Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is a story of January 10th.
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It is the 10th day of the year, leaving 355 days remaining in 2022.
As a songwriter, he knows how to find stories. On his first successful album as a solo performer, he told the world with its title: Every Picture Tell A Story. He was full of good stories on that album: Maggie May, a No. 1 hit written with Martin Quittenton, the title track, written with Ronnie Wood, and the mostly acoustic Mandolin Wind, written by Stewart.
As a singer with a distinctive raspy voice, he can belt out the tunes, whether they are blues, folk, soul, or rock 'n' roll. In his later career, he put out a series of albums based on the Great American Songbook -- hits from the early years of the 20th Century.
He got his start singing with some local London bands, but by the mid 1960s he was singing with the Jeff Beck Group, which included Wood, a future Rolling Stones guitarist. Stewart and Wood then joined up with several members of Small Faces to create the new group, Faces.
During this time, Stewart put out a couple of solo albums before hitting it big with Every Picture ... The next album, Never a Dull Moment, and its breakout single, You Wear it Well, also reached No. 1 status in several countries.
Stewart's live performances are critically praised. He continues to record albums, with the latest being The Tears of Hercules, which includes nine songs he has writing credits on.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, as a solo artist in 1994, and with the group Faces in 2012. He was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
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