Pick it apart however you'd like. Stewart says he was reenacting a scene from Game of Thrones, rather than making light of ISIS-style executions. You can either choose to believe that Rod Stewart watches HBO, or choose to believe that he took a look around the desert, thought "oh, this looks like the backdrop for all those YouTube videos," and then decided to have fun with the terrifying misery of innocent people.I wonder which thread the British press picked up. Here's the BBC."From re-enacting the Beatles' Abbey Road crossing to spontaneously playing out Game Of Thrones, we were simply larking about pre-show. Understandably, this has been misinterpreted and I send my deepest apologies to those who have been offended."
Former hostage John McCarthy told BBC Radio Scotland's John Beattie programme that the singer had turned "a grotesque thing into a kind of pantomime".
The journalist, who was kidnapped in Lebanon in 1986, said it was unclear whether Sir Rod was "larking about" or thinking seriously about the fate of some hostages.
Relatives of other kidnap victims would be "absolutely sickened" if the star was making light of their plight, he added.
Fucking hell.While we sit down and wait for this bullshit to blow over, here's "The Shapes of Things," the first track from Jeff Beck's seminal 1968 debut Truth. Stewart's voice is a smoky, wailing marvel.Follow Noisey on Twitter."Your blood runs cold just imagining what it must be like to be in that situation in the last moments of your life or, indeed, as relatives to see that," he said.