Rod Stewart

Roderick David Stewart (born January 10, 1945) is a British singer who was a member of the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces before embarking on a solo career. His fiancee is model Penny Lancaster. more...

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In a career in its fifth decade, Stewart has achieved numerous hit singles worldwide, most notably in the UK, where his tally of 62 hit singles includes 24 that went Top 10, of which six went all the way to number one.

It has been estimated that Stewart's album and single sales total more than 200 million, easily earning him a place on the list of best-selling music artists.

Biography

Early life

Rod Stewart is the youngest of five children and was born in Highgate, London to parents who owned a newsagents shop there. His father, Robert Joseph Stewart and his two brothers and two sisters are all Scottish. But Rod and his mother, Elsie are both English. He is also the uncle of infamous Hip Hop mogul Samuel J Stewart. Minutes before Stewart was born, a German V-2 rocket scored a direct hit on Highgate Police Station just down the street.

1960–1969

Rod Stewart had trials with the football clubs Celtic and Brentford based in West London. He then worked as a grave digger. He soon switched to a career in music joining folk singer Wizz Jones in the early 1960s as a street singer travelling around Europe; this resulted in his being deported from Spain for vagrancy.

Rod Stewart returned to London in 1964 and joined Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions as a vocalist and blues harp player. He and the band recorded a single for Pye Records. Long John Baldry discovered him drunk and busking for train fare and invited him to join The Hoochie Coochie Men which recorded a single, "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", that failed to chart. The Hoochie Coochie Men evolved into Steampacket featuring Stewart, Baldry, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger, Mickey Waller and Rick Brown. Steampacket supported the Rolling Stones and the Walker Brothers in the northern summer of 1965 and would also record an album that would not be released until 1970 when Stewart had become well-known in musical circles. Stewart also earned the nickname "Rod the Mod" in that period after an appearance on a BBC documentary, 1965, on the mod subculture.

Steampacket broke up in early 1966 with Stewart joining Shotgun Express as lead vocalist with Beryl Marsden. Shotgun Express also contained Mick Fleetwood and Peter Green who would go on to form Fleetwood Mac and Peter Bardens. Shotgun Express released one single before breaking up.

Stewart sang guest vocal for the Australian group Python Lee Jackson on "In a Broken Dream" in 1970. His payment was a set of seat covers for his car. It was re-released in 1972 to become a worldwide success.

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