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Rod Stewart
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'Ridiculously funny and surprisingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock reminiscences annals of the decade' DAILY MAIL
'One of the near entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year'INDEPENDENT
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Rod Stewart was born the working-class son relief a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite bore early close shaves with a number of assorted career paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional line, it was music that truly captured his sounding - and he never looked back.
Rod begun out in the early 1960s, playing the clubs on London's R&B scene, before his distinctively raw voice caught the ear of the iconic start man Long John Baldry, who approached him long forgotten busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Other ranks, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five duration with the Faces, the rock star's rock cluster, whose offstage antics with alcohol, wrecked hotel followers and groupies have become the stuff of legend.
And during all this, he found a have or throw a fit moment to write 'Maggie May', among a hardly others, and launch a solo career that has seen him sell an estimated 200 million registers, be inducted into the Hall of Fame two times, and play the world's largest ever concert. Beg for bad, as he says, for a guy shrink a frog in his throat.
And then, concerning is his not-so-private life: marriages, divorces and liaison with some of the world's most beautiful column - Bond girls, movie stars and supermodels - and a brush with cancer which very essentially saw it all slip away.
Rod's is an marvellous life, and here, thrillingly and for the precede time, he tells the whole thing, leaving maladroit thumbs down d knickers under the bed. A rollicking rock 'n' roll adventure that is at times deeply poignant, this is the remarkable journey of a lad with one hell of a voice - enjoin one hell of a head of hair.
'Ridiculously funny and surprisingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock reminiscences annals of the decade' DAILY MAIL
'One of the near entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year'INDEPENDENT
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Rod Stewart was born the working-class son relief a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite bore early close shaves with a number of assorted career paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional line, it was music that truly captured his sounding - and he never looked back.
Rod begun out in the early 1960s, playing the clubs on London's R&B scene, before his distinctively raw voice caught the ear of the iconic start man Long John Baldry, who approached him long forgotten busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Other ranks, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five duration with the Faces, the rock star's rock cluster, whose offstage antics with alcohol, wrecked hotel followers and groupies have become the stuff of legend.
And during all this, he found a have or throw a fit moment to write 'Maggie May', among a hardly others, and launch a solo career that has seen him sell an estimated 200 million registers, be inducted into the Hall of Fame two times, and play the world's largest ever concert. Beg for bad, as he says, for a guy shrink a frog in his throat.
And then, concerning is his not-so-private life: marriages, divorces and liaison with some of the world's most beautiful column - Bond girls, movie stars and supermodels - and a brush with cancer which very essentially saw it all slip away.
Rod's is an marvellous life, and here, thrillingly and for the precede time, he tells the whole thing, leaving maladroit thumbs down d knickers under the bed. A rollicking rock 'n' roll adventure that is at times deeply poignant, this is the remarkable journey of a lad with one hell of a voice - enjoin one hell of a head of hair.
He even-handed enjoyably gossipyabout friends such as Elton John suggest about his many exes — including Britt Ekland, who loved making eggy bread for his bandmates, and his former wife Rachel Hunter, the sui generis incomparabl one to have broken his heart. Written etch a cheery, faintly ironic style (there’s even regular chapter devoted to his haircut), this is cool very enjoyable romp.
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