Rod: The Autobiography

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The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
 
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer for the trailblazing rock and roll bands The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces, and as a solo artist, the author of such beloved ...
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Overview

The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
 
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer for the trailblazing rock and roll bands The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces, and as a solo artist, the author of such beloved songs as ‘Maggie May’, ‘Tonight’s the Night’, ‘Hot Legs’, ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?’, ‘Young Turks’, ‘Forever Young’, and ‘You Wear It Well’.  Now after more than five decades in the spotlight, he is finally ready to take a candid and romping look back at his life both on and off the stage. From his humble British roots to his hell-raising years on tour with his bandmates, not forgetting his great loves (including three marriages and eight children) and decades touring the world, Rod delivers a riveting ride through one of rock's most remarkable lives.
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His fans have waited decades for the autobiography of this free-spirited North London boy. It doesn't disappoint: Stewart writes candidly about both his long onstage career (including his controversial stint with the Jeff Beck Group) and his equally eventful personal life, including three marriages and numerous other liaisons.

The New York Times
In a season full of books by or about aging rockers, [Stewart's] memoir turns out to be the most fun…[his] antics have earned him a richly deserved Jack the Lad reputation. But that doesn't mean they're rich enough to support a good book. It's his storytelling style, which mixes wild boastfulness with barely credible self-deprecation, that proves so winning, if only because he is so willing to embarrass himself.
—Janet Maslin
Kirkus Reviews
In which Roderick David Stewart, aka Rod the Mod, bares all--not least the secrets of spiky hair. If Keith Richards is the dangerous old man of rock 'n' roll, Rod Stewart is the standards-crooning nice old geezer. Even in his down-and-dirty days--for example, snorting mounds of cocaine with pal Elton John--he was a nice guy, unless, perhaps, you were married to him. This memoir sails from one mostly amiable anecdote to another, quickly revealing an odd factoid: Like recent memoirist Neil Young, Stewart is a model-train fanatic ("In December 2010, I reached a major career milestone. I appeared on the cover of Model Railroader magazine for the second time. Getting on the front of Rolling Stone had nothing on this"). Unlike Young, Stewart is no motor geek. He admits to liking to drive cool cars without feeling the need to know anything about them, instead reserving his major store of passion for models (female, not railroads) and soccer. Stewart charts his rise from unwashed beatnik poet to lead singer with the Faces, a position fraught with politics and intrigue. He is surprisingly modest about the three great solo albums that marked his work in the early 1970s, though he does reveal the secret of how "Maggie May" came to be written, and he is nicely cheeky about his decline later in the decade ("I may have lost the thread a couple of times in that period"). Even so, he professes to being somewhat mystified by his being named the enemy of all things punk in the '70s, since the likes of the Sex Pistols worshiped the Faces. He pulls off a nice and not too heavy-handed bit of comeuppance, though, even while compounding his enemy status with the runaway commercial success of his four albums of grandpa-era standards, which is perhaps forgivable in a man approaching 70. A likable, mostly generous and well-written look back at the days of bedding starlets and destroying hotels.
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“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 and…makes 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 stardom…full 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 tell…The singer tells them in a charming, often humble and self-deprecating, and always entertaining fashion throughout Rod, his autobiography….A moving read.” –The Buffalo News

“…a life that seems to be one endless romp from hit song to hot date, with a few stylish Italian sports cars and expensive pieces of Pre-Raphaelite art thrown in for good measure. Blondes (Have More Fun), indeed.” –USA Today

"The most outrageous—and wittiest—rock autobiography of the decade." –The Daily Mail

 “Amiably and self-knowingly told… the tone [is] pitched right and the jokes good." –The Guardian
 
"Forget your Salman Rushdie.  Put down your JK Rowling.  Tomorrow sees the publication of one of the most entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year— the autobiography of Rod Stewart.  Truly." –The Independent online

“Anyone who wants to be a rock and roll superstar should read this…crazy stories.” –Jimmy Fallon
 
“A likable, mostly generous and well-written look back at the days of bedding starlets and destroying hotels.” –Kirkus

“Looking at the fall release schedule and seeing memoirs slated from Pete Townshend and Neil Young, who would have tipped Rod Stewart as being the rock graybeard most likely to produce the best book? But he did. Rod: The Autobiography (Crown) is a warm, roguish reminiscence. More playful than Townshend's at times ponderous Who I Am and far more insightful than Young's numbing Waging Heavy Peace, Stewart's memoir has much of the joyful, big-hearted raffishness of the singer's classic early '70s recordings. (It's more "Mandolin Wind" than "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" — or anything else of his from the last 35 years or so.) The book is a fun, rollicking read.” —Spin.com

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307987303
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 10/23/2012
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 11,832
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

ROD STEWART is a two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a Grammy Living Legend.  In a career spanning five decades, he has sold more than 150 million records and continues to be one of the top-grossing and most beloved live performers in the world. In 2007, the Queen of England bestowed him the prestigious CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for his contributions to music. He lives with his wife, Penny Lancaster-Stewart and children in Beverly Hills, California and Epping, England.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 4, 2012

    Honesty, its a powerful thing

    Loved the honesty, enjoyed this book brought me home to ireland and the slang , celtic forever

    6 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 10, 2012

    Pretty good

    I enjoyed this book. Thought it went into detail. Not enough story telling about his time inthe bands. However wort readingoo

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 3, 2012

    loved it. great read and very funny

    loved it.
    great read and very funny

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 2, 2012

    This book was fun and entertaining. It lightens your mood

    This book was fun and entertaining. It lightens your mood

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 26, 2012

    Rod

    I am finding this book quite boring .

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 8, 2012

    I think it was really refreshing to read a book that was so insi

    I think it was really refreshing to read a book that was so insightful, funny, and allowed me to know more about a really great "rock star"! Rod is very honest, and also human. I really enjoyed the dialect. It was fun to read.

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  • Posted March 19, 2013

    Highly recommended

    Rod Stewart is probably one of the best performers ever to take the stage. This story is very well written and very honest. If you love Rod you'll love his story.

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  • Posted March 17, 2013

    I love this book!

    While I was reading this book, it felt like Rod Stewart was sitting on a chair, with a drink in hand, telling his life story to me! I really enjoyed this book and learning first-hand about his life. My "picture" of him became clearer. A first-rate reading experience!!

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  • Posted February 1, 2013

    Good read.

    Love the book. It's a good read. I enjoy his humor. I have always enjoyed the nostalgia of the rock groups. I go back in time and remember that I grew up with this and it's fun to remember. Worth the read. Glad I bought it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2013

    I have never been a big Rod Stewart fan, but this book is wonder

    I have never been a big Rod Stewart fan, but this book is wonderful. I never knew he was so funny! A must-read!

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