Sir Rod Stewart has been branded “a nightmare” by singer PP Arnold, who claimed he was “very difficult” to work with.
Reflecting on her time with Rod, the 78-year-old says their version of Wilson Pickett’s Come Home Baby was shelved by Sir Mick Jagger in 1967, due to Rod’s apparent difficult ways.
Speaking to The Times, she said of the Maggie May hitmaker: “Nightmare! Rod is very difficult to work with, he wanted it his way or no way.
“As soon as I started sounding good, he wanted to change the key. Mick [who produced the track] just got p****d off and that’s why the track was never released.”
It’s not the first time the singer has taken a swipe at Rod.
In her memoir Soul Survivor, released in 2022, she branded the multimillionaire “selfish and tight”.
The following year, PP claimed she and Rod had a close brush with the law during the 1960s.
“Rod Stewart and I had a close call back in the 60s when a nosy landlord, on suspicion of drug possession, let the police into my flat,” she told The Guardian.
Reach PLC has contacted a representative for Rod for comment.
In the same interview, she claimed Mick was her greatest kiss of all time.
The pair crossed paths back in 1966 when she was a singer with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, who had been invited over to the UK to tour with the Rolling Stones.
From then on, she secured herself a solo record deal with Immediate Records, the label founded by the band’s manager Andrew Loog Oldham and Tony Calder.
Previously gushing over her relationship with the rockstar, she called him “an honourable person”.
“He was a good friend, my knight in shining armour before he became a knight of the realm,” she told Radio Times.
“I never had a problem with him, though I might have a problem now.”