![]() Last but not the least, Rod Stewart is accompanied by magnificent musicians and also by the 60-piece BBC Concert Orchestra. He ends the show with golden key, singing "Maggie Mae / Gasoline Alley" with Ron Wood and "Sailing". ![]() Congratulations to Rod Stewart for the chance he gives to this wonderful singer. He explains in his difficult to understand accent that he found the débutant Amy Belle singing in a subway station in Glasglow the same way he did when he was discovered by Long John Baldry. Fortunately Rod Stewart returns with the greatest moment of the whole concert, in a duet with the unknown Amy Belle in "I Don't Want to Talk about It". I do not know why Rod Stewart insists in this terrible change of style for the deception of his fans since the beginning of his career in the "Jeff Beck Group" and "The Faces" in the late 60's. Out of the blue, he shifts his style and sings songs that do not fit with his successful career - "They Can't Take that away from Me" "Blue Moon" "What a Wonderful World "As Time Goes by" (in duet with Chrissie Hynde) and "For Sentimental Reasons", pouring cold water on the audience (and me). Rod Stewart begins the concert singing his best-known hits – "You Wear It Well" "Some Guys Have All the Luck / Addicted to Love" "Handbags & Gladracs" "Reason to Believe" "Stay with Me" (with Ron Wood) Rhythm of My Heart" "First Cut Is the Deepest" "You're in My Heart". singles chart for its own five-week stay there.I have just watched this DVD with the first presentation of Rod Stewart at the Royal Albert Hall and I found it an almost fantastic night, featuring Ron Wood, Chrissie "The Pretenders" Hynde and introducing the awesome Amy Belle. 2, 1971, the single - officially credited as "Maggie May"/"Reason to Believe" - topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks straight. In due time, everyone was following his lead, and on Oct. On a whim, he flipped the single over to play "Maggie May," and the phone lines lit up. ![]() Nonetheless, it was relegated to the B-side of lead single "Reason to Believe" and would've stayed there if not for disc jockey Murray Soul of Cleveland, OH-based station WMMS. Embarking on a solo career, 'Maggie May' became his first hit single. "Nobody liked it, the criticism being that it had no melody," Stewart noted in Storyteller. Known for his signature raspy voice, British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart performed in several U.K. "Maggie May" is a classic today, but it didn't seem that way at the time. "Mickey Waller turned up with only half a drum kit," Stewart recalled in the liner notes to the Storytellerbox set, "and had to borrow the rest from the other bands in the studio." It was Waller who made the sessions so memorable. The session featured a murderer's row of talent: Quittenton, who kicked off the track with a stirring acoustic solo (known as "Henry") two of Rod's Faces bandmates, Ronnie Wood on bass and Ian McLagan on hammond organ Ray Jackson of folk-rock outfit Lindisfarme on mandolin ("The name slips my mind," cracked the liner notes) Peter Sears, later of Jefferson Starship, on celeste and session legend Mickey Waller (Jeff Beck Group) on drums. How much older, I can't tell you - but old enough to be highly disappointed by the brevity of the experience." The song came together in a jam with Steamhammer guitarist Martin Quittenton, when Stewart was inspired by the British folk tune "Maggie Mae," which had recently closed the first side of The Beatles' final album Let It Be. "And there on a secluded patch of grass, I lost my not-remotely-prized virginity with an older (and larger) woman who'd come on to me very strongly in the beer tent. I'd snuck in with some mates via an overflow sewage pipe," he wrote in his 2012 autobiography. "At 16, I went to the Beaulieu Jazz Festival in the New Forest. Astoundingly, the song is based on a true story: a decade prior, the British rocker was at a concert when one thing led to another. Recorded for Rod's third album Every Picture Tells a Story, "Maggie May" is the not-so-romantic tale of a schoolboy struggling after getting intimate with a considerably older woman.
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