Rod Stewart worked numerous odd jobs before he became the rockstar we all know and love. The Brit left school at 15 and, before finding fame, worked as a silk screen printer, electrician’s assistant and as a soccer player.

But one job stood out for the young singer. He worked at London’s Highgate Cemetery, helping dig graves. The singer had frequently told stories about working as a gravedigger, although he later changed his story.

“… there were a couple of Saturdays up at Highgate Cemetery, earning a few quid by measuring out plots and marking them off with string,” he wrote in his autobiography, before Culture Sonar .

In his 2012 memoir, the “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” singer wrote: “You learn a lot about yourself, doing physical work. And what I learned about myself was that I didn’t like doing physical work.”

While he worked in a cemetery, Stewart claims he doesn’t consider this gravedigging.…