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“Maggie May” is a song written by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton and recorded by Stewart in 1971 for his album Every Picture Tells a Story. “Maggie May” expresses the ambivalence and contradictory emotions of a young man involved in a relationship with an older woman, and was written from Stewart’s own experience. In the January, 2007 issue of Q magazine, Stewart recalled: “Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival.“ The reference to returning to “school” in “late September” does not refer, as US listeners may assume, to university, as in British English the word does not carry this meaning. It was initially released in the United Kingdom as the B-side of the single “Reason to... Read on...