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"Maggie May" is a song written by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton and recorded by Stewart in 1971 for his album ''Every Picture Tells a Story''. In 2004, ''Rolling Stone Magazine'' ranked the song #131 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. ==Background== "Maggie May" expresses the ambivalence and contradictory emotions of a young man 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."〔Myers, Marc (October 23, 2015) "Maggie May - A Song of Loss" ''The Wall Street Journal'', page D6()〕 The woman's name was not "Maggie May"; Stewart claimed that the name was taken from "... an old Liverpudlian song about a prostitute."〔 The song was recorded in just two takes in one session. Drummer Micky Waller often arrived at recording sessions with the expectation that a drum kit would be provided and, for "Maggie May", it was - except that no cymbals could be found. The cymbal crashes had to be overdubbed separately some days later.〔''Rod - The Autobiography'' ISBN 9781780890524〕〔 It was initially released as the B-side of the single "Reason to Believe," but DJs in the United States (reportedly in Cleveland, Ohio and at WMEX in Boston)〔''Rod'' - The Autobiography ISBN 9781780890524〕 became fonder of the B-side and the song was reclassified, with "Maggie May" becoming the A-side. However, the single continued to be pressed with "Maggie May" as the B-side. The song was Stewart's first substantial hit as a solo performer and launched his solo career. It remains one of his best-known songs. A live performance of the song on ''Top of the Pops'' saw the Faces joined onstage by DJ John Peel, who pretended to play the mandolin (the mandolin player on the recording was Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne). Most versions of "Maggie May" (especially on some Rod Stewart compilations) incorporate a 30-second solo guitar intro, "Henry", composed by Martin Quittenton.〔 The original recording has appeared on almost all Rod Stewart compilations, and even appeared on the Ronnie Wood retrospective, ''Ronnie Wood Anthology: The Essential Crossexion'', complete with "Henry" intro. A version by the Faces recorded for BBC Radio appeared on the four-disc box set ''Five Guys Walk Into A Bar...''. A live version recorded in 1993 by Stewart joined by Wood for a session of ''MTV Unplugged'' is included on the album ''Unplugged...and Seated''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maggie May」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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