Rod Stewart: Roderick Of Hollywood...
Dave DiMartino, MOJO, May 1995
ROD STEWART IN THE '80S? HERE'S WHERE THE MEMORIES really fly. While it's true that the man had just produced some of the most commercially successful records of his career as in 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?', 'Passion' and 'Young Turks' that wasn't really the point, was it? No, the point, vis-a-vis Rod back then, was that this fabled one-time gravedigger had moved to Hollywood, made gaga with the lovely Britt Ekland, and as a result had become the object of a $15 million palimony suit.
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