This week in 1971: Rod Stewart started a five-week run at #1 on the US singles chart with Maggie May (backed with Reason To Believe) on Mercury Records, his first solo American chart topper (it also reached #1 in the UK the following week); at the same time, his Every Picture Tells A Story LP started a four-week run at #1 on both the UK & US albums chart (this means that for a period in October, Rods single & album were at #1 simultaneously in both the US & the UK, a feat achieved by only a handful of performers, most notably The Beatles & Simon & Garfunkel); Maggie May expressed the ambivalence & contradictory emotions of a young man involved in a relationship with an older woman & was written from Rods own experience; in the UK, Maggie was first released as the B-side of Reason to Believe, but DJs became fonder of the B-side & after two weeks on the charts, the song was reclassified, with Maggie May becoming the A-side…
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:58:07 +0000
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