He’s talking about the liner notes from the album - Ron Wood played bass on that one track. Wood was also the bass player for the early Jeff Beck group, he was apparently pretty comfortable with both guitar and bass.
Well consider this for a moment. Who else can you name that has had hits in all of the following genres of music:
Rock
Pop
Disco
Standards
Also from his Wiki entry
Yeah while he is not always brilliant, the guy has been making music that sells for damn near 50 years and continues to do so.
He owns a massive scratch built model train set / you can close the thread now
Which has been mentioned more than once in the thread, yet the thread keeps going.
Whodathunk?
Why is Rod Stewart a legend?
I can only postulate that it’s for the same reason Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill are legends: because he doesn’t actually exist.
That’s what I came here to say. Nobody else sounds like Rod Stewart. (Well, maybe Bonnie Tyler.)
Yeah, I have it, but I love that live version just for seeing how well the band meshes together: with Rod, Ronnie Lane, Ron Wood, Kenny Jones and Ian McLagan they had that perfect combination of tight and loose. I’m not a muso, but it’s just a joy to watch them at work together.
Well, given that “Some Kind Of Wonderful” was released in 1974, and “Three Button Hand Me Down” came out four years earlier, I’m going to say no. Mind you, it was probably pinched off some soul band from 1961 anyway.
Every Picture Tells a Story belongs in any list of all-time great rock albums. That, plus his work with the Faces, makes him an unshakeable member of the club of rock legends.
Video? Hell, I’m talking vinyl LP!! 
Good guess: Drifters, 1961, covered by Marvin Gaye, 1968…
The original “Some Kind of Wonderful” was recorded and released by the Soul Brothers Six in 1967. As it was on a major label (Atlantic), there’s a fairly decent chance that Faces were familiar with it.
The less said about Grand Funk Railroad’s 1974 cover, the better. In any case, the bass line on the Faces version certainly surpasses that of GFR, which is basically plods along on the root note with little variation throughout.
This is a completely different song from the Soul Brothers Six version, the one GFR covered and the Faces apparently were listening to.
I can assure you that he does exist as he lives just down the road from me. It’s not unusual to see him in the local chip shop on a Friday evening buying dinner for the family. He’s easy to spot as he’s the only guy who parks a Ferrari outside the chip shop. Just a regular guy!
Yeah, the Faces version has that intricate little shuffle. Amusingly, TBHMD was the song with which Glen Matlock auditioned for the job of bassist with the Sex Pistols.
Ian McLagan is a keyboard god. Love his work. Coupled with Woody (who comes across as a clueless idiot in his autobio*, but is just a ridiculously great player) and Lane and KJ - swoon.
*he shoulda read Keef’s and Rod’s books and realized he was in over his head!
It’s just that we never get a chance to discuss model trains on this board! 
Oh.
Well then in that case, he’s not a legend.
Where did this question come from, anyway?
Yes. He could sing. He could *really *sing. Unlike, say, Mick Jagger.
Check out his singing on I’d Rather Go Blind. Not many people have the nerve to cover Etta James, and fewer still could carry it off.
And he had tons of stage presence, and an engaging personality.
No surprise that he’s a legend.
Never have understood why this guy is famous. Instead of me, I mean. I don’t have any talent, either.