"I think with all of those bands it's about the spirit to go out there and make the best music you can and to love each other as a band," explains Rod. Their cocky rock n' roll swagger, laced with good humour, was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. If any rock n' roll band deserve a fond farewell it's the Faces the likes of the Sex Pistols, Guns N' Roses and Oasis all name-checked the London five-piece as an influence. When I propose Bill Wyman, who filled in for the late Ronnie Lane, he adds: "Funny enough, I bumped into Bill the other day."Īfter bringing down the curtain on his rock n' roll shows, Rod Stewart says he wants to perform his Great American Songbook material for audiences. "I told him we can tune down and suggested he get me, him and Kenney in the studio with a really good bass player." I said, 'Ronnie I can't sing them any more'. "You can hear it's the Faces but as you get older your voice gets a little lower. "I was with Ronnie and we were playing the old Faces songs and they were brilliant. "Six months ago we were close to having something special," admits Rod. The sense of connection between Rod and his bandmates Ronnie Wood (Rolling Stones) and Kenney Jones (Small Faces, The Who) was still very much alive. In recent years there have been rumours of a Faces reunion following a successful one-off charity concert in 2015. While bringing his rock n' roll shows to an end and looking forward to a swinging future, it is also unsurprising that Stewart isn't tempted to look to his illustrious past. And Ireland is, of course, one of his favourite places to play. ![]() He has more than 30 albums and numerous tours behind him, and is regarded as one of the best-selling artists of all time, with more than 250 million records sold. Stewart has enjoyed enormous success in a career spanning 60 years which has made him a household name around the world. I've also done a fantastic swing album with Jools Holland which is more Louis Prima than Frank Sinatra I just want to make a change," says the father-of-eight. "I want to move on and I've always wanted to do the Great American Songbook live - it sold 38 million copies. Twenty years ago he released It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook, the first in a series of five hugely successful albums, and he suggests a new show will showcase the best of those recordings. Sir Rod, who turns 78 in January, is still a long way from retirement with a new album in the can and tentative plans being made for 2023. Popping open a bottle of champagne, Rod - immediately identifiable with his rooster hair, jovial laugh and mischievous demeanour - tells me: "This is the last big tour for me - it will be the last time I'll play Maggie May at all these venues." He confirms the news over lunch at Celtic Park as the clatter of knives and forks tuck into a pre-match lunch in the five-star The Walfrid restaurant. “Maggie May” was named by Billboard as the No.2 song of 1971.ROD Stewart's forthcoming pre-Christmas date in Belfast will be one of his last "rock n' roll arena shows". The woman’s name was not “Maggie May” Stewart has stated that the name was taken from “… an old Liverpudlian song about a prostitute.” There’s also a version of the song by The Faces when both Stewart and Ronnie Wood were in the band and it has been released on some compilations over the years. Stewart recalled: “Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the 1961 Beaulieu Jazz Festival. “Maggie May”expresses the ambivalence and contradictory emotions of a boy involved in a relationship with an older woman, and was written from Stewart’s own experience. It’s regarded by some as Stewart’s signature song and one of his most enduring hits that keeps being played at his concerts to this day. In 1971 Rod Stewart had one of his biggest solo hit songs with “Maggie May”, the song reached No.1 on the U.S Hot 100 on October 2nd where it remained for 5 weeks. ![]() The song reached No.1 in the Hot 100 on October 2nd, 1971 Find Out The Real Story Behind Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May”
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