Rod+stewart

Perhaps nobody was as surprised by Rod Stewart's return to songwriting as Rod Stewart. Rod hadn't bothered composing a tune in nearly two decades when he decided to write a brand new bunch of songs for 2013's Time, an album inspired in part by his 2012 memoir Rod: The Autobiography. Arriving after ten years of Great American Songbook albums, the change in style and song was refreshing, something fans (and some critics) noted and, people pleaser that he is, Rod decided to give them what they wanted for Another Country: another set of originals, augmented by a slyly chosen cover in Steve Harley's "A Friend For Life" (on the Deluxe Edition, he shows a bit of cheek by once again singing Python Lee Jackson's "In A Broken Dream," which he sang back in 1978)…

Originally released in the '70s, Mercury's The Best of Rod Stewart includes several songs that were not proper hits – they were album track favorites that may not have been big on the charts, but were of the consistently high quality that Rod was turning out in the early '70s…

Once he became a superstar, Rod Stewart essentially gave up on songwriting because, let's face it, it's easier to play endless football and cavort with models. Every once in a while his muse returned, so he tried a little bit harder, such as in 1988 when he spun Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" into a song of his own, which wound up as the last hit single of his that he ever wrote…

Rod Stewart, with simple backing from friends, drawing magic from his own songs as well as some of his favorite songwriters. Folksy, brash, vulnerable and raw, this is vintage Rod Stewart - understated, uncomplicated, unsurpassed.

Sir Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) 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…

Set of songs from the 70s.
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a Scottish singer-songwriter raised partly in London, England and currently residing in Epping.
He is of Scottish and English lineage. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces.
He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album).

How good was Rod Stewart really? The truth is….very good indeed. In his earlier days, he had a grittier and less polished style that suited so many different types of musical genres. He was equally comfortable singing country rock, ballads or out and out rockers…

2017 triple CD collection celebrating the music of Sir Rod Stewart, one of rock's most distinctive vocalists. Disc One focuses on Rod's early pre-fame career and includes studio recordings and demos. Disc Two features original versions of songs that inspired Rod, many of which he later covered. Disc Three includes covers of some of Rod's biggest hits by modern Rock artists like Steve Overland (FM), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earth Band), Paul Di'Anno (Iron Maiden) and others.