His father was Scottish and had been a master builder in Leith, Edinburgh, while Elsie was English and had grown up in Upper Holloway in North London. She became pregnant, but neither Rod nor his family wanted him to enter marriage; the baby girl was given up for adoption and Rod and Suzannah's relationship ended. on the chart had been Greatest Hits Volume 1 in 1979 and his last studio album to top the chart was 1976's A Night on the Town. In 1993, he collaborated with Bryan Adams and Sting on the power ballad " All for Love", which went to number one in many countries.

Rod Stewart’s Autobiography - The New York Times

His father bought him a guitar in January 1959; the first song he learned was the folk tune "It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song"; the first record he bought was Eddie Cochran's " C'mon Everybody". I don't know whether Stewart wrote all of Rod himself but if he did he deserves respect and if he didn't I hope his ghost – rumoured to be journalist Giles Smith – is getting a decent slice of the action. Before "Maggie May" had faded, Stewart followed up with a gritty version of the Temptations' "(I Know) I'm Losing You" (Number 24, 1971). Also, he's not afraid to admit that his great recreational passion is building model railways: "It's not really about the trains […] there is no wearing of peaked caps, waving of flags or blowing of whistles. When reading memoirs of rock stars, I know certain elements are prevalent: drugs, alcohol, being unfaithful, many wives, etc.In September 2019, Stewart revealed that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017, and has been given the all-clear after treatment. On 22 December 2006, Stewart hosted the 8th Annual A Home for the Holidays special on CBS at 8:00 pm (PST). He concentrated on singing 1930s and 1940s pop standards from the Great American Songbook with great popular success. The single " Rhythm of My Heart" was a top five hit in the UK, US and other countries, with its source album, 1991's Vagabond Heart, becoming, at number ten in the US and number two in the UK, his highest-charting album in a decade. Stewart's sputtering solo career also continued with the March 1968 release of non-hit "Little Miss Understood" on Immediate Records.

Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart – review

In a sidebar [159] to the 2014 Model Railroader article, Stewart confirmed (in an anecdote about his having unwittingly mixed red scenery texturing material into a "turf" mix he used around the bases of buildings) that he is colour-blind. I started this memoir immediately after finishing Pete Townshend's memoir and while reading I kept comparing it to Pete's book. The couple began dating in 1999 and married in the cloistered medieval monastery La Cervara in Portofino on 16 June 2007 and honeymooned on board the yacht Lady Ann Magee moored in the Italian port of Portofino. In October, the album sat in the Number One slots in America and Britain, the first record to achieve such status.He then worked briefly as a labourer for Highgate Cemetery, which became another part of his biographical lore.