Rod Stewart

Biography: "You have to go way back, to when I was about 16," says Rod Stewart, recalling his introduction to a sound that would change his life. "I'd found an odd job somewhere, and I went everywhere with a transistor radio glued to my ear. One day, I heard Sam Cooke singing 'Chain Gang,' and I was hooked.”

"Soul music, that's what it was," he continues. "Pure and simple, it got straight through to...  [read more]