Rod Stewart – review

Newbury RacecourseIt is difficult to overstate the importance of Rod Stewart in the music world of the 1970s. Having fused hard rock, blues and killer melodies in the genuinely pioneering Faces, his reinvention as a chart-topping scream idol was little short of a masterstroke.After drowning in a sea of schmaltz in the 1980s, Stewart has spent the last two decades coasting on past glories while playing occasional short but lucrative stadium tours that turn his peerless back catalogue into ultra-s...

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