Penny has been giving a few clues about Rod’s future plans this week
Talking to The Mail On Sunday Penny said: ‘It’s been hard for Rod because he has almost gone into retirement – and retirement is not a word he would ever let cross his lips. He catches up with the band – which he can’t wait to go out on tour with – by Zoom and has been writing a new album. He’s always writing.’
The new songs are nostalgic and sentimental – appropriate to the lost pandemic months in which he wrote them. Penny’s favourite is called Touchline, a reflection on family ties.
‘It’s about football but it’s symbolic – it talks about Rod as a young lad and his father watching from the touchline supporting little Roddy in the wind and rain,’ she says. ‘Now Rod has gone full circle. He’s the older dad standing in the wind and rain on the touchline, watching his boys play. Nothing gives him a bigger thrill.’
Photo Karen Chande