Rod Stewart was singing a folk song about a prostitute when he started writing his classic rock song “Maggie May.” Stewart revealed the song was inspired by one of his sexual experiences. Listeners ...

Stewart also initially issued “Maggie May” as the B-side of “Reason to Believe,” a cover of a 1966 song by U.S. folk artist Tim Hardin that he released as a single in July 1971. “Reason to Believe” ...

Fifty years ago this month, Rod Stewart‘s “Maggie May” knocked Donny Osmond’s “Go Away Little Girl” out of the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the biggest song in America. At the same ...