This week’s news and gossip

Main photo Al Norris.

What Made Milwaukee famous

Rod’s week ended in Milwaukee at the Summerfest’s American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Thursday, July 7 with band member Adrianna Thurber missing from the line up with the flu.

Before performing Maggie May, Rod suggested this would be the last time the fans at Summerfest would hear the song.

Rod Stewart’s set list

1. “Addicted To Love”
2. “You Wear It Well”
3. “Some Guys Have All The Luck”
4. “Having A Party”
5. “It Takes Two”
6. “Forever Young”
7. “The First Cut Is The Deepest”
8. “Have You Ever Seen The Rain?”
9. “Maggie May”
10. “I’d Rather Go Blind”
11. “Young Turks”
12. “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”
13. “Rhythm Of My Heart”
14. “Call Me”
15. “The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)”
16. “People Get Ready”
17. “Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)”
18. “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)”
19. “Have I Told You Lately”
20. “Hot Stuff”
21. “Hot Legs”

Encore

22. “Stay With Me”

Penny

Penny ended her week with a family trip to Malibu Beach and posted this great shot on Instagram

It’s Friday Night…

Well that’s last week caught up…your news editor finally got knocked out for three days by the dreaded covid [You should have heard ME try to sing Sweet Caroline!] but we are back on track now…

8th July saw the tour arrive at The Excel Energy Center. Saint Paul, MN

It’ll be the last time you hear this in Minnesota announced Rod as went into Maggie May again implying this will be his last greatest Hits Tour, Rod also spoke of meeting up with Van Morrison at the recent Raise The Roof concert and said the singer has reputation for being standoffish but Rod said Van knocked on his door and would not stop talking as he thanked him for being able to buy a swimming pool with the royalties from Rod’s recording of ‘Have I Told You Lately’.

Some of the local reviewers were commenting on Rod’s poor vocals but Clancy McGee who was in attendance told SMILER “TOTAL RUBBISH! He was in excellent voice, and as you know, Rod will be the first to admit when the vocals are not up to par. He carried each tune like we all expect from his live shows, I have read some of the sub par reviews and then follow that up with seeing who is the reviewer…..in each instance my immediate comment was “figures!” it seems as though reviewers think they need to be sharp, critical, and cutting edge in order to write a good review. As you would say on your side of the pond, ‘BOLLOCKS!‘ “

Do We Mind The Bollocks ?

To anyone who is thinking of checking out the new Danny Boyle ‘Pistols’ series on Disney + I would highly recommend it, how true it all is I am not sure, but Rod get shown in a clip only a few seconds in to episode one and as you would expect gets quite a few digs throughout the series, Rod is portrayed quite rightly as THE rock star and the music clips throughout are actually very well done, it does sum up the era very well, my only gripe is according to this script God Save The Queen gets to number one ..and they still wont play the song!, no mention of Rod keeping it off the top spot!

Back to the Tour…

Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH

Rod arrived in Cincinnati on Tuesday July 12th

And took time out to visit the old home of Mercury Records , where it all began.

And Kait Miller was on hand to get these great shots from tonight’s show.

This weeks Rod Art

This weeks Rod art is done by Las Vegas artist Ryan Rabbass who told SMILER this week ” I created it actually as digital artwork! Photoshop. I use a Wacom brush, a digital paintbrush. I made this for my mother in law she’s a huge fan. We live in Vegas and she’s seen him a few times here!”

To see more of Ryan’s amazing work go to https://www.rockchromatic.com/

Ryan added “I would love to ship some Rod Stewart canvases out there, or do any custom work!

Raise The Roof

Sky Arts have announced the date they will be showing the Raise The Roof concert for Prostate cancer awareness that was recently filmed at the Royal Albert Hall it will be Friday July 22nd at 9pm on Sky Arts.

The Didn’t Quite Make It in Time for Christmas Video Show

Don’t miss another chance to see Rod’s classic appearance on The Kenny Everett New Year Video Show from 1978 on That’s TV Saturday 16th July 10:25am-11:05am (40 minutes)

The Rod Stewart group perform Maggie May and a stunning rock version of Da Ya Think I’m Sexy . Other guests include Leo Sayer.

Freeview:65 Freesat:178 Sky channel 187

And Finally…

Anyone attending tonight’s show at Ruoff Music Center, Noblesville, IN. Hope you have a fantastic night and don’t forget to let us know how it goes and we would love to see any good pictures!