{"id":28920,"date":"2024-03-01T21:11:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/totally-unexpected-rod-stewart-and-jools-holland-celebrate-1-uk-album-swing-fever\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T21:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:11:51","slug":"totally-unexpected-rod-stewart-and-jools-holland-celebrate-1-uk-album-swing-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/totally-unexpected-rod-stewart-and-jools-holland-celebrate-1-uk-album-swing-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"“Totally unexpected”: Rod Stewart and Jools Holland celebrate #1 UK album ;Swing Fever’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twenty\u00a0years ago, Rod Stewart<\/strong> topped the U.S. charts with Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III, <\/em>a collection of standards. Now he’s topped the U.K. charts with another collection of standards \u2014 this time done in an upbeat, big-band style.<\/p>\n

Swing Fever,<\/em> Rod’s new album with Squeeze<\/strong> keyboardist-turned-bandleader Jools Holland<\/strong>, has hit #1 in their\u00a0home country. Rod says\u00a0in a video<\/a>, “Are we happy about this, Jools? Totally unexpected.\u201d Holland adds, “I\u2019m so happy, this has never happened to me before. I\u2019m absolutely delighted, thank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rod wrote<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram,\u00a0“What a beautiful day 1st of March and number 1 in the charts. From the bottom of my heart I thank everyone involved in the success of Swing Fever and the immense effort you\u2019ve all achieved for a couple of old timers.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

While this is Rod’s 11th #1 LP in the U.K. \u2014 and his first in four years \u2014 it’s Holland’s first one. “It means more to me than anything I’ve ever had,” Holland tells the BBC<\/a>. “I think the last big-band record that was number one was probably in 1946.” The highest he’d gotten previously was #3, with a Squeeze best-of album.<\/p>\n

Rod tells the BBC he still remembers the moment he heard he’d gotten his first #1 album, 1971’s Every Picture Tells a Story<\/em>. “I was driving along in my nice Bentley … it came on the radio in the afternoon that the album was number one and also number one in America,” he recalls.<\/p>\n

“I drove around and went all the way back to my mum and dad’s house, gave them a big hug and we all had a cry together. So I remember it like it was yesterday.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Jonas Mohr\/Warner Records Twenty\u00a0years ago, Rod Stewart topped the U.S. charts with Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III, a collection of standards. Now he’s topped the U.K. charts with another collection of standards \u2014 this time done in an upbeat, big-band style. Swing Fever, Rod’s new album with SqueezeRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}