Most frequent collaboratorKevin Savigar · 104 tracks
GenresRockPop RockFolk RockBlue-Eyed Soul
Co-Performer
40%
Authorship
Holds writing credit on 142 of 358 tracks
Does Rod Stewart write his own songs?
For most of his career, yes, but not all of it. He has a writing credit on 142 of the 358 tracks across thirty-two studio albums. On the twenty-three albums of original material he appears on 141 of 239 tracks. The nine covers albums between 2002 and 2024 hold 119 tracks and he wrote one of them.
By the Numbers
32
Studio Albums
358
Tracks Credited
40%
Self-Written
more than 120 million
Records Sold
65
Years Active
392
Collaborators
Authorship Breakdown 142 / 358 self-written
Who wrote the songs?
Across all 358 tracks: how many Rod Stewart wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Rod Stewart has a writing credit40%
5%
35%
60%
Sole author18tracks5%
Co-written124tracks35%
Outside writers216tracks60%
Role Fingerprint how they contribute
Rod Stewart's roles across the catalogue
Share of all 358 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Lyricist (words)40%
Composer (music)40%
Producer46%
Performer100%
Authorship Over Time writing credit per album
Rod Stewart's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
avg 40%
50%
33%
33%
44%
25%
50%
44%
75%
90%
100%
70%
100%
63%
80%
73%
46%
25%
18%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
8%
92%
83%
85%
75%
0%
1969An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
1970Gasoline Alley
1971Every Picture Tells a Story
1972Never a Dull Moment
1974Smiler
1975Atlantic Crossing
1976A Night on the Town
1977Foot Loose & Fancy Free
1978Blondes Have More Fun
1980Foolish Behaviour
1981Tonight I'm Yours
1983Body Wishes
1984Camouflage
1986Every Beat of My Heart
1988Out of Order
1991Vagabond Heart
1995A Spanner in the Works
1998When We Were the New Boys
2001Human
2002It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook
2003As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook, Volume II
2004Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III
2005Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV
2006Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time
2009Soulbook
2010Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V
2012Merry Christmas, Baby
2013Time
2015Another Country
2018Blood Red Roses
2021The Tears of Hercules
2024Swing Fever
Early · 56% written
Mid · 33% written
Late · 33% written
Authorship by Decade track-weighted
50%
1960s
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
49%
1970s
Gasoline Alley, Every Picture Tells a Story +6 more
81%
1980s
Foolish Behaviour, Tonight I'm Yours +4 more
31%
1990s
Vagabond Heart, A Spanner in the Works +1 more
0%
2000s
Human, It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook +5 more
53%
2010s
Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V, Merry Christmas, Baby +3 more
36%
2020s
The Tears of Hercules, Swing Fever
Authorship Spectrum pure performer to complete author
Where Rod Stewart sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Rod Stewart
Other artists on the site
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
Written by Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
(I Know) I'm Losing You
Every Picture Tells a Story
Written by Norman Whitfield, Eddie Holland, Cornelius Grant
Outside writers
You Wear It Well
Never a Dull Moment
Written by Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Angel
Never a Dull Moment
Written by Jimi Hendrix
Outside writers
Twistin' the Night Away
Never a Dull Moment
Written by Sam Cooke
Outside writers
Mine for Me
Smiler
Written by Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney
Outside writers
Farewell
Smiler
Written by Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
I Don't Want to Talk About It
Atlantic Crossing
Written by Danny Whitten
Outside writers
Sailing
Atlantic Crossing
Written by Sutherland Brothers, Gavin Sutherland
Outside writers
This Old Heart of Mine
Atlantic Crossing
Written by Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland, Sylvia Moy
Outside writers
Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)
A Night on the Town
Written by Rod Stewart, Roderick David Stewart
Wrote it
The First Cut Is the Deepest
A Night on the Town
Written by Cat Stevens
Outside writers
The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)
A Night on the Town
Written by Rod Stewart, Roderick David Stewart
Wrote it
You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
Foot Loose & Fancy Free
Written by Rod Stewart, Roderick David Stewart
Wrote it
Hot Legs
Foot Loose & Fancy Free
Written by Rod Stewart, Gary Grainger, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Blondes Have More Fun
Written by Rod Stewart, Carmine Appice, Duane Hitchings, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Ain't Love a Bitch
Blondes Have More Fun
Written by Rod Stewart, Gary Grainger, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Passion
Foolish Behaviour
Written by Rod Stewart, Phil Chen, Kevin Savigar, Jim Cregan, Gary Grainger, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Somebody Special
Foolish Behaviour
Written by Rod Stewart, Steve Harley, Phil Chen, Kevin Savigar, Jim Cregan, Gary Grainger, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Young Turks
Tonight I'm Yours
Written by Rod Stewart, Carmine Appice, Duane Hitchings, Kevin Savigar, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)
Tonight I'm Yours
Written by Rod Stewart, Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
How Long
Tonight I'm Yours
Written by Paul Carrack
Outside writers
Baby Jane
Body Wishes
Written by Rod Stewart, Jay Davis, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
What Am I Gonna Do (I'm So in Love with You)
Body Wishes
Written by Rod Stewart, Jay Davis, Tony Brock, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Infatuation
Camouflage
Written by Rod Stewart, Duane Hitchings, Rowland Robinson, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Some Guys Have All the Luck
Camouflage
Written by Jeff Fortang
Outside writers
All Right Now
Camouflage
Written by Andy Fraser, Paul Rodgers
Outside writers
Love Touch
Every Beat of My Heart
Written by Mike Chapman, Gene Black, Holly Knight
Outside writers
Another Heartache
Every Beat of My Heart
Written by Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance, Rod Stewart, Randy Wayne, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Every Beat of My Heart
Every Beat of My Heart
Written by Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
My Heart Can't Tell You No
Out of Order
Written by Simon Climie, Dennis Morgan
Outside writers
Crazy About Her
Out of Order
Written by Duane Hitchings, Jim Cregan, Rod Stewart, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Lost in You
Out of Order
Written by Rod Stewart, Andy Taylor, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Forever Young
Out of Order
Written by Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Rhythm of My Heart
Vagabond Heart
Written by Marc Jordan, John Capek
Outside writers
The Motown Song
Vagabond Heart
Written by Larry John McNally
Outside writers
Broken Arrow
Vagabond Heart
Written by Robbie Robertson
Outside writers
Leave Virginia Alone
A Spanner in the Works
Written by Tom Petty
Outside writers
I Can't Deny It
Human
Written by Gregg Alexander, Rick Nowels
Outside writers
Don't Come Around Here
Human
Written by Helicopter Girl, Paul Berry, Mark Taylor, Kenny Thomas, Jackie Joyce
Outside writers
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered
As Time Goes By: The Great American Songbook, Volume II
Written by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Outside writers
Baby, It's Cold Outside
Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III
Written by Frank Loesser
Outside writers
What a Wonderful World
Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III
Written by Bob Thiele, George David Weiss
Outside writers
I've Got a Crush on You
Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV
Written by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Outside writers
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Thanks for the Memory: The Great American Songbook, Volume IV
Written by Irving Berlin
Outside writers
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time
Written by John Fogerty
Outside writers
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time
Written by Elvin Bishop
Outside writers
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Merry Christmas, Baby
Written by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Outside writers
Merry Christmas, Baby
Merry Christmas, Baby
Written by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore
Outside writers
Winter Wonderland
Merry Christmas, Baby
Written by Felix Bernard, Richard Bernhard Smith, Richard B. Smith
Outside writers
She Makes Me Happy
Time
Written by Rod Stewart, Chuck Kentis, Don Kirkpatrick, Conrad Korsch, David Palmer, Paul Warren, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Can't Stop Me Now
Time
Written by Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
Love Is
Another Country
Written by Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar, Roderick David Stewart
Co-wrote
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
Discography 32 albums
All thirty-two studio albums, including the five Great American Songbook volumes and the other covers records. The live albums and compilations sit outside this catalogue.
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. Showing the 150 most frequent of 391. KS Kevin Savigar · CD Clive Davis · JC Jim Cregan · ST Steve Tyrell · RP Richard Perry
The Authorship Story
Data Insight
The catalogue splits cleanly by whether he was writing. On the twenty-three albums of original material he is on 141 of 239 tracks, and on the nine covers records he is on one, a Christmas song. The early albums pair him with one guitarist at a time: Ronnie Wood on eight tracks, Martin Quittenton on the songs that made him, including "Maggie May". From 1977 the band becomes the credit, with Jim Cregan on 28 tracks, Gary Grainger 16 and Phil Chen 11, and Foolish Behaviour credits five people on nearly every song. Kevin Savigar is the long constant, 63 tracks from 1980 to 2021, more than anyone but Stewart. Then it stops. Between It Had to Be You in 2002 and Swing Fever in 2024 he sings other people's songs almost exclusively, and the writers on those records are Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. Time in 2013 restarts his own writing, and he has eleven of its twelve tracks.
Quick Facts
Stewart's share142 of the 358 album tracks
The covers yearsOne writing credit across 119 tracks, 2002 to 2024
Longest partnerKevin Savigar, 63 tracks from 1980 to 2021
Studio albumsThirty-two, from 1969 to 2024
SalesMore than 120 million records worldwide
Hall of FameInducted 1994 as a solo artist and 2012 with Faces
Creative Fingerprint
A singer who wrote with whoever was in the band, then spent twenty years singing standards, then came back to writing at sixty-eight.
The Story
Rod Stewart has a writing credit on 142 of the 358 tracks across thirty-two albums, and almost every one of them sits in two stretches. The nine covers albums between 2002 and 2024 contain 119 tracks and he wrote exactly one.
Awards & Recognition
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted 1994 as a solo artist and again in 2012 as a member of Faces
UK Music Hall of Fame, inducted 2006
Knighted in Britain's 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity
Grammy and Brit Award recipient
Frequently Asked Questions Rod Stewart
Does Rod Stewart write his own songs?
For most of his career, yes, but not all of it. He has a writing credit on 142 of the 358 tracks across thirty-two studio albums. On the twenty-three albums of original material he appears on 141 of 239 tracks. The nine covers albums between 2002 and 2024 hold 119 tracks and he wrote one of them.
Who writes with Rod Stewart?
Kevin Savigar most of all, with 63 credits from 1980 to 2021. Jim Cregan has 28, Gary Grainger 16, Phil Chen 11 and Ronnie Wood eight from the early records.
Who wrote "Maggie May"?
Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton. It went to number 1 on the Hot 100 in 1971.
Who wrote "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"?
Rod Stewart, Carmine Appice and Duane Hitchings. It reached number 1 on the Hot 100 in 1979.
From 2002 he released five volumes of the Great American Songbook plus Still the Same, Soulbook, Merry Christmas, Baby and Swing Fever. Those nine records are almost entirely other people's songs, by writers including George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.
How many records has Rod Stewart sold?
More than 120 million worldwide, which puts him among the best-selling music artists of all time.
Is Rod Stewart in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Twice. As a solo artist in 1994 and again in 2012 as a member of Faces. He entered the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006 and was knighted in 2016.
Rod Stewart