Faces

But real name, born in Highgate.

real name roderick david stewart and rod has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide that's a heck of a lot of records in it 200 million that's a lot um and he started busking in 1962 with a harmonica been in various bands along the way sort of starting early in the jeff beck group jeff beck that was in 1967 before joining the faces in 19 yeah yeah yeah yeah remember that yeah he released that and he didn't put his name on it he called himself python lee jackson that went to number one malcolm uh python lee jackson in a broken dream um as i say joining the faces in 1969 prior to His solo career, I'm going to put some albums up in a minute, Matt, but his solo career took off in, I might do it now, in 1971 with the album story, which went to number one in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, as did his single Maggie May.

Now, there's, if you'd like to do your bit.

Are you doing this bit now, are you, Paul? Yeah,

Let's have a look.

Yeah.

Yeah, Rod was, as you said on there, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 94 and a second time with The Faces in 2012 and also into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006.

Ten number one albums and was knighted in 2016, so he is now Sir Rod Stewart.

And then...

Ooh La La is one of my all-time favorite songs by The Faces.

The Faces?

Yeah.

Interesting.

Do you understand? Do you remember it? If not, nip over to our playlist and listen to it done properly.

And it sounds a bit like it would be something that The Faces could have done in the early 70s.

You know, it's got that... vibe to it listening to it it makes me think of a walk of shame do you think yeah the next morning the morning after a big night out song lyrically or just yeah

the mood of it

Second, they closed out the taping with what was almost going to be their fan-favorite tongue-in-cheek romp through Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy.

Before they instead pivoted to a song they've been covering off and on since the mid-80s, the 1973 UK hit Ooh La La by The Faces.

Which, in keeping with the tradition of this being one of The Faces songs that Ron Wood sung instead of Rod Stewart, Dan handled the lead vocals instead of Dave.

And third, this one isn't technically a cover, but in the grand tradition of oddball unplugged between-song snippets, you know, Nirvana and Meat Puppets goofing off on a few bars of Sweet Home Alabama, Alice in Chains doing gloom, despair, and agony on me from Hee Haw, etc., there was the briefest of blink-and-you'll-miss-it between-song foolishness that saw Soul Asylum channel a little Garth Brooks.

And finally, blending together Unplugged's characteristic cover song element with the surprise special guest element, one of the most unexpected yet flawlessly awesome moments of the show came when the band brought out 60s UK pop icon Lulu to duet with Dave on her 1967 chart-topping US hit, To Sir With Love.