Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

  • Birth Name :
  • Roderick David Stewart
  • Date of Birth :
  • January 10, 1945
  • Place of Birth :
  • Highgate, London, England, UK
  • Profession :
  • Singer, Songwriter
  • Nationality :
  • British

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Rod Stewart Biography

Rod Stewart may have began his career as a respected singer, yet that respect eroded as he got older, as he became more concerned with stardom than music. Instead of finding the folk in rock, he found how folk rocked like hell on its own. After Stewart became successful, he began to lose the rootsier elements of his music, yet he remained a superb singer, even as he abandoned his own artistic path in favor of following pop trends.

Stewart began his musical career after spending some time as an apprentice with the Brentford Football Club, touring Europe with folk singer Wizz Jones in the early '60s; during this time he was deported from Spain for vagrancy. When he returned to England in 1963, he joined the Birmingham-based R&B group Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions, as a vocalist and harmonica player. After moving back to London, he joined Long John Baldry's band, the Hoochie Coochie Men. Rod Stewart then joined the Jeff Beck Group at the end of 1966. With the Jeff Beck Group, Rod Stewart began his climb to stardom.

After rejecting an offer to join the American rock group Cactus, Stewart and Jeff Beck Group bassist Ron Wood joined the Small Faces, replacing the departed vocalist/guitarist Steve Marriott. With Wood switching over to guitar, the group shortened their name to the Faces and recorded their debut album, First Step. The Faces released First Step in the spring of 1970. The following year proved to be pivotal in Stewart's career. At the beginning of 1971, the Faces released their second album, Long Player, which became a bigger hit than First Step, yet his third solo album, Every Picture Tells a Story, made Rod Stewart a household name, reaching number one in both America and Britain.

Recorded in Los Angeles with a group of studio musicians, 1976's A Night on the Town continued Stewart's move to slicker pop territory and proved quite successful. Stewart incorporated some disco to his musical formula for 1978's Blondes Have More Fun. Supported by the number one single "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?," the record became Stewart's first number one album since Every Picture Tells a Story, selling over four-million records. By this time, Stewart was notorious for his jet-set lifestyle, particularly the series of actresses and models he dated.

With 1981's Tonight I'm Yours, Stewart began adding elements of new wave and synth-pop to his formula, resulting in another platinum album. Stewart reunited with Ron Wood to record an MTV Unplugged concert in 1993.

In recent years, Stewart has concentrated on singing 1930s and 1940s pop standards from the "Great American Songbook", written by songwriters such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, with great popular success but middling critical success.

Stewart has remained physically active in recent years, playing in a senior football league in Manhattan Beach, California and still kicking balls into the audience during concerts. As a fan he is a well-known supporter of Celtic F.C. and the Scotland national team. Stewart is also known for owning one of 400 Enzo Ferraris. On October 11, 2005, Stewart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 2093 Hollywood Blvd. Throughout his career Stewart has been known for his liaisons with attractive women.

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