Rod Stewart Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from His Children at 2025 AMAs: 'Absolutely Flabbergasted'

Rod Stewart received a coveted grant astatine nan 2025 American Music Awards.

On Monday, May 26, nan "Forever You" musician was honored pinch nan Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented by five of his 8 children: Kimberly, 45, Sean, 44, Ruby, 37, Renee, 32 and Liam, 30.

When Stewart, 80, took nan shape to judge nan accolade, he hugged his kids.

"I americium perfectly flabbergasted. I didn't cognize they were present — my children," he told nan audience.

Stewart continued, "When I started singing successful nan early '60s, good earlier each of you batch were here, nan logic I sewage into it [was] because I had this burning ambition to sing. It's each I wanted to do. I didn't want to beryllium rich | aliases famous, and present I americium a fewer years later, picking up this awesome award."

However, nan legendary musician put a twist connected nan opus pinch a people interlude midway done nan song.

When nan news was announced that Stewart would beryllium receiving nan Lifetime Achievement Award, executive producers Barry Adelman, EVP, Television, and Alexi Mazareas, SVP, Programming & Development, Dick Clark Productions said successful a statement: "Sir Rod Stewart is a maestro showman whose charisma and power person defied clip and embody nan very tone of stone and roll."

They added: "We are looking guardant to different epic capacity connected nan AMAs shape arsenic good arsenic celebrating his unthinkable assemblage of activity erstwhile he receives nan Lifetime Achievement Award."

Stewart has had complete 50 deed songs connected nan Billboard Hot 100 floor plan and 16 Hot 100 apical 10 chart-toppers passim his career. He is known for hits for illustration "Maggie May," "Hot Legs," "Infatuation," "Do You Think I’m Sexy," "Some Guys Have All nan Luck," and "Tonight’s nan Night."

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This summer, Stewart is slated to perform astatine Glastonbury as 1 of nan oldest musicians to play there. He will besides beryllium playing connected the North American limb of his One Last Time World Tour.