{"id":801115,"date":"2019-11-07T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=908906"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:51:01","slug":"rod-stewart-previews-orchestral-lp-with-new-song-stop-loving-her-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rod-stewart-previews-orchestral-lp-with-new-song-stop-loving-her-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart Previews Orchestral LP With New Song \u2018Stop Loving Her Today\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/rod-stewart-orchestral.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rod-stewart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rod-stewart\" data-tag=\"rod-stewart\">Rod Stewart<\/a> was skeptical when Warner Bros. suggested pairing vocal tracks from his classic songs with new music from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. \u201cI can\u2019t say that I\u2019d pay for a ticket to go and watch classical music,\u201d he tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cBut I told them I\u2019d like to hear a couple of takes and see what they can do with these songs. I was pleasantly surprised with what they came back with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result, <em>You\u2019re In My Heart: Rod Stewart With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra<\/em>, is set for release on November 22nd. It\u2019s centered around hits like \u201cMaggie May,\u201d \u201cForever Young,\u201d \u201cThe First Cut Is The Deepest\u201d and \u201cReason To Believe,\u201d but he also recorded the new song \u201cStop Loving Here Today,\u201d premiering at <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The song was written by Simon Climie, one half of the UK pop duo Climie Fisher that\u2019s best known for their 1987 hit \u201cLove Changes Everything.\u201d \u201cHis manager is an ex-girlfriend of mine from way back in the 1970s named Dee Harrington,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cHe\u2019s a wonderful chap and writes beautiful songs. He came up with this one and she said, \u2018You know who should sing this? Rod.\u2019 They gave it to me and I immediately fell in love with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>He originally recorded it without the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. \u201cTo make it blend in somewhat we had to put them on it,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cI think we might have gilded the lily with the strings on it and we might do a remix where we take them down a little because they\u2019re a bit too loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart also takes on the 1966 Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston classic \u201cIt Takes Two\u201d that he recorded as a duet with Robbie Williams. They first teamed up earlier this year to record \u201cFairytales\u201d on Williams\u2019 upcoming Christmas LP <em>The Christmas Present.<\/em> \u201cAfter that I said, \u2018You owe me one now,&#8217;\u201d says Stewart. \u201cAnd he did a good job [with \u2018It Takes Two\u2019] because I never looked at him as a real out-and-out rock singer, but he did a bloody good job, I\u2019ll tell you. Now we\u2019re doing the television shows together and the World Command Performance in front of her majesty, The Queen. We\u2019re going to open the show with \u2018It Takes Two.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond recording those two songs, Stewart\u2019s role in the creation of the album was relatively minimal since the producers relied on isolated vocals tracks from his master studio recordings and his<em> 1993 Unplugged\u2026and Seated<\/em> concert as opposed to having him re-record vocals. \u201cI don\u2019t understand the technical side of recording at all,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m lost when it comes to that. I do know that they kept the drums from the original recording of \u2018Maggie May.\u2019 Believe it or not, they even added strings to \u2018Stay With Me.\u2019 They really punched it up and I\u2019m quite proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart kicks off an extensive UK arena tour on November 23rd at the Manchester Arena. It wraps up with three nights at the O2 Arena in London. \u201cWe\u2019re taking a 36-piece orchestra with us for those shows,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cWe\u2019ll place them behind the band and hope for the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/rod-stewart-orchestral-lp-908906\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Stewart was skeptical when Warner Bros. suggested pairing vocal tracks from his classic songs with new music from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. \u201cI can\u2019t say that I\u2019d pay for a ticket to go and watch classical music,\u201d he tells Rolling Stone. \u201cBut I told them I\u2019d like to hear a couple of takes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 08:09:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}