With his distinctive, raspy singing voice, superstar Rod Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album, An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has had six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the seventeenth most successful artist on the “The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists.” A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at number 33 in Q Magazine’s list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and number 59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006 and was inducted a second time into the US Hall of Fame, as a member of Faces, in April 2012. Rod Stewart continues to sell out arenas all over the world.