Title: Maggie May - Wikipedia
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Maggie May
Contents
Background
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
All-time charts
Certifications
Personnel
Other Versions
See also
References
External links

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Maggie May
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1971 single by Rod Stewart
This article is about the Rod Stewart song. For the unrelated folk song also known as "Maggie Mae", see Maggie May (folk song). For other uses, see Maggie May (disambiguation). 1971 single by Rod Stewart
"Maggie May"
German picture sleeve
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Every Picture Tells a Story
A-side
" Reason to Believe "
Released
July 1971
Recorded
1970
Genre
Folk rock
Length
5:50 (Album version W/ Henry Intro)
3:43 (Single version)
Label
Mercury
Songwriter (s)
Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton
Producer (s)
Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart singles chronology
" It's All Over Now "
(1970)
" Reason to Believe " / " Maggie May "
(1971)
" (I Know) I'm Losing You "
(1971)
" Maggie May " is a song co-written by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, and performed by Rod Stewart on his album Every Picture Tells a Story, released in 1971. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 131 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Contents
1 Background
2 Chart performance
2.1 Weekly charts
2.2 Year-end charts
2.3 All-time charts
3 Certifications
4 Personnel
5 Other Versions
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Background
"Maggie May" expresses the ambivalence and contradictory emotions of a boy involved in a relationship with an older woman and was written from Stewart's own experience. In the January 2007 issue of Q magazine, Stewart recalled: " Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the 1961 Beaulieu Jazz Festival ." The woman's name was not "Maggie May"; Stewart has stated that the name was taken from " an old Liverpudlian song about a prostitute ."