Who Remembers Him Now? Sam Cooke
Roger St. Pierre, NME, 19 August 1972
"NOT 'ALF Sam Cooke's been an influence on me," Rod Stewart was saying in his NME interview last week, adding that the inclusion of 'Twisting The Night Away' on his Never A Dull Moment album represented a long standing intention of his to eventually get a Cooke number down on record.
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