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Rod Stewart to release 'Soulbook'
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:24:45 | By Music-news.com
Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart will be releasing SOULBOOK on November 9th (RCA Records), a collection of classic Sixties/Seventies-era soul favourites all newly recorded by the quintessential 'blue eyed soul' singer of our generation.Rod recently said in Rolling Stone�s "Greatest Singers of All Time" issue...
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Rod Stewart and Jeff Back on stage together for first time in 25 years
Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:53:14 | By Hip Online
For the first time in over 25 years, last night recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Jeff Beck was joined by former band mate and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart for a surprise two song performance at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The...
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Rod Stewart joins hearing campaign
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:30:49 | By Music-news.com
ROD STEWART has signed up to front a campaign to raise awareness about hearing loss.The legendary singer has joined forces with Annie Lennox and Lenny Kravitz for the Hear The World initiative and will appear in print ads from the end of this month.They join a host of other celebrities...
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Ron Wood Says Faces Reunion Tour Is “Ready to Go”
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:40:36 | By Andy Greene
Ron Wood has confirmed long standing reports that the Faces are gearing up for a reunion tour next year. • faces keyboardist says faces are “ serious ” about reunion • rumor : rod stewart says faces reuniting, rehearsing
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b. Roderick David Stewart, 10 January 1945, Highgate, London, England. The leading UK rock star of the 70s started his career as an apprentice professional with Glasgow Celtic and Brentford F.C. (over the years Stewart has made it known that football is his second love). Following a spell roaming Europe with folk artist Wizz Jones in the early 60s he returned to join Jimmy Powell And The Five Dimensions in 1963. This frantic R&B band featured Stewart playing furious harmonica, reminiscent of James Cotton and Little Walter. As word got out, he was attracted to London and was hired by Long John Baldry in his band the Hoochie Coochie Men (formerly Cyril Davies’ All Stars). Without significant success outside the club scene, the Baldry band disintegrated and evolved into the Steam Packet, with Baldry, Stewart, Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll, Mick Waller and Rick Brown.
Following a television documentary on the swinging mod scene, featuring Stewart, he collected his moniker ‘Rod the Mod’. In 1965, he joined the blues-based Shotgun Express as joint lead vocalist with Beryl Marsden. The impressive line-up included Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood and Peter Bardens. By the following year, Stewart was well-known in R&B and blues circles, but it was joining the Jeff Beck Group that gave him national exposure. During his tenure with Beck he recorded two important albums, Truth (1968) and Cosa Nostra Beck-Ola (1969) and made a number of gruelling tours of America. He also guested on ‘In A Broken Dream’ by Australian unit Python Lee Jackson, which became a major hit when re-released in 1972.
When the Jeff Beck Group broke up (partly through exhaustion) Stewart and Ron Wood joined the Faces, now having lost their smallest face, Steve Marriott. Simultaneously, Stewart had been signed as a solo artist to Phonogram Records, and he managed to juggle both careers expertly over the next six years. His hits with the Faces during this period included ‘Stay With Me’, ‘Cindy Incidentally’ and ‘Pool Hall Richard’/‘I Wish It Would Rain’. Though critically well-received and featuring a sublime cover version of Michael D’Abo’s ‘Handbags And Gladrags’, Stewart’s first album (1969’s An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down, known as The Rod Stewart Album in the USA) sold only moderately. It was the following year’s Gasoline Alley that made the breakthrough. In addition to the superb title track the album contained the glorious ‘Lady Day’. This album was the first to feature the distinctive mandolin sound (supplied by the talented guitarist Martin Quittenton) which was to become a fixture of Stewart’s solo work during this period.
Stewart became a transatlantic superstar on the strength of his next two albums, Every Picture Tells A Story (1971) and Never A Dull Moment (1972). Taken as one body of work, they represent Stewart at his best. His choice and exemplary execution of non-originals gave him numerous hits from these albums including; ‘Reason To Believe’ (Tim Hardin), ‘(I Know) I’m Losing You’ (the Temptations) and ‘Angel’ (Jimi Hendrix). His own classics were the irresistible UK/US chart-topping magnum opus ‘Maggie May’ (co-written by Quittenton), ‘Mandolin Wind’ and the wonderful UK number 1 ‘You Wear It Well’, all sung in Stewart’s now familiar hoarse voice.
In the mid-70s, following the release of the below average Smiler, Stewart embarked on a relationship with the Swedish actress, Britt Ekland. Besotted with her, he allowed her to dictate his sense of dress, and for a while appeared in faintly ludicrous dungarees made out of silk and ridiculous jump suits. At the same time he became the darling of the magazine and gutter press, a reputation he unwillingly maintained through his succession of affairs with women. His Warner Brothers Records debut Atlantic Crossing (1975) was his last critical success for many years; it included the future football crowd anthem and UK number 1 hit, ‘Sailing’ (written by Gavin Sutherland), and a fine reading of Dobie Gray’s ‘Drift Away’.
Stewart’s albums throughout the second half of the 70s were patchy affairs although they became phenomenally successful, selling millions, in many cases topping the charts worldwide. The high-spots during this glitzy phase, which saw him readily embrace the prevalent disco era, were cover versions of Danny Whitten’s ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ and Cat Stevens’ ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’, the remarkably sensitive ‘The Killing Of Georgie (Part I And II)’, the US number 1 ‘Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)’, and ‘You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)’. Other hits included ‘Hot Legs’ and the superbly immodest but irresistible UK/US number 1, ‘D’Ya Think I’m Sexy’, which was based on Brazilian artist Jorge Ben’s track, ‘Taj Mahal’. Stewart’s ‘Ole Ola’, meanwhile, was adopted by the Scottish World Cup football team, an area in which his popularity has always endured.