incidentally, here are a few of the songs on that rod stewart standards album: it had to be you, every time we say goodbye, they can't take that away from me. people like the gershwins and cole porter wrote these songs. they've been famously interpreted by billie holiday, frank sinatra, duke ellington and sideshow bob, among hundreds of others (ella 'i never liked dr. pepper' fitzgerald! robbie williams! sun ra!). what does rod think he's bringing to the table? (while finding the links for this post, i learned that robbie williams has covered george michael's 'freedom '90.' and he, like rod, did a standards album. it includes a duet of 'somethin' stupid' with nicole kidman, and it's still worlds better than the rod album.)