ROD
STEWART
Sir Roderick David Stewart, CBE is a British
rock singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and
English ancestry. Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time,
having sold over 100 million records worldwide
He has had six
consecutive number one albums in the UK and his
tally of 62 UK hit singles includes 31 that
reached the top ten, six of which gained the #1 position.[3] Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four
reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to
music and charity.[4]
With his distinctive raspy
singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and the early 1970s
with The Jeff Beck Group, and then with Faces, though his music career had begun in 1962 when he took up
busking with a harmonica. In October 1963, he joined the Dimensions as a harmonica player and part-time vocalist. In 1964,
Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars, and in August, Stewart signed a solo contract, releasing his
first single, "Good Morning Little
Schoolgirl",
in October. He maintained a solo career alongside a group career, releasing his
debut solo album, An
Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down in 1969. Stewart's early albums were
a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B.[5][6]
From the late 1970s
through the 1990s, Stewart's music often took on a new wave or soft rock/middle-of-the-road quality, and in
the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting
the Great American Songbook. In 1994, Stewart
staged the largest free rock concert in history when he performed in front of
3.5 million people in Rio de Janeiro.[7] In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked
him the 17th most successful artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top
Artists".[8] A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the Top 100
Greatest Singers of all time,[9] and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time.[10]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 was
inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a
member of Faces.[11][12]
Here are
some succesful hits of Rod StewartWHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN
AS TIME GOES BY
THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
THE NEARNESS OF YOU
I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT
TILL THERE WAS YOU
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