Rod Stewart Biography

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If there is such a thing as a quintessential rock star, Rod Stewart would be it. With his blond good looks, athlete's body, and a stage presence that brings his show down to the last person in the last row, Stewart is unforgettable. Born in 1945 in London, Roderick David Stewart had thoughts of a professional soccer career, apprenticing early with the Brentford Football Club and through his life maintaining that connection as a sort of an alter ego. He bummed around Europe, played some soccer and in the mid-'60s came back to England to join the Five Dimensions in about 1963, still not out of his teens. He played harmonica in this R&B-focused band but soon was in Long John Baldry's Hoochie Koochie Men, a band that became Steampacket with a sextet that included Stewart, Baldry and Brian Auger. The so-called London "Mod" scene was rampant in the '60s and after a television documentary about it that Stewart was in, Rod became Rod the Mod. By 1965, he was in the bluesy Shotgun Express as co-singer with Beryl Marsden, the band including Mick Fleetwood and Peter Green. He jointed the vaunted Jeff Beck Group the next year, giving him major status and national and international exposure as the band released two big albums and toured United States arenas. Stewart's next band was the Small Faces, along with Ron Wood, as that band became the Faces. His six-year tenure also had him become a rising solo star as he signed with Phonogram, allowing Rod to juggle his two careers as band singer and solo artist. He made the big time with his second album, GASOLINE ALLEY, that included the title track and the big-selling "Lady Day," and his next two, EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY and NEVER A DULL MOMENT. His first entry on the U.S. Top 40 chart was 1971's "Maggie May," the first of several songs that cemented his superstar career. It lasted five weeks at No. 1, the first of three chart-toppers for him that lasted multiple weeks, "Tonight's The Night" (eight weeks in 1976) and "Do Ya think I'm Sexy" (four weeks No. 1 in 1978). Through 1984, he had nineteen hits in the Top 40 singles plus a number of highly successful albums. Through the '70s, Stewart was something of a style demon, wearing frequently odd combinations of apparel onstage, like silken dungarees, and his love for jumpsuits had him in them much of the time. At the same time, he was a darling of the tabloids that wanted their readers to know who was his woman of the moment. As the '90s dawned, he was said to be slowing his lifestyle down with a new wife. At 54, he is still selling records to his lifelong fans.

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