Rod Stewart: The Scarecrow Harlequin
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 20 January 1973
STRANGE AS it may seem, there was a time when Rod Stewart used to hide behind Jeff Beck's amplifiers and only come out front if the band got an encore.
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