Maggie May
Song by Martin Quittenton and Rod StewartWikipedia
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Search complete. 20 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Maggie May".
Oct 14, 2026
Gareth HuishHOST
That was gonna be my second option.
Neil FrancisHOST
It was all Maggie May, wasn't it?
Dan RuddockHOST
It was indeed.
Neil FrancisHOST
Yeah.
BrendanHOST
uh not until i just looked at the wikipedia page i don't think i could have told a single one no or even the full one were the fall they did the dude yeah so
IanHOST
so it was like frank and walters did um i'm a believer manix most famously did theme for mash yeah blair did my number nine song here which is maggie may okay so this is i did some digging on this one so i i've always liked this this was the b-side on chemical world i had it on seven inches well but originally it was on
BrendanHOST
here
IanHOST
And I've said this to you many times before.
IanHOST
The reason I love this is if you said to me, listen to Blair through Maggie May, you'd imagine Damon's mugging up to the camera and singing it over the top.
IanHOST
And it was going to be quite sarky, but it's not.
IanHOST
It's played really straight.
17 MINS LATER
BrendanHOST
It's a beautiful album.
Colin DonnellyGUEST
Um, and it all kinda came from Ruben, the bass player.
Colin DonnellyGUEST
We did the, we actually did just demos, and the demos were so good that we kept the bass and the drums, and his bass lines just really reminded me of Maggie May, like Rod Stewart.
Dave HollyHOST
Right.
Colin DonnellyGUEST
And I was just like, "Oh man, there should be a, uh, a mandolin in this song just like that, the end of Maggie May." Um, which it doesn't sound like Maggie May, but that's where it took me, so, uh, I don't play mandolin.
Colin DonnellyGUEST
I just kinda went in, tuned it up the way I figured it oughta work, and worked something out, and then, uh, came in to track it, and Mark was, like, very skeptical.
Colin DonnellyGUEST
And [laughs] I said, "I'm just gonna tell you, I'm not a studio mandolin player."
ClintHOST
[laughs]
LyleHOST
Maggie May was the B side to Reason to Believe.
LyleHOST
So Maggie May became Stewart's first solo chart-topper.
KimHOST
Hmm.
LyleHOST
And-
17 MINS LATER
KimHOST
[laughs]
VickyHOST
Do I know either of them?
LyleHOST
Uh, Reason to Believe or Maggie May, Rod Stewart?
Justin AbarcaHOST
Mm-hmm
Vince NavarroHOST
... by Kiss way back in the '70s, and the story goes that, I think it was the drummer, whoever their drummer at the time was, one of the guys in the band really loved the song Maggie May by Paul, by Rod Stewart, and he was like, "I'm gonna write a Maggie May sounding song," right? "And, and, and I want Rod Stewart to do it." So he sat down, and he wrote this song, and blah, blah.
Vince NavarroHOST
It's called Hard Luck Woman.
Justin AbarcaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Justin AbarcaHOST
Yeah.
Vince NavarroHOST
And Rod Stewart was kinda like...
Vince NavarroHOST
He, he played it for him, and Rod Stewart was like, "Why would I do this song? Like, I already did Maggie May."
Justin AbarcaHOST
Mm-hmm.
Chris MoylesHOST
It's, it's not very good
Dominic ByrneHOST
... it's no Maggie May, is it?
Chris MoylesHOST
I...
Chris MoylesHOST
And even I think Rod would go, "It's not my best song."
7 MINS LATER
Dominic ByrneHOST
No, I was, I was hoping that-
Chris MoylesHOST
What's your beef with Rod Stewart? Do you think I've got a clip of Jane going, "Well, I thought he went downhill in the, uh, late '80s?"
Dominic ByrneHOST
After Maggie May.
Dominic ByrneHOST
He, he dipped a bit after Maggie May.