Rod Stewart has clarified feedback he lately made about abandoning rock music.
“I’m not retiring,” he mentioned in a BBC interview earlier this month. “But I want to move on to … I had great success with The Great American Songbook, all-American standards, and I’ve just done a swing album with Jools Holland, which is going to come out next year, so I want to go in that direction. I just want to leave all the rock ‘n’ roll stuff behind — for a while, maybe.”
Stewart has now taken to Twitter to elucidate what he meant, noting that he doesn’t intend to cease making and performing music anytime quickly. “I shall never retire!” he wrote. “I was put on this earth to be a singer and will keep doing so for as long as the good lord lets me.”
Stewart had beforehand mentioned that he deliberate to cease performing his rock hits after his present tour however has now mentioned he’ll maintain enjoying them throughout his excursions which can be scheduled by way of 2023, in addition to exhibits he’ll e book for 2024.
“During recent interviews, I’ve mentioned my newest passion is big band/swing music, and when we wrap this greatest hits tour, it’s something I’m very eager to share with you,” he wrote. “I could never turn my back on the songs that I’ve written and sung over the last six decades. They are like my children. I created them and I love them. I’ll always come back to them, just like I did after The Great American Songbook series, which, I shall boastfully add, sold 26 million albums!
“I stay up for seeing you on the highway with all of the hits, and I can not wait to introduce you to my new swing album subsequent yr.”
Rod Stewart Albums Ranked
From soulful early records to that huge disco hit to five volumes of the Great American Songbook, there isn’t a genre he hasn’t tried.
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