Rod Stewart's music is gay; I have no idea about the man himself. That you would hold him up as an exemplar of anything "good" about music speaks volumes about your taste, though.
His early work, with Jeff Beck, The Faces and his first solo albums (i.e The Rod Stewart Album) are all exellent and certainly not gay, IMHO. I lost interest in him when turned into a lounge type act singing smaltzy Barry Manilow crap.
His version of Tom Waits "Downtown Train" was his last good piece of work.
So, if everything Rod sings is gay... and he performs a lot of Dylan songs.... that means that Dylan’s music is gay, right?
You must be a youngster. Rod Stewart used to be pretty darned good, but I think you have to back as far as “ A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse” for aural evidence thereof. Likely recorded before you were born (I peeked at your home page, admiral).
“Rod Stewart’s music is gay; I have no idea about the man himself. That you would hold him up as an exemplar of anything “good” about music speaks volumes about your taste, though.”
You should listen to Rod Stewart do the vocals on Jeff Beck’s Truth album.