Tea On The Tracks
‘ITS not easy being a wrinkly rocker. Not only does the voice go, making it harder to scream those big notes, but you suffer the same problems as every other OAP.
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| ‘The 13:50 service from Lancaster will be ready for boarding in ten minutes’ |
For one thing, the house is too big for your old bones, and this is particularly true if your house is a bloody great mansion with 20 bedrooms.
Rod Stewart is a man who is currently experiencing precisely this problem, and although he is a sprightly 59, he has trouble keeping up with his 33-year-old partner Penny Lancaster.
So he has hit upon an ingenious solution: using a Tannoy announcement machine to issue his mating call to his blonde bird or to tell her to put the kettle on.
It was hilarious the first time I was round there and heard the loud hailer, an unnamed source tells the Sun. It was almost like having Rod Stewart as a train station announcer.
Of course, this was before Rod took him up to the loft to play with his famous Hornby brush-four ’
Posted: 1st, June 2004 | In: Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
