Although the crowd is singing along to some of the songs on Sir Rod Stewart’s extensive playlist, he acknowledges that the one he wants to be remembered for won’t be the first to come up in everyone’s minds.
Sir Rod Stewart has a catalogue of tunes worthy for his iconic status. But, for the man himself, there is one tune in particular who would love his legacy to be remembered for – and it’s not one some would expect.
The 80-year-old rocker is still going strong, wowing his crowds at energetic gigs. His career has spanned over six decades and he is one of the best-selling artists of all time.
While his fans are still enthralled by popular tunes like Maggie May and Do You Think I’m Sexy, Rod himself is most impressed by one of his other compositions. Rod admitted during a speech in 2011 that his most notable accomplishment in the field was a song from the 1970s’ socially conscious heyday.
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The Killing of Georgie would be the one song he would be most proud of, he told Dean Goodman at the time. because it dealt with a challenging subject in 1976, which is a very long time ago.
The two-parter song was included on his seventh solo album, A Night on the Town, from the same year. It addressed homophobia in particular.
The subject was hardly ever discussed in popular culture at the time. The theme of the song was a victim of sexual abuse and assassination according to the lyrics.
Rod previously explained how the song’s plot was loosely based on the account of an old friend. The song’s opening line reads, “I these days of changing ways/ So called liberated days/ A story comes to mind/ Georgie boy was gay, I guess/nothin’ more or nothin’ less/ The kindest guy I ever knew.”
Rod told the Guardian in 2016 that he only knew him for a short while and that he was connected to the truth. He would play songs for us and ask, “Have you heard this? “
“I can recall him singing “Night Time Is the Right Time” to us. He was a truly beautiful guy, I can tell you.
And he acknowledged that despite the story’s apparent truth, he was not involved at the time. I embellished a little because I wasn’t on the scene when it occurred. He called the icon “poetic license” when he described how he had handled the murder as an unintentional.
I believed they might not have intended to murder him. They might have intended to do him over, perhaps.
Rod recently called his wife Penny Lancaster’s new memoir ‘blood curdling’ as she gets ready to spill some of their most intimate marriage details in the book. In a lighthearted video on Instagram showing him thumbing through Penny’s book while the pair lounged togethe, Rod put on a horrified performance, gasping: “Wow this is incredible Penny. Absolutely blood curdling information in here.”
He teased, “You shouldn’t have put that in the book, Penny,” as he feigned to cringe at her revelations.
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Source: Mirror
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