Rod Stewart – March 27, Bell Centre LiveEvents March 20, 2018 2930 Rod Stewart – Live in Concert Rod Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 100 million records worldwide. He was knighted in the 2016 for services to music and charity. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and the early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group, and then with Faces, though his music career had begun in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. From the late 1970s through the 1990s, Stewart’s music often took on a new wave or soft rock/middle-of-the-road quality, and in the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook. In 1994, Stewart staged the largest free rock concert in history when he performed in front of 3.5 million people in Rio de Janeiro. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the “Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists”. 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. Some of his best known hits: “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)”, “Forever Young”, “Some Guys Have All the Luck”, and “Maggie May”. For tickets and information: www.evenko.ca 514-790-2525 or 1-877-668-8269