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Rod: The Autobiography

'Ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid, Rod Stewart’s memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade’ Daily Mail

‘One of the most entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year’ Independent

Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional football, it was music that truly captured his heart – and he never looked back.

Rod started out in the early s, playing the clubs on London’s R&B scene, before his distinctively raspy voice caught the ear of the iconic front man Long John Baldry, who approached him while busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five years with the Faces, the rock star’s rock band, whose offstage antics with alcohol, wrecked hotel rooms and groupies have become the stuff of legend.

And during all this, he found a spare moment to write ‘Maggie May’, among a few others, and launch a solo career that has seen him sell an estimated millio

"Funny, self-deprecating and a whole lot less boastful than he could be, Mr. Stewart offers a string of Grade-A rock 'n' roll debauchery stories andmakes them charming." -The New York Times

"The best news about Stewart's autobiography is that it revives the rollicking humor and self-deprecating personality of his early career. It takes the jolly perspective of a guy who knows he's one of the world's luckiest men, and the result proves infectious." -New York Daily News

"In an action-packed memoir, Stewart explains how he survived the excesses of Seventies rock stardomfull of bad behavior and enough ex-wives to fill an entire soccer side." --Rolling Stone

"A he-said romp through a five-decade music career that spawned a string of enduring pop classics[Stewart is] an entertaining storyteller who admits that at age 67 he still spends time on that bottle-blond, high-maintenance hair. We love him for that." -The Tampa Bay Times

"Unsurprisingly, Rod Stewart has a few stories to tellThe singer tells them in a charming, often humble and self-deprecating, and always entertaining fashion throughout Rod, his autobiographyA moving read." -The Buffalo News

"a life that seems to be one end

Rod: The Autobiography

March 13,

I had the privilege of seeing Rod Stewart in-person 2+ times, once in August in the last days of the Faces and once in solo. (The + is because at a Led Zeppelin concert, Ronnie Wood came out for the encore – “the newest member of the Rolling Stone” – to jam and at the end, Rod Stewart was physically carried out to wave; I was in no condition to tell you what they played and he was in no condition to stand, let alone sing, so I guess it was a draw.) Whether these two performances can be considered concerts or just shows is debatable, just as whether this book is all that good is really a matter of opinion. Rod has been called “the laziest man in rock” because it feels like he does the bare minimum; there’s a lot of show and performance but it all feels a little sloppy, kind of frat house stuff, and while it’s entertaining, you can wonder where the passion and sweat are. His idols from soul and blues left it all on the stage because their audiences wouldn’t accept less but these shows felt more like Vegas or supper club stuff. Which brings me to the book.

Rod also has the reputation of being one of the nicest and down-to-earth guys you could meet

Review

He is enjoyably gossipyabout friends such as Elton John and about his many exes ― including Britt Ekland, who loved making eggy bread for his bandmates, and his former wife Rachel Hunter, the only one to have broken his heart. Written in a cheery, faintly ironic style (there’s even a chapter devoted to his haircut), this is a very enjoyable romp. ― DAILY MAIL

…amiably and self-knowingly told the tone pitched right and the jokes good…He writes articulately about music: where a drummer sits on the beat, or what makes a song bombproof. It's the work of someone who really knows his craft, and loves it. ― Guardian

Behind the rock'n'roll persona, vividly portrayed in his new memoir, is a self deprecating man of mannershighly entertaining. ― The Sunday Times

Quite the life you've led the stories in here, I mean, I blushed a little ― Graham Norton

It really is a rollercoaster rideIt’s a proper book. It’s not frothy. It’s not candy flossyIt is no holds barred. You wrote it yourself, it’s so obvious. It’s your voice all the way through ― Chris Evans

the book is funny, vivid and even, at times, self-critical ― Daily Telegraph

A rollicking rock'nroll story. ― The Scotsman

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