"Maggie May" is a song written by Rod Stewart and musician Martin Quittenton and recorded by Stewart with his band The Faces in 1971. It tells the story of a younger man becoming obsessed with an older woman and was written from Stewart's own personal experiences.

The song was initially released in the United Kingdom as the B-side of the single "Reason to Believe", but DJs became more fond of the B-side and, after two weeks in the chart, the song was re-classified with "Maggie May" as the A-side. However, the single continued to be pressed with "Maggie May" designated the B-side.

In October 1971, the song went to number one in the U.K., and simultaneously topped the charts in the United States; the album on which it appeared, Every Picture Tells a Story, achieved the same feat at the same time. To top the U.K. and U.S. singles and album charts simultaneously is a rare achievement which has been achieved by only a handful of acts other than Stewart, notably The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and, most recently, Beyoncé Knowles.

The song launched Stewart as a solo artist. While he has sold millions of records and had countless hits around the world, it is still "Maggie May" for which he arguably is best known. A famous 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 song re-entered the U.K. charts in December 1976, but only reached thirty-one. No other act has released the song as a single, though both Blur and Wet Wet Wet have recorded versions of it, and Melissa Etheridge has performed it in concert as have popular punk band The Pogues.

The Faces songs | Rod Stewart songs | 1971 singles | Blur songs | Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles

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