Your three favorite Rod Stewart songs

Not a big Rod Stewart fan, but I found it interesting when he started doing old standards from the 30s and 40s - the big band era.

Every Picture Tells a Story
The Killing of Georgie I & II
and I'll have to think some more

Ooh La La - https://youtu.be/eEniy4CmSZQ
People Get Ready (w/ Jeff Beck) - https://youtu.be/yC_j_dzkaVE
Reason To Believe (unplugged) - https://youtu.be/bm8oqILdKdg

Forever Young
Downtown Train


My Town featuring Rod Stewart by Glass Tiger.

I love Rod Stewart. He is one of my all time favourite singers. I love his older stuff and his newer stuff. My three favourite of his songs would likely be:

Have I told You Lately
Forever Young
Maggie May


I do really like the three songs you mentioned as well.

None of his solo stuff is worth a second of my time.

The Jeff Beck Group - I Ain't Superstitious
Faces - Miss Judy's Farm
Faces - That's All You Need

Saw him once--in person at the Nokia theater in Times Square 10/6/2006. It was a very hot ticket (capacity only 2,100) and was broadcast live to theaters throughout the country. There was extremely bright lighting onstage because of that. You can't tell from the YouTube videos, but being there his face was just plastered with pancake.

The show was ok, meaning it didn't convert me to being a fan, and I think that "Maggie May" is totally overrated. I guess I do like his two other #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits, "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" and "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" although that might be heresy to Rod Stewart fans. And "You Wear It Well" and "Forever Young".

Not really familiar with his earliest work.

These are great choices.
Stewart has such a long career, there is so much to choose from. Does The Faces count?
If so, I'd nominate It's All Over Now (Bobby Womack tune, iirc), the one big Faces hit Stay With Me, and his rendering of the Paul McCartney number, Maybe I'm Amazed. Love the way the last one starts. It's a live cut, and Rod says something like - Here's a song you all know. And if you don't know it, I don't know where you been, so you should KNOW the song. He sort of sounds exasperated, like he's so in love with Macca and MIA, he can't believe anyone wouldn't know what he's talking about.