Who was Georgie to Rod Stewart in The killing of Georgie?

Answer 1

Georgie was a real person. A friend of the renowned musician Rod Stewart, he was murdered in New York City.

Everything in the song is true, except for the year of Georgie's death: he died in 1974.

(The song's lyrics say the death occurred in 1975 due to difficulties finding a line to rhyme with "1974".)

For many years, Rod Stewart refused to play this song in concert for personal reasons, but he has begun performing it in recent years.

'The Killing Of Georgie' appeared on Stewart's 1976 album 'A Night On The Town'. It was a two-part song: Part I, the more popular hit, was blended into the more melancholy and sombre Part II endispiece.

A sequel to the song, Innocent (The Killing of Georgie Part III), was rumored to exist for a long time and it was eventually released many years later as part of the boxed set 'The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998'; Stewart originally recorded the sequel for his 1977 album 'Footloose and Fancy Free' but it never made the final album cut at the time.

Answer 2

Georgie was a gay friend of Rod's that got murder because he was gay.