A late happy birthday to Roderick David Rod Stewart who turned 70 !, CBE (born 10 January 1945)[ is a British rock singer-songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of English and Scottish ancestry. Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide He has had six consecutive number one albums in the UK, and his tally of 62 UK hit singles includes 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position He has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2007, he received a CBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music.His early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music and R&B. His aggressive blues work with The Jeff Beck Group and the Faces influenced heavy metal genres.[5][6] From the late 1970s through the 1990s, Stewarts music often took on a new wave or soft rock/middle-of-the-road quality, and in the early 2000s he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists. A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at No. 33 in Q Magazines list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time,[and No. 59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006 and was inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, as a member of the Faces.Stewart left school at age 15[ and worked briefly as a silk screen printer.[ Spurred on by his father, his ambition was to become a professional footballer.[ In summer 1960, he went for trials at Brentford F.C. a Third Division club at the time.[Contrary to some longstanding accounts, Stewart states in his 2012 autobiography that he was never signed to the club and that the club never called him back after his trials.[In any case, regarding possible career options, Stewart concluded, Well, a musicians life is a lot easier and I can also get drunk and make music, and I cant do that and play football. I plumped for music ... Theyre the only two things I can do actually: play football and sing.In May 2000, Stewart was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, for which he underwent surgery in the same month. It had been previously reported he suffered from a benign vocal cord nodule.[Besides being a major health scare, the resulting surgery also threatened his famous voice, and he had to re-learn how to sing.[ Since then he has been active in raising funds for The City of Hope Foundation charity to find cures for all forms of cancer, especially those affecting children.[ youtu.be/7ii93UysVSY
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