Rod Stewart may be considered one of the best singers of all time, but he didn’t always have a stage. Before hitting it big with his memorable music, the “Maggie May” crooner worked many odd jobs away from a spotlight, including as a silk-screen printer, an electrician’s assistant and a soccer player, but there was one particular job that led to a years-long rumor that he was a gravedigger.
Stewart, 81, who left school at 15, once worked at London’s Highgate Cemetery, where he would measure out and mark burial plots.
“… there were a couple of Saturdays up at Highgate Cemetery, earning a few quid by measuring out plots and marking them off with string,” the British star wrote in his 2012 memoir, Rod: The Autobiography, per Culture Sonar. “You learn a lot about yourself, doing physical work. And what I learned about myself was that I didn’t like doing physical work.”
Despite physically helping with the grave sites, Stewart never considered himself to be a gravedigger, but somehow, an urban myth was started, and it turns out the talented artist doesn’t mind it.
“Incidentally, it was from these few hours of casual labor at the cemetery that the popular myth arose (one I happily rode along with) that I was once a gravedigger. It’s a delicious, mysterious piece of back-story, but again we must move to strike it from the record,” he wrote.
In addition to opening up about his past jobs in his memoir, Stewart once talked about how much easier it is to be a musician.
“Well, a musician’s life is a lot easier and I can also get drunk and make music, and I can’t do that and play football. I plumped for music … They’re the only two things I can do actually: play football and sing,” he said, per Paul Nelson and Lester Bangs‘ 1981 biography of the album maker.
Stewart’s come a long way since his days as an aspiring singer. He was named the 17th most successful artist on the “Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists” list in 2008 and announced his “last rock and roll tour,” which will take place across the U.S., Canada and Europe in 2027, last month.
“Ladies and gentlemen, after much deliberation and sadness, I have to announce next year will be my last tour ever, ever, ever,” Stewart, who had a heart procedure in August, said on Instagram on Sept. 28. “I’m not retiring, but this will be the last rock and roll tour.”
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