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Rod Stewart Signs On for Sexy Memoir

Rocker promises stories from love life in new book

October 5, 2011 1:55 PM ET
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Rod Stewart performs during the launch of his two-year residency "Rod Stewart: The Hits" at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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Rod Stewart has signed a deal with Random House to pen a tell-all memoir due out next year. Stewart says that he intends to "hold nothing back" in the book, and will be rather explicit in writing about his prolific love life. "Forget skeletons in the closet; this one's going to be socks and knickers under the bed," the singer said in a statement.

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In addition to opening up about his string of romances with various blonde bombshells, Stewart's book is likely to touch on the various phases of his long-running career in rock, his battle with thyroid cancer and his youth in North London.

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