- Are you and Penny hosting,
do y'all host family for the holidays?
- Well, my family is so big.
I got eight kids.
- Wow.
- So the- one minute,
there's two in the house and there's a two over here.
Two of them live in Los Angeles,
- Yeah.
- Four live in England and all- we're gonna try, though.
- Okay.
- We're gonna try and get them together.
- Is that nuts?
Oh my gosh.
That's a lot of- well, that's a lot of love.
- That's the clan.
- Yeah.
- Little clan.
- That's a- yeah, well Christmas-.
- We're all worn out now.
- (laughs) From being around each other?
- That's what happens if you haven't got a television.
(audience laughs)
- Yeah. (laughs)
So wait, this is Rod preparing for the holidays.
You posted this.
So this is two years ago at dinner.
(bells ringing)
- You're probably wondering why Rod Stewart
is peeling potatoes this Christmas.
Well, we're all gathered here in Florida.
There's not never some, we've all been given a job.
Mine is peeling potatoes,
while we do one, thank you all
for making this a wonderful Christmas with the new album.
Two weeks in the chart at number one.
Thank you so much, Merry Christmas.
Back to the potatoes.
(audience laughing)
- I should have expected that to be shown.
- I mean, wait, wait.
(applause)
Two things.
One, congratulations on the hat, it's remarkable.
How did it work?
It just kept going on-
did it just constantly, or every time your jaw moves,
like what was happening?
- I just had a battery in it.
- Okay, great.
Okay, well, I have so many jokes here.
Um, so are, are you always-?
- Oh go on then, tell us one of them.
- No, daytime.
(audience laughs)
- Oh, I got it, I see where you we're going-.
- Where did you steal them from?
(laughs)
- You are a naughty girl.
- No!
No.
- She's naughty.
(cheers and applause)
- No.
Are you, it's a-. (laughs)
- It never even crossed my mind.
- Mine either, you perv.
Are you always on potato peeling duty?
Is this your job?
- No, no, no.
- Oh, no?
You just got excited about it?
- I don't mind doing the dishes when we haven't got,
when our chef's not working and Penny cooks dinner.
- Yeah.
- I make sure all the kids help with the dishes,
I'll help with the dishes.
- Yeah.
I'm the cleaner, okay, I love cleaning.
- Yeah.
- I love doing dishes.
My sister loves cooking.
I'm like, I don't want to cook, but I will clean any dish.
- Yeah.
- It's easier, yeah.
And I'm anal, I like being-.
- It's a riveting point, wasn't it?
- Yeah-
(audience laughs)
so exciting this interview right now. (laughs)
It's just riveting.
So wait, speaking of holidays,
weren't you once banned from all Holiday Inns.
'Cause I find this very rock and roll.
- Oh yeah, there's a-.
- What did you do?
- Oh, you know me, we did it.
(laughs)
It was a, it was in the early seventies, we,
yeah, we'd smash up hotels.
I know it sounds idiotic, but we were treated so badly,
you know, by the staff and the- usually Holiday Inns,
that we smashed up a hotel and,
paid the bill.
But then we checked in as Fleetwood Mac in the next hotel.
(laughs)
(audience laughs and cheers)
Because they weren't well known.
- Oh my God.
- When the faces of Fleetwood Mac was still coming up.
- Oh my god, that's amazing.
Oh we've got Sir Rod Stewart here, give it up.
(audience cheers)
His new album is called the Tears of Hercules,
and it is out now.
It's a rad title, by the way.
Why did you name the title that, why did you have-?
- Well, it's one of the songs on the album.
And it is to point out that men,
strong men, tough man can cry.
- Absolutely.
Well later you'll be singing a song called One More Time.
So what's that about?
- Well, you know when you split up with the girlfriend.
- Yes.
Well, no but-.
- And the sex was good.
(audience laughs)
- Well, I'll put on my imagination hat.
- When you split up with your boyfriend
and the sex was exceptional,
but that's all you, all you we're going out with him for.
- Okay, yes.
- And you split up, and say we'll just do it,
well upstairs one more time.
- Oh.
(audience cheering)
This is a great idea.
This is a great idea for a song, that's real.
You're like, I was there for this, but yeah.
- Yeah.
- And then it's kind of fun,
then it's like the red button like you shouldn't do.
- Yeah, shouldn't do it.
I've never done it myself.
Have you?
- Liar. (laughs)
- On Simon, I have never done it.
- I've never done it.
- Just like one more, you know, (indistinct)
(laughs)
- Wait, that was amazing, I want it to be a GIF.
There's a special song on the album, though,
and it's called Touchline.
- Yeah.
- So what's, what's this about?
- Well, I've played soccer- football all my life
and I was a pro once,
but cut a long story short, my dad,
where there were three of us, three sons.
- Yeah.
- And we all played football and he was the manager
of the team and he was a good player in his day too.
So he managed the team and that's in there, it's amazing.
- Yeah.
- Long time ago, and he'd pick the team and he'd
always be on the touchline, pouring the rain,
snow, shouting at us, abuse and everything like that.
And we loved him for it, you know,
but then of course he passed on.
- Yeah.
- And the song's all about how I find myself
doing the same thing with my boys.
On the touchline, watching my sons playing football.
- I love that.
- And hopefully, when I'm gone,
they'll do exactly the same with their sons.
So it's a very, it's a manly sort of, sort of song.
- Well, and it's cool though,
because not all men show up for games for their kids.
- Yeah absolutely.
- That's amazing.
- And I think we call it the sideline.
So it's the touchline?
- Yeah, touchline in football, sideline is in your football.
- Okay, okay, right on.
Well, that's all,
that's about all I know about sports ball, right there.
- That's okay, darling.
- (laughs) Sideline.
- Let's move on quickly.
- Let's move on quickly. (laughs)
You are loving this interview, okay.
So this year marks the 50th anniversary of Rod's album
Every Picture Tells a Story, (audience member cheers)
which- okay, yes ma'am.
(audience cheers)
You got a grown.
It tells a story which features the hit, Maggie May,
which everyone knows, now I love that song so much.
It's an amazing album, obviously you got some fans.
But I do want to talk about a favorite of mine.
And this is not, I told you in the break,
this is, I'm on tour.
You know, you're always on tour
and you're in different cities, right?
Well, I was in Seattle,
(audience member cheers)
and they usually have really great record stores there,
like vinyl and I've always loved vinyl.
Like, since I was a kid,
it's like the one thing that was passed down to me in my
family from my grandmother.
So I love vinyl.
And I was in this store and I found,
It's Never a Dull Moment, it's your record.
And I think it's from like the seventies, but it had,
I noticed and why I picked it up, I was like, ooh,
I love Rod Stewart, and then I was like, oh he covered
I'd Rather Go Blind, I love that song.
And then it turns out it's literally one of my favorite
covers of any song that anyone's ever done.
Not just your voice, the production,
like whoever put that to-
it is so tasteful and so beautiful.
And I'm wondering, 'cause it wasn't like full of them.
So why did you pick that song for that record?
- Well,
Etta James did it first.
- Yes, yeah.
- And then the girl out Fleetwood Mac did it,
but it wasn't a big hit.
What's her name, Stevie, not Stevie Nicks, the other one.
- I do know Stevie Nicks- oh you mean (stammering)
- The other one.
- She wrote Songbird.
Yep, I'm Blanking.
- Yeah me too, anybody know?
Not Stevie, the other girl.
- [Audience] Christine.
- Christine!
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
- Christine McVie, she did it and I heard her do it.
So I decided to do it.
- Yeah.
- But- and it was an after thought,
I was in the studio with Ronnie Wood, you know,
Ronnie is (indistinct) with The Stones.
And we had nothing to do.
And we said, let's have a go at Rather Go Blind.
We had three bottles of wine and we did it in two takes.
(audience laughs)
- Okay, I was-.
- Two takes.
- I was literally gonna ask you if that's what-
(audience claps)
I feel like, the two things I love for my career,
it was literally just like so easy.
- Yeah, yeah.
It flowed so easy.
- Like, we didn't work at it, it wasn't over-produced.
- Yeah.
- And it was just like the moment.
That's what it sounds like.
- Yeah, that how it was.
- Yeah.
- People love it.
- So lesson learned, I just got to have two bottles of wine,
and record some music (audience laughs)
and it'll be magical.
So is it true that you and Ronnie are back in the studio?
You were just talking about Ronnie Woods,
so are y'all back in?
- Yeah, yeah.
Ronnie has been spending a lot of time digging up
a lot of old Faces stuff from the early seventies.
- Yeah.
- And we were putting it all back together.
It was about 60 odd tracks.
- Wow.
- And I said, Ronnie, don't sing,
I can't sing in the same key, you know.
- Change the key.
- We, well I suppose we could.
Yeah, but that'd be cheating, wouldn't it?
- No.
- Because you have to rerecord it again.
- No, God, in my female time of the month,
I lower those songs.
(audience laughs)
My vocal chords are doing different things.
- Well no, the songs,
have you found any you did in the seventies?
- Nope, I was not a thought yet.
- No you weren't a singer then, we're you?
(laughs)
- I was born in '82.
- Ah, wish I was dead.
(laughs)
- Nope.
(audience cheers)
- I'm still jet lagged.
- No, no, but I would have been amazing in the seventies.
I feel like I missed my time.
Might I suggest though, wine?
'Cause y'all did really well with wine before,
you and Ronnie.
- Yeah.
- So might I suggest some wine?
- Good idea.
- Maybe you'll hit some notes again there. (laughs)
So how do you keep your voice strong, though?
This is one thing I ask vocalists all the time.
'Cause it's different for all of us.
- Yeah.
- And we all have different ranges.
- Well, the older you get, it's like being an athlete,
you really got to look after only two muscles,
that bang together.
- Yeah, boo boo boo boop, yeah.
- So you've just, they've got to rest, tons of water,
not too much caffeine,
plenty of sleep and a warm up and warm down.
- Yeah, I'm good at all of that except for caffeine.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I love coffee and tea.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, and I just refuse.
I'll just sound like Janis Joplin, it's fine.
- Jan, what a singer she was.
- Exactly, it was quite a career.
- She used to chase me and Ronnie around the room,
trying to get into our trousers.
(audience laughs)
- She was trying to get-
she was trying to get one more time?
- Yeah.
- Or was there ever a first? (laughs)
No, I love that.
So wait for- I heard that Frank Sina-
I actually heard that about Janis Joplin.
I'm like you crazy Texas chick.
Okay.
But Frank Sinatra gave you advice one time,
which is amazing to say, that was amazing to say.
- He said pack it up.
- What, what is that?
- Pack it up, he said, you- no, seriously,
his daughter is the godfather for some of my kids
and I met him a few times.
- Oh.
- And he gave me this advice for singing, you know,
sing underwater, swim lens underwater.
- Oh.
- I do it with a brick as well, you know,
because it expands your lungs so you can get more
air capacity.
- Swimmers have so much, such great lungs, yeah.
- Yeah.
- That's true, that's true.
Okay, well everybody get in the pool.