Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart has been lauded as the finest singer of his generation; he's written songs that turned into modern standards, sung with the Faces, and had massive commercial success. He's one of rock & roll's best interpretive singers, as well as an innovative songwriter whose work created a raw, loose, and charming combination of folk, rock, blues, and country. After becoming successful, he started to lose the rootsier elements of his music, adapting his style to suit the times, leading to smash hits in the disco, new wave, and MTV eras. Stewart eased into his status as a veteran singer by releasing a series of albums where he crooned The Great American Songbook, but returned to original material with 2013's Time. It began another act for the rocker, but he still offered retro material on occasion, as when he teamed with boogie woogie pianist Jools Holland on 2024's Swing Fever.