Excuse me, I’ve caught a Virus, I’m miserable.
your voice sounds.
The voice always sounds like that. But it sits in my chest, it gives me the feeling to be so weak. Extremely exhausted.
I’ll try not to bore you.
go for it.
I’ve read your autobiography. A very fun book.
It flows nicely, isn’t it?
Only, I asked myself: Is there anything else I could ask, what have you been telling yourself? And then I thought: hair. Because you seem to be pretty obsessive with your hairstyle.
Obsessive would not be the expression I would use. What a sad person I would be, if it were up to me only to my hair?
you have dedicated to your hairstyle, after all, a Chapter in the book.
Yes, I think my friend Elton John has no Chapter about his hair, in his book. I’ve just been lucky, that it stayed with me. I don’t wash it very frequently, I do it mostly just wet in order to bring it in the Form. Shampoo takes all the volume out of the hair (Stewart, twirling his hair at the top, you can clearly see that it is real).
Since the eighties, when you get asked for an English hairdresser with a “Rod”, the hairstyle that you wear today …
And there was always a lot of look-alikes, which have cut the hair, and successful as Rod Stewart and expenditure.
Really?
But sure. A type has done so, he would be I, and managed to steal a Ferrari, because he asked for a test drive. You have only caught because he ran a red light. Another lived for three months with a woman, until you noticed that he was not Stewart of the real Rod.
your time with the Faces you made the hairstyle very popular among women in the United States – together with her British accent and the Rock ’n’ Roll, of course.
you have loved, especially the accent. They always do.
do you Have an explanation for this?
you have identified the accent as a small, cute English. And they found us cute, especially Ron and me, we had this silver velvet pants, huge crosses around the neck, and really large auftoupierte hairstyles.
they went until 1967, often in a place called Eel Pie Island in London, her first performances they had there. There are many musicians have played that have shaped the English rock music. The Who, the Yardbirds with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck. It was just a kind of cosmological accident, that all landed within three years there?
the only way I can explain it. They were good people just at the time in London, in a few Clubs. It is also David Bowie and Elton John were already there. The Rolling Stones, the Animals?.?.?.?really good people.
“I have to thank the black culture very much, I owe her something.”
What happened exactly?
It was the influence of black music and the black culture, of the hit. Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, these people. The changed everything. We as a Teenager in London had never heard anything like that. And there were only very few of them understood what was going on there, and it is for all of us to be opened. Alexis Korner was one of them, Long John Baldry, Cyril Davies, and others. These people brought with them the music and the right people from the us, they founded the first Bands that played Rhythm and Blues. John Baldry has not only brought me the music, but also for Mick and Keith.
so, you started as a Fan of this music?
Absolutely. Although I have to admit: My first great love, the Folk music was. Bob Dylan’s first Album changed my life. I learned all of the songs on the guitar and thought, “My God, I must go to America.” Alone like Dylan of singing, for example, in “Talkin’ New York”?.?.?. And then I started listening to Muddy Waters. And Sam Cooke.
you Hear this music today?
Yes. The albums that I have heard as a child, and remained a life-long reference. I can already hear the modern music, most of it goes to me, however, quickly on the nerves. I like George Ezra. But maybe I’m just old and have seen everything already. Except Rap was kind of nothing New, and Rap I don’t particularly like. Otherwise, still: Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters and Otis Redding.
Steven Van Zandt, from 1975, guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, said in an Interview that he couldn’t believe that they are white, as they occurred for the first Time in New York. He had only heard tapes of them.
It was always my passion to sound like one of the major black artist. After that I modulated my voice. I have to thank the black culture very much. I would even say, I owe that culture.
you have in the Band of Long John Baldry sang with Jeff Beck, and finally the Faces. It took seven years until you had your own personal breakthrough.
It’s been a long time, Yes. But it was also a very good education. All the Bands I’ve sung, the people from whom I can learn. As I learned my craft. And Long John Baldry, for example, was a fantastic teacher.
If you read your book, even if you tell the rooms of the women’s stories and smashed the hotel, you will hardly evil. What do you think?
Because I am the happiest person on the planet. There’s not a day that I don’t thank the stars for my luck goes. I come from the British working-class, I love to Sing and this is the best imaginable life.
you tell it as if you had won the lottery.
I was very determined with regard to the Singing. And at that time it was not to be a Star. To be a Rockstar, we had not understood as a concept yet. We just wanted to do with burning ambition, music.
you have to love this rock-star Lifestyle?
Yes, it is, of course, the same as in the seventies, that was really wild. I myself am a lot calmer, but I’m burning still for the music. I love performing, and will make it so long, till I hear the bell ring. It makes me afraid to quit, because I really like it.
and Now, 74 years on the European tour. You will not be bored?
It will not kill me if I get rid of this Virus. But there are still a few weeks away. And no, it is not boring, never.
you do not want to occur sometime shorter?
Well, Yes, I can see the end more clearly than in the past, to say so. At some point I need to stop, but not in the next couple of years. I just have Fun with it, get up and sing. And I think going to sing, I always.
I take it that you have to earn no more money, why the Stress?
you Know what happens to men that work stop? You get a heart attack. You Like Your Job?
Yes, most of the time.
Now, imagine you were a singer and had the Chance to go on stage and present in front of tens of thousands of people and get paid for it. It’s a fantastic Lifestyle, so do not want to be so many people are Rockstars. So, what would you do if you were in my position?
I would do it probably until I go to the grave.
of Course, you would do exactly the same thing. And you probably would have made everything else, even the birds and the Drinking and the birds and the Drink. As long as you can still feel any sparks, you should do it. There is nothing worse in life than waking up in the morning and to have nothing more to do. As long as you can still spell and I can still sing, we should do more.
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Created: 26.04.2019, 06:11 PM
