ah yes, a glam rocker from the 70s who didnt get a higher regard as David Bowie or Marc Bolan's T Rex. Rod often
felt aggrieved thinking that David Bowie's music was deep and intellectual while the stuff he was making was seen to be merely 'fluff', which it was
Here he is in the same picture as David Bowie
Anyway Rod Stewart's best known stuff in the 80s revolved around covers, such as
Downtown Train, which was
a Tom Waits song 
Admittedly the man did
age very well
Here is his best known song