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Edinburgh Live
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Sir Rod Stewart clarifies real reason behind shock split as he admits 'I would've stayed'
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Sir Rod Stewart, one of this year's Glastonbury Festival headliners, has put a long-standing rumour to bed about why The Faces split. Established in 1969 in London, the rock band featured members Rod, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones. The band was made up of former members of other groups, with Ronnie L, Ian, and Kenney moving on from Small Faces, and Sir Rod and Ronnie disbanding from the Jeff Beck Group around the same time. For many years, 80-year-old Rod has been named as the catalyst for the band's split in 1975, due to his solo career. In a recent interview with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 however, he claimed this wasn't the case after all. Reflecting on his friendship with Ronnie W and Kenney, Rod reminisced: "We don't talk about the old times very much, I mean there's only three of us left, obviously that's without Mac and Ronnie. "But they were wonderful those days. That was a band I would've stayed in for the rest of my life." Debunking myths about his departure, he clarified: "People think I left but I didn't, you know, Ronnie joined the [Rolling] Stones and so the whole thing floundered. "Ronnie Lane had already left because he wasn't happy, so once we lost Ronnie Lane, we lost the soul of the band really." The remaining members of the band are currently working on an album and a documentary together, and there's even talk of a reunion at Glastonbury this weekend. Updating fans on their projects, Rod added: "Yeah we've been filming it [the documentary] for some time, we're trying to finish off an album and it's all down to me again, because I've got to get the lyrics finished. "I've been working so bl***y hard, I've got two albums on the go, two documentaries. "I'm supposed to be doing a book about my modern railway, which I've just dropped because I ain't got the time, but yeah, there is a documentary. "We've got a considerable amount of film and some really old stuff. Apparently Kodak gave all of The Faces cameras way back [then and said] 'Shoot what you want' and Kenney has still got it all. "So, it's going to go way back. I don't know when it's going to be finished, the album is down to me, I need to finish the lyrics off." Rod is scheduled to headline the Glastonbury Legends slot on Sunday, and last month, he confirmed that Ronnie will be joining him on stage. Rumour has it that Kenney will also be on board, though this hasn't been confirmed. Festival organiser Emily Eavis expressed her excitement over Rod performing, stating on Instagram: "Bringing Sir Rod Stewart back for the Sunday afternoon slot on the Pyramid stage is everything we could wish for. What a way to bow out with the final legends slot before we take a fallow year. We cannot wait!".
Daily Record
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Rod Stewart blasts Glastonbury set critics and makes huge pledge to fans
Rod Stewart also admitted he doesn't remember recording many of his oldest hits and can't recall his last Glastonbury slot in 2002. Rod Stewart has promised to entertain with a hit-packed set at Glastonbury but insists his tea time slot will not be 'pipe and slippers'. The 80-year old rocker also admitted he doesn't remember recording many of his oldest hits and can't recall the last time he played the legendary festival in 2002. Sir Rod said: "I don't remember a thing. I do so many concerts, they all blend into one." He added: I just wish they wouldn't call it the tea time slot. "That sounds like pipe and slippers, doesn't it? "You know, it's wonderful. I'll be in good voice. I'll enjoy myself. I don't care anymore what the critics think. "I'm there to entertain my people." Sir Rod also revealed the secret to his spike-topped hairstyle before he could afford one. 'I used to use sugared hot water, before the days of hair lacquer. And I couldn't afford hair lacquer, anyway,' he said. He's also persuaded organisers to extend his set, securing an hour-and-a-half slot after initially being offered 75 minutes. He added: 'Usually I do well over two hours so there's still a load of songs we won't be able to do. "But we've been working at it. I'm not gonna make any announcements between songs. I'll do one number, shout 'next', and go straight into the next one. "I'm going to get in as many songs I can." Sir Rod will select from from early hits with the Faces such as Stay With Me and Ooh La La, to his solo breakthrough with Maggie May, the slick pop of Do Ya Think I'm Sexy and his reinvention as a crooner on songs like Downtown Train and Have I Told You Lately. Recalling his early years, when he was championed by blues musician Long John Baldry, Rod said: 'I wanted to always sound like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, so that's the way I went. I suppose I was trying to be different from anybody else." One of his youngest fans likely to catch his Glastonbury set, which is likely to feature his old Faces pal Ronnie Wood, is his youngest son, Aidan, 14. "He's gone back and listened to everything I've done, bless him," Rod said. "He knows songs that I don't even remember recording.' His Glastonbury appearance will coincide with the release of his 20th greatest hits album. Sir Rod, who performed with the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces, before going solo, admits he was so drunk he used to forget the words to his own songs. In the US, the group received a 40-year ban from the Holiday Inn hotel chain after racking up an £8,000 bill for trashing their rooms. "We only did it because the Holiday Inns would treat us so badly, like we were the scum of the earth," he said. 'So we'd get our own back by smashing the hotels up. 'One time we actually got a couple of spoons and chiselled through the walls to one another's rooms. But we used to book in as Fleetwood Mac, so they'd get the blame." He also says he only 'dabbled' in drugs at a time when many rock stars were getting high. "I never was a really druggy person, because I played football all the time and I had to be match fit," he said. "I would use the word dabble. I've dabbled in drugs, but not anymore."
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rod Stewart Collects Lifetime Achievement Award & Closes 2025 AMAs by Singing ‘Forever Young'
Sir Rod Stewart capped the 2025 American Music Awards by accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award and giving the audience one of his patented high-energy performances to end the show on Monday (May 26). The 80-year-old icon was introduced by five of his eight children — Kim, Ruby, Renee, Liam and Sean — who honored their dad's 60-year career, which has seen him sell millions upon millions of albums worldwide thanks to such Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits as 'Maggie May, 'Hot Legs,' 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?' and 'Some Guys Have All the Luck.' More from Billboard Here Are the 2025 American Music Awards Winners (Updating Live) Shakira Falls Onstage During 'Whenever, Wherever' Performance at Montreal Concert Billy Joel's Daughter Alexa Ray Joel Offers Encouraging Words About Dad's Health Diagnosis 'I'm absolutely flabbergasted — I had no idea they were here,' a gobsmacked Rod the Mod said after hugging it out with his brood, cheekily joking that he's got 'eight all together … I didn't have a television.' Stewart recalled that when he started singing in the early 1960s, 'well before all of you lot were here,' he said, gesturing to the crowd, 'the reason I got into it was because I had this burning ambition to sing. That's all I wanted to do. I didn't want to be rich or famous.' The vocalist who began his career singing blues and R&B standards in his native England before joining the Jeff Beck Group and then Faces and launching his mega-successful solo era, thanked all the musicians he's played with over the years as well as his biggest influences, including Sam Cooke, Temptations singer and solo star David Ruffin and blues great Muddy Waters. Honors aside, Stewart seemed genuinely touched that five of his children were sharing the stage with him, shouting out the sweet surprise once again before plugging his Caesars Palace residency gig and then jauntily skipping over to the stage to perform his 1988 Hot 100 No. 12 hit 'Forever Young.' Wearing daringly tight pinstriped black pants, a white tuxedo jacket and a ruffled white shirt opened to reveal his chest and a chunky necklace, the raspy voiced icon looked ageless as he played air guitar while singing 'May good fortune be with you, may your guiding light be strong/ Build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond/ And may you never love in vain,' as a trio of backup singers in shimmering black minidresses echoed the song's ageless chorus back to him. Stewart's spirited show-closer also roped in a three-man bagpipe team, adding a bit more pizzazz to a performance that also spun through a Vegas-worthy tap dance break and a double fiddle and marching band drum solo. Watch Stewart accept the Lifetime Achievement Award below. The American Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
