Retrieved 5 December 2019.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. Recording Industry Association of America. ^ "American single certifications – Rod Stewart – Maggie May".^ "British single certifications – Rod Stewart – Maggie May".^ "Rod's Got The Face In New Zealand" (PDF).^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart".^ "Top Pop 100 Singles" Billboard 25 December 1971: TA-36.^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada".^ " Rod Stewart – Maggie May" (in Dutch).^ " Nederlandse Top 40 – Rod Stewart" (in Dutch).Archived from the original on 21 October 2015.
^ a b c d e Myers, Marc (23 October 2015).^ "Maggie May by Rod Stewart Songfacts".Archived from the original on 20 June 2008. "Rod Stewart Preps New Orchestral LP 'You're in My Heart' ". Ray Jackson – mandolin (listed on the album as "The mandolin was played by the mandolin player in Lindisfarne.Ronnie Wood – electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, bass guitar.Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. * Sales figures based on certification alone. What I learned is sometimes they do and sometimes they don't.Īll-time charts Chart (1958-2018) I figured it was best to listen to the guys who knew better. The song re-entered the UK chart in December 1976, but only reached number 31.Īt first, I didn't think much of "Maggie May." I guess that's because the record company didn't believe in the song. 2 record for 1971 on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and UK singles charts. In October 1971, the song went to number one on the UK Singles Chart (for five weeks), and simultaneously topped the charts in Australia (four weeks), Canada (one week), and the United States (six weeks). A live version recorded in 1993 by Stewart joined by Wood for a session of MTV Unplugged is included on the album Unplugged.and Seated. A version by the Faces recorded for BBC Radio appeared on the four-disc box set Five Guys Walk into a Bar. The original recording has appeared on almost all of Rod Stewart's compilations, and even appeared on the Ronnie Wood retrospective Ronnie Wood Anthology: The Essential Crossexion. The album version of "Maggie May" incorporates a 30-second solo guitar intro, "Henry", composed by Martin Quittenton. The mandolin player on the actual recording was Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne. A 1971 performance of the song on Top of the Pops saw the Faces joined onstage by DJ John Peel, who pretended to play the mandolin. The song was Stewart's first substantial hit as a solo performer and launched his solo career. The song was released as the B-side of the single " Reason to Believe", but soon radio stations began playing the B-side and "Maggie May" became the more popular side. The cymbal crashes had to be overdubbed separately some days later. Drummer Micky Waller often arrived at recording sessions with the expectation that a drum kit would be provided and, for "Maggie May", it was – except that no cymbals could be found. The song was recorded in just two takes in one session. In the January 2007 issue of Q magazine, Stewart recalled: "Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the 1961 Beaulieu Jazz Festival." The woman's name was not "Maggie May" Stewart has stated that the name was taken from " an old Liverpudlian song about a prostitute." "Maggie May" expresses the ambivalence and contradictory emotions of a boy involved in a relationship with an older woman and was written from Stewart's own experience. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 130 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. " Maggie May" is a song co-written by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, and performed by Rod Stewart on his album Every Picture Tells a Story, released in 1971.
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