Forty years ago, Rod Stewart released The Killg of Geie, a groundbreakg sgle about the murr of a gay man – now tragilly relevant aga the light of events Orlando
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ROD STEWART: 'I WAS SURROUND BY GAY MEN THE 70S'
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A few h songs addrsg gay subjects had appeared before Stewart’s track. Before Geie, however, there had never been an earnt song portrayg the hardship and joy of a gay person’s life for a mass dience. Stewart says that 1976, he didn’t tend to wre a gay story per se.
“If someone said to me, ‘S down and wre a song about a gay man, ’ would have ightened the daylights out of me, ” he tells the Guardian.