Saturday Morning Boogie
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A tip of the hat to the late (d. 1985) Mr. Ian Stewart, namechecked in the titile of the fun lil' Led Zeppelin track featured here.
For those of you who aren't too familiar, Ian Stewart was originally slated to be a member of the Rolling Stones as their keyboardist (!), but was dispatched post haste to the rubbish bin by their new manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, because his straight-laced look didn't fit their image. Stewart stayed on as road manager, and also ended up playing the keyboards on all of their albums released between 1964 and 1983, save for Beggars Banquet. That's what I call a team player!
In consorting with all those rock 'n' roll types, Stewart became chummy with the members of Led Zeppelin, and turned up on the songs, 'Rock and Roll' from Led Zeppelin IV and, of course, this number from Physical Graffiti.
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Comments (3)
Thanks for the track, Inscrutable one.
Stu's boogie-woogie style has a major influence on rock & roll piano players to this day.
More on Stu at Wikipedia
Never knew his story- interesting. Sounds like he did alright, despite the stones manager.
sounding mighty good...thanks, have not listened to that for tooo long!