In fact, the only person who didn’t seem pleased for me was Rod Stewart. When the tour was announced, he went on a chat show in America and said that he would never announce his retirement, because that wasn’t ‘rock and roll’: I didn’t really know what that was supposed to mean, but I certainly didn’t feel like I needed a lecture on the feral spirit of rock and roll from someone who’d spent most of the last decade crooning his way through the Great American Songbook and ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’.
The way I just cackled
