His widow told the Mail that he had endured a lifelong battle with eating disorders, and while Rod's life was a whirl of blondes, booze and acclaim, Quittenton - who also wrote You Wear It Well alongside Stewart - spent every penny he had on animal rescue and planting trees. While Rod still enjoys worldwide fame, it can be revealed that Martin Quittenton, the guitar genius who co-wrote Maggie May, died in obscurity in rural Wales, having left the music industry and given away his fortune. The same cannot be said of the talented musicians who wrote the hit alongside him. Suddenly I was rolling in fame and money.' "I knew that was a hit, but otherwise, I go in the studio to make music that I like.Rod Stewart is in no doubt about the significance of the song Maggie May, the lament to a lover which made him a star - released 50 years ago, in July 1971: 'Maggie May changed everything.
"I've never gone in the studio to try and make a hit, apart from ' Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?’" he told Stern. Every Picture Tells a Story also topped the Billboard 200 and went platinum, turning Stewart into an international superstar.Īll Stewart had to do was stick to his guns. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for five consecutive weeks. By October 1971, “Maggie May” had reached No. Listeners apparently disagreed. Stewart released “Maggie May” as a single in July 1971 as the B-side to “Reason to Believe.” Before long, disc jockeys began flipping the record and playing “Maggie May” more than its A-side. It didn’t have a catch chorus, like you needed." Part of Stewart's reservation with "Maggie May," he told Stern, was the fact that "it was just so rambling. I haven't finished it.' And that was 'Maggie May.'" Have you got anything in the cupboard or anything?' I said, 'I've got one more song. "We had eight tracks for Every Picture Tells a Story, and they said, 'Well, we need another track. "The record company thought it was shit," he laughingly told the host. The singer was blunter while describing Mercury Records' reception to the song in a 2013 Howard Stern interview. What I learned is that sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t." I figured it was best to listen to the guys who knew better. "At first, I didn’t think much of 'Maggie May,'" he said. "I guess that’s because the record company didn’t believe in the song. Still, Stewart hardly considered the track single-worthy. But I have no idea why Martin called it 'Henry.'" "No matter how long a stand-alone song is, you still get credit and royalties for it. "I wanted to give him an extra bonus," Stewart said. Stewart and Quittenton ornamented the album version of "Maggie May" with a 32-second acoustic intro titled "Henry," for which Quittenton received an extra fee. Her name wasn’t Maggie May, but the experience I had with her would influence the writing of the song 10 years later." I was a virgin, and all I could think is, ‘This is it, Rod Stewart, you’d better put on a good performance here or else your reputation will be ruined all over North London.' But it was all over in a few seconds.
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One thing led to the next, and we ended up nearby on a secluded patch of lawn. "There, I met an older woman who was something of a sexual predator. "That afternoon, we snuck into the festival through a large runoff pipe and eventually made our way to a beer tent," Stewart reminisced to the Journal. Once he had sketched out the melody and blueprint of the song, Stewart began working on lyrics for "Maggie May." While the song makes no mention of an actual Maggie May (or Mae), Stewart did draw inspiration from another woman from his past, whom he met at the 1961 Beaulieu Jazz Festival in the south of England. One of those ideas was the chord progression for what became "Maggie May." Stewart began riffing on vocal melodies and singing the lyrics to "Maggie Mae," a Liverpudlian folk song about a prostitute who robs a homeward-bound sailor, which the Beatles covered on Let It Beone year earlier.
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