Rod Stewart (born January 10, 1945), is a singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England, with Scottish parentage.

He’s 63!

With a distinctive, husky voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early ’70s with The Jeff Beck Group and then The Faces and began a solo career in 1969, with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down.

With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has achieved numerous hit singles worldwide, most notably in the UK, where he has achieved six consecutive number one albums and his tally of 62 hit singles includes 24 that went Top 10, of which six went to number one. It has been estimated that Stewart’s album and single sales total more than 250 million, easily earning him a place on the list of best-selling music artists. His biggest-selling song was the 1978 disco hit “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, which was atypical of his output, and which actually damaged his credibility amongst many critics and longtime fans.

Stewart was born the youngest of five children in Highgate, North London, England to parents Robert and Elsie Stewart, who ran a newsagent. Rod was the first of his siblings (two brothers, two sisters) to be born in England after the family moved from Scotland. He attended the William Grimshaw School.

Stewart decided to take up guitar at the age of eleven.

In 1975 Rod Stewart moved to the U.S., applying for citizenship due to his love affair with Britt Ekland and a fight with the UK tax authorities. He released the Atlantic Crossing album for his new record company, using producer Tom Dowd and a different sound based on the Muscle Shoals rhythm section. Atlantic Crossing marked both a return to form and a return to the Top 10 of the Billboard album charts. The first single, a cover of the Sutherland Brothers song “Sailing”, was a massive number one hit in the UK, but it only reached the Top 60 of the U.S. charts.

In late 2006 Stewart made his return to rock music with the release of Still the Same… Great Rock Classics of Our Time, a new album featuring rock milestones from the last four decades, including a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” which was released as the first single. The album was released on October 10. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts with 184,000 copies in its first week. The number one debut was helped by a concert in NYC that was on MSN music and an appearance on Dancing With The Stars. He performed tracks from his new album Live from the Nokia Theater on October 9th. Control Room broadcast the event Live on MSN and in 117 movie theatres across the country via National CineMedia. The BBC quoted in their Breakfast Show on 1 November 2006 that Rod Stewart is one of the top ten biggest-selling artists in recording history, with well over 250,000,000 records sold.

On October 11, 2005 Stewart received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 2093 Hollywood Blvd.

Personal Life:

With his new wife, model Penny Lancaster, he had his seventh child, a boy, Alastair Wallace Stewart, on 27 November 2005. The couple married on June 16, 2007 on board the yacht Lady Ann Magee moored in the Italian port of Portofino.

In reference to his many relationships, Rod Stewart was once quoted as saying, “Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.”

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