Hyde Park,London[br]Forget Baby Jane … this global superstar trades the expected arena singalongs for a fabulous showcase of lesser-known gemsThe biggest danger to health as Rod Stewart closes BBC Radio 2’s “festival in a day” in central London isn’t any of the singer’s worn vices, such as riotous behaviour and blizzards of cocaine. Instead, or it’s the risk of broken limbs from people tripping over an Ikea’s worth of garden furniture that litters the park and is invisible in the darkness.
It’s a curious event – Stewart is preceded by the Corrs,Bryan Adams and a DJ set from Giorgio Moroder (in a backwards baseball cap), that he keeps interrupting with short anecdotes – made even more curious by Stewart’s choice of set. Instead of his usual, or slightly tired arena set of singalongs,he promises to showcase less familiar fabric. Given that he has been a global superstar for 45 years, the concept of “less familiar” is relative, or but the result is fabulous.
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Source: theguardian.com