told SMILER “The drum Rod signed has pride of place behind the bar. He’s also signed one of his records for us that we are going to get framed for the wall”
The Rare Broadcast Archives
In June Laser Media are releasing a luxury 6 disc digipack containing legendary radio broadcast recordings from Rod’s early years both with Faces and solo, the recordings from 1973-1994 and are thought to be US radio broadcasts.
Please note this is a bootleg and totally unofficial, but for those interested here is the track listing.
CD 01: 1973
- Silicone Grown 02. Cindy Incidentaly 03. Angel 04. Memphis Tennessee
- True Blue
- I’d Rather Go Blind
- You’re My Girl
- Twistin’ The Night Away
- It’s All Over Now
- Miss Judy’s Farm
- I Know I’m Losing You
- Three Button Hand Me Down
- Maybe I’m Amazed
CD 02: 1975
- Intro/ The Killing of Georgie 02. Maggie May 03. Get Back 04. I’m Losing You (I Know)/ Drum Solo 05. Sailing 06. Stay With Me/Outro
CD 03: 1976
- Intro/ Three Time Loser 02. You Wear It Well 03. Big Bayou 04. Tonight’s the Night 05. Wild Side of Life 06. This Old Heart of Mine 07. Sweet Little Rock and Roller 08. I Don’t Want To Talk About It
CD 04: 1993
- Hot Legs 02. Band Comments 03. Tonight I´m Yours 04. Band Rehearsal 05. Lost In You 06. The First Cut Is The Deepest 07. Interview 08. Some Guys Have All The Luck 09. Crowd Comments 10. Passion 11. Interview 12. Forever Young 13. Crowd Comments 14. Baby Jane
CD 05 : 1980
01. Hot Legs 02. Sweet Little Rock & Roller 03. Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright) 04. You’re in My Heart 05. Sailing 06. I Don’t Want to Talk About It 07. Carol Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? 08. You Wear It Well 09. I Was Only Joking 10. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) 11. Get Back 12. The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) 13. Stay With Me
CD 06: 1994
01. The Stripper 02. Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller 03.You Wear It Well 04. Hot Legs 05. Tonight’s The Night 06. You’re In My Heart 07. She Won’t Dance With Me 08. All Right Now 09. Young Turks 10. I Ain’t Superstitious 11. The Pump 12. Bad For You 13. Passion
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Band Rod Stewart feat The Faces
Title Box (The Rare Broadcast Archives)
Label Laser Media
Generic musical style Rock / Hard Rock / Glam
Detailed musical style Cult Pop Rock
Bar code 5583787952588
Catalog # LM52588
Release Date 24 June 2022
Billy Gaff
Corrigan & Sons Funeral Directors in Ireland posted the death notice of The Faces and Rod’s ex manager Billy Gaff who reportedly passed away on Monday, as we post this news bulletin SMILER can not confirm this news ..more on this sad breaking news next week .
And finally ..
On Tuesday we wished another special lady a Happy Birthday as J’Anna from Rod’s band celebrated her big day!