Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 381222Title: Rod: The AutobiographyAuthor: Rod StewartNarrator: Simon VanceFormat: UnabridgedLength: 11:22:58Language: EnglishRelease date: 10-11-12Publisher: Penguin Books LTDGenres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentSummary:ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid, Rod Stewarts memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade Daily MailRod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional football, it was music that truly captured his heart and he never looked back.Rod started out in the early 1960s, playing the clubs on Londons R&B scene, before his distinctively raspy voice caught the ear of the iconic front man Long John Baldry, who approached him while busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five years with the Faces, the rock stars rock band, whose offstage antics with alcohol, wrecked hotel rooms and groupies have become the stuff of legend.And during all this, he found a spare moment to write Maggie May, among a few others, and launch a solo career that has seen him sell an estimated 200 million records, be inducted into the Hall of Fame twice, and play the worlds largest ever concert. Not bad, as he says, for a guy with a frog in his throat.And then, there is his not-so-private life: marriages, divorces and affairs with some of the worlds most beautiful women Bond girls, movie stars and supermodels and a brush with cancer which very nearly saw it all slip away.Rods is an incredible life, and here, thrillingly and for the first time, he tells the whole thing, leaving no knickers under the bed. A rollicking rock n roll adventure that is at times deeply moving, this is the remarkable journey of a guy with one hell of a voice and one hell of a head of hair.Contact: [email protected]

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