This is the moment you’ve been waiting for: judgment day – and more importantly the end of the painful, pathetic, final rounds of what started out, just a week ago, a fierce Battle Royale of possibly mind-blowing proportions. I don’t know about you, but I feel completely drained, wasted, like Rod and his nipple slip.
Forget the battle between Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, ca. 1976. I’m more interested in the battle between Little Stevie Wright and Rod Stewart! You be the judge!
“Hard Road”, Stevie Wright
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In 1975, Faces mercifully wind down with a final tour. Rod Stewart’s not doing so well. He’s so out of it on this Midnight Special appearance that in his Tara Reid-like stupor he doesn’t have a clue that his nipples have, like, totally slipped out of his scoop neck top!
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Townsman Hrrundivbakshi requested more proof that Rod Stewart’s 1974 solo album, Smiler, “sucks,” as I summarized.
As requested, the Vanda and Young-composed track from Smiler that could change the course of this study…
Rod Stewart, “Hard Road”
I look forward to your thoughts.
Call 1974 the beginning of the Satin Years. Satin jackets and jumpsuits would mark the “sucking in the ’70s” period that both the Stones and Rod Stewart would face. The best thing that can be said about some of the worst works by these artists in the coming years is that they helped spur the punk rock movement. However, the Stones would work hard to keep it together and see if they could even up the score in their Battle Royale against Rod Stewart from the years 1969-1976.
Listen closely to Keef in this 1974 interview and see if you can tell where this is headed.
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I came across this old New York Times piece on Keith Richards, at the time of the release of his X-Pensive Winos album, Talk Is Cheap. It was 1989, and the rock world marveled at the fact that Keef had made it to 45 years of age! Keef and Mick were airing dirty laundry like an old, committed married couple on a regular basis. It’s a testament to the band that nothing’s really changed in all this time. Let’s hope the power of their musical marriage is what gets them through the last couple of rounds of our Stones vs Stewart Battle Royale!
