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When Russia gets itself in a bind they beg the U.S.A. for aid as they did in World War II. The U.S.A. supplied Russia with hundreds of navy war ships on the lend lease plan, millions of supplies, but Russia never paid the U.S.A. back.
Now Russia is in a security bind and has begged President Obama to assist them. But, Russia has also denied a U.S. company, Chobani, to send its yogurt to our U.S.A. athletes because they say Chobani has not followed the regulations to export to Russia. Strange but these rules for food do not apply to Olympic participants according to Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya and the U.S. Olympic Committee.
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Chuck Mehan conveniently leaves out a few facts in his letter about Russia and WW ll. Certainly FDR made the decision to send military supplies and equipment to Russia during the war under the Land Lease Legislation because he understood the strategic value of Russia engaging Hitler in a second or Eastern Front. Stalin used the equipment and supplies to bleed the Wehrmacht dry after they invaded Russia and consequently as the momentum shifted to the Soviets invade Germany.
By June of 1944 when we invaded the Continent on D-Day Stalin had 5.5 million troops facing 2 million German troops on the Eastern Front. If there had been no Eastern front probably 1.9 million of those German troops would have been standing guard on the beaches of Normandy. General George Marshall was quoted as saying if not for the Eastern Front we would have had to double the number of our troops to invade France. It has been estimated that 80 percent of Germans killed in the war were killed on the Eastern front
So it would appear to me that FDR (the greatest wartime President we ever had) made the correct decision to send equipment and supplies to Stalin in return for the Soviet sacrifices made on the Eastern Front.
Comparing a mix-up on shipping yogurt to the Olympics to the millions of lives lost in WW ll seems somewhat of a stretch to me. Russia had been our greatest enemy since the late 40s but there is no way we can deny the contributions the Soviets made in defeating Hitler in WW ll.
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Jonathan Assures On Good Governance
Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that his administration would work with Britain and other nations to promote good governance, political stability and socio-economic development in the country and other African nations.
Jonathan gave the assurance in Abuja at a meeting with the outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Andrew Lloyd, who was on a farewell visit to the Presidential Villa.
He reaffirmed Federal Government's commitment to evolving and implementing policies and measures that would help the country to overcome its current challenges.
The president noted that the excellent relations between Nigeria and Great Britain were significantly enhanced during Lloyd's tenure.
He commended the High Commissioner for the efforts he made to boost trade and economic cooperation between the two countries.
Jonathan said the high point of such effort was Prime Minister David Cameron's visit to Nigeria with a delegation of businessmen and investors.
"We shall continue to count on your support and I hope your successor will continue your good work here in Nigeria," Jonathan said.
The President also received the outgoing Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Youssef Shawki, who is leaving only after two years of service.
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Jonathan wished Shawki well in his future endeavours and urged him to always consider himself "a life-long Ambassador of Nigeria to Egypt and the rest of the world". (NAN)


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RAWALPINDI: As reported to the Dawn News, a woman was robbed of Rs60,000 and gold ornaments in broad daylight at Lal Kurti here on Wednesday.Dr Khalid Khan, who is associated with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, said his wife was leaving the house at Defence Road for bringing her daughter from school when she found two gunmen around her car. Dr Khalid told Dawn that as his house had been burgled last year, her wife used to carry her gold ornaments, cash, a digital camera and some other valuables with her whenever she left the house. He said the gunmen forced her to give up the gold bracelets and earrings she was wearing. Though she shouted for help but the gunmen snatched the bracelets but could not take away the bangles. One of her neighbours rushed to her rescue but the gunmen grabbed her bag containing the cash and valuables and sped away. Dr Khalid said: "The police arrived at the crime scene, recorded our statements and demanded the list of stolen gold ornaments and other valuables and left the scene." He said what the police would do now when there had been no trace to the valuables stolen from his house a year back.
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High-rate nitrogen removal and its behavior of granular sequence batch reactor under step-feed operational strategy
Zhong C.,Beijing Normal University |
Wang Y.,Beijing Normal University |
Wang Y.,State Key Laboratory of Water Simulation |
Lv J.,State Key Laboratory of Water Simulation |
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Bioresource Technology | Year: 2013
Alternating anoxic/oxic (A/O) combined with the step-feed granular sequence batch reactor (step-feed SBR) was operated in laboratory scale to investigate nitrogen removal. The results showed that when the total inorganic nitrogen (TIN) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) levels were 55 and 320mg/L in the influent, the TIN removal efficiencies were 89.7-92.4% in the step-feed mode and 48.1-59.5% in the conventional alternating A/O single-feed mode within a 360min cycle. The pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) were used to optimize the process of denitrification and nitrification in the step-feed mode. The optimized operational condition was achieved by shortening the cycle time to 207min, resulting in a nitrogen removal rate of 0.27kgN/m3d, which was much higher than those achieved using activated sludge systems. The dominant community in the aerobic granules was coccus-like bacteria, and filamentous bacteria were hardly found. Granules were well maintained throughout the 90days of continuous step-feed operation. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. Source
Optimal cultivation and characteristics of aerobic granules with typical domestic sewage in an alternating anaerobic/aerobic sequencing batch reactor
Su B.,Beijing Normal University |
Cui X.,State Key Laboratory of Water Simulation |
Zhu J.,Beijing Normal University
Bioresource Technology | Year: 2012
The present work investigated some important factors for optimal aerobic granulation using typical domestic sewage as a substrate in a pilot-scale alternating anaerobic/aerobic sequencing batch reactor. High sludge concentration and low sludge loading, for the first time, were used for the reactor start-up. A vast number of small particles appeared on day8. Subsequently, several measures for controlling sludge concentration and sludge loading within an appropriate range were applied to optimize the granulation process. On day 45, complete sludge granulation was achieved. After 60days of operation, the aerobic granules always kept in stable state, with an average diameter of 750μm and the SVI 30 of 20-35ml/g. The COD, TN, and TP removal ratios were 92%, 81%, and 85%, respectively. The results demonstrated that it was feasible to form aerobic granules quickly using typical domestic sewage under optimal operation strategies, which was further proved by the results from denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprint. © 2012. Source
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Li Y.,Beijing Normal University |
Lv J.,Beijing Normal University |
Chen L.,State Key Laboratory of Water Simulation |
Zhu J.,Beijing Normal University
Journal of Environmental Sciences (China) | Year: 2016
As a special biofilm structure, microbial attachment is believed to play an important role in the granulation of aerobic granular activated sludge (AGAS). This experiment was to investigate the biological effect of Ca2+, Mg2+, Cu2+, Fe2+, Zn2+, and K+ which are the most common ions present in biological wastewater treatment systems, on the microbial attachment of AGAS and flocculent activated sludge (FAS), from which AGAS is always derived, in order to provide a new strategy for the rapid cultivation and stability control of AGAS. The result showed that attachment biomass of AGAS was about 300% higher than that of FAS without the addition of metal ions. Different metal ions had different effects on the process of microbial attachment. FAS and AGAS reacted differently to the metal ions as well, and in fact, AGAS was more sensitive to the metal ions. Specifically, Ca2+, Mg2+, and K+ could increase the microbial attachment ability of both AGAS and FAS under appropriate concentrations, Cu2+, Fe2+, and Zn2+ were also beneficial to the microbial attachment of FAS at low concentrations, but Cu2+, Fe2+, and Zn2+ greatly inhibited the attachment process of AGAS even at extremely low concentrations. In addition, the acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based quorum sensing system, the content of extracellular polymeric substances and the relative hydrophobicity of the sludges were greatly influenced by metal ions. As all these parameters had close relationships with the microbial attachment process, the microbial attachment may be affected by changes of these parameters. © 2016. Source
Wang Y.,Beijing Normal University |
Zhong C.,Beijing Normal University |
Huang D.,State Key Laboratory of Water Simulation |
Zhu J.,Beijing Normal University
Bioresource Technology | Year: 2013
This experimental work investigated the property of membrane fouling for different sludges at high flux 20L/(m2h). The MBR with good aerobic granular sludge performed the longest operation time 61days, and TMP rose up in a steady overall rate, while only 10, 14 and 19days for bulking, flocculent and small granular sludge, respectively, which clearly demonstrated the good and complete aerobic granules greatly retarded the membrane fouling. The pore blocking resistance 76.21% was the key fouling factor for aerobic granules, but the cake resistance 61.23% or 79.02% was the main factor for flocculent or bulking sludge. The difference in EPS composition of membrane foulants between granules MBR and flocculent sludge MBR led to the different behaviour of fouling. Aerobic granules were quite stable during operation. These results suggested MBR with aerobic granules might be operated at high flux, which was very valuable for practical application. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. Source
The microbial attachment potential and quorum sensing measurement of aerobic granular activated sludge and flocculent activated sludge
Lv J.,Beijing Normal University |
Wang Y.,Beijing Normal University |
Zhong C.,Beijing Normal University |
Li Y.,Beijing Normal University |
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Bioresource Technology | Year: 2014
The aerobic granulation process is involved in the attachment of microorganisms, and the quorum sensing (QS) is supposed to play an important role in microbial attachment. In this study, the attachment potential of aerobic granular activated sludge (AGAS) and flocculent activated sludge (FAS) was investigated. Results clearly showed that AGAS had stronger attachment potential than FAS. A bioassay with NTL4 proved that N-acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) were produced in both sludge, but the AHLs content of AGAS was significantly higher than FAS. Additionally, the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) measurements indicated that there were more proteins and polysaccharides in the hydrophobic EPS fraction of AGAS. Besides, the bacterial community structure of AGAS differed from FAS by PCR-DGGE. Some hydrophobic bacteria, such as Flavobacterium, exclusively existed in AGAS. It was speculated that the difference of attachment potential between AGAS and FAS was derived from the divergence of AHLs, EPS and microbial community. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. Source


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Elton John, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, all play concerts around the world but they do not sell records. Only one of the 70s superstars is still at the top of the business. His latest album, like the four before it has gone to number one. Who is this great survivor? Rod Stewart.
ANDREW DENTON: Welcome to ENOUGH ROPE.
ROD STEWART: Oh God, can't beat that one can you? Lovely introduction, thank you.
ANDREW DENTON: There we go. Can I take you back, long before 'The American Songbook', before 'Maggie May', before 'The Faces', to when you were a beatnik, an actual beatnik.
ROD STEWART: Mm yeah, I'll try and remember those days. It was probably when I was about eh 15, 16, just left school, didn't know what I wanted to do but I read a great book by Jack Kerouac and I became a beatnik and sort of ran away from home and played guitar in Spain, France. Busker, I was a busker.
ANDREW DENTON: How were you dressed? Were you dressed in the whole beatnik get up?
"...the whole idea was to be so anti-social you didn't wash, ever wash your clothes, so you stunk to high heaven."
ROD STEWART: Yeah, it was a get up I suppose. In a big, you know, turtleneck sweater and washed out jeans and a leather waistcoat and the whole idea was to be so anti-social you didn't wash, ever wash your clothes, so you stunk to high heaven. I would imagine all kids should do it, you know, don't run away from home but just get out there and experience life, you know and you know the hardships of you know, living rough. So when I did get back me mum and dad took me, me beatnik outfit and put it out the back and burnt it. So that was the end of that era and for them I became a mod.
ANDREW DENTON: A mod.
ROD STEWART: Yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Can you tell me about the Muddy Waters album that you borrowed from Long John Baldry, that you used to share around?
ROD STEWART: Oh yeah, it's eh, it's still one of my favourite albums. It's Muddy Waters live at Newport in the recorded in the early '60s and when I joined John's band he had this album. He said "I want you to listen to this," he said, "because this is the sort of music you're going to be singing in the future." And I said you know and he was going to put it on and he went to take the album cover, album out of the cover and it wasn't there. He said "Shit, Mick's got it", which is Mick Jagger, cos he'd lent it to them. So in those, to have an album like that was a rarity. So it was either one of The Stones or you know one of The Animals and so I had to wait for it to come back from Mick and Keith who were apparently listening to it — one album.
ANDREW DENTON: One album between all of you.
ROD STEWART: Inspired all of us.
ANDREW DENTON: You used a lovely phrase in one of your songs, eh talking about people like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, what was it — "Burning down the airwaves like saviour's shining light"?
ROD STEWART: Oh yeah, yeah. You know I remember so distinctly sitting there, you know, in the my parents' council house and listening to Radio Luxembourg, you know, with just one bar of the heater turned on and just you know a cold winter's night and just listening to this music flooding through and you'd just end up sopping all, taking it all in like a sponge.
ANDREW DENTON: What was it about that turned you on?
ROD STEWART: It was different to everything we'd heard before. You know it's, I first got turned on to music by my, my big brother, Don, who took me to see for no apparent reason, 'Bill Haley and the Comets' in the late '50s. So that's when I was first ex-exposed to rock and roll, and then my other brother, bless him, he turned me on to Radio Luxembourg, which played all the black music coming out of The States.
ANDREW DENTON: When you heard Eddie Cochran the first time...
ROD STEWART: Oh yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Did you get a bit of a shock of recognition when you heard his voice?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, that he was, that he was a white guy, you know. I mean he had one of those great voices, you know, s-sang 'Come On Everybody' and 'Hallelujah I Love Her'. So I think that's probably the guy I moulded myself on first before anybody else, him and maybe Al Jolson a little bit, cos my whole family were madly in love with Al Jolson.
ANDREW DENTON: What was it about Al Jolson?
ROD STEWART: I don't know. It was drummed into me, you know my parents loved him, me eldest brother loved him, so you know at parties at the Stewart household every Christmas we'd have Al Jolson playing. So I couldn't get away from it.
ANDREW DENTON: How would you describe your voice?
ROD STEWART: Well it's, I've copied a lot of people, and most of them black, you know from Sam to Otis Redding, David Ralph, you know, I've tried to copy them anyway and in the end, you know, I've come out sounding like me.
ANDREW DENTON: Would you call yours a great voice?
"I wouldn't say it's a great voice compared to Pavarotti...but I think mine's very distinct and it's very...emotional and I think it can at times, tug on the heart strings."
ROD STEWART: I would call it distinct. I wouldn't say it's a great voice compared to Pavarotti, the late Pavarotti. I mean that's technically a brilliant voice, but I think mine's very distinct and it's very eh, very emotional and I think it can at times, tug on the heart strings.
ANDREW DENTON: What do you remember of your first professional gig, 'The Twisted Wheel'?
ROD STEWART: In Manchester?
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah.
ROD STEWART: Oh my God, with Long John. A bit very nervous cos we hadn't had much rehearsal and I only had one song, that was called 'Night Time is the Right Time' by eh, by Ray Charles. And eh the base player at the time, Cliff Barton, great guy, jazz bass player and he said "Listen, it's going to be a hard night for you," he said "Take one of these." And it was a big black pill. I didn't know innocently, I said "All right then", swallowed and of course, and I sung, I made one number last 22 minutes, I mean 22 minutes. I kept saying to Ben, yeah, keep going… "Oh the night time is the right time…" you know. They had to drag me off the stage. It was one of those hook things, you know get him off. So that was my first eh and earliest encounter with illegal drugs.
ANDREW DENTON: When you went to America with the Jeff Beck group the first time, having idolised these guys, listened to them on Radio Luxembourg, as I read it you were pretty freaked out by suddenly being on their home turf?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, it's, it, I was nervous once again. Oh I'm a nervous girl, it was because I thought, you know, there's going to be black people in the audience. We're going to be playing New York and I'm always trying to sound like a black singer you know, and oh they're going to see through me, fraud, freak, get him off. So we went on and I was so nervous. Me and Woody had drunk half a bottle of rum, you know, backstage and I said "Ronnie, I can't do this." They all went out. I hid behind the amps and sung like this, crouched singing, "Ain't superstitious black cat 'cross my trail." Did the song, audience all got up and applauded and Jeff said Rod come out and see the audience. So I walked out and of course there was all the white audience. Amazing.
ANDREW DENTON: You mentioned Ron Wood then, whose been, would it be fair to say, the enduring friendship of your career?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, I yeah, I don't have, you know, that many famous friends in the music business but I suppose Ronnie is definitely one of them. We don't see a great deal of each other. We should see more of each other. If I'm going back to London next week, I'll give him a call. He wrote a lovely speech for my wedding, which was absolutely beautiful which I had to read out cos he was on tour.
ANDREW DENTON: What did he say?
ROD STEWART: Oh it was, it's our humour. I couldn't repeat it. It was so off the wall.
ANDREW DENTON: We're a family show, it's all right.
ROD STEWART: No, no, no, it wasn't, eh it, it's just Ronnie and I have been writing poems together since we were with the Jeff Beck group, I mean eh and eh, he helps with the poems but he does all the drawings obviously cos he's really good.
ANDREW DENTON: When you used to write with Ron back in those days that was in your, in your parents' council flat as well, wasn't it?
ROD STEWART: And his mum and dad's house, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: And his too.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: What was that like?
ROD STEWART: Ah I can't remember why we started writing songs. I think we were, you know, we were sort of influenced because The Stones had decided that, had to start writing songs cos The Beatles had, you know, was a whole new thing to write your own songs. No one had ever done it. So we started giving it a go, you know and we clicked. And we clicked straight away. He'd just strum something or play a riff and I'd just sing anything above it and that's, you know, if I was to write a song tomorrow that would still be the way I'd do it. There's no, you know, there's no, no other way of doing it, as far as I know.
ANDREW DENTON: Must be fascinating though, the first time you sit down and go, right, we're going to write a song now.
"The great part is...when you hear it on the radio or you hear your song on the television...That's when you know your baby's been born. It's a wonderful experience."
ROD STEWART: No, it was horrible. It was it was like being, you know, I've always said to me song writing's like being at school cos you've got a lot of brain work to put in there, you know. The great part is, is when you, when you hear it on the radio or you hear your song on the television when you're performing it. That's when you know your baby's been born. It's a wonderful experience.
ANDREW DENTON: And must be even better when an audience sings it back to you.
ROD STEWART: Oh yeah, there's no drug in the world will give you that high to be in front of 10 or 20 or however many thousands of people and you stop and they just all start singing it back to you. You know, I like to think that with The Faces, we were the first ones to ever start doing that.
ANDREW DENTON: When Maggie May came out you were surprised at its success weren't you?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, because there was only nine or 10 tracks on the 'Every Picture Tells a Story', and that was eh, the track that nearly didn't make the album. They just threw it on at last minute. They said "Well it hasn't got a sing along chorus," you know, "No one's going to, well let's just stick it on anyway." So and that became the big hit.
ANDREW DENTON: What was it like for you eh, you'd been playing for a long time? You'd been in various bands including The Faces and then suddenly all around the world this was a number one hit. What was that…?
ROD STEWART: Ah tremendous. I think it probably you know, the most pleasure I got out of it was I saw in me mum and dad's eyes at the time, you know that they were so proud of me because they never once told me when I was struggling musician go and get a job or you're never going to make it. They believed in me, so I think that was probably the biggest pleasure I, you know, the look in their eyes. I remember it to this day.
ANDREW DENTON: And Maggie herself was allegedly your first.
ROD STEWART: Shag.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah, your first shag. True?
ROD STEWART: [Laugh] Yeah, I can't remember any f- I can't remember before that but it was a the Bewley Jazz Festival in the early, well early '60s, '60 I suppose, must be '61. I was 15 or 16, beatnik, and I think she was an older woman and…
ANDREW DENTON: One would hope so.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, she was older, yes, exactly right. She was older than me and dragged me in her tent and that was it. It was all over in a couple of seconds.
ANDREW DENTON: You say you can't remember before that. Everyone remembers their first time. She must have been the first time.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, she was. Yeah, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: After 'Maggie May' you had an incredibly successful decade, the '70s and I, The Guinness Book of Records actually listed you as the most successful singles artist of that decade. But by the end of the decade punk came along, and the punk people declared you as a, as a boring old fart.
ROD STEWART: They were quite right.
ANDREW DENTON: What was it like to go from being deeply cool to deeply uncool?
ROD STEWART: Um only I think only with them. I think my fans have always, you know, been amazingly loyal but from their standpoint, they're right. I think the likes of me and Elton and Bowie and the likes, we all needed a kick up the arse you know, and they gave it to us. I mean, maybe we were coming a, becoming a little bit complacent.
ANDREW DENTON: At the time punk was happening you were sort of going disco and eh?
ROD STEWART: Little bit later.
ANDREW DENTON: Little bit later.
ROD STEWART: The punk thing was like '75, '76, '77, and then I did do a big bandwagon jump in and I did disco. Forgot about that one, you bastard. I was hoping you wouldn't bring that up.
ANDREW DENTON: Well, I was going to refer to it as 'The Spandex Years' actually.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, 'The old Spandex Years'. What a pair of legs I had in those days.
ANDREW DENTON: They were good legs. You've said you were a hero.
ROD STEWART: One on each side.
ANDREW DENTON: You've said you were a hero for some of the stuff you wore. What are some of the outfits you remember?
ROD STEWART: Oh I think the most bizarre one was with the, with The Faces, where I used to put, you know, those feather boas. I used to wear three round me waist — red, yellow, any colours — but I always wore three. I mean it looked like a ballerinas tutu but I got away with it. I think I got away with it, and then I had the spandex cutaway which just showed two nipples. My kids look at these pictures now and think - dad, how could you do it? But you look back on what you wore and it all seemed OK at the time. It's only in retrospect you look and you go - oh my God, what was I doing, you know?
ANDREW DENTON: You've described 'Do You Think I'm Sexy?', you said of it that was the song that put the spanner in the works - in what way?
ROD STEWART: Ah for the, for the critics I suppose. I think it was just the, and also, you know, four years previous I just, you know, moved from Great Britain to Hollywood, you know, become a tax exile, that pissed them off. And I think, you know, 'Do You Think I'm Sexy?' really pissed them off, so I, the critics really hated me after that.
ANDREW DENTON: Moving to America wasn't just about tax though was it? I mean this was a, you'd always loved America hadn't you?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, I d- no, I'd loved the some of the culture. I loved the music obviously and I love New York. I wasn't really in love with the West Coast. No, I was sort fooled into moving here. My manager at the time said, "Look, we'll just go out there for a couple of months, rent a house and see what it's like", you know, "Maybe we want to record out there." So when I got here they said "Well by the way you're here for a year. You can't go home for a year." And I was absolutely distraught cos I'm a homebody. You know I love my parents and all me mates in London. So I stayed here for a year and then because the government was so bad in England at the time, they were taxing everybody like 98p in the pound so they said "Look, this is ridiculous. You can't go back there. You're going to pay more tax than you earn." So I stayed and that was like 30 odd years ago.
ANDREW DENTON: 'With Do You Think I'm Sexy?', you donated the royalties for that to UNICEF. Why was that?
ROD STEWART: Um, I don't know why. I think it had something to do, cos I nicked the song, you know, I nicked it from a, from, I was on holiday in Brazil and I subconsciously came back with this song in me head, and this is the honest truth, and it was a song that I'd heard at the carnival in Brazil. It went [singing] and I came back a year later and turned it into a song and I think we, we'd already given the royalties away to UNICEF because I did a show at the United Nations, I thought it was a good idea. Then I got sued and I had to give the guy the b-side of the next two singles, so it was pretty complicated.
ANDREW DENTON: A lot of people though wouldn't say "I nicked the song." I mean it's…
"Ah well everyone does it. It's just about time people get honest, you know, and if you get caught oh fair cop mate, you know. I'm not saying I do it all the time...you find with musicians, you take riffs into your head and you suck things up,"
ROD STEWART: Ah well everyone does it. It's just about time people get honest, you know, and if you get caught oh fair cop mate, you know. I'm not saying I do it all the time, but and it wasn't a conscious nick, you know. If you find with musicians, you take riffs into your head and you suck things up, as I said earlier, like a sponge, and you know a year later, I don't know where this come from. It's do-do-do ba- you slow it down a little bit, it's not so, not so obvious but the, they came knocking on me door — "'Scuse me sir, this is our song."
ANDREW DENTON: When George Harrison went through all that with eh 'My Sweet Lord', the 'She's so Fine', d- did you sympathise?
ROD STEWART: I f- well, you know George is not here to defend himself. I think that may have been an out and out nick, you know. Or a subconscious one, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt. He's upstairs now. He's on the roof as they say.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah, fair enough. Nice way of putting it. The, you've said about 'Hot Legs' that you never thought you'd end up writing sort of dirty shagging songs like 'Hot Legs'. How did that one come about?
ROD STEWART: Um I'll tell you to, eh I'm so honest. There was a racing driver called James Hunt who has passed on now, and he used to call his girlfriend 'Hot Legs' cos she had a nice pair of pins. So I just nicked the idea of just the, that title, which I do a lot. You know, I don't nick titles but I get two words or three words and I turn them into songs. I thought - that's really great, 'Hot Legs', so James, another one that's on the roof. Thank you, mate. But I wrote the song, you know, with a couple of other guys.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes. How many of your songs?
ROD STEWART: Are nicked?
ANDREW DENTON: No, no, I wasn't going to ask that. No, oh how many are? No. How many of your songs have you shagged to - or does modesty forbid?
ROD STEWART: Um to my songs? I can't think of any of them. Quite a bit with 'The American Songbook' and my wife, Penny, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes.
ROD STEWART: Cos it, it's, I wouldn't say it was shagging music but it's good music to put on. It doesn't, you know, it's mood music, let's put it that way.
ANDREW DENTON: Seduction music.
ROD STEWART: Yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Which is a much better word, isn't it?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Which is the one that is most effective?
ROD STEWART: Ah I think 'The Way You Look Tonight'. [Singing] It's a lovely song. You know, I sung that for the Queen.
ANDREW DENTON: Really?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, at Buckingham Palace. It was for a charity do and she was only sitting four feet in front of me, her and the Duke of Edinburgh and it's the most nervous thing I've ever had to do in my entire life. I was crapping myself before I walked out and sung it. I mean…
ANDREW DENTON: Because normally you would make eye contact, connect with the audience. You can't really do that with the Queen, can you?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, you can. Yeah, she was, she, I looked at her and she went like she does, bless her, you know and they really enjoyed it. But it was, as I say, it's eh for someone that's sung in front of countless millions of people over the years, it was daunting, you know. And it's so, it's so uptight, you know. Everybody well sits down. There are two thrones, one of the, or one for the Queen and a little one for him and he sat a few rows along and it was all the dignitaries and the high profile people of London and everybody's dressed up and it was pretty scary, really was.
ANDREW DENTON: And of course a great seduction song. Do you think in time you could have wooed the Queen?
ROD STEWART: No, oh bless her. There's something that the Queen and I have got in common over the last 40 years. We've both had the same haircuts.
ANDREW DENTON: That is true. Is this a conscious thing? It is the same haircut.
ROD STEWART: It is basically. It's on a theme, it's based on a theme. But if you look back over the years it's changed radically but it's always been uplifting. I've tried other hairstyles but it won't it will never lay down. You know, it always wants to get up and start going again.
ANDREW DENTON: I was saying before the interview, it's kind of freakish that you look pretty much exactly the same as you did 40 years ago. I put this down to devil worship. Am I wrong?
ROD STEWART: It's not devil worship. It's, it's a lot of luck. It's a lot of luck. I've just got, you know, pretty good skin.
ANDREW DENTON: Plus you, you…
ROD STEWART: But the lighting's good here. You've done a great job on the lights, thanks. They've been here all day doing the lights, bless them.
ANDREW DENTON: All week.
ROD STEWART: Week.
ANDREW DENTON: You do, you work hard, though. Physically you work hard don't you? You train a lot.
ROD STEWART: Mm yeah, today I, as I said, I played football last night and training doing shuttles with my dodgy knee, I must be mad. And then I was in the gym today doing shoulders and eh, and chest.
ANDREW DENTON: Who would win in a contest between you and Mick Jagger for fitness?
ROD STEWART: I don't know. It's, I've really got and I hear Mick's pretty fit. He's probably got a slimmer waist than me but you know he can't take a corner kick like I can. He's no good on the dead ball situation.
ANDREW DENTON: Every sportsman, amateur or professional has a moment in their career which they'll never forget where they just nailed it. What's yours?
ROD STEWART: In sport? Oh in sport, oh I played in an England-Scotland match at Wembley with eh, it was like before the big England-Scotland match and eh I scored a goal. It was like eh, eh ex-English players and six ex-Scottish players and I was the guest, you know, and I scored. That was, and me dad was in the crowd, that was probably the most amazing at Wembley.
ANDREW DENTON: You've got your own Wembley sized pitch too, is that right?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, yeah. It's beautiful. I mean it's, I get a lot of the professional teams. In fact, the team of my life that I love, Celtic, they were down there training a couple of months ago, pre-season. It's full size. It's as flat as a billiard table. It's gorgeous. Has its own computerised watering system and it's a beautiful thing to behold. I every time I go home to England I just run down the pitch and make sure someone ain't nicked it. So it's a sight to behold, it really is.
ANDREW DENTON: Would you have traded if you could have played at international level, would you have traded what you've done for that?
"...my first love, is music and the singing and you know, I'm 62 now and still going out there and performing and what's more important is I still love it."
ROD STEWART: No. No, not in a million years. No, I think this is to be honest, this is my first love, is music and the singing and you know, I'm 62 now and still going out there and performing and what's more important is I still love it. I still love it to death, I really do. I wouldn't do it if I didn't, I swear to God.
ANDREW DENTON: You said once that if there was a book written about your life you'd call it 'I Wish I Kept it in my Trousers.'
ROD STEWART: [Laugh] Oh dear that…
ANDREW DENTON: Do you really?
ROD STEWART: No, not at all, but it is a great title for a book. You sure I said that? That's fabulous.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes, you did.
ROD STEWART: Yeah no, not at all. Cos as you probably know I've just got a new a new son and I've just got married and we got marvellous, he's 18 months now. He's absolute gorgeous. He's the, he's my ray of sunshine every morning. Bless him. He's gorgeous.
ANDREW DENTON: Are you a hands-on dad?
ROD STEWART: Um I'd like to be more. I was in the first eight months where I was really getting in to the nappy changing, but the nappies are getting a little bit more disturbing now, if you know what I mean, and there's more of them, so. And we didn't have a nanny for the first six or seven months, so I had to do a lot of it, but um. No, he, he's, I, I'll become, be more in his life I think when I get him on the pitch or whatever you know sport he wants to take up. I take him out now and get him on the tennis court kicking the ball about.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah, but he's still very young. It's a good reason to stay fit too, so you can.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I don't want to be walking around with a walking cane when he's like 12 or 15.
ANDREW DENTON: Did you get down on bended knee to propose to Penny?
ROD STEWART: Yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: A-and you asked her dad's hand for marriage?
ROD STEWART: That's right, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Really?
"...and I got down on one knee and proposed to her and then I couldn't get up cos I just had an operation on this right leg and said "For Christ's sake say yes or no cos me leg's killing me. Pull me up." Thank goodness she said yes."
ROD STEWART: Yeah, we, I pretended I was taking a, for a birthday party to Paris, just me and her and I invited her mum and dad. And she said "Well that's odd. Why'd you invite your, my mum and dad?" I said "I thought it'd be nice." She said "Oh, OK." So as we were walking to the plane I decided to stop Graham, her father, and I said eh "I'm going to ask your daughter with your permission, to take your daughter's hand in marriage." And he went, his legs went all wobbly. He nearly collapsed and he's a big fella. So yeah, we got up the Eiffel Tower, halfway there's a restaurant there, and I got down on one knee and proposed to her and then I couldn't get up cos I just had an operation on this right leg and said "For Christ's sake say yes or no cos me leg's killing me. Pull me up." Thank goodness she said yes.
ANDREW DENTON: Contrary to the popular image, you're, you claim to be shy around women.
ROD STEWART: I'm shy period, you know, and not just around women. And just one of those things. I'm not great at walking into a room full of strangers. It's funny isn't it, but you know it's, get me on the stage, I'm fine.
ANDREW DENTON: That's difficult though because there's no room you don't walk into where you're not the focus.
ROD STEWART: No. Yeah, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: So how do you deal with that?
ROD STEWART: I just do. You know it's one of those things, can't explain it.
ANDREW DENTON: Is it true that your chat up line is "Hello, darling. What you got in that basket?"
ROD STEWART: "What you got in that basket?"
ANDREW DENTON: Really?
ROD STEWART: Yeah. It used to be. Yeah, it wasn't a bad line. It was…
ANDREW DENTON: The, that worked?
"And the second one was, you know, ask them if they like to come round the laundrette and do a bit of bit of dry cleaning, bit of cleaning the smalls. Oh how embarrassing."
ROD STEWART: I don't know what it means. Well it was, you know, it was original at the time, let's put it that way. And the second one was, you know, ask them if they like to come round the laundrette and do a bit of bit of dry cleaning, bit of cleaning the smalls. Oh how embarrassing.
ANDREW DENTON: Have a tumble.
ANDREW DENTON: The, what what's your main memory of the day you got married?
ROD STEWART: Um the main memory of the day I got married. I think probably when I was standing at the eh, at the alter and waiting for Penny to come down and previously I'd said, you know, "You have to, one song I want to hear is 'The Fields of Athenrae', which is a, you know, like a Celtic national anthem, has been for a long time. And I didn't think she'd do it at that moment she was coming down the aisle, and this Italian choir, kids' choir started singing 'The Fields of Athenrae.' It's a gorgeous Irish folksong, and that was it. I were just crying me eyes out, you know, couldn't stop. [Noise].
ANDREW DENTON: You've been married a few times.
ROD STEWART: Yes.
ANDREW DENTON: Were you, were you, were you nervous?
ROD STEWART: I knew we had to go there sooner or later.
ANDREW DENTON: Well, we will. Were you nervous?
ROD STEWART: Ah for the wedding?
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah.
ROD STEWART: Not as nervous as Penny. I mean eh, she lost a, you know, quite a few pounds in the build up to it cos, you know, she worked so hard, all the details, every little detail she was into. You know, what colour knickers the bridesmaids were going to wear and everything, you know.
ANDREW DENTON: Let's talk about the other times b-because you were somebody Nick Hornby beautifully described you in the '80s as more than an entertainer, you were a 'lifestyle', because all your romances, everything about you seemed to be front page news.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: You, there was a period there before you married Rachel, where you described, you were living in Cannes and you were flying in shags from everywhere and you were really unhappy.
ROD STEWART: Yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: You're thinking is that is this all I am. Is being a sort of an international shag-master not all it's cracked up to be?
ROD STEWART: No, no it certainly isn't. It's well let me put it this way, it's probably great when you're in your 20s and you're going into your maybe your early 30s, but after that it becomes pointless and I wasn't living in Cannes. I was doing a commercial with Tina Turner for Coca Cola and we were flying them into the Carlton Hotel there, one after another and it's just it's nothing, you know.
ANDREW DENTON: So when you say…
ROD STEWART: Just getting the dirty water off me chest.
ANDREW DENTON: So when you when you farewell a girl from your hotel room, shut the door, it's like…
ROD STEWART: Yeah, nothing there. Nothing there at all. I've always, I've always valued relationships. I've never been great at being on my own. You know I can be on my own, but I'd rather be in a great relationship.
ANDREW DENTON: What was the lyric in 'Blonde'?
ROD STEWART: Now, don't ask me about blondes. I knew you were going to go there.
ANDREW DENTON: I was going to, well the lyric in 'Blondes Have More Fun', about, you know you can…
"There have been a lot of blondes but you know, there's also been quite a few brunettes that you don't know about."
ROD STEWART: There have been a lot of blondes but you know, there's also been quite a few brunettes that you don't know about.
ANDREW DENTON: What do, what do women see in you?
ROD STEWART: Oh Jesus Christ. Well I think I'm a polite sort of guy. You know, I'm eh attentive, I always have been. Pretty good listener, you know, halfway decent shag. I don't know. It's a hard one to answer, you know. It really is. You'll have to ask the current wife.
ANDREW DENTON: We got, cos I know a lot of your exes get together, you're all still pretty good friends with them, is that…?
ROD STEWART: Well, that happened once, you know Christmas about three years ago. I can't see it happening again. It was a strange period in all of our lives, but yeah, it was true. There was Penny and eh Rachel and eh Alana, and Kelly. Well Kelly, well I was never married to Kelly.
ANDREW DENTON: Yeah. What would they agree on about you?
ROD STEWART: Um what would they all agree on? Oh I don't know. That is such a difficult question. They all probably, all say that I'm a bit tight, you know. But I'm not, you know.
ANDREW DENTON: That is your reputation. What was it? Ron, Ron Wood said that your…
ROD STEWART: He's such an arsehole Ron. He goes around saying this.
ANDREW DENTON: He described you as tighter than two coats of paint.
ROD STEWART: No, I I'm very careful with money you know, and so, and Ronnie isn't, you know. He's, he doesn't keep his eyes on the accounts like I do. He's got no Scottish blood in him. But I'm not tight. I do a hell of a lot of work for charities, you know. I just, I just don't make it public. In fact we did our wedding photos in 'Hello', we gave all the money to charity, you know. I just don't make a song and dance about it.
ANDREW DENTON: Where does the reputation come from?
ROD STEWART: I may have, I may have encouraged that reputation a little bit in the early days when I was, you know, building an image for myself and with the love of Scotland and eh, and not all Scottish people are tight, believe me. But I sort of eh you know worked on it a little bit, you know.
ANDREW DENTON: Where does that Scottish thing come from?
ROD STEWART: Me dad.
ANDREW DENTON: Scots are meant to be tight.
ROD STEWART: I don't know where it comes from. It's certainly isn't true. It's not, it's far from true.
ANDREW DENTON: Did your dad teach you the value of a quid though?
ROD STEWART: Oh my dad had no money, bless him. He was a slave to the bookies, you know. Slave to, he was a gambling man, but he was big-hearted too, because when he'd, you know, there we never had any money. I mean we were never on the poverty line but we weren't wealthy obviously. Any time he'd win out the bookies, he'd just go and just buy everybody flowers and buy the lady in the groceries a box of chocolates and give all his sons you know 20 quid each and you know, a big win for him was 500 pounds. But he was a generous man. If he had it, he'd give it away. He was totally the opposite to the archetypal Scotsman.
ANDREW DENTON: Did you go the other way then? Were you, are not a gambler?
ROD STEWART: No, no. I can't stand gambling. I've got no, no time for it whatsoever. It's ruined lives and my eldest son, I managed to talk him out of gambling now, cos he liked it you know.
ANDREW DENTON: How was it for your kids growing up with a dad who was notorious, famous for his relationships, famous for being a good-time guy?
"You know, I can't bear that expression when kids come up with that... "You weren't there for me." It's such a pissy cliché. I was working, you know. Wasn't partying."
ROD STEWART: I think with all of them, th-they know there's an un, you know, an undying love there for them, you know. A couple of them, the eldest have been saying, you know, you wasn't there when I was young and I keep reminding them that, you know, dad wasn't off partying. He was off working, you know, that's what I did for a living. I had to be away and I took them with me everywhere as much as I could. You know, I can't bear that expression when kids come up with that, you know. You know, "You weren't there for me." It's such a pissy cliché. I was working, you know. Wasn't partying. I was out working. It's what I do. I have to travel and I still do. But, I think they wouldn't change me for a, for a, say a chartered accountant, not that there's anything wrong with being a chartered accountant. I think they see the exciting side of it. And they, all of them have gone into the, or are going, trying to go into the arts, you know whether that be sport or music, or dance, all of them. So, and all I can do is prepare them for the for the bad side, cos it is, there's a lot of rejection in sport and the entertainment business, so I prepare them for that but…
ANDREW DENTON: Your son Sean said he wants to be a singer. Have you encouraged that?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, I'll encourage him to the point where I think it he's wasting his time you know, because I mean Ruby wants to be a singer and she's the one I think with the voice in the family and she sits at home writing songs and she's struggling and she wants to do it. Sean is a bit of a Johnny come lately. He's, you know, he's only just realised well maybe I want to be a singer. I think, I think he'll find his way in entertainment in something else eventually.
ANDREW DENTON: Sean has had some well-documented troubles with the police. He's been in jail once and been up on assault charges again this year and I know Kimberley your daughter's had some drink, health related issues with drinking. How does a, how do you, as somebody's whose been a pleasure seeking man, how do you counsel your kids when they go off the rails?
ROD STEWART: Oh that that's always a hard one. You know, the "Well you did it, dad." And all I can say is, it was a different era, you know. You could, you know, you could get away with it a little bit more in the '70s. I mean, and you weren't hounded by the press. I mean the paparazzi didn't exist in the '70s. It's only things that we could do and you weren't always in the limelight, but not now. You got to be very careful. But with Kimberley first of all, I think she had a drink problem. She's over it now and eh, and like a lot of kids you know, they experiment and she got into a little bit of a binge drinker, but she soon got out of it and she's in London now working her arse off. She's got a new reality show coming out, so she's great. Sean hasn't had a drink for over two years now, which is more than I can say for myself, so he's doing, he's doing great too. He's still looking to find his way and it's once again, you know, kids get into fights. It, it's the law of the jungle you know. But with him having me as his dad, it's going to get in the papers.
ANDREW DENTON: There's not much you can do about it, but very tough particularly for a boy that wants to be in your industry to live in your shadow.
ROD STEWART: Yeah. It is hard. I mean it, it's and it's going to be difficult. And I keep telling him, I said "By all means, I'll be right behind you but you know, this is going to be a hard one." It's going to be hard for Ruby, Rod Stewart's daughter wants to make records, but for a boy it's going to be really difficult. I think he'll, as I said, find his way in show business down another avenue.
ANDREW DENTON: I just want to briefly go back to the women in your life, if I may. When you were, you talked about when you were with Kelly, that you, and when she was pregnant that you slept around, and you said at the time wondered why she would get involved with someone like you. You've since been through a couple of marriages. Have you worked out the fidelity thing now?
ROD STEWART: Oh yeah, without a doubt. Yeah, yeah. I mean that was probably the most, without a doubt, the most terrible thing I ever did. I wasn't unfaithful, serial type. You know, I was unfaithful once to her while she was pregnant and eh terrible. I'll never, I'll never forgive myself for that. But with Rachel, I was absolutely faithful for you know, throughout the marriage and I have been since I've known Penny, you know. There was only like six months in between where we broke up.
ANDREW DENTON: When Rachel left you, you were literally heart-broken weren't you?
ROD STEWART: I wasn't amused.
ANDREW DENTON: To quote the queen. You were, I read that you were, you would go to bed with a hot water bottle on your chest.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, yeah. It was the heartache of it, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Seriously? It was it was that intense?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, it's, it was a ho- I wasn't prepared for it. No one had ever done that to me, so I didn't have any armoury, no I wasn't just wasn't ready for it. But you know, I should have seen it coming really because, you know, my sister said "You know she's awfully young." And eh, I said "Oh now, it'll be fine", you know. Eh and I don't blame her one iota. It was, I should have known better. Maybe her parents should have said "Look, just hold on a little bit, you're only 20 or 21." And it was great for six or seven years and she like women do, I think in their late 20s, they feel they want to get out and spread their wings a little bit and I'm not talking being promiscuous or e-even sexually. I mean eh, they just want to get away, you know. So I should have known better, so I'm not blaming her.
ANDREW DENTON: So when you were onstage performing as Rod Stewart with your heart broken, that must have been a very…
ROD STEWART: Oh it was awful, yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: Because there you are 'Mr Sexy' and feeling like crap.
ROD STEWART: Oh there were some nights I just barely could drag myself on the stage, but it was, I just had to do it. You know, it, what's the option? You can go back home and get in bed with a hot water bottle again. You know but…
ANDREW DENTON: Who helps you in that situation?
ROD STEWART: Nobody.
ANDREW DENTON: Really?
"I had therapists come along and, you know, one of the therapists was, came on to me a little bit, well I need this don't I, like a hole in the head?"
ROD STEWART: Nobody can really help you. I mean, I got, the best help I got was from my dear friend eh Alan. He's a, he's my best, he's a rock for me. He's a scrap metal dealer in London and he's a good mate of mine. He flew all the way over on his own to be with me, you know, which eh was a marvellous, you know, eh tonic for me. But really, nobody can help you. I had therapists come along and, you know, one of the therapists was, came on to me a little bit, well I need this don't I, like a hole in the head? But there's nobody can help you. You, it's you can't go round it, you can't get over it. You just got to, you know, batter your way through it.
ANDREW DENTON: I love the thought of a therapist coming onto you. Take, take one of me and call me in the morning.
ROD STEWART: [Laugh] No, but it was, that was all I needed at the time, cos you're not interested. You don't want to be in a relationship. You don't want to do no sex or anything. You're just heartbroken.
ANDREW DENTON: 'The American Songbook' thing has been a phenomenal renaissance for your career, quite extraordinary. That was originally your idea is that right?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, yeah. I, in fact I had the idea in the early '80s where I went to Warner Brothers and they said "No, we don't see you as a, as a crooner." They always said "Our investment in you is as a rock star." And I was, well that's fair enough. I'll do it one day and eh, you know, we did it, and it was a huge success. I mean not in a million years, if you'd have told me you're going to sell you know 18 million albums of, for 'The American Songbook', unbelievable.
ANDREW DENTON: And did it feel right when you did it?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, it did. You know cos I was if I'd have done this 25, 30 years ago, I couldn't have pulled it off. I think there was a maturity in my voice because it went down after I had the throat operation with the cancer, it went down. I sung a little bit lower and it gave me a real richness and depth in my voice, which wasn't there previous.
ANDREW DENTON: Tell me about the throat cancer. That was 2000, and for somebody who had such a charmed life that must have come as a real shock.
ROD STEWART: Oh that was a real bash round the head, yeah. It really was and I was lucky cos I went, I'm very conscious of my health, you know, to the point of paranoia. I'm always, you know, eh when I get an ache or pain I don't go to the doctor, but I'm always having check ups and blood tests. So I went for a scan and that's how they found out, simple scan, you know. I think if I'd have just left it I wouldn't be here now.
ANDREW DENTON: Do you remember what you thought when you got the news?
ROD STEWART: Ah well I was reassured by the doctor cos he said you've, you know, he said "If you're going to have a cancer we've caught it early and if you're going to have it this is the one to have cos you'll be in and out of hospital next week, you know, in 24 hours", which I think I was. But it robbed me of my voice, totally. I mean eh, I couldn't sing a note which would please a lot of people.
ANDREW DENTON: Well, what was it like to not have your voice?
ROD STEWART: Ah it was it was very frightening, you know. I thought - well what am I going to do for the rest of my life, you know? But bit by bit it came back, you know. Took about six months and came back as I said, a bit more soulful I think.
ANDREW DENTON: You're 62 and you still look a lot younger. Do you feel young out there on stage?
ROD STEWART: Yeah. Yeah, I do. I wouldn't say I feel young. Eh I don't feel as if I'm eh, I mean I don't jump around as much as I used to. I try and stay within the, eh it's hard to describe really. Eh it's I think when it's time to knock it on the head, you know there'll be a bell ring in me head and say - you're really foolish now. I do get carried away sometimes, you know, when the audience are really wild.
ANDREW DENTON: What do you do?
"I really concentrate on the singing now, cos that's what's got me here, not shaking me bum around or whatever I do on stage...I look after it like it was the crown jewels, trust me."
ROD STEWART: Oh I might do the odd twirl that's should be beyond a man of my advanced years. I really concentrate on the singing now, cos that's what's got me here, not shaking me bum around or whatever I do on stage. It's my voice has got me where I am, so I look after it like it was the crown jewels, trust me.
ANDREW DENTON: It's when you're in spandex at 80, that's god's way of saying give it away.
ROD STEWART: [Laugh] Yeah, yeah. You got to be careful, but I been I'm so lucky, you know. I mean I, anybody that says, you know, that show business has its down eh downsides, when you're successful, it doesn't mate. If you can't put up with the paparazzi, then get out the business, that's what I say.
ANDREW DENTON: There's a Sir Mick and a Sir Paul. There's a Lady Elton.
ROD STEWART: Yep.
ANDREW DENTON: Ah there's no Sir Rod.
ROD STEWART: Well there is a CBE.
ANDREW DENTON: There's a CBE.
ROD STEWART: Which is just one below.
ANDREW DENTON: One below.
ROD STEWART: Yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: How come no sir?
"I'll keep washing me milk bottles out and putting them on the doorstep, like a good citizen. But if it doesn't happen...I'm very happy with a CBE thank you very much. Commander of the British Empire."
ROD STEWART: I don't know. I'm not losing sleep over it, you know and I'm not brown-nosing round the r- the royal family. If it happens it happens, you know. I'll keep washing me milk bottles out and putting them on the doorstep, like a good citizen. But if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. I'm very happy with a CBE thank you very much. Commander of the British Empire.
ANDREW DENTON: Ah that's very… Do you wear it?
ROD STEWART: Yeah, I, I've got it by my sink. In fact I I'm going to a wedding on Saturday night, one of me mates in the football team and I'm going to wear it for a laugh.
ANDREW DENTON: What is it? Is it a big…?
ROD STEWART: Big old cross, yeah. It's heavy. So, but it's a blue, a, eh it's got enamel in the middle cross. It's gold with an enamel cross in the middle, sorry, and a big red ribbon and it's heavy.
ANDREW DENTON: I hope you wear it around the house and command respect.
ROD STEWART: I wear it in the nude, and you also get a little tiny tie pin. You can wear it as a tiepin. It's, that was a great day too, picking up a CBE from Charles, you know. He's a, I love him. He, he's a good lad.
ANDREW DENTON: I keep hearing this. What's does he say to you in a situation like that?
ROD STEWART: Well, all the times I've met him and there's been considerable now, I mean at least eh I'd say a dozen times over the years, he's always "How's the old voice? The old voice OK is it?" You know, and he would, he's said that to me four or five times on the trot. But he's a, now he asked more about Penny I think, he's a, he loves Penny. And we get lovely eh, you know, like notes f-from him you know, Highgrove, and I love the missus. I think she's marvellous, Camilla.
ANDREW DENTON: Really? Cos she gets a lot of bad press.
ROD STEWART: I love her. I think she's great.
ANDREW DENTON: What do you love about her?
ROD STEWART: Well for instance when we just did a charity show at St James' palace you know, there was always after the show, cos Charles was there and Camilla, and she not only wanted to meet the band, which I thought was incredibly generous, she said I'd like to meet all the others that put the show on. All the road crew. So she took all the road crew, came back, and they were all dressed up and she didn't have to do that, and he didn't have to do it and he did.
ANDREW DENTON: That's impressive.
ROD STEWART: But eh yeah, impressed me, I tell you.
ANDREW DENTON: I always liked it about Charles that he had enough of a sense of humour, when Spike Milligan called him a grovelling little bastard, he laughed.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, he does. Eh Penny spent two hours with him at this same charity event and sat next to him. I mean she was like crapping herself thinking - I've got sit next to Charles. What are we going to talk about? He was such a gentleman. She said he was just fun and he swore and he got it, you know. And so I'm doing my act and everybody's like politely clapping and we're doing some great songs and giving it all that and Penny said, "Sir, do you mind if I got up and dance?" He said "No, not at all." And she got up and started getting, giving it all that. And he said "Well I can't leave you dancing on your own." He got up and then went to everybody like this and everybody had to get up and dance. And the whole evening went off with a, it was amazing.
ANDREW DENTON: I just, what on earth was Charles swearing like? I can't imagine Charles…
ROD STEWART: Yes, he said he's, oh maybe I shouldn't have let the cat out of the bag. He does do the odd eff word, but she said eh he just talked about everything. You know his exercise regime, his boys, you know his lifestyle and his he was enquiring about me and her lifestyle and they got on like a house on fire. It was really great. I love him.
ANDREW DENTON: I get the sense it's a been a real rebirth for you marrying again.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, it has. She's, I mean I could just wax quite lyrical about her, but you know I love her to death, everything about her and eh we had a good long courtship, you know, six or seven years and eh we got everything out the way. Not that there was much to get out the way. I mean we just we just cracked it right from the start. I'm a very, very lucky man. Very bloody lucky.
ANDREW DENTON: You are a lucky man. You're life seem…
ROD STEWART: Lucky bugger.
ANDREW DENTON: Your life seems to have been charmed.
ROD STEWART: It do- it has. Yeah.
ANDREW DENTON: I would like your life when you're finished with it, if that's all right.
ROD STEWART: All right, mate. I've still got a bit more in me I think.
ANDREW DENTON: You're not on the roof yet. Look forward to seeing you in Australia.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, I'm looking forward to coming down there and my son will be coming down there, the new one.
ANDREW DENTON: Yes.
ROD STEWART: Some of the other kids may come with me. I've said I'd love them all to come cos none of them have been down there apart from Renee and Liam, they're the only two that been down there.
ANDREW DENTON: And there's a lot of room to kick a football.
ROD STEWART: Yeah, and I'll come and watch some Aussie Rules.
ANDREW DENTON: Pleasure talking to you, Rod. Nice to meet you. Thank you, cheers.
ROD STEWART: All right, mate, thank you.


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We're both needmorevacation http://www.fodors.com/community/profile/needmorevacation/ Eloping/Honeymooning in Africa tag:www.fodors.com,2015:/community//1.1082142 2015-12-24T21:04:55Z 2015-12-25T02:04:55Z In May, my fiance and I will be spending 4 days in Cape Town, where we will elope. Then we plan on spending 5 days in Botswana on safari at the Eagle Island Lodge. We'd like to add a third leg to the trip AnnaBanana1 http://www.fodors.com/community/profile/annabanana1/ suggestions for 10 days in early dec tag:www.fodors.com,2015:/community//1.1076575 2015-10-24T06:14:46Z 2015-10-24T11:14:46Z i'm from hong kong and want to decide if i should pick Mauritius or Seychelles for a 10-day holiday in early december. we love the nature and culture and not exactly the type for water sports and such. watakeet http://www.fodors.com/community/profile/watakeet/ The first time in Mauritius tag:www.fodors.com,2015:/community//1.1070348 2015-09-01T09:22:30Z 2015-09-01T14:22:30Z It was the first time I got out that far but I had always wanted to see some real but safe tropics. I'm absolutely happy that I went to Mauritius. I really enjoyed the nature and services. And I must AmandaMorris http://www.fodors.com/community/profile/amandamorris/ Mauritius info request please tag:www.fodors.com,2015:/community//1.1049639 2015-07-02T04:31:19Z 2015-07-02T09:31:19Z Good day to all fellow forumers! my first post here. I am looking to do a 10 day Mauritius by myself. August 24-sept 3rd. I was told to stay in the north and/or west of the island for less wind and more pilotaydin http://www.fodors.com/community/profile/pilotaydin/ Mauritius September 2015 - Silver Beach Resort or Emeraude Beach Attitude? tag:www.fodors.com,2014:/community//1.1032095 2014-12-14T09:05:54Z 2014-12-14T14:05:54Z Hi, I am planning on taking my first trip to Mauritius next September. I have found 2 hotels which appeal to me, Emeraude Beach Attitude and Silver Beach Resort. 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Friday, June 13, 2008
RL Steampunk Dalek and the Great Crystal Cyberdrome of 2008
A bit of eye-candy for all the Dr. Who fans, this RL Steam Dalek was made for the "Beyond Cyberdrome 2008", who's theme is the "Great Crystal Cyberdrome". I'm certain that this will be one of the most eyecatching pieces of design there. (And no - its a miniature! Stop fantasizing about riding around inside it and scaring small children and tourists!)
For details on this piece of art and how it was made, please visit:
For more information about the "Great Crystal Cyberdrome of 2008", please visit:
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