Legendary drummer Carmine Appice on writing Rod Stewart’s biggest hit on a drum machine – and then getting fired: “I don’t know why it happened, and neither does he. Somebody didn’t like the fact that I was the second-most popular person in the band”

Legendary drummer Carmine Appice on writing Rod Stewart’s biggest hit on a drum machine – and then getting fired: “I don’t know why it happened, and neither does he. Somebody didn’t like the fact that I was the second-most popular person in the band”

Carmine Appice was behind one of the greatest disco-rock songs of the 70s: “Rod would say: ‘I want a song like Miss You by the Stones.”