Rod Stewart: “People Get Ready” (WEA)

As well as the immortal Curtis Mayfield’s ‘People Get Ready’, a princely version of which you can also hear courtesy of long time Impressions fan Bob Dylan in his Renaldo and Clara film, this four-track e.p. also has a run-of-the-mill live slice of Chuck Berry’s ‘Sweet Little Rock ‘n’ Roller’ and Stewart’s own heartbreaker, ‘Baby Jane’. There’s also ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’, which I must confess I once purchased when I was a bit more of a nipper than am I am now. ‘People Get Ready’ might be a suitable gift for all the Republic’s football crazies who are about to mortgage their houses, cars and kids and get to the U.S. of A. for ‘94’s World Cup via bribes and Mexico.

However, in the light of the suit fetish revealed in the first volume of her autobiography, ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy’ is the kind of musical imprecation cast-Iron Maggie Thatcher might send to her long-suffering hubby, Dennis. It’s hers so that it can be his!