Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. I'm going to be playing an interview today that Andy Green did with Rod Stewart.

And Andy and Rod start out by talking about Rod's new album

that he released this year called Bloodbread Roses and then they do a whole interview

that's sort of life lessons. It's one of our last word

interviews that run in the last page of the magazine and it goes in a lot of

different directions and we'll just get right to it. Here's Andy Green and

Rod Stewart. Beautiful day for late September in London.

Great I'm glad to hear it.

Enjoying the new album.

It's fantastic.

Thanks, mate.

That means a lot coming from someone like your good self.

Oh, I thank you. So how long ago did you start working? that means a lot coming from someone like your good self.

Oh, thank you.

So how long ago did you start working on it?

Oh, I don't know.

Probably 18 months ago.

Obviously not 18 months solidly, but you know we saw thrashing out ideas and sending ideas

to each other, that would be me and my co-producer and co-writer Kevin Savagar who was in the band in the 70s then he left through

illness and now he's back in the band so but yeah I'd say 18 months ago. Tell me your goals going into it and how you wanted

it to be different than the previous album. No, didn't really. I don't plan anything that

much. I want it to be and it was spontaneous what I didn't

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