Happy birthday to Rod Stewart who reached pensionable age today. The BBC put up a crappy compilation to mark the day but they only really needed to link to the 1971 performance of him at the top of his game with The Faces on Top Of The Pops. Look out for John Peel pretending to play mandolin and I love the fact that the band make no attempt to look as though they’re really playing live – even kicking a soccer ball around at one point.
