Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While they did better chartwise in the UK, they were a reliable touring and FM radio favorite in America, and were far more successful there than The Small Faces had been, though Americans tended to view them more as "The Rod Stewart Group" than the Brits did.
Their first live gig in 1969 was at a US Air Force base in Cambridgeshire, a fact that immediately calls to mind This is Spın̈al Tap. You can totally picture Fred Willard making the remark that one of the band's roadies says the base commander said to him during the show: "They're playing a bit loud, aren't they?"
"Ooh La La" can come across this way now that Ronnie Wood is old enough to be the grandfather in the song.
Refrain from Assuming: Some people think that the song "Ooh La La" is called "I Wish That I Knew What I Know Now", which is the first and third line of the chorus. The title does appear in the song, but it is not as prominent a lyric.
"Three Button Hand Me Down" was pretty obviously based on "Some Kind of Wonderful" by Soul Brothers Six (later Covered Up by Grand Funk Railroad), a song Stewart had first covered in his Jeff Beck Group days. It also manages some Self-Plagiarism, since it's an obvious companion piece to Stewart's solo song "An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down".
