Aretha Franklin and Rod Stewart also recorded " Amazing Grace " around the same time, and both of their renditions were popular.

It also attracted a wider crowd of mostly younger fans, some of whom occasionally performed with the group, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Geoff Bradford, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page.

* On December 31, 1994, the New Year's Eve celebrations featured a Rod Stewart concert, which featured 3. 5 million, making it the largest concert crowd ever.

ELO's last performance of the century occurred on 13 July 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany playing as support band to Rod Stewart.

* 1945 – Rod Stewart, Scottish singer ( The Jeff Beck Group and Faces )

This left them with no choice but to adopt more youthful formats, though the Standards format ( also known as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker Rod Stewart ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stewart, Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah putting their own interpretation on the music.

It was also the first theme song in Star Trek history not originally written for the show it was used ; it was originally the theme song to the movie Patch Adams ( where it was sung by Rod Stewart and originally entitled " Faith of the Heart ").

His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: " Jersey Girl ", performed by Bruce Springsteen, " Ol ' ' 55 ", performed by the Eagles, and " Downtown Train ", performed by Rod Stewart.

The album also spawned the 12 " single " Downtown Train / Tango Till They're Sore / Jockey Full of Bourbon ", with Jean Baptiste Mondino filming a promotional music video for " Downtown Train " ( which would later become a hit for Rod Stewart ), featuring a cameo from boxing legend Jake LaMotta.

** Rod Stewart, British rock singer

Hosted by The Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire.

Rod Stewart and Nicks co-headlined The Heart & Soul Tour.

In recent weeks, a series of summer 2012 dates have been announced as Stevie will reunite with Rod Stewart for another leg of the very successful Heart & Soul Tour.

* Heart & Soul Tour ( with Rod Stewart ): 2011, 2012

Existing acts, some not usually considered central to the genre, also adopted glam styles, including Rod Stewart, Elton John, Queen and, for a time, the Rolling Stones.

He worked with numerous artists including the Rolling Stones on Their Satanic Majesties Request ( Jones ' string arrangement is heard on " She's a Rainbow "); Herman's Hermits ; Donovan ( on " Sunshine Superman " and " Mellow Yellow "); Jeff Beck ; Françoise Hardy ; Cat Stevens ; Rod Stewart ; Shirley Bassey ; Lulu ; and numerous others.

Its first program was Celebration, a concert special featuring Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA.

* Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III ( album ), by Rod Stewart

Nasty, however, insisted that he had been misquoted by a slightly deaf journalist, and had actually said they were bigger than Rod, referring to Rod Stewart, then a relative unknown.

Together with Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart, Sting performed the chart-topping song " All for Love " for the film The Three Musketeers.

British rock star Rod Stewart was so moved by the Marathon of Hope that he was inspired to write and dedicate the song " Never Give Up on a Dream " — found on his 1981 album Tonight I'm Yours — to Fox.

Some examples include Cyndi Lauper, Sheena Easton, Queen Latifah, Willie Nelson, Joan Osborne, Rita Coolidge and Rod Stewart, all of whom have made forays into this once-shunned territory.

In recent years, Rod Stewart has concentrated on reintroducing the " Great American Songbook " to a large scale audience in the same manner Linda Ronstadt did twenty years prior.

American poet and singer Rod McKuen began translating Brel's songs into English, and the Kingston Trio recorded one of his English versions on their Time to Think album, " Seasons in the Sun ", based on Brel's " Le moribond " ( The dying one ).

* Rod Stewart, singer and musician, owns property in Hatch End.

* Birthplace of Charles " Charlie " Ryan ( December 19, 1915, Graceville, Minnesota – February 16, 2008, Spokane, Washington ), who was an American singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing and first recording the rockabilly hit single " Hot Rod Lincoln ".

The new lineup consisted of Slash, Griparic, singer Rod Jackson, guitarist Ryan Roxie and drummer Matt Laug ( Roxie and Laug were both former members of Alice Cooper's solo band ).

They eventually added singer Rod Jackson to the group after Griparic played a tape of him for Slash.

Reviewing Ain't Life Grand for Allmusic, Steve Huey described second singer Rod Jackson as " a combination of ' 80s pop-metal bluster and Faces-era Rod Stewart " with a " touch of Aerosmith ", a description that he felt also fitted the band as a whole.

After Small Faces split, Lane, Jones and McLagan floundered briefly before joining forces with former members of the Jeff Beck Group, singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood.

After the departure of lead singer / guitarist Steve Marriott in 1969, the group recruited singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood to replace Marriott.

Although top British player Bobby Woodman was the first choice as drummer, during the auditions for a singer, Rod Evans of " The Maze " came in with his own drummer, Ian Paice.

She repeated her Proms Concert success when she appeared in a Rodgers and Hammerstein evening, once again with the John Wilson Orchestra at The Royal Albert Hall with opera singer Rod Gilfry in August 2010.

and has a seat for life at their stadium, Celtic Park, along with singer Rod Stewart.

Singer Rod Tyler had left the band by then and was replaced by current singer Russell Allen.

Honey has also claimed to have worked as a male stripper using the stage name, " Hot Rod " ( due to his apparent likeness to Rod Stewart at the time ), a cabaret singer using the stage name " Steve Jackson ", and as a photographer for Escort Magazine using the professional name, " Brian Wilson " ( after the Beach Boys singer ).

Rod Evans ( born 19 January 1947 in Slough, Berkshire ) is a former English singer and was a founding member of Deep Purple in 1968.

Riff Raff was a UK progressive rock band formed by keyboardist Tommy Eyre in 1972. The band was a continuation on the back of drummers ( and Harrow School of Art friends ) Rod Coombes ( Juicy Lucy Strawbs and Stealers Wheel ) and Joe Czarnecki's ( Plainsmen ) aka Joe Peter's project originally called ' Crikey ' started in 1969 and completed in 1970 when Rod had to accept growing tour commitments with Juicy Lucy. These sessions comprise half of the Riff Raff album ' Outside Looking In ' in which Rod wrote half the songs. Rod says that " the concept of the band was based around two drummers and afro-jazz ( Rod and Joe were great fans of Ginger Baker and Miles Davis ) and fusion ( this album was one of the first true fusion albums to be recorded ). I had worked with Roger with singer Paul Williams ( Juicy Lucy ) and Tommy previously and clearly we all enjoyed doing what we do best-playing freely ".

The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto — former Texas Instruments senior managers.

A former British MP and Royal Marine, Rod Richards, said that such nicknames were common amongst military comrades, stating " in the Armed Forces people often used to call me Taffy.

The film, written by Rod Serling, costarred Fredric March as the President and Ava Gardner as a former flame of Lancaster's, was nominated for two Oscars.

* Rod, California, a former settlement in Kern County

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

Then-Price Is Right announcer Rod Roddy served as the announcer for the week and former Let's Make a Deal model Carol Merrill presented the Secret Square and bonus round prizes.

This sale has become linked to the corruption charges leading to the December 9, 2008, arrest of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

The season ended up being the last for long-time radio and former TV announcer Hot Rod Hundley, who announced his retirement after being with the Jazz for their entire history ( 35 years ).

* 30 Rod Smart ( Western Kentucky )-" He Hate Me " became the first former XFL player to appear in a Super Bowl: Super Bowl XXXVIII for the Panthers.

* Rod Paige, former U. S. Secretary of Education

A former Mercury / Polygram recording artist and composer of songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Western Flyer, Clinton Gregory, Rod Stewart, Cledus T Judd, George Jones and others.

* Rod Liddle, former BBC news editor

* Rod Nazario Boxing Gym ( formerly Wild Card Boxing Gym )-Manny Pacquiao's former practice home, President's Avenue, BF Homes

Rod Love, former chief of staff to Ralph Klein, suggested that the Greens could potentially cut into the NDP's support.

The snake on the Rod of Asclepius is the symbol of medicine and symbolises the former health spa in Holmestrand that existed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

* Rod Carew ( born 1945 ), former professional baseball player.

Especially between players such as Dennis Lillee, Rod Marsh, former WSC players and Kim Hughes who stuck with the official side.

The band members at the time were also threatened with lawsuits by former members Rod Latter and Howard Pickup, who objected to the band continuing to use the Adverts name without them.

( 1957 ), written by Arthur Hailey ( who also penned the 1968 novel Airport ) about an airplane crew that succumbs to food poisoning ; and The Doomsday Flight ( 1966 ), written by Rod Serling and starring Edmond O ' Brien as a disgruntled aerospace engineer who plants a barometric pressure bomb on an airliner built by his former employer set to explode when the airliner descends for landing.

Rodney George " Rod " Laver MBE ( born 9 August 1938 ) is an Australian former tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles.

On June 13, 2011, the Bobcats made some moves to their front office by hiring former Portland Trail Blazers general manager Rich Cho to the same position and promoting Rod Higgins to President of Basketball Operations.

* Rod Blagojevich ( D ), governor from 2003 to 2009, and Ryan's successor, was impeached and removed from office by the Illinois General Assembly in a unanimous vote in January 2009 after being tied to multiple " pay to play " schemes, including attempting to sell the former Senate seat of recently elected President Barack Obama ..