Rod Stewart Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2006, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame
• Was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1994
• Became active in raising funds for The City of Hope Foundation after his own bout with cancer
• Started busking with a harmonica in 1962 and the following year joined the Dimensions as a harmonica player and part-time vocalist
• His HO scale model railway layout modelled after the New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroads of the 1940s was featured in "Model Railroader" magazine in 2007, 2010 and 2014
• Kept playing soccer in his free time after almost turning pro, and supports the Celtics
• Reinvented himself as a crooner of pre-rock standards in the 1990s
• Came to prominence as the vocalist of the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces
• A British rock star of the 1960s and 1970s with a distinctive raspy voice, his first three solo albums established him as one of the quintessential vocal interpreters of his time
• An auto collector, he obtained one of the 400 Ferrari Enzos in existence