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There are hardly any singers who can make any genre sound great like Rod Stewart<\/a> could.\u00a0<\/p>\n He may have been born to play the same kind of boozy rock and roll that he did back in the day with The Faces, but whether he\u2019s going into pop territory or making some of the more unfashionable career decisions anyone has ever made, his voice is the one thing that survives every single switchup he\u2019s ever made. But that doesn\u2019t mean that Stewart hasn\u2019t loved a few genres a little more than others whenever he takes the stage.<\/p>\n Then again, Stewart has said numerous times that he would have been with The Faces forever had he had the chance. That bluesy form of rock and roll is what he cut his teeth on back in the day, and considering Ronnie Wood is more like a brother to him these days, it would have made sense for him to keep singing tunes like \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 had songs like \u2018Maggie May\u2019 not taken off as they did.<\/p>\n But that also means we wouldn\u2019t have got the massive hits that he had once he started making his way through the 1980s. A lot of the biggest singer-songwriters of the 1970s didn\u2019t manage to survive the transition into the world of music videos, but Stewart could rely on that raspy voice of his to carry him through even the toughest times. It wasn\u2019t everyone\u2019s first choice to put a synthesiser behind him, but \u2018Forever Young\u2019 and \u2018Young Turks\u2019<\/a> are still among the finest pop songs he has ever made.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s also about time someone has admitted a cold, hard truth: \u2018Do Ya Think I\u2019m Sexy\u2019 isn\u2019t that bad. It\u2019s one of the more blatant examples of an artist selling out, and Stewart himself would have told you that he was in over his head when he made the tune, but for a hybrid of old-school rock and roll and disco, it certainly kicks the ass of anything The Stones were putting out when they tried to wrangle in the Saturday Night Fever crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n But like any other rock star, there comes a point where Stewart was going to need to slow things down a little bit. The reason why so many of those blues tunes worked was hearing that youthful voice, and once he started to get a little bit more comfortable with his lower register, diving into the Great American Songbook wasn\u2019t the worst idea in the world when Stewart discovered the easy listening crowd.<\/p>\n