Rod Stewart - SAILING

ACTIVITY 3 - READING

ROD STEWART'S MINI BIOGRAPHY

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Sir Roderick David Stewart was born on January, 10, 1945. He 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. He sold over 120 million records worldwide.

With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and the early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group, and then with the band 'Faces', when he used to sing with guitarist Ronnie Wood. After the end of Faces, Ronnie Wood became one of the guitarists of a very famous band that you probably know: The Rolling Stones.

CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY

Rod Stewart was born at home during World War II. He was spoiled as the youngest, and has called his childhood "fantastically happy". His father was Scottish, from Edinburgh, while his mother Elsie was English, born in London.

Rod Stewart married three times, and has seven children. He has been married with the English model and photographer Penny Lancaster-Stewart since 2007, mother of two of his seven heirs.

CAREER

Guitarist Jeff Beck recruited Rod Stewart for his band and in February 1967. Stewart joined the Jeff Beck Group as vocalist and sometime songwriter. There he first played with Ronnie Wood, whom he had first met in a London pub in 1964. The two became very close friends.

In May 1969, Ron Wood was announced as the new guitarist of the band The Small Faces, and on 18 October 1969, Stewart followed his friend and was announced as their new singer.

Rod Stewart started his solo career in 1970. 

SAILING

Stewart moved to Los Angeles in 1975, and recorded his most famous song, "Sailing". 

The song is a cover of the Sutherland Brothers song, and was a number-one hit in the UK.

The song describes a journey of someone telling his/her partner that he/she is crossing the Atlantic to be with him/her. However, according to the writer of the song, it is not connected to romance or ships; it is about mankind’s odyssey through life on their way to freedom and spirituality.

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