Jan. 10, 2025

Rod Stewart Trivia

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Journey Joe Mitchell celebrates Rod's 80th birthday with fascinating stories from his career. From soccer dreams to model trains, this episode reveals surprising facts about the legendary singer. Learn which future rock star secretly recorded on "Maggie May" and discover his record-breaking hotel key collection.

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Callarogus Shark Media, Greeting's music lovers, I'm journey Joe Mitchell,

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and welcome to a rock and edition of five daily

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trivia questions. On Rod Stewart's eightieth birthday, Let's explore some

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fascinating facts about this legendary singer. Question one, which sport

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almost became Rod's career instead of music? And what unusual

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training method did he use that later helped his singing?

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Question two? What odd job was Stuart working when he

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wrote Maggie May? Leading to a key detail in the lyrics?

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Question three? Which future rockstar worked as Rod's guitar tech

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in nineteen seventy one, secretly recording the famous mandolin part

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on Maggie May? Question four? What surprising collection did Rod

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maintain while touring that later became again this world record?

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Question five? Which model train in Rod's massive railway collection

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accidentally predicted a hit song success. We'll be right back

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with these rocking answers after this break. Welcome back trivia fans.

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Let's reveal today's answers. Question one asked which sport almost

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became Rod's career instead of music and what unusual training

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method did he use that later helped his singing. Answer.

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He was a professional soccer prospect who practiced by singing

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while running to improve his breath control. He still uses

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this technique before concerts. Question two asked what odd job

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was Stuart working when he wrote Maggie May, leading to

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a key detail in the lyrics answer. He was a

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grave digger at Highgate Cemetery, which inspired the line wake up, Maggie,

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I think I've got something to say to you. He

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wrote the first verses during lunch breaks. Question three asked

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which future rock star were worked as Rod's guitar tech

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in nineteen seventy one, secretly recording the famous mandolin part

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on Maggie May. Answer. Jimmy Page was working as a

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session musician in Roadie, adding the mandolin track while Rod

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was out to lunch. Stewart didn't discover who played it

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until years later. Question four asked what surprising collection did

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Rod maintain while touring that later became a Guinness World Record.

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Answer he collected hotel room keys from every venue he played,

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accumulating over ten thousand unique keys. He donated the collection

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to the Hard Rock Cafe. Question five asked which model

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train in Rod's massive railway collection accidentally predicted a hit

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song success answer. His miniature grand Central terminal display played

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do you Think I'm Sexy? On tiny speakers the day

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at hit number one. He keeps that model as his

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lucky charn. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm

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Journey Joe Mitchell, and today's questions were crafted with the

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help of AI technology. If you'd like to enjoy five

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show notes. Have a great weekend and see you Monday.

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