Rod Stewart: As Time Goes By … The Great American Songbook Vol. IV
CML call number: CD/POPULAR/Stewart
Ian Whitcomb wrote in Rock Odyssey (1983; 784.54/W): "Then into the Flamingo sauntered one Rod (the Mod) Stewart and he was a sight for eyes used to the monochrome drabness of male fashions of the fifties. Men were in color again for the first time since Queen Victoria! The peacock struts, the hair back-combed and teased into a look of electric shock, the leer from a fully painted but hollow-cheeked and slightly skeletal face. … [H]is style was just the start of an androgynous strain in pop which was to be puzzling to outsiders. There was no sexual substance to the outward appearance. Inside, beneath the powder and paint, lay a boy who fancied women just as much as his mates. Second to soccer, of course. When he gave out with that Scotch-whisky voice, he hit those girls at bull's-eye and he sounded very soulful in the best modern American manner. Modern — that was important. None of this old fuddy-duddy cottonfield stuff. Rod and the Mods were up-to-date, were Modern, and music was only a part of their sixties life-style. …" (pp. 29-30).
Ian Whitcomb wrote in Rock Odyssey (1983; 784.54/W): "Then into the Flamingo sauntered one Rod (the Mod) Stewart and he was a sight for eyes used to the monochrome drabness of male fashions of the fifties. Men were in color again for the first time since Queen Victoria! The peacock struts, the hair back-combed and teased into a look of electric shock, the leer from a fully painted but hollow-cheeked and slightly skeletal face. … [H]is style was just the start of an androgynous strain in pop which was to be puzzling to outsiders. There was no sexual substance to the outward appearance. Inside, beneath the powder and paint, lay a boy who fancied women just as much as his mates. Second to soccer, of course. When he gave out with that Scotch-whisky voice, he hit those girls at bull's-eye and he sounded very soulful in the best modern American manner. Modern — that was important. None of this old fuddy-duddy cottonfield stuff. Rod and the Mods were up-to-date, were Modern, and music was only a part of their sixties life-style. …" (pp. 29-30).
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