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Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London, England, and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces influenced heavy metal genres.
With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has had six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.
Actors: Michael Coulombe (miscellaneous crew), Robert Sampson (actor), Ray Ellingsen (producer), Jean-Luc Martin (miscellaneous crew), David Raiklen (composer), Tracy Brooks Swope (actress), Sharon Diane King (actress), Kim Morgan Greene (actress), Carl Bressler (actor), Anne-Sophie Dutoit (actress), Anne-Sophie Dutoit (director), Anne-Sophie Dutoit (producer), Anne-Sophie Dutoit (writer), Read MacGuirtose (actor), Melissa Downing (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Frank Atkinson (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), John Beck (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Max Davidson (actor), Gordon De Main (actor), Jimmy Durante (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Ben Alexander (actor),
Plot: Sprawling story of Prohibition set against two families and how they are affected by booze. The stories come together when two young people (Robert Young, Dorothy Jordan) join in a common fight against liquor because it has destroyed their families. Both pros and cons are presented, but the screenplay definitely sides with the abstainers. The fathers destroyed by demon rum are played by Walter Huston and Lewis Stone, and look for Jimmy Durante as a bearded federal agent!
Keywords: alcoholic, alcoholism, author, based-on-novel, blindness, bootlegger, delirium-tremens, hotel, insanity, liquorOh dirty Maggie Mai they have taken her away
And she never walk down Lime Street anymore
Oh the judge he guilty found her
Of robbing home a pounder
That dirty no good robbin' Maggie Mae
Just a part of Liverpool
She earned a term with two
Two pounds ten a week, that was my pay...