I've never seen him mentioned once on this whole site. How bout' some love for the man? He has put out some awsome music!

I've never seen him mentioned once on this whole site. How bout' some love for the man? He has put out some awsome music!

He was the original singer on the song That's What Friends Are For which was written for the film Night Shift in 1982. It was not a hit, but it's always been my favourite song of his.

I was a huge Rod Stewart fan in the 70s. To me that's when he had his best music. But come the 80s, I started to get sick of the guy. But he is definitely deserving of a thread in his honor. ;)

I actually liked a lot of his 80s stuff too :thumb:

Rod Stewart is one of the founders of my musical education - my parents played his stuff all the time, and there is still one song of his that can bring me to tears at the drop of a note!

EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART
Through these misty eyes
I see lonely skies
Lonely road to Babylon

Where's my family
And my country
Heaven knows where I belong

Pack my bags tonight
Here's one Jacobite
Who must leave or surely die

Put me on a train
In the pouring rain
Say farewell but don't say goodbye

Seagull carry me, over land and sea
To my own folk, that's where I want to be
Every beat of my heart
Tears me further apart
I'm lost and alone in the dark
I'm going home

One more glass of wine
Just for auld lang syne
And the girl I left behind

How I miss her now
In my darkest hour
And the way our arms entwine

Seagull carry me, over land and sea
To my own folk, that's where I want to be
Every beat of my heart
Tears me further apart
I'm lost and alone in the dark
I'm going home

And we'll drink a toast
To the blood red rose
Cheer a while the Emerald Isle

And to the northern lights
And the swirling pipes
How they make a grown man cry

Seagull carry me, over land and sea
To my own folk, that's where I want to be
Every beat of my heart
Tears me further apart
I'm lost and alone in the dark
I'm going home

In 1997, popular dance group N-Trance did a wonderful dance remix of Da Ya Think I'm Sexy that featured samples of Rod singing in the original 1978 version. It charted at #7 in the UK and is credited as Rod's 46th UK hit :thumb:

Certainly you can't knock Baby Jane and that whole LP (Sweet Surender being the under rated single from it) but it went down hill from there as he tried keep his style 'up to date'. It sounded, forced, and didn't do well. Only when he said sod it and did things in a style he was more comfortable with did he score bigger hits, Bad Mowtown covers notwithstanding. Then he decided to awaken the wider world to Tom Waits in the early 90s (Downtown Train, Tom Trouberts blues) and had a wonderful not-a-major-hit with Lady Luck which was a return to his 'you wear it well' era (even borrowing the the keyboard bridge/keychange from that song).