Rod Stewart explains why he didn’t play Live Aid in 1985

Rod Stewart has revealed why he was absent from the Live Aid line-up in 1985, stating that he had “only just found out” the real reason.
It had previously been suggested that the Scottish singer was unable to put a band together at short notice, despite having recently completed a world tour, but it now seems the decision had been taken out of Stewart’s hands.
“We actually were supposed to do it,” he told the BBC yesterday (November 16), “but a few guys in the