Stewart's music career began in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. In 1963, he joined The Dimensions as a harmonica player and vocalist. In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars before moving to the Jeff Beck Group in 1967. Joining Faces in 1969, he also maintained a solo career releasing his debut album that year. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B. His third album, 1971's Every Picture Tells a Story, was his breakthrough, topping the charts in the UK, US, Canada and Australia, as did its ballad "Maggie May". His 1972 follow-up album, Never a Dull Moment, also reached number one in the UK and Australia, while going top three in the US and Canada. Its single, "You Wear It Well", topped the chart in the UK and was a moderate hit elsewhere.
After Stewart had a handful more UK top ten hits, the Faces broke up in 1975. Stewart's next few hit singles were ballads with "Sailing", off the 1975 UK and Australian number-one album, Atlantic Crossing, becoming a hit in the UK and the Netherlands (number one), Germany (number four) and other countries, but barely charting in North America. A Night on the Town (1976), his fifth straight chart-topper in the UK, began a three-album run of going number one or top three in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia with each release. That album's "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" spent almost two months at number one in the US and Canada, and made the top five in other countries. Foot Loose & Fancy Free (1977) contained the hit "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" as well as the rocker "Hot Legs". Blondes Have More Fun (1978) and its disco-tinged "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" both went to number one in Canada, Australia and the US, with "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" also hitting number one in the UK and the top ten in other countries. Stewart's albums regularly hit the upper rungs of the charts in the Netherlands throughout the 70s and in Sweden from 1975 onward.
After a disco and new wave period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stewart's music turned to a soft rock/middle-of-the-road style, with most of his albums reaching the top ten in the UK, Germany and Sweden, but faring less well in the US. The single "Rhythm of My Heart" was a top five hit in the UK, US and other countries, with its source album, 1991's Vagabond Heart, becoming, at number ten in the US and number two in the UK, his highest-charting album in a decade. In 1993, he collaborated with Bryan Adams and Sting on the power ballad "All for Love", which went to number one in many countries. In the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook.
In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists". A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at No. 33 in Q Magazine's list of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and he was inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Faces.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart
Studio albums
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (1969)
Gasoline Alley (1970)
Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
Never a Dull Moment (1972)
Smiler (1974)
Atlantic Crossing (1975)
A Night on the Town (1976)
Foot Loose & Fancy Free (1977)
Blondes Have More Fun (1978)
Foolish Behaviour (1980)
Tonight I'm Yours (1981)
Body Wishes (1983)
Camouflage (1984)
Every Beat of My Heart (1986)
Out of Order (1988)
Vagabond Heart (1991)
A Spanner in the Works (1995)
When We Were the New Boys (1998)
Human (2001)
It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook (2002)
As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook, Volume II (2003)
Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III (2004)
Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV (2005)
Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time (2006)
Soulbook (2009)
Once in a Blue Moon: The Lost Album (2010)
Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V (2010)
Merry Christmas, Baby (2012)
Time (2013)
Another Country (2015)
Blood Red Roses (2018)
The Tears of Hercules (2021)
Rock My Plimsoul
Rod Stewart Lyrics
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Listen!
You can rock me, rock me all night long.
Keep on rockin' me baby, rock me all night long.
'Cause you know what, when you rock me,
My poor back it ain't got a bone.
Way down in the country.
Keep on rollin' me baby, roll me all night long.
You know, you can shake, rattle, and roll me,
Till my back it ain't got a bone.
And I won't mind that! Yea!
Ow! Over here!
Keep on rollin' me baby, just roll me all night long,
I won't mind it.
Keep on rollin' me baby, roll me all night long.
'Cause you know what, when you shake, rattle, and roll me,
My old back ain't got a bone.
So will you do it?
Keep on rollin' me baby,
Rollin' me baby.
Any old way you choose it,
Keep on rollin' me.
Ha, ha. Keep rollin' me honey,
'Till my old back ain't, got a bone. Over there!
Rockin' me baby,
Rockin' me baby,
Rock me honey,
Rockin' me baby, whoa whoa
I don't mind which way that ya', come on honey, keep on.
Rockin' me baby,
Rockin' me baby,
Keep on rockin' me baby,
You know you'd better keep on rockin' me all night long.
You can rock me baby, yeah, yeah, ow!
The song "Rock My Plimsoul" by Rod Stewart is a blues-infused rock tune with lyrics that suggest desire and sexual energy between two people. The lyrics, simple as they may seem, contain a double entendre with the phrase "rock me". The singer urges his lover to continue rocking him all night long, intimating that he wants her to satisfy him sexually. The reference to a back with no bone could be interpreted as the singer's way of saying that he is so caught up in the pleasure and passion of the moment that he has lost all sense of restraint or control.
The singer continues his plea, urging his lover to roll him, shake him, rattle him, until his back is so spent that it is like a boneless appendage. The energy of the song is palpable, with the lyrics driving home the point that the singer wants to be rocked, rolled, and shaken by his lover all night long. The song's bluesy feel with the prominent use of guitar and keyboard in the arrangement makes it the kind of song that would not be out of place in any smoky blues bar.
Line by Line Meaning
Listen!
Attention-grabbing opening
You can rock me, rock me all night long.
Asking someone to keep rocking them all night long
Keep on rockin' me baby, rock me all night long.
Repeating the request to rock all night long
'Cause you know what, when you rock me,
My poor back it ain't got a bone.
Explaining that they will be left with no bones left if rocked all night long
You can roll me, just like they roll the wagon wheel,
Way down in the country.
Asking to be rolled like a wagon wheel is rolled in the country
Keep on rollin' me baby, roll me all night long.
Repeating the request to roll all night long
You know, you can shake, rattle, and roll me,
Till my back it ain't got a bone.
Willingness to have their back shaken, rattled, and rolled until it has no bones left
And I won't mind that! Yea!
Assuring that they won't mind the shaking, rattling, and rolling
Keep on rollin' me baby,
Just roll me all night long,
Repeating the request to roll all night
I won't mind it.
Reassuring that they won't mind being rolled all night long
'Cause you know what, when you shake, rattle, and roll me,
My old back ain't got a bone.
Reemphasizing that the shaking, rattling, and rolling will leave them with no bones left
So will you do it?
Asking if the listener will come through with the request
Any old way you choose it,
Keep on rollin' me.
Giving permission to roll them in any way the listener chooses
Ha, ha. Keep rollin' me honey,
'Till my old back ain't, got a bone. Over there!
Laughs while requesting to be rolled until their back has no bones left
Rockin' me baby,
Rockin' me baby,
Rock me honey,
Rockin' me baby, whoa whoa
Asking to be rocked continuously
I don't mind which way that ya', come on honey, keep on.
Indifference to how they are rocked as long as they are rocked continuously
Keep on rockin' me baby,
You know you'd better keep on rockin' me all night long.
Reiterating that they need to be rocked all night long
You can rock me baby, yeah, yeah, ow!
Exclaiming enthusiastically that they can be rocked
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JEFFREY ROD
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