Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When English Rock Superstar Rod Stewart travels in his executive jet, he takes along a retinue of 43 musicians, managers and publicists who indulge his every whim. When he arrives, he is met by a cozily appointed limousine and, invariably, an assortment of cozily appointed groupies. His singles like Maggie May and albums like Sing It Again, Rod (his latest, with 700,000 sales in two months) are regular chartbusters. He derives enough additional money from concerts (a recent month-long tour of the U.S. grossed $500,000) to qualify easily for millionaire status. When he takes time...
...Business. At the peak of his career, Stewart, 28, would seem to have everything a rock-'n'-roll musician could aspire to. Certainly he has everything he dreamed of ten years ago when he was a $25-a-week soccer player and part-time gravedigger in the suburbs of London. Yet, at the end of his U.S. tour, while relaxing by the pool of Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel, he confided to TIME Correspondent David DeVoss: "I'm so tired I really don't care." There was bitterness in his voice when he said: "This...
...Stewart, the rooster of vaudeville rock, prances about the stage in pomp and plumage. His costume includes a baby blue pantsuit with flowered muffler, a yellow negligee and gold toreador pants with a white sleeveless top. In order to maintain his concert pace, Stewart has to keep himself in top physical trim; he follows a preperformance regimen of steam bath, black coffee and port-and-brandy. At a recent show in Anaheim, Calif., he wiggled his way through Maggie May and Every Picture Tells a Story, and later, during an instrumental break, backstagers could see him gasping and wheezing behind...
Fancy cars and duds are Stewart's own contribution to his image, although he resents criticism of his indulgences ("Joan Baez shows up at concerts in jeans and sandals-the only difference between her and me is that I own up to the money"). Other aspects of his image please him less, like never being allowed to be seen in public drinking anything as mild as a beer. "It's funny, because people think I'm drunk when I go onstage. But my musicians and I can't destroy the myth, so we act drunk...
...Stewart's goals during a tour stop in Los Angeles last month was to throw a party for his fans in the Hollywood Palladium after his concert there. "Just with the kids that paid to see me. A party where for a change I don't have to put up a false front." His New York-based pressagent, Connie DeNave, nixed that. "Rod, darling," she said, "you're an artist. You need to be with your own kind-nice big, important people. Your kind of people." Rod darling turned away, half in frustration, half in anger...