Python Lee Jackson were an Australian band who were pretty much unheard of in the UK when they roped Rod Stewart in to doing the lead vocals for the song 'In A Broken Dream' in 1970. Money was quite tight for the band and they ended up paying Rod Stewart with a set of seat covers for his car. It was not to be the last time that Rod Stewart and Ron Woods would appear in the same band. Rod Stewart stayed with the group long enough to record the 1968 album 'Truth' and the 1969 album 'Beck-Ola'. In the latter years of the 1960's Jeff Beck was helped out by Nicky Hopkins on piano, Micky Walker on drums, Ron Wood on bass and Rod Stewart on vocal duties. The Jeff Beck Group boasted the cream of British rock, or so they were quick to say. The band featured Rod Stewart sharing lead vocals with Beryl Marsden and also featured future Fleetwood Mac stars Mick Fleetwood and Peter Green on drums and guitars. Shotgun Express only ever released one single, 'I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Round' in 1966 - it failed to chart. Although no albums were released during the time that Rod Stewart featured in the band, a posthumous album was released in 1970. The band became popular enough to support the Rolling Stones on tour but split up in 1966. The band featured Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger. Steampacket were a band that was created somewhat out of the ashes of 'The Hoochie Coochie Men'. Success did not really come along for the band but they did gig quite a bit in their native city of Southampton. Rod Stewart was a member of this band for a period of 6 months from late 1965 to early 1966. They did manage to release one single - Rod Stewart taking lead vocals on a renditon of 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' - on release in 1964, it failed to chart. Baldry somehow managed to keep the rest of the band together, under the name of 'The Hoochi Coochie Men' but not for long. Things got off to the worst possible start when Davies died on the night that Rod Stewart made his gig debut. It was Long John Baldry, who after hearing Rod Stewart busk the song 'Smokestack Lightning', asked him to become part of Cyril Davies' popular R 'n' B combo. Cyril Davies All-Stars / The Hoochie Coochie Men Renaming themselves as Jimmy Powell & the Five Dimensions, Rod Stewart soon found his role in the band lessening and he soon left.ģ. Gigs were rather hard to come by though until Jimmy Powell joined the band as singer. It was in October 1963 that Rod Stewart joined the band called 'The Dimensions', his initial role was of lead singer and harmonica player. The reason for Rod Stewart being kicked out by Ray Davies was that the mother of then drummer John Start had complained about Stewart's voice not being good enough. In 1962, Rod Stewart joined the band but didn't last too long. In the days before the final line up of the Kinks came about, Ray Davies was trying to get a band together. (Rod Stewart during the 1970's - Image Source) Here we will take a look at the nine bands that Rod Stewart was in before his solo career took off. During that decade, Rod Stewart performed with no less than nine different bands. What is less known about Rod Stewart, to the casual music fan anyway, is that throughout the 1960's Rod Stewart was very active on the music scene (with rather limited success it has to be said). Rod Stewart reached the top spot in the UK charts on 6 occasions and reached the top 10 many times more. It all started with his debut solo single 'Maggie May' in 1971 which raced to the top of the charts. Rod Stewart is best known as a solo singer who, throughout the 1970's & 80's and beyond, racked up the hits in the UK.
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