2 July 1983
In the 1980s Rod Stewart was held to be a ‘playboy’ and a ‘ladies’ man’, which was the 1980s way of saying that a middle-aged guy in a leopard-skin jacket getting sweaty over young blonde women was all fine and dandy. He was also Scottish, apparently, though to my young ears his singles sounded American, or at least an L.A. nightclub confection of pop keyboard, rock guitar and obligatory sax solo.
In that regard, ‘Baby Jane’ is quintessential ’80s Rod Stewart: throwing shapes in the video, making noises on the record, but all pretty vapid and undignified.
