![]() Here’s where things get interesting for fans of the modern Rod Stewart. Cutting two acclaimed albums with Beck, Truth and Beck-Ola, Rod stayed until 1969.ĭuring his time with Beck, Rod Stewart cut a solo single for Immediate, “Little Miss Understood,” and signed a deal with Mercury, the first fruits of which coincided with him joining Faces alongside three former members of Small Faces, plus Ronnie Wood, former guitarist in mod act The Birds. He joined The Jeff Beck Group in 1967, as lead singer, and began drawing the kind of audiences his rough-edged, heartfelt vocals deserved. TV appearances followed, and flop singles for Decca and Columbia, plus a period with much-loved but little-sold mod-R&B band Steampacket, and then Shotgun Express with Peter Green, Peter Bardens and Mick Fleetwood, Rod sharing lead vocals with Beryl Marsden. He joined The Dimensions, later Jimmy Powell & The Five Dimensions, then Long John Baldry’s Hoochie Coochie Men, sometimes billed as Rod The Mod. He became a mod and fell in love with soul music. ![]() He’d been a beatnik his unexpected return to London saw him smarten up his act. Rod Stewart took to the road, turning up in Paris, where he slept under bridges, and in Barcelona, from which he was deported for vagrancy in 1963. Having failed to break through at the former, he pursued the latter, living on a houseboat in Shoreham, on England’s south coast, busking on mouth organ and playing with Wizz Jones, now a well-known folk singer and guitarist. Roderick Stewart was born in North London, in 1945, and had twin passions: football and music. Look into it a little and it all makes sense: he may have started his career croaking rhythm’n’blues only to wind up crooning Cole Porter tunes, but Stewart remains true to his art all the same. It may seem like a long and unlikely journey from king of the mods to pop’s prime exponent of The Great American Songbook, via “Maggie May” and “Pool Hall Richard,” but there’s logic in Rod Stewart’s artistic development. ![]() Wake up, reader, Rod Stewart has got something to say to you.
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