PAUL Metcalfe takes on the guise of Rod Stewart in Some Guys Have All The Luck, a new tribute show at the Grand Opera House, York, on Tuesday that charts Sir Rod's career chronologically from street busker to international superstar.

“Rod Stewart’s life has been graced with significant strokes of luck along the way and I’ve picked out some of these as key moments in the new show," says Metcalfe. "Rod has made the most of this luck, combining it with hard graft and talent, and I feel as lucky to be performing his current songs as much as the classics like Maggie May.”

The 7.30pm show features songs from Stewart’s days leading with The Faces, as well as a full concert production in the second half with such hits as Maggie May, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, Sailing and You’re In My Heart.

Some Guys Have All The Luck highlights, for example, the luck in Stewart's Maggie May becoming a chart topper. Recorded in only two takes with a borrowed drum kit for the album Every Picture Tells A Story, it was nearly missed off the record after a friend of Rod's reckoned it had nothing melodic to offer. Luckily, with no more tracks available to put on the record, it was included.

What's more, Maggie May was actually a B-side to Reason To Believe, but was accidentally played by an American DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, as an A-side; six weeks later, in October 1971, it rose to the top in the USA Billboard charts, and seven days later it did likewise in the UK singles chart, where it stayed at number one for five weeks.

Tickets for Tuesday's 7.30pm performance cost £20 upwards on 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york