Rod Stewart

**Rod Stewart** (Sir Roderick David Stewart CBE, b. 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was born and raised in London, but is of Scottish and English ancestry. He is one the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million records worldwide over a career spanning some fifty years in the music industry.

In 1969 he joined pop group The Faces also maintaining a solo career and releasing his debut album the same year. his solo breakthrough came in 1971 with his third album *Every Picture Tells a Story*, featuring the well-known ballad Maggie May. More hits followed in the 70s and into the 1980s with songs such as Sailing, Tonight's the Night, Do You Think I'm Sexy, Baby Jane and Every Beat of My Heart. In 1977 he famously kept the Sex Pistols from the top of the charts with his single I Don't Want To Talk About It/The First Cut Is The Deepest. Number One albums include Atlantic Crossing (1975), A Night on the Town (1976), Greatest Hits (1979).

In December 2019, at 74 years and 11 months old, Stewart became the oldest male solo artist to ever top the Official Albums Chart with his 10th Number 1 album You're In My Heart with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2016 a version of his hit Do Ya Think I'm Sexy featuring DNCE was released as a digital single. [1]

## Links to Janice

Janice conducted an in-depth interview with Stewart for BBC Radio 1 in 1986:

> *I've been a fan since he was with the Faces but I'm certainly not in awe of him.[..] He's a nice guy, he's a really good laugh. People think of him as a womaniser, but he's actually very shy with women. I wanted to talk about Rod Stewart the human being, not Rod Stewart the image. -* Radio Times, June 1986
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A preview was broadcast as the first hour of Janice's show on 18 June 1986 and then in three one-hour specials *The Best of Rod* broadcast on at 2.00 pm on Saturday 12, 19 and 26 July, and repeated on the following Thursday evenings 17, 24, 31 July. The series was repeated on three consecutive Thursday nights as a 'Classic Documentary' on Radio 1 in November 1990.

During the chart countdown on Top of the Pops in 1983, Janice's co-host referred to Stewart as a "*Janice Long heart-throb*".

## Other shows played

### 1980s

* 26 December 1983 - Maggie May (single/album *Every Picture Tells a Story,* 1971) ("*the guy who bought me that album borrowed it in 1976 and still hasn't given it back*")
* 20 June 1984 - unknown track from *Camouflage* album, highest new entry on this week's chart

### 2010-2021

* 26 May 2009 - You Wear It Well (single 1972)
* 04 March 2010 - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher (album *Soulbook*, 2009)
* 08 June 2010 - Mandolin Wind (album, *Every Picture Tells a Story,* 1971)
* 04 May 2012 - Maggie May (single, 1971)
* 24 May 2012 - Mandolin Wind
* 26 April 2013 - It's Over (single, 2013)
* 02 May 2013 - Mandolin Wind
* 03 May 2013 - It's Over
* 09 May 2013 - It's Over
* 24 April 2014 - You Wear It Well
* 09 October 2014 - You Wear It Well
* 29 June 2015 - Love Is
* 20 April 2016 - Walking In The Sunshine (album *Another Country*, 2015)
* 18 May 2016 - You Wear It Well
* 15 February 2020 - Baby Jane (single 1983)

### See also:

* Music Live: Party at the Palace
* UK Singles Chart Number Ones
* Cover versions

## External links

* Wikipedia
* Discogs
* MusicBrainz
* Official charts archive
* Spotify