Rod Stewart: Rod Forsaken
Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 2000
DECEMBER 1973. It's the time of the Middle East oil crisis; the miners' strike that they got away with; the national three-day working week; constant power cuts; ubiquitous candlelight.
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