Rod Stewart & Cheap Trick – PPG Paints Arena – Pittsburgh, PA – August 26, 2023 The 1970’s certainly gave the world a crop of ageless and...

Rod Stewart - Wells Fargo Center - Philadelphia, PA - December 11, 2013 Photos by Jim Rinaldi © 2013. All rights reserved.

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum (Dutton) Craig Marks Wants His MTV! by Jay S. Jacobs Legend tells us the MTV blasted off on television on August 1, 1981 with the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” – a song that was like a shot off the bow of the staid music world and became the channel’s own personal mission statement. However, while that was true, that is only part of the story. It turns out that there

Rod Stewart – It Had To Be You: The Great American Songbook Rod Stewart – It Had To Be You: The Great American Songbook (J Records) With...

Though it was not planned this way, this box-set seems to be a map of the diminishing returns that have been Rod Stewart's career. Much of the latter stuff is perfectly fine but formulaic music, but the grit and passion of the early stuff pretty much blow it out of the water.