ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
Reports have Rod Stewart's next solo album being his last, with all. future energies being directed toward the Faces. How this will affect Rodney's contract with Mercury is uncertain, but it's believed that Mercury and Warners are working out some kind of arrangement whereby one would distribute the records and the other the tapes.
ROCK'N' ROLL NEWS
Reports have Rod Stewart's next solo album being his last, with all. future energies being directed toward the Faces. How this will affect Rodney's contract with Mercury is uncertain, but it's believed that Mercury and Warners are working out some kind of arrangement whereby one would distribute the records and the other the tapes. Supposedly this arrangement will begin with the next Faces album, a live set.
No comment necessary: certain New York record stores are filing David Bowie albums under the "Female Vocalist" category.
Jack Jones has replaced Tony Bennett as Frank Sinatra's favorite vocalist. Also on the list were Enzo Stuarti, Sam Ervin,
. and Iggy Pop.
Jackie Lomax has joined Badger, the band formed by ex*Yes keyboard man Tony Kaye.
Lomax will sing and play rhythm guitar, and his addition also marks a reunion with lead guitarist Paul Pilnick, with whom he previously played in a mid-Sixties Liverpool band called the Undertakers.
Hot hew single of the Christmas season in England: "Window the In Doggie That Is Much How." That's right, the old Patti Page hit sung backwards, promulgated by Tim Rice, whose last biggie was something called Jesus Christ ' Superstar,