a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Rod Stewart Album & Song Chart History Billboard, 23 August 2011. Rod Stewart, Jennifer Hudson & More Added to 'Beat Bugs' Beatles Kids Series". Billboard . Retrieved 7 March 2019. Schaal, Eric (21 October 2019). "The Beatles Song John Lennon Accused Rod Stewart of Plagiarizing". Archived from the original on 4 January 2020 . Retrieved 18 July 2021. On 7 June 2012, Stewart signed a recording agreement with Universal Music Group. [117] Stewart released his first Christmas album, titled Merry Christmas, Baby, on the Verve Music Group label (a division of Universal Music Group) on 30 October 2012. The album was produced by David Foster and contained several duets, as well as an original song written by Stewart, Foster and Amy Foster called "Red-Suited Super Man". [118] According to IFPI, Merry Christmas, Baby was the seventh best-selling album worldwide in 2012. [119] In October 2012, Stewart's autobiography titled Rod: The Autobiography was released (exact dates vary worldwide). [120]

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a b "Rod Stewart joins Shaun Keaveny". BBC Radio 6 Music. 28 March 2013. Dark period quote at 2:01, autobiography effect at 4:17, Ray Davies quartet quotes at 11:40. Rod Stewart living the good life". The Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 11 August 2009 . Retrieved 9 August 2009. According to Stewart, soul singer James Brown called him music's "best white soul singer" in September 2006. [189] Rod was born on 10th January 1945 as the fifth child of Elsie Rebecca Gilbari and Robert Joseph Stewart in Highgate, North London. The interesting thing about Stewart is that he was born during the Second World War in his home. He completed his early schooling at Highgate Primary School. Rod was very poor in studies and even failed in the eleven plus exam. Stewart completed his early schooling in the William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School. Rod Stewart's Christmas Chart Topper Offers Music Business Lessons For 50-Year Career Survival". Forbes . Retrieved 24 June 2023.Dua Lipa: Singer denies she is performing at Qatar World Cup". BBC News. 14 November 2022 . Retrieved 14 November 2022.

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Henry Booth, Billy Davis, Cal Green, Arthur Porter, Lawson Smith, Charles Sutton, Norman Thrasher, Sonny Woods Stewart comes from a modest family that appeared to be lower middle class. Yet, when his career takes off, he makes no mention of his family's reaction. Did he help them out financially? Were they happy for him? Were they envious? None of this is ever talked about. Aside from mentioning his brothers and father in the context of football, we learn nothing about their relationship. In 1962, Stewart began hanging around folk singer Wizz Jones, busking at Leicester Square and other London spots. [40] Stewart took up playing the then-fashionable harmonica. [41] On several trips over the next 18 months Jones and Stewart took their act to Brighton and then to Paris, sleeping under bridges over the River Seine, and then finally to Barcelona. [40] Eventually, this resulted in Stewart being rounded up and deported from Spain for vagrancy in 1963. [33] [40] [42] At this time, Stewart, who had been at William Grimshaw School with three of their members, was briefly considered as singer for the embryonic Kinks. [20] [37] [43] [44] [45] What is his secret? "Hello darlin' – what you got in that handbag?" is the chat-up line he swears by, apparently. During his relationship with Britt Ekland (she called him "Soddy" and he called her "Poopy", for reasons we are left to guess at) he sent her the following telegram in response to her request for a love-letter: "Tired of pulling me plonker. Please come home." Rachel Hunter broke his heart. She was 21 when they met. They spent eight years together and she was the only woman to date he didn't betray: "I've put my last banana in the fruit bowl," he assured reporters. Sadly, that fruit bowl went off in search of fresher bananas. Now, he assures us, he has found the love of his life in his third wife Penny Lancaster. We must wish him well.

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