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January 10, 1945

Roderick David Stewart

Penny Lancaster (16 June 2007 - present) 2 children

Rachel Hunter (15 December 1990 - 2 November 2006) (divorced) 2 children

Alana Stewart (6 April 1979 - 1984) (divorced) 2 children

Had relationships with Dee Harrington (1971-1975), Kelly Emberg (1983-1990), Bebe Buell and Britt Ekland.

1969 An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down

1970 Gasoline Alley

1971 Every Picture Tells A Story

1972 Never a Dull Moment

1974 Smiler

1975 Atlantic Crossing

1976 A Night On The Town

1977 Foot Loose & Fancy Free

1978 Blondes Have More Fun

1980 Foolish Behaviour

1981 Tonight I'm Yours

1983 Body Wishes

1984 Camouflage

1986 Every Beat of My Heart

1988 Out of Order

1991 Vagabond Heart

1995 A Spanner in the Works

1998 When We Were the New Boys

2001 Human

2002 It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook

2003 As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook 2

2004 Stardust: The Great American Songbook 3

2005 Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV

2006 Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time

2009 Soulbook

2010 Once in a Blue Moon: The Lost Album

2010 Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V

Actor

1999 Play It to the Bone

1975 Supersonic (TV series)

Cinematographer

1999 Heel Against the Head

1972 Kaptein Caprivi

Director

1999 Heel Against the Head

Appearances

2011 Susana Giménez (TV series)

2011 Piers Morgan Tonight (TV series)

2005-2011 Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TV series)

2010 Live with Regis and Kelly (TV series)

1993-2010 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)

2006-2010 Dancing with the Stars (TV series)

2006-2010 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)

1993-2010 Good Morning America (TV series)

2010 Live from Studio Five (TV series)

2010 The Best of the World Music Awards (TV special)

2006-2009 Rachael Ray (TV series)

2009 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV series)

2004-2009 The View (TV series)

2009 Xposé (TV series)

2009 The Graham Norton Show (TV series)

2009 Strictly Come Dancing (TV series)

2005-2009 Entertainment Tonight (TV series)

2009 The Jay Leno Show (TV series)

2006-2009 American Idol (TV series)

2009 Leute heute (TV series documentary)

2008 Tribute This! (documentary)

2003-2007 Parkinson (TV series)

2007 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two (TV series documentary)

2007 Living with... Kimberly Stewart (TV series)

2007 Concert for Diana (TV special documentary)

2007 The Dame Edna Treatment (TV series)(voice)

2007 Happy Birthday Elton! From Madison Square Garden, New York (TV movie)

2007 Con la primera al 2007 (TV movie)

2006 The Royal Variety Performance 2006 (TV movie)

2001-2006 Wetten, dass..? (TV series)

2006 The Xtra Factor (TV series)

2006 The X Factor (TV series)

2006 Dinesen: Spotlight (TV series)

2006 Forbes Celebrity 100: Who Made Bank? (TV movie)

2005 Christmas in Rockefeller Center (TV movie)

2005 Corazón de... (TV series)

2003-2005 Children in Need (TV series)

2005 The Paul O'Grady Show (TV series)

2005 GMTV (TV series)

2005 Larry King Live (TV series)

2005 Save the Music Concert (TV movie)

2005 Great Performances (TV series)

2005 Rove Live (TV series)

2005 The 47th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)

2004 Con la primera al 2005 (TV movie)

2004 A Home for the Holidays (TV movie)

2004 Fashion Rocks (TV movie)

2004 The South Bank Show (TV series documentary)

2004 The Olympic Torch Concert Live (TV documentary)

2004 The Ultimate Pop Star (TV movie)

2004 Jordan: You Don't Even Know Me (TV documentary)

2004 40 Most Awesomely Bad Dirrty Songs... Ever (TV special documentary)

2003 Today with Des and Mel (TV series)

2003 The Late Late Show (TV series)

2003 You Rock with... (TV series)

2003 2003 Radio Music Awards (TV movie)

2003 Bo' Selecta! (TV series)

2003 El show de Flo (TV series)

2003 The 45th Annual Grammy Awards (TV special)

2002 The 2002 Billboard Music Awards (TV movie)

2002 A&E in Concert: Rod Stewart (TV special)

2002 BingoLotto (TV series)

2002 Gold, Gold, Gold (TV movie)

2002 V Graham Norton (TV series)

2002 Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace (TV documentary)

2002 Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (TV documentary)

2001 The Ray Martin Show (TV series)

2001 Mundo VIP (TV series)

2001 The 2001 World Music Awards (TV special)

2001 Howard Stern (TV series)

2001 The Howard Stern Radio Show (TV series)

1998-2001 The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV series)

2001 3rd Annual TV Guide Awards (TV movie)

2001 Playboy Exposed: Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored (video documentary)

1998 Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show (TV series)

1998 An Audience with Rod Stewart (TV movie)

1998 Motown 40: The Music Is Forever (TV documentary)

1997 The Gift of Song (TV movie)

1997 Songs & Visions (TV movie)

1997 Rock n' Roll Weddings (TV documentary)

1997 VH1 Storytellers (TV series documentary)

1997 Happy Birthday Elizabeth: A Celebration of Life (TV special)

1996 Verstehen Sie Spaß? (TV series)

1996 Die Nacht der Stars (TV documentary)

1996 1996 Billboard Music Awards (TV movie)

1995 The Greatest Music Party in the World (TV movie)

1995 Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King (TV special documentary)

1981-1995 Saturday Night Live (TV series)

1995 Brit Awards 1995 (TV special)

1995 Champions of the World (documentary)

1994 The 21st Annual American Music Awards (TV movie)

1993 The 1993 Billboard Music Awards (TV special)

1993 A '70s Celebration: The Beat Is Back (TV special)

1993 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)

1990-1993 Aspel & Company (TV series)

1993 The 1993 World Music Awards (TV special)

1993 Aretha Franklin: Duets (TV special)

1993 1993 MTV Movie Awards (TV special)

1991 The Simple Truth: A Concert for Kurdish Refugees (TV movie)

1991 Viva el espectáculo (TV series)

1991 Rod Stewart: Storyteller 1984-1991 (video)

1990 The 17th Annual American Music Awards (TV special)

1989 The 16th Annual American Music Awards (TV movie)

1988 Sábado noche (TV series)

1987 The Magic Years, Vol. 3 (documentary)

1987 The Magic Years, Vol. 2 (documentary)

1987 The Magic Years, Vol. 1 (documentary)

1986 The Prince's Trust Rock Gala: 10th Birthday (TV documentary)

1986 Esta noche Pedro (TV series)

1985 American Bandstand's 33 1/3 Celebration (TV movie)

1985 Motown Returns to the Apollo (TV special)

1984 Solid Gold (TV series)

1984 MTV 1st Annual Video Music Awards (TV special)

1981 American Bandstand (TV series)

1981 American Bandstand's 30th Anniversary Special (TV movie)

1981 The 8th Annual American Music Awards (TV special)

1981 Rod Stewart: Tonight He's Yours (TV documentary)

1981 The Roots of Rock 'n' Roll (TV series documentary)

1979-1980 The Kenny Everett Video Show (TV series)

1979 The 3th Annual People's Command Performance (TV movie)

1967-1979 Top of the Pops (TV series)

1979 The Music for UNICEF Concert: A Gift of Song (TV special documentary)

1978 Cher... Special (TV movie)

1977 US Against the World (TV movie)

1977 Rod Stewart & Faces & Keith Richards (documentary)

1975-1976 Disco (TV series)

1974-1976 Rock Concert (TV series)

1976 The Lively Arts (TV series documentary)

1972 Sympathy for the Devil (TV series documentary)

1971 Swing In: The Faces Live at the Marquee (TV documentary)

1970 London Rock (documentary)

Grammy Awards

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2005, Stardust ... The Great American Songbook Volume III

MTV Movie Awards

1994 Nominated MTV Movie Award Best Movie Song
for: The Three Musketeers (1993). Shared with: Bryan Adams Sting For the song: "All For Love".

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Received a star (#2093) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [October 11, 2005]

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One of the UK's finest rock vocalists, Roderick David Stewart was born on 10 January 1945 to Scottish parents. He went to the same school as Ray and Dave Davies of The Kinks and briefly trained as an apprentice footballer before busking around Europe.

Many Faces

Back in London he started singing with The Hoochie Coochie Men in 1964 alongside Long John Baldry and followed him into Steampacket before joining the short-lived Shotgun Express. He also released a couple of unsuccessful singles.

In 1967 Stewart joined the Jeff Beck Group with bassist Ron Wood where he developed his rasping vocal style on two seminal albums: Truth (1968) and Beck-Ola (1969). He also signed a solo deal and released An Old Raincoat Will Never Let You Down (1969), a mixture of folk, soul and drinking songs.

When Beck disbanded his group in 1969 Stewart and Wood formed The Faces with former Small Faces Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane and Kenney Jones. But he maintained his solo career and although the first two Faces albums - First Step (1970) and Long Player (1971) - were more successful than his own Gasoline Alley (1970), everything changed with the self-produced and largely self-written Every Picture Tells A Story (1971) and single, 'Maggie May'. For a week in October 1971 Stewart held the UK No. 1 single and album in the UK and US. Two months later The Faces' A Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse (1971) got to No. 2 in the UK and No. 6 in the US. From then on the relationship between Stewart and The Faces was uneasy. Stewart's Never A Dull Moment (1972) and Smiler (1974) were major UK and US successes while The Faces' Ooh La La (1972) and the live Coast To Coast (Overture and Beginners) (1974) were decreasingly popular in the US.

On The Town

Stewart finally made the break, moved to Los Angeles and released Atlantic Crossing (1975), recorded at Muscle Shoals with most of Booker T and The MGs and veteran producer Tom Dowd. The album was another Top 10 in the US, while in the UK it was No. 1 for five weeks along with a four-week No. 1 single, the soaring ballad 'Sailing'.

A Night On The Town (1976) confirmed Stewart's ascension to the rock-star elite, becoming his sixth successive UK No. 1 and spending five weeks at No. 2 in the US. In addition, the lubricious 'Tonight's The Night' topped the US charts for eight weeks. He also confirmed his celebrity status with a high-profile romance and split with actress Britt Ekland. She was the first in a line of blonde wives and girlfriends. Foot Loos And Fancy Free (1977) featured the hit singles 'Hot Legs' and 'You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)'. Those who accused Stewart of unconscious self-parody felt vindicated by Blondes Have More Fun (1978), particularly by the butt-waggling disco single 'Da Ya Think I'm Sexy'. That didn't stop it becoming a No. 1 hit in the UK and US.

Successful Songbook

Through the 1980s and 1990s Stewart continued to fuel the fantasies of his admirers and detractors. Foolish Behaviour (1980), Tonight I'm Yours (1981), Body Wishes (1983), Camouflage (1984), Vagabond Heart (19991), Unplugged...And Seated (1993) and If We Fall In Love Tonight (1996) were criticized for crowd-pleasing underachievement. But they were all commercially successful and provided a string of hits including 'Baby Jane' and 'What Am I Gonna Do (I'm So In Love With You)' (1983), 'Every Beat Of My Heart' (1986), 'Downtown Train' and 'It Takes Two' (with Tina Turner) (1990), 'Rhythm Of My Heart' and 'The Motown Song' (with The Temptations) (1991), 'Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Mathilda)' (1992), 'Have I Told You Lately' (1993) and 'All For Love' (with Bryan Adams and Sting, 1994). Whenever he deviated from the formula - as on When We Were The New Boys (1998) featuring covers of Britpop stars Blur and Oasis - the results were disappointing.

In 2002, after a successful operation for thyroid cancer, Stewart embarked on a series of albums called The Great American Songbook featuring guest appearances by Cher, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and Elton John. The series revitalized Stewart's career and Stardust...The Great American Songbook Volume III (2004) gave him his first US No. 1 album for 25 years.