Rod Stewart's roadie sat his driving test for him.

He wrote in his autobiography: "In the days before photographic licences this was a fairly simple deception to pull off.

"Pete set off to the test centre, signed in as Mr Roderick Stewart of Highgate and took my test.

"And I passed, I'm pleased to say. To this day I have never taken a driving test in Britain."

Rod continued to drive under the fraudulent license for eight years until he moved to America and took a driving test there.

He now holds a valid US license which can also be used in the UK.

In the book, Rod - who has eight children from five relationships - also admitted women threw themselves at him so much, he tired of sex and just craved love.

He said: "There was a period in my life - and it wasn't a prolonged one, maybe just a few years - where it was a bit 'one in, one out.'

"The girls involved would never have known that, obviously."