70s Artist Watch: Rod Stewart

Seventies music artist Rod Stewart entered the 1970s from The Jeff Beck group, the group also featured greats like Ronnie Wood and Jeff Beck himself , with the vocals provided by Rod Stewart, who was in-fact born as Roderick, but it was back in the 1960s that Stewart was first busking in London, singing Sam Cooke numbers, which was a long way from his mega success that would come in the 1970s, in-fact he was also no stranger to TV in the 1960s when he was in the documentary "An Easter with Rod" for Rediffusion TV London.

The Small Faces added Stewart to their line up in 1969, and changed their name to The Faces., and released their first album in 1970 called “First Step”, Stewart’s own album “Gasoline Alley” was also released, and as Python Lee Jackson(originally an Australian group) he released a single called "In a Broken Dream", made in 1969, and was partly produced by Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who died in 2004, and re-released in 1972, and again a hit in 1977, however Rod is alleged to have got no payment for that hit, even though it was a world wide hit. The song rarely appears against Rod’s catalogue, but there is no doubt that its a Rod Stewart classic.