Rod Stewart Discography

• 
  Still The Same...Great Rock Classics Of Our Time
  (2006)
• 
  Thanks For The Memory...Great American Songbook IV
  (2005)
• 
  Stardust...The Great American Songbook: Volume III
  (2004)
• 
  As Time Goes By...The Great American Songbook: Volume II
  (2003)
• 
  It Had to Be You... The Great American Songbook
  (2002)
• 
  Every Beat Of My Heart
  (2000)
• 
  Lead Singer
  (1993)
• 
  Unplugged ...And Seated
  (1993)
• 
  Vagabond Heart
  (1991)
• 
  Out Of Order
  (1988)
• 
  Camouflage
  (1984)
• 
  Body Wishes
  (1983)
• 
  Absolutely Live
  (1982)
• 
  Tonight I'm Yours
  (1981)
• 
  Blondes Have More Fun
  (1978)
• 
  Foot Loose And Fancy Free
  (1977)
• 
  A Night On The Town
  (1976)
• 
  Antalantic Crossing
  (1975)
• 
  Smiler
  (1974)
• 
  Never A Dull Moment
  (1972)
• 
  Every Picture Tells A Story
  (1971)
• 
  Gasoline Alley
  (1970)
• 
  The Rod Stewart Album
  (1969)
• 
  Foolish Behaviour
• 
  If We Fall In Love Tonight

Songs By

Tom Waits :: Gary Grainger :: Cat Stevens :: David Bentley :: Cornelius Grant :: Carmine Appice :: Mick Jagger :: Gerry Goffin :: Lamont Dozier :: Carole King :: Bobby Womack :: Andy Taylor :: George Young :: Sylvia Moy :: Simon Climie :: Michael d`Abo :: Curtis Mayfield :: Jim Cregan :: Phil Chen :: Jeff Golub

Member Of

Faces :: Steampacket

Influenced By

The Small Faces :: Marvin Gaye :: Otis Redding :: The Temptations :: Sam Cooke :: The Rolling Stones :: Sam & Dave :: Tim Hardin :: Smokey Robinson :: Chuck Berry :: Muddy Waters :: Bob Dylan

Followers

Chris Robinson :: Kiss :: Robert Palmer :: Sass Jordan :: John Mellencamp :: Melissa Etheridge :: Bryan Adams :: Steven Tyler :: Robin Zander :: Joan Osborne :: Bonnie Tyler :: Biagio Antonacci :: Paul Stanley :: Michael Bolton :: Kim Carnes

Similar Artists

Michael Buble :: Eric Clapton :: Long John Baldry :: Elton John :: Celine Dion :: Woodmanseys U Boat :: Paul Carrack :: Robbie Williams :: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers :: Bob Dylan :: Elvis Presley :: Hall & Oates :: Sting :: Bryan Adams :: Ron Wood :: Jim Capaldi :: Roger Daltrey :: Fleetwood Mac :: The Rolling Stones :: Phil Collins :: Westlife :: The Band :: Black Crowes :: Blind Faith :: George Harrison :: Don Henley :: Delaney & Bonnie :: Dire Straits :: Frankie Miller :: Ronan Keating

ROD STEWART
STILL THE SAME…GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME

With the release of STILL THE SAME…GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME, Rod Stewart returns to his roots. A landmark recording of great songs by his contemporaries, and Stewart`s first rock album in over eight years, STILL THE SAME…follows the unprecedented success of his Grammy-award winning Great American Songbook series. The four volumes of The Great American Songbook released between 2002 and 2005, comprise the biggest selling ongoing series of new music recordings in history, with a total of fifteen million copies worldwide.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart has one of the greatest and most distinctive voices in rock history. Throughout his almost forty-year career, he has applied that unmistakable tone to material by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Tom Waits. Just as the often-imitated “Songbook” albums focused on unforgettable compositions from the ‘30s and ‘40s, STILL THE SAME… concentrates on music from an unprecedented era – the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when rock songwriting was truly breaking through to new heights.
On STILL THE SAME…, Stewart takes ownership of a thoughtfully chosen set of songs crafted by such masters as Bob Dylan (“If Not For You”), Van Morrison (“Crazy Love”), Bob Seger (“Still the Same”), and John Fogerty (“Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” the first radio single from the album). Several of Stewart’s other selections sound like they were written for his signature, inimitable rasp in the first place, like Bonnie Tyler’s “It’s a Heartache” and “Fooled Around and Fell in Love,” a 1976 hit for Elvin Bishop.
“We’ve chosen tracks very carefully to go with my voice,” says Stewart. “We felt that these were songs that were due for a revisit, and made sure that they blend together as a single piece of work.”

Produced by John Shanks - winner of the 2005 “Producer of the Year” Grammy award, who has worked with such artists as Sheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge - and co-produced by Clive Davis, STILL THE SAME… features a lean band of top-notch session musicians including Kenny Aronoff and Dean Parks. (“We had a really well-rounded band,” says Stewart, “and a pretty good singer, too!”) The range of its production is displayed in sounds from the soaring Badfinger hit “Day After Day” to the most contemporary song included, the Pretenders’s 1994 ballad “I’ll Stand By You.”

Having developed a whole new audience through the “Songbook” series, with STILL THE SAME…GREAT ROCK CLASSICS OF OUR TIME, Rod Stewart has once again changed his tune.
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It starts, of course, with the voice. A voice that best-selling author Chuck Klosterman referred to in Spin magazine as "the single greatest male singing voice of the rock era." A voice so distinctive, said "Songbook" III and IV producer Steve Tyrell, that "he sings just two notes and you know it’s Rod Stewart."

Rod Stewart and his characteristically throaty, impressively expressive, and surprisingly versatile voice had been knocking around the London club scene with groups like Steampacket and Long John Baldry’s band before he connected with ace guitarist Jeff Beck in 1968. Their collaborations in the Jeff Beck Group brought Stewart to the spotlight on the blazing Truth and Beck-Ola albums (both of which were just reissued in expanded, re-mastered editions). But it was when Stewart joined forces with the greatest party band in rock history, the magnificent Faces, th

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