BBC2 will be showing three programmes featuring Rod on Saturday December 14th, first up Rod talks to Dermot O’Leary about his life. From Abbey Road to the Royal Albert Hall and Motown to Maggie May, Dermot takes Rod back to his childhood cinema to relive moments from a career spanning six decades in Reel Stories.
9:10pm-9:40pm (30 minutes)
Then Rod’s superb 2015 Hyde Park concert gets another showing, The concert closed Radio 2’s annual Festival in a Day, held in September 2015 in London’s Hyde Park. Featuring a selection of hits from his back catalogue including Angel, In a Broken Dream, The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II) as well as Faces classics including Ooh La La and blues standard Rollin’ and Tumblin’.
11:05pm-12:05am (1 hour)
And if that wasn’t enough BBC2 will give another showing the documentary Imagine – Rod Stewart: Can’t Stop Me Now The veteran rocker invites Alan Yentob to his LA home to conduct an interview, in which Stewart looks back on a career spanning almost 50 years. He discusses working with acts like the Steampacket and Jeff Beck in the 1960s and his time with the Faces, whose offstage antics became legendary – as did the frontman’s affairs with a string of famous women. His solo career propelled him to superstardom with songs such as Maggie May and Sailing, and while the 1980s proved to be less successful, his constant reinvention has given him a lasting career. Having more recently become known as a singer of American standards, he talks about recording Time, his first album of new material in almost 20 years.
9:40pm-11:05pm (1 hour 25 minutes)
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