Rod Stewart denies retirement rumours: ‘I love what I do’

Rod Stewart isn’t planning on going anywhere anytime soon but he is selling up his home in the US (Sir Rod Stewart is planning to sell his ornate £56 million LA mansion), and spent two years selling the ownership of his music

Whilst the beloved rocker announced last week that he would be pivoting away from the genre of rock ‘n’ roll in favour of swing music, the Have I Told You Lately singer revealed he is absolutely “not retiring.”

“No, no, no, no, no, no,” the star said in response to retirement rumours. “I love what I do,”

The comments come just hours after fans were left fuming when the 78-year-old musician stormed off stage at a concert in Plymouth.

The rocker’s Plymouth show kicks off a string of summer gigs that Stewart will be undertaking. The venue in Plymouth reportedly has a strict curfew for noise that begins at 10:30pm – this meant that Stewart was not able to belt out his final tune.

Stewart was set to conclude his show with We Are Sailing but was promptly told that it was 10:30pm which meant that all noise had to cease due to the curfew. Frustrated, Twitter eye-witness reports say that the musician then stormed off stage.

“Left feeling very bitter-sweet. An incredible, once in a lifetime (has to be at those prices) concert, cut short with no encore, no chance to applaud and show love and a couple of the biggest and best songs not played! Shocking!” one disappointed fan wrote on Twitter.

Stewart has previously announced that after a decades-long, successful rock musician career, that he’d be pivoting into swing music.

“This will be the last time ’round, I think, to do the rock ‘n’ roll stuff because I want to move on to swing music and the Great American SongBook,” Stewart said.

“But I’m not taking my songs to the cemetery and burying them. I might bring them out on the odd occasion, but I basically would like to put them to rest for a little while. No more big tours. I’ve said farewell to Australia and New Zealand and Mexico, so it’s time to say farewell to the U.S. now.”

Harrison Ford dismisses retirement as he hangs up Indiana Jones’ fedora

Harrison Ford has confirmed that he has no plans to retire from acting, as he bids farewell to one of his most iconic characters in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The 80-year-old actor, who has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Thaddeus Ross in upcoming films, wants to keep working because it helps him to feel ‘useful’.

He also claimed he doesn’t ‘do well’ when he hasn’t got filming on the horizon.

When asked about the possibility of retirement, he admitted: ‘I don’t do well when I don’t have work. I love to work… I love to feel useful. It’s my Jones, I want to be helpful.’

The 1923 and Shrinking actor loves the ‘intensity and intimacy of collaboration’ of working on a film set he said, while speaking to CNN host Chris Wallace, via Deadline.

Asked why he likes acting so much, he said: ‘It is the people that you get to work with. The intensity and the intimacy of collaboration… it’s the combined ambition, somehow forged from words on a page.

‘I don’t plan what I want to do in a scene and I don’t feel obliged to do anything but I am naturally affected by the things that I work on.’

While Ford may not be planning to retire, he did recently confirm that upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – the fifth entry in the franchise – will be his last adventure as the whip-cracking archaeologist.

‘This is the final film in the series, and this is the last time I’ll play the character. I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film,’ he told Total Film magazine.

He also shared that he was not sad to be donning Indy’s iconic fedora for the last time, adding to Wallace: ‘It’s time for me to grow up!’

Ford also explained he had ‘always wanted’ to give the character a conclusive ending.

‘I’ve always wanted to do this. A final chapter. For Indiana Jones, I wanted to see him at the end of his career, at the end of the road that we’ve established. We’ve taken him part of the way, I wanted to take us all the way,’ he said to Entertainment Tonight.

The Ender’s Game star went on to add that he wanted new director James Mangold to ‘embrace’ the age of the action hero in the final film and teased that the entire franchise is closed out in a ‘beautiful’ way.

‘I wanted him to not run away from the age of the character, but to embrace it and to tell the story of a man who’s spent his life this particular way, and what it comes to. That ride wouldn’t have come if he hadn’t fallen so low.

‘It wouldn’t have been the ride that it is and wouldn’t have ended the way that it does. And it ends in a beautiful way. It was gratifying to know that we were doing something that we both believed in, that we had a passion for. And that we did.’

Ford shared that he, Mangold and the cast and crew have all worked ‘really hard’ and that ‘completing the job itself was like completing the character’.

He appears alongside Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Toby Jones, Antonio Banderas and the return of John Rhys-Davies as Sallah.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny hits UK cinemas on June 28.