HOW ROD HAD VINTAGE HITS
Star reveals song secret
FOR more than five decades, he has been serenading fans with a string of number ones.
Now rock legend Sir Rod Stewart has revealed that the secret to his musical success lies at the bottom of a wine bottle.
The 75-year-old Maggie May singer admitted that downing the beverage in hotel rooms would get his creative juices flowing when penning his albums.
Sir Rod told the Sunday Mirror: ‘They used to have to lock me up with a bottle of wine and take the key and say, “Get it finished in the next four or five hours.” That would work.’
The blond-haired hitmaker said his boozy method was often chuckled about by his peers as he would be holed up in a room creating a hit song during his time in The Faces in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Sir Rod said: ‘I’d hear them all in the corridor, laughing, at the Holiday Inn: “Oh yeah look at Stewart. He is there trying to finish the lyrics.”’
The singer has a total of ten number one albums under his belt but would worry what he wrote wasn’t good enough.
He said: ‘That’s the worst feeling, when you think you’re writing absolute tripe.
‘You’ve really got it or you haven’t. It’s either in your blood or it’s a natural feel for music. I have always loved listening to music.’
Having achieved global success by selling more than 250million records and amassing a collection of Grammy awards, Sir Rod was knighted in 2016.
Earlier this month, as lockdown travel restrictions were lifted, the singer was captured on camera by his wife Penny Lancaster during a getaway to Croatia.
Miss Lancaster, 49, snapped an image of the Sailing singer as they walked through Dubrovnik’s Old Town.
The pair jetted out for the holiday after enjoying a night out at exclusive London members’ club Annabel’s.