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Having passed his fiftieth anniversary as a recording artist, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee continues to add new chapters to an incomparable career. With his twenty-ninth solo studio album, Another Country, Stewart picks up where his last album, 2013’s globally acclaimed ‘Time’, left off.
The album boasts 12 original tracks written by the singer himself. The title ‘Another Country’ is influenced by his musings over being in the armed forces, sent away from family and loved ones and so demonstrates a sentimental theme in the tracks.
Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional football, it was music that truly captured his heart - and he never looked back.Rod started out in the early 1960s, playing the clubs on London's R&B scene, before his distinctively raspy voice caught the ear of the iconic front man Long John Baldry, who approached him while busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five years with the Faces, the rock star's rock band, whose offstage antics with alcohol, wrecked hotel rooms and groupies have become the stuff of legend.
Jim Cregan's career as a rock guitarist, songwriter and producer
has spanned over fifty years, touring and recording albums with
stars such as Elton John, Cat Stevens, Family, Willie Nelson, Steve
Harley and Cockney Rebel, Joe Cocker, The Gypsy Kings, and Katie
Melua. However, he is perhaps best known for his forty-year
association with Rod Stewart, not only as his guitarist but also
being best friends and godfathers to each other's children. In his
autobiography Jim Cregan lifts the lid on his extraordinary life,
recounting his experiences with music's biggest stars, from his
first band at the age of 14 playing in youth clubs in Poole to
performing in front of 350,000 people in Rio de Janeiro. In And on
Guitar . . . Cregan holds nothing back: from his early life and
anecdotes about his family to shenanigans on the road and
extraordinary tales of hedonism, love and loss, his stories feature
a Who's Who of music's biggest stars.
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Various Artists - Soulbook (CD)
Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson; Performed by Rod Stewart
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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Ridiculously funny and
astonishingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock
autobiography of the decade' DAILY MAIL 'One of the most
entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year' INDEPENDENT
___________________________________________ Rod Stewart was born
the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London.
Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career
paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional football, it was
music that truly captured his heart - and he never looked back. Rod
started out in the early 1960s, playing the clubs on London's
R&B scene, before his distinctively raspy voice caught the ear
of the iconic front man Long John Baldry, who approached him while
busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering
acts like the Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck
Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five years with
the Faces, the rock star's rock band, whose offstage antics with
alcohol, wrecked hotel rooms and groupies have become the stuff of
legend. And during all this, he found a spare moment to write
'Maggie May', among a few others, and launch a solo career that has
seen him sell an estimated 200 million records, be inducted into
the Hall of Fame twice, and play the world's largest ever concert.
Not bad, as he says, for a guy with a frog in his throat. And then,
there is his not-so-private life: marriages, divorces and affairs
with some of the world's most beautiful women - Bond girls, movie
stars and supermodels - and a brush with cancer which very nearly
saw it all slip away. Rod's is an incredible life, and here,
thrillingly and for the first time, he tells the whole thing,
leaving no knickers under the bed. A rollicking rock 'n' roll
adventure that is at times deeply moving, this is the remarkable
journey of a guy with one hell of a voice - and one hell of a head
of hair.
Rod Stewart performs a selection of American standards in an
exclusive one-night-only concert. Includes 'They Can't Take That
Away From Me', 'Every Time We Say Goodbye', and 'The Way You Look
Tonight'.
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