Paul McCartney and Elton John will help celebrate the 70th anniversary of VE Day with a “1940s themed concert” at Horse Guards Parade in London on May 9. The concert marks the signing of treaties following WWII on May 7 and 8, 1945. Rod Stewart, who’ll also play the gig, spoke to Billboard about the significance of the event. “I met this American GI in a coffeehouse in the Valley and we were sitting there talking about the war,” he began. “He was in the second wave of landings at Normandy on Omaha Beach – so he wasn’t part of all the bloodshed – but he was telling me how he went to England for VE Day and he had fish and chips and went into the pubs. He said, ‘By the way, Rod, are you still going to make an American Songbook? You make those old songs sound brand-new.’ That was one of things that inspired me to go back and start recording again.” Copyright(c) 2015 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «