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Bodo
Oct-28-2007, 10:42 GMT
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| Maybe someone should send a copy of ´Surprise´ over to Rod Stewart?
Stewart:
"To be honest, people my age - like Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Elton John and the Rolling Stones... a lot of us haven´t really got anything to say any more. Any of the recent records I hear by those artists, they´re just endlessly going over Old ground. We´ve all run out of new things to say. That´s why I´ve pretty much given up writing songs these days. I´d rather choose somebody else´s songs and cover those."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4253394a1860.html |
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Nikki
Oct-28-2007, 13:50 GMT
Australia
 | What a crap attempt at self-justification! If Rod Stewart wants to spend the rest of his life covering records then he can do just that, but leave others out of it. |
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Ans
Oct-28-2007, 16:33 GMT
Netherlands
 | I can´t imagine he listened to ´Surprise´, it´s indeed a sad attempt to justify he is no longer capable of writing new songs. BTW, he left a few songwriters out, Bob Dylan and Neil Diamond. |
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Klausi
Oct-29-2007, 07:03 GMT
Germany
 | Rod Stewart became famous in the 70`s, starting in the 60`s in a band (Small Faces) like Eric Clapton (Cream etc.).
And like Elton John, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen etc.
So Stewart is not in the group of 60-veterans like The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Carole King (having a shorter career with Tapestry as highpoint), Paul Simon, Brian Wilson, later Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and some "drug-stars" like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin.
His image is not that of a serious songwriter, but a crazy sex-symbol.
He is a good musician with an interesting voice, but most stories written about him have nothing to do with music. |
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Ans
Oct-29-2007, 08:43 GMT
Netherlands
| So he will not be taken seriously, that´s a relief...;-) |
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deleted_user
Oct-30-2007, 12:03 GMT
Unknown
| Rod Stewart´s comment shows how desperate he is to be compared to other musicians who became famous in the 1960s. He often seems to offer such comparisons. I saw that somewhere he was making fun of Elton John because John´s album didn´t sell as well as his in which he covered a bunch of classic songs. Stewart is clearly unable to understand the difference between creative musical ability and commercial success.
The crucial difference between Rod Steward and people like Paul Simon, McCartney and Elton John is that Stewart has nowhere near their talent. At most, Stewart is an over the hill mediocre singer. He wants to be compared to some talented singer-songwriters but that only shows how large a gap exists between them and him.
If Stewart had any integrity, a more appropriate comparison to his "talent" perhaps would be Barry Manilow or Wayne Newton. |
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suzi
Oct-30-2007, 17:27 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Paul Simon has continued to grow with every album and CD. He has never taken the easy way out. Even those works that didn´t sell in enormous numbers have turned out over the years to be recognized as innovative and more than worth owning. I only own 1 Rod Steward CD. I think that says something. |
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Nikki
Oct-31-2007, 03:03 GMT
Australia
| Sex symbol? Ok maybe in his early days, but I find it quite disturbing to see a dishevelled 60 yr Old man in boxers on the front of a music DVD cover |
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Phoebe
Oct-31-2007, 10:46 GMT
Denmark
 | I can´t believe he´s actually said that! What on Earth is the guy thinking about??? I´m quite convinced that he hasn´t heard Surprise, Memory Almost Full or any of the others... and even if he has, and he REALLY thinks that it´s all the same, he shouldn´t use Paul as an excuse for his own stopped songwriting - he should just say how he felt for himself and leave the others alone.
A truly great singer/songwriter is always relevant, always magical. And that is how all of us here see Paul Simon. |
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