“I find beauty in what everyone else sees as ugly - rugged skyscrapers, beaten-up warehouses, things that are very run down.”
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Rod Stewart
Sir Roderick David Stewart is a British singer and songwriter. Known for his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide. His music career began in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. He was a member of various bands before joining the Jeff Beck Group in 1967. Joining Faces in 1969, he…
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Born 10 January 1945 · Q182655
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2026· 34 entries
“You start off with a grey. And then you add a little concrete colour, so every paving stone is slightly different,”
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“Two years ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I’m in the clear now, simply because I caught it early … I’ve worked for two years and I’ve just been happy, and the good Lord looked after me.”
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“And let’s face it: if we’re ranking threats to the survival of my career, losing my hair would be second only to losing my voice.”
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“Leary on stage during Monday”
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“I like things a certain way but it”
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Yahoo: Rod Stewart's Daughter Kimberly Stewart Pregnant With Baby No. 3
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HOLA: Kimberly Stewart anuncia que será madre por tercera vez a los 47 años: otro nieto para Rod Stewart
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Yahoo News New Zealand: Rod Stewart to welcome seventh grandchild as daughter announces pregnancy
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The Independent: Rod Stewart to welcome his seventh grandchild
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Yahoo: Rod Stewart’s Daughter Is Expecting Her Third Child, but One Detail Is Unknown
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grunge.com: Rod Stewart's 1971 Signature Hit Started As An Overlooked B-Side
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Smooth Radio: Rod Stewart’s eight children: Inside the rock star’s sprawling family as he welcomes sixth grandchild
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Karlobag.eu: Rod Stewart Las Vegas 2026 - The Encore Shows Entradas
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Karlobag.eu: Rod Stewart en concierto en Las Vegas 2026 - Entradas
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N+: Rod Stewart Cancela su Participación en la Inauguración del Coliseo GNP en Guadalajara
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Indie Hoy: Las 10 canciones favoritas de Rod Stewart
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Radio Pauta 100.5: Rod Stewart suspende su gira por problemas de salud: ¿Cuál es su estado actual?
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La Unión de Morelos: Rod Stewart cancela conciertos en Estados Unidos y México por motivos de salud
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El Dínamo: Qué se sabe del estado de salud de Rod Stewart tras la cirugía de urgencia a la que se sometió
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Yahoo: Rod Stewart ‘Ordered to Take It Easy’ After Heart Procedure: ‘His Body Just Can’t Take It Anymore’
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Karlobag.eu: Rod Stewart Las Vegas 2026 - guía del concierto - Entradas
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The Des Moines Register: John Waite replaces Rod Stewart as Friday's Iowa State Fair Grandstand
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KCRG: John Waite to replace Rod Stewart at Iowa State Fair Grandstand concert
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weareiowa.com: Iowa State Fair replaces Rod Stewart for Friday Grandstand act
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OurQuadCities: Iowa State Fair announces replacement act for Rod Stewart
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KIMT: Free John Waite concert replaces Rod Stewart at Iowa State Fair
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Noticias Radiorama: Rod Stewart cancela su gira por México tras someterse a una intervención cardíaca
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weareiowa.com: John Waite to perform at Iowa State Fair Friday night, replacing Rod Stewart
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Public attention spiked: 19,127 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 5,157, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “John Waite to replace Rod Stewart at Iowa State Fair Grandstand concert” (KCRG).
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Public attention spiked: 16,561 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 5,157, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 69,020 Wikipedia readers in one day, 13.4× the usual 5,157, with 0 article edits.
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Released album “Alternate Atlantic Crossing”.
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2025· 1 entry
23 years after his last appearance at the festival
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2024· 1 entry
Released album “Swing Fever”.
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2023· 1 entry
Rolling Stone ranked Stewart at No
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2022· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Rod Stewart’s son “was rushed to the hospital … with a suspected heart attack” because of a COVID-19 vaccine.” Pants on Fire.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “The Tears of Hercules”.
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With both Stewarts pleading guilty to simple battery in a plea agreement that included no jail time, no probation, and no fine
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Blood Red Roses”.
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2017· 1 entry
And had been given the all-clear after treatment
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Another Country”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Time”.
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Merry Christmas, Baby”.
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2011· 1 entry
Stewart performed with Stevie Nicks on their Heart & Soul Tour
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Fly Me to the Moon… The Great American Songbook, Volume Ⅴ”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Soulbook”.
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Released album “Once in a Blue Moon (The Lost Album)”.
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2008· 1 entry
Billboard magazine ranked Stewart the 17th most successful artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists"
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2007· 2 entries
In the 2007 article, Stewart said that it meant more to him to be in a model railroad magazine than a music magazine.
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Rod Stewart was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours for services to music.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Still the Same… Great Rock Classics of Our Time”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Thanks for the Memory… The Great American Songbook, Volume Ⅳ”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Early Years Live”.
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Released album “Stardust… The Great American Songbook, Volume Ⅲ”.
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Stewart reunited with Ronnie Wood for concerts of Faces material
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2003· 5 entries
Released album “Rod Stewart and Friends: Early Years”.
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Released album “As Time Goes By… The Great American Songbook, Vol. II”.
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Released album “Encore: The Very Best, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Encore - The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “Bright Lights Big City”.
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2002· 6 entries
Released album “Reason to Believe: The Complete Mercury Studio Recordings”.
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Released album “It Had to Be You… The Great American Songbook”.
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Released album “Two in One 1971+1972”.
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Released album “Two in One 1969+1970”.
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Released album “Early recordings”.
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Released album “Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller”.
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2001· 7 entries
Released album “The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Rod Stewart”.
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Released album “Human”.
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Released album “Can I Get a Witness”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “A Little Misunderstood - The Sixties Sessions”.
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Released album “Please Please Me / Twist and Shout / Walking the Dog / Leave It to Me”.
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Twistin' the Night Away”.
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Released album “1964 - 1969”.
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “Rod Stewart”.
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Released album “Storyteller 1984–1991”.
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Released album “Reason to Believe”.
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rod Stewart”.
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1998· 5 entries
Released album “Best of Rod Stewart, Volume 2”.
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Released album “When We Were the New Boys”.
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Contained versions of songs by Britpop acts such as Oasis and Primal Scream, and reached number two on the UK album charts
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Released album “The Best of Rod Stewart”.
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Released album “Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Legendary Hits”.
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Released album “Reflections Of Rod Stewart”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “If We Fall in Love Tonight”.
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Released album “The Best of Rod Stewart: 37 All-Time Favorites”.
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1995· 5 entries
Released album “A Spanner in the Works”.
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Stewart released A Spanner in the Works containing a single written by Tom Petty, "Leave Virginia Alone", which reached the Top 10 of the adult contemporary charts
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Released album “The Classic Years”.
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Released album “Golden Ballads”.
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Released album “Handbags & Gladrags”.
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1994· 4 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1994).
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Released album “Gold”.
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Released album “Best of Rod Stewart Featuring "Reason to Believe"”.
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And the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and he was inducted a second time into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Faces
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1993· 10 entries
Released album “Lead Vocalist”.
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Released album “The Stewart Distillery”.
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Collaborated with Bryan Adams and Sting on the power ballad "All for Love", which went to number one in many countries
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Stewart recorded "All For Love" with Sting and Bryan Adams for the soundtrack to the movie The Three Musketeers; the single reached number one in the US and number two in the UK
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Reunited with Ronnie Wood to record an MTV Unplugged special that included "Handbags and Gladrags", "Cut Across Shorty", and four selections from Every Picture Tells a Story
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With "Have I Told You Lately", giving him the second-largest hiatus between number ones in the history of the chart
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Released album “Come Home Baby”.
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Released album “Vintage”.
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Released album “Just a Little Misunderstood”.
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Released album “Classic Rock Songs & Ballads”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “The Mercury Anthology”.
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Released album “You Wear It Well”.
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Released album “Stay With Me”.
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Featuring ten cover songs including the Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday", Bob Dylan's "The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar" and Stevie Nicks' "Stand Back", as well as Tom Waits' "Tom Traubert's Blues"
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Vagabond Heart”.
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Released album “1969 - 1974”.
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The Vagabond Heart album continued Stewart's renewal and inspiration
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Released album “Gasoline Alley & Smiler”.
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1990· 4 entries
Released album “Downtown Train”.
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Released album “The Original Recordings 1965-1968”.
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In advance of the full album's release, and reached number five on the UK charts, but did not chart in the US
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Released album “Baby Come Home”.
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1989· 5 entries
Released album “Storyteller”.
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Released album “The Rock Album”.
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Released album “Bring It On Home”.
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Received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song
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Released album “The Ballad Album”.
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1988· 3 entries
Released album “Out of Order”.
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Released album “In a Broken Dream”.
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Stewart returned with Out of Order, produced by Duran Duran's Andy Taylor and by Bernard Edwards of Chic
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Every Beat of My Heart”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Camouflage”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Body Wishes”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Rod Stewart / Joe Thomas (La grande storia del rock)”.
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Stewart was car-jacked on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard while he was parking his $50,000 Porsche
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1981· 2 entries
Stewart added further elements of new wave and synthpop to his sound for the Tonight I'm Yours album
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Released album “Tonight I’m Yours”.
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1980· 2 entries
Released album “Foolish Behaviour”.
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By releasing the album Foolish Behaviour
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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And his last studio album to top the chart was 1976's A Night on the Town
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Blondes Have More Fun”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Foot Loose & Fancy Free”.
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1976· 4 entries
Stewart topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks and the Australian ARIA chart with the ballad "Tonight's the Night", with an accompanying music video featuring actress Britt Ekland
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Released album “A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues”.
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Released album “A Night on the Town”.
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Stewart covered the Beatles' song "Get Back" for the musical documentary All This and World War II
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1975· 5 entries
And also having joined the Rolling Stones (first as a temporary replacement for the departing Mick Taylor, and later as a permanent member), as well as Stewart's own burgeoning solo career, it became impossible to mainta
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Stewart's commercial success continued, starting with the UK number-one album Atlantic Crossing and the ballad "Sailing"
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Faces toured the US twice (with Ronnie Wood joining the Rolling Stones' US tour in between)
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Released album “Atlantic Crossing”.
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Stewart moved to Los Angeles; that year, he released the Atlantic Crossing album for his new record company, using producer Tom Dowd and a different sound based on the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Smiler”.
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To support the album and the single "Pool Hall Richard"
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Sing It Again Rod”.
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “Never a Dull Moment”.
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With growing tension in the band over Stewart's solo career enjoying more success than the band's
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Every Picture Tells a Story”.
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1970· 2 entries
Released album “Gasoline Alley”.
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Stewart expressed support for the anti-immigration Conservative Party politician Enoch Powell, saying that the United Kingdom was "overcrowded"
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1969· 3 entries
(it was known as The Rod Stewart Album in the US)
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Released album “An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down”.
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Also launched a solo career, releasing his debut album, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down, that year
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1963· 1 entry
Stewart adopted the Mod lifestyle and look, and began fashioning the spiky rooster hairstyle that would become his trademark (it was made possible with sugar water or large amounts of his sisters' hair lacquer, backcombi
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1962· 3 entries
Stewart began hanging around folk singer Wizz Jones, busking at Leicester Square and other London spots
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Had his first serious relationship, with London art student Suzannah Boffey (a friend of future model and actress Chrissie Shrimpton); he moved to a bed-sit in Muswell Hill to be near her
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When he took up busking with a harmonica
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1961· 1 entry
Went to Denmark Street with the Raiders and got a singing audition with well-known record producer Joe Meek, but Meek stopped the session with a rude sound
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1960· 2 entries
Joined a skiffle group with school friends called the Kool Kats, playing Lonnie Donegan and Chas McDevitt hits
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Played for Brentford F.C. (1960).
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1945· 1 entry
Born 1945-01-10.
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1928· 1 entry
The couple had two sons and two daughters while living in Scotland and then moved to Highgate
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