Rod Stewart Blind Prayer Lyrics

I was born and raised the only son of a lawyer
till I was approximately the age of four or perhaps five
I lost both my mother and my father
Killed in a fire way up on the fourteenth floor
Struck down by the time I was ten by an illness
which robbed me of the sight of the morning sun
And that ain't all

A homeless child for the next five years
with my dog Clown by my side and my only friend
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I fought my way through school
Sound and touch the thing on which I could depend
And you know what the, the, the kids
down my street weren't too playful
And right then it seemed like the whole world picked on me
And ah yeah

I worked my fingers to the bone
Stretchin' hide for a boot man in Jersey Town
But then, but then I lost the last thing I had
When fate reared its ugly head and took my dog Clown
I wandered way up north found a girl that loved like a woman
Sixteen years old and felt like a woman
But, but, but, but, but what I'm trying to say is
God please don't take her away from me

I lost everything that I ever had
you kicked my name into the dirt
Tread my name into the dirt yeah

I lost everything that I ever had
you kicked my name into the dirt
What could I do

I never knew how much love could hurt me
But it never ever come my way before
No, no, no, no, no
I never knew how much love could hurt me
Good God it ain't never come my way before
Oh but, but you know what I'm trying to say
really what I'm trying to say is
God please don't take her away from me

Ah turn it down

I lost everything that I ever had
you kicked my name into the dirt

You got a lotta lotta lost everything
that I ever had ever had

Rod Stewart - Live & Studio Albums

Live albums

Year	Album	Chart Position		Certifications
		US 200	UK Albums	U.S.	CAN
October, 1982	Absolutely Live	46	35	Gold	Platinum
May, 1993	Unplugged...and Seated	2	2	3x Multi-Platinum	3x Platinum

Studio Albums

Year	Album	Chart Positions		Certifications
		US 200	UK Albums	U.S.	CAN
November, 1969	An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (Released as The Rod Stewart Album in the U.S.)	139	—	—	Gold
June, 1970	Gasoline Alley	27	62	—	Platinum
May, 1971	Every Picture Tells A Story	1	1	Platinum	Platinum
July, 1972	Never a Dull Moment	2	1	Gold	Gold
October, 1974	Smiler	13	1	—	Gold
August, 1975	Atlantic Crossing	9	1	Gold	4x Platinum
June, 1976	A Night on the Town	2	1	2x Multi-Platinum	2x Platinum
November, 1977	Foot Loose & Fancy Free	2	3	3x Multi-Platinum	4x Platinum
November, 1978	Blondes Have More Fun	1	3	3x Multi-Platinum	3x Platinum
November, 1980	Foolish Behaviour	12	4	Platinum	Platinum
October, 1981	Tonight I'm Yours	11	8	Platinum	Gold
May, 1983	Body Wishes	30	5	—	Gold
June, 1984	Camouflage	18	8	Gold	2x Platinum
June, 1986	Every Beat of My Heart (Released as Rod Stewart in the U.S.)	28	5	—	Gold
May, 1988	Out of Order	20	11	2x Multi-Platinum	5x Platinum
March, 1991	Vagabond Heart	10	2	Platinum	3x Platinum
May, 1995	A Spanner in the Works	35	4	Gold	Platinum
June, 1998	When We Were the New Boys	44	2	—	Gold
February, 2001	Human	50	9	—	Gold
October, 2002	It Had to Be You: the Great American Songbook	4	8	3x Multi-Platinum	3x Platinum
October, 2003	As Time Goes By: the Great American Songbook 2	2	4	2x Multi-Platinum	2x Platinum
October, 2004	Stardust: the Great American Songbook 3	1	3	Platinum	Platinum
October, 2005	Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook 4	2	3	Platinum	Platinum
October, 2006	Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of our Time	1	4	Gold	Gold

Rod Stewart Best Songs

UK/US number one singles

• 1971 "Maggie May" / "Reason to Believe" (UK/US)
• 1972 "You Wear It Well" (UK)
• 1975 "Sailing" (UK)
• 1976 "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" (US)
• 1977 "I Don't Want to Talk About It" / "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (UK)
• 1978 "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (UK, US)
• 1983 "Baby Jane" (UK)
• 1990 "Downtown Train" (US Adult Contemporary)
• 1990 "This Old Heart of Mine" with Ronald Isley (US Adult Contemporary)
• 1993 "All for Love" (US) (featuring Bryan Adams and Sting, first appearing on the official soundtrack from the movie "The Three Musketeers")
• 1993 "Have I Told You Lately" (US Adult Contemporary)

Rod Stewart UK/US albums list

UK/US number one albums

• 1971 Every Picture Tells a Story (UK / US)
• 1972 Never a Dull Moment (UK )
• 1973 Sing It Again Rod (UK )
• 1974 Smiler (UK )
• 1975 Atlantic Crossing (UK )
• 1976 A Night on the Town (UK )
• 1978 Blondes Have More Fun (US )
• 1979 Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (UK )
• 2004 Stardust: the Great American Songbook 3 (US )
• 2006 Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time (US )

Rod Stewart Band Members

During his career, Rod Stewart has been a member of a number of groups including:

• Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions (1963)
• The Hoochie Coochie Men (1964–1965)
• Soul Agents (1965-1966)
• Shotgun Express (1966)
• The Jeff Beck Group (1966–1969)
• Faces (1969–1975)

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.

Rod Stewart - Relationships

Throughout his career Stewart has been known for his liaisons with attractive women (fathering seven children with five of them; the oldest being born in 1964 and his latest child being born in November 2005):
1963-1964: Art student Susannah Boffey; one daughter Sarah Thubron Streeter (born 1964) who was put up for adoption
1971-1975: Model Dee Harrington
1975-1977: Actress
First marriage (1979-1984): to Alana Hamilton (ex-wife of actor George Hamilton); one daughter Kimberly (born 21 August 1979) and one son Sean Stewart (star of A&E's Sons of Hollywood) (born September 1 1980)
1983-1990: ModelKelly; one daughter Ruby Stewart (born 17 June 1987)
Second marriage (1990-2006): to model Rachel Hunter; one daughter Renée Stewart (born 1 June 1992) and one son Liam McAlister Stewart (born 4 September 1994). Rod was quoted as saying that he'd rather have his penis cut off than cheat on her. They separated in 1999 and eventually divorced in 2006.
Third marriage (2007-present): With his new wife, model Penny Lancaster-Stewart, he had his seventh child, a boy, Alastair Wallace Stewart, on 27 November 2005 in London. The couple married on 16 June 2007 on board the yacht Lady Ann Magee moored in the Italian port of Portofino.
In reference to his many relationships, Rod Stewart was once quoted as saying, "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."

Rod Stewart - Gallery

Rod Stewart Brief Introduction

Roderick David Stewart was born in 10 January 1945 in Highgate, London. Rod Stewart is an English-born artist and songwriter of Scottish descent, most known for his specially raspy, gravelly, hoarse-sounding voice and personable singing style, as exemplified in his signature song “Maggie May”.

In a career now putting its fifth decade, Stewart has got 27 top 10 hit singles worldwide. Although the good thing of his recordings has changes with times, he is widely known as among the best interpretive singers of recent times, and has consistently been a presence on the charts since the early 1970s.