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Wikipedia Summary for Rod Stewart
Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million records worldwide. He has had 10 number-one albums and 31 top ten singles in the UK, 6 of which reached number one. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.
Stewart's music career began in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. In 1963, he joined The Dimensions as harmonica player and vocalist. In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars before moving to the Jeff Beck Group in 1967. Joining Faces in 1969, he also maintained a solo career releasing his debut album that same year. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B. His third album, 1971's Every Picture Tells a Story, was his breakthrough, topping the charts in the UK, US, Canada and Australia, as did its ballad "Maggie May". His 1972 follow-up album, Never a Dull Moment, also reached number one in the UK and Australia, while going top three in the US and Canada. Its single, "You Wear It Well", topped the chart in the UK and was a moderate hit elsewhere.
After a handful more UK top ten hits, Stewart announced the breakup of the Faces in 1975. His next few singles were ballads with "Sailing", off the 1975 UK and Australian number-one album, Atlantic Crossing, becoming a hit in the UK and the Netherlands (number one), Germany (number four) and other countries, but barely charting in North America. A Night on the Town (1976), his fifth straight chart-topper in the UK, began a three-album run of going number one or top three in North America, the UK and Australia with each release. That album's "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" spent almost two months at number one in the US and Canada, and made the top five in other countries. Foot Loose & Fancy Free (1977) featured the major hit "You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" as well as the rocker "Hot Legs". Blondes Have More Fun (1978) and its disco-tinged "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" both went to number one in Canada, Australia and the US, with "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" also hitting number one in the UK and the top ten in other countries. Stewart's albums regularly hit the upper rungs of the charts in the Netherlands throughout the 70s and in Sweden from 1975 onward.
After a disco and new wave period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stewart's music turned to a soft rock/middle-of-the-road style, with most of his albums reaching the top ten in the UK, Germany and Sweden, but faring less well in the US. The single "Rhythm of My Heart" was a top five hit in the UK, US and other countries, with its source album, 1991's Vagabond Heart, becoming, at number ten in the US and number two in the UK, his highest charting album in a decade. In 1993, he collaborated with Bryan Adams and Sting on the power ballad "All for Love", which went to number one in many countries. In the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists". A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at No. 33 in Q Magazine's list of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and he was inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Faces.
There's no reason why I should retire.
I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.
I carry lots of guilt.
I'm a gentleman.
I enjoyed the chase.
I do my bit for charity.
Tonight's the night. It's gonna be alright.
Optimism is my best defense.
I woke up in a barnyard when I heard a farmer shout. Get away, boy, from my daughter, then a shot gun rang out.
Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.
In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.
The last thing I remember, I left with a girl on a motor bike that weighed 300 pounds.
You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.
I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family; it's not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.
Yeah, I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, just don't be here in the morning when I wake up.
You got amphetamine eyes.
May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.
Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!
I've been lucky with my hair. I couldn't deal with it if I'd run out of barnet. Imagine me with a Bobby Charlton comb over.
She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should be. She's blonde and beautiful, she's got the most incredible legs -- et cetera, et cetera. And she's French as well. (on Brigitte Bardot).
I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.
If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying.
I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe.
I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.
My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.
The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives).
My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.
You are my lover, you're my best friend. You're in my soul.
One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.
When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star
I've got faith
I've got faith
Faith of the heart.
So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.
Whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose.
Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.
One of my daughters was a bit flat-chested, so she had implants and she's got a lovely pair now. I see nothing wrong with it.
Women like being kissed.
Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.
I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
You can keep your Streisands.
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do -- to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.
Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.
I'm jackin' off reading Playboy on a hot afternoon, I'm a three time loser.
You're like a cold beer, darling, on a long hot summer night.
Hot legs, bring your Mother, too.
I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.
A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.
I have lived a great life. I am very happy.
I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.
I don't think people expect Bruce Springsteen to come out in a pink satin jacket, but Rod Stewart, they do. And I like doing it; I don't wear it just because I think I have to. I'm a very flamboyant person.
There is this power that comes with being famous.
Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business -- the ones I talk to, anyway.
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.
I'm very proud of my well-earned wrinkles, so show 'em.
I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes -- that's man's work, let me tell you.
Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.
You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.
Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.
I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.
I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.
Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris -- they are things of beauty.
My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.
I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.
I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.
My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
Brewing a good cuppa is something not everyone can do, and I loathe bad tea.
Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.
I love change, I need it.
I don't have any social life or anything.
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.
I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.
I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.
You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.
You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
I'm a rock star because I couldn't be a soccer star.
I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion.
I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.
I'm proud to be a railway modeler.
Longer Version:
I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.
You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.
I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.
It has gone past me now, the writing phase.
Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.
I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out -- do work out a lot.
Everybody sings from their diaphragm.
I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.