The half-cut is the deepest
Danielle’s weddy for her close-up... Rod’s boozy secret to songwriting success
SIR Rod Stewart has revealed being locked up with bottles of wine helped him write a string of smashed hits. When the music legend first started out as frontman for The Faces, bosses would shut him away in hotel rooms with plenty of booze to get his creative juices flowing.
Rod, 75, said: “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.
“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’.”
But Rod, whose hits include Tonight’s the Night and The First Cut Is The Deepest, worried his lyrics were corny.
He said: “That’s the worst feeling, when you think you’re writing absolute tripe.” But his
IT’S looking hot on party isle Ibiza as model Danielle Lloyd snaps selfies on the beach.
But the 36-year-old mum-of-four seemed more interested in her phone screen than sun screen on hols with her electrician husband Michael O’Neill, 32.
Proving a spark is still there, a year after they wed in Dubai, the ex-Miss England keeps a wedding pic on her phone.
They delayed the nuptials when baby Ronnie, now two, came along to join her three sons by ex-Spurs player Jamie O’Hara.
But the day is still very close to her heart. ability is beyond any doubt. The Grammy and Brit Award winner has sold more than 250million records worldwide since his first hit, Maggie May, in 1971.
And he had to admit: “You’ve really got it or you haven’t. It’s either in your blood or it’s a natural feel for music. I’ve always loved listening to music.”
And he told Johnnie Walker on BBC Arts Radio: “I have gained a lot more confidence now of course. These are the happiest days of my life “
Covid-19 meant Rod had to scrap his US summer tour but he’ll be back in 2021.