Wednesday 17 June 2009

Rod Stewart - Awards and recognition

  • Awarded CBE in 2007 New Year's Honours.
  • Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, 2005, Stardust ... The Great American Songbook Volume III
  • Diamond Award of World Music Awards show for over 100 million records sold worldwide, 2001.
  • Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1994
  • Inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, 2006
  • "Bar none, he's the best singer I've heard in rock 'n' roll. He's also the greatest white soul singer." —Elton John on Rod Stewart
  • "Is this a white guy? You are kidding me!!" Chuck Berry commented when asked what he thought about Rod's cover of Sweet Little Rock & Roller in an interview by the Belgian Rock magazine Humo in 1975.
  • Rod Stewart played to the largest concert crowd ever, with 3.5 million fans in attendance. This was at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro for the 1994 New Year’s Eve celebrations.
  • According to Stewart, soul legend James Brown called him music's "best white soul singer" in September 2006.

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