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THE SONG THAT ROCKETED ROD STEWART TO SUPERSTARDOM

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JUNE 28, 2019…FORTY EIGHT YEARS AGO ROD STEWART GAVE US THE SONG ‘MAGGIE MAY’. THE SONG WAS PRETTY MUCH A TRUE ACCOUNT OF WHEN ROD STEWART LOST HIS VIRGINITY WHEN HE WAS 16. IN THE JANUARY 2007 ISSUE OF “Q MAGAZINE” STEWART SAID:

“‘Maggie May’ was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival.The encounter was over in a few seconds.”

IN HIS MEMOIR “ROD: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY” STEWART PROVIDED ALL THE DETAILS OF THE EXPERIENCE THAT LED TO THIS SONG:

“At 16, I went to the Beaulieu Jazz Festival in the New Forest. I’d snuck in with some mates via an overflow sewage pipe. And there on a secluded patch of grass, I lost my not-remotely-prized virginity with an older (and larger) woman who’d come on to me very strongly in the beer tent. How much older, I can’t tell you – but old enough to be highly disappointed by the brevity of the experience.”

REMARKABLY, THERE IS ACTUALLY VIDEO OF STEWART AT THE FESTIVAL, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN JULY 1961

HERE’S STEWART FROM APPEARANCE ON THE BBC IN 1971