sir rod stewart has become the oldest male solo artist to have a number one album in the uk. m the american singer paul simon. stewart's latest release hit the top spot narrowly beating ‘60s rock'n‘roll legends the who. so what does the enduring appeal of senior rock stars tell us about the state of music today? we can speak to tom erlewine, who's is an american music critic —— we can speak to tom erlewine, who's an american music critic and senior editor for the online music database all music. he joins us from austin, texas. tom, why does rod stewart have such staying power? well, i think part of it is due to how smart rod stewart has been over the years to follow trends and also to realise where his audience is going because when you look at it, he has not stayed in the same place that he did way back in the 60s, early 70s when he was singing maggie may. he spent a good pa rt singing maggie may. he spent a good part of the last two decades singing standard and covering old rock ‘n‘ roll and old soul songs which sort of happens to go with his audience is going and so i think

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rod stewart. all famous, all rich, and all men.the top of the charts in just one month. her style is defiant, raucous, tough, and very sexy. ♪ we are young ♪ heartache to heartache we stand ♪ ♪ no promises, no demands >> it appears to me that the one onstage is what i would picture a modern woman to be, someone who is aggressive and soft at the same time, has a lot of strength and conviction and can look good and still have brains. >> you would think that in the era of music becoming a visual form more than ever that it would all be about objectification. but there were a lot of strong women on that video screen. ♪ >> meet the darlings of l.a.'s new music scene, the go-gos. ♪ see the people walking down the street ♪ >> unlike earlier girl groups such as the ronettes or the supremes, the go-gos write their own songs and play their own instruments. ♪ they got the beat ♪ they got the beat, they got the beat ♪ ♪ yeah, they got the beat >> that was as punk rock as it got for me, to see girls up there, you know, not just singing backup o

. ♪ >> after years of singing backup for such stars as michael jackson and rod stewart, she explodedng in coming playing female artists. so, it's definitely a different sort of environment and attitude now. ♪ if it makes you happy >> female artists like sheryl crow or liz phair, even though they had success they were still routinely marginalized within every aspect of the industry. there was not a lot of space in pop culture for a young woman's thoughts, feelings, voices, to be respected or taken seriously. ♪ i'm just a girl >> there was such a strange dichotomy to gwen stefani, super girlie but then also kind of tough. and then in front of this band of all guys. ♪ that's all that you'll let me be ♪ >> i'm just a girl in the world and that's all that you'll let me be. you know, it was like the middle finger up to every guy that ever annoyed you. >> look who's here. alanis. >> hi. >> we ran into each other. >> we're shopping today. we thought we'd take you with us. and alanis is here with a brand-new album. a brand-new look i've noticed. >> yeah. >> i was dropped from mca records afte

rod stewart will be delighted with that. i5 stewart will be delighted with that.ll? the world anti doping agency will decide today whether russia should receive an unprecedented four year ban from all major international sporting events. this follows an investigation which found the country's authorities had tampered with computer data showing athletes had cheated. if the ban is imposed, russia's flag will be removed from the tokyo 0lympic5 and the 2022 football world cup. a 27—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman in rushden in northamptonshire. the 25—year—old woman was found with stab wounds near st george's way on saturday evening and died at the scene. police said the arrested man has serious injuries, and another 27—year—old man is also being questioned on suspicion of his attempted murder. wind5 across the south west of england are expected to strengthen this morning, as storm atiyah continues to make an impact. with wind5 reaching over 80—mile5—per—hour, the storm, which arrived from ireland, has already caused 5evere travel disr

james b stewart delivers a bountiful happrvest of importan scoops including the names of the two members of the trump cabinet who deputy attorney general rodn believed would be in favor of invoking the 25th amendment to remove donald trump from the presidency. you know, it's very hard for a book that you spent a couple years with to land dead center today's and yesterday's news with what we saw senator johnson doing on "meet the press." explain to the audience what he was trying to do. >> he's done what i've explored in "deep state" and so destructive to democratic institutions in this country, which is to attack the law enforcement agency of the united states, the department of justice, the fbi, the traditionally independent and investigative and judicial branches of government and accuse them, essentially, of being fill would traders and spies and being part of a deep state that was trying to protect its own powers and eject a democracy elected president to preserve those powers. that is so far from the truth. you think there is in a sense a deep state in this country. there's a large bureaucracy to protect the people of the united state