DAN PEEK ON WINGS ON EAGLES SERIES

It was the bands first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States, that topped the charts in Canada, Finland, and the United States. He later contradicted himself in a Mojointerview in 1995, claiming he had to get her 'drunk, pissed as a fart' to participate asked if she received any royalties, he scoffed: 'Bollocks! I bought her a nice frock. A Horse with No Name ' A Horse with No Name ' is a song by the folk rock band America, written by Dewey Bunnell. 'The French bird on the end is actually Swedish and threatened to sue if not included,' Rod joked in Storyteller.

DAN PEEK ON WINGS ON EAGLES SERIES

' Steve Cropper and I worked out the arrangement on Friday morning and it was in the can by Friday night.' Saxophonist Jerry Jumonville, known for work on films like The Rose and TV shows like Happy Days, laid down a memorable solo on the song's bridge.Īnd there was one more cherry on top to make the song extra memorable: Stewart's then-girlfriend, Swedish model Britt Ekland, cooed a series of sweet nothings in French over the track's ending. 'This came to me in the middle of the night, as songs often do,' he wrote. Stewart recalled it differently in the liner notes to his Storytellerbox set in 1989. 04.17.82 South Bend, IN, University of Notre Dame (with Dan Peek) 04.18.82 Springfield, OH. I'm sure I probably smacked my forehead and said: 'Why didn't I think of that?'' 'Of course after his recording of 'Tonight's the Night' came out I laughed when I remembered what he'd said. 'Rod said that he liked it and that it gave him an idea for a song,' Peek wrote in his 2004 memoir. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what 'Tonight's the Night' is about: Rod implores a lover to 'kick off your shoes and sit right down / loosen off that pretty French gown.' The song's lascivious lyrics - including the second verse plea of 'spread your wings and let me come inside' - was obvious enough to draw the ire of the BBC, which purportedly banned the song from the airwaves.Īmerica guitarist Dan Peek claims Rod took inspiration from his band after playing him the single 'Today's the Day' on a visit. Read More: October 1971: Rod Stewart Wakes Up at No. step-daughters Trisha (Jeff) Grimmett and Traci (Dan) Fermanich. Like its predecessor, 1975's Atlantic Crossing, A Night on the Town was primarily recorded in America, split between Hollywood's Cherokee Studios and the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound in Alabama. He was a member of the Eagles Club in Rockford and the American Legion in Pecatonica. The track was the lead single from Rod's seventh studio album, A Night on the Town. 1 hit with the sensual 'Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright).' 13, 1976, he scored his longest-lasting No.

You could try to take Rod Stewart off the BBC, but you couldn't take him off the Billboard charts: on Nov.

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