The new collection features a career-spanning collection of tracks, it is released as a 2 CD collection including hits and essential favourites from one of music’s most enduring legends. There is also a special 3-disc deluxe edition, which boasts a bonus DVD with 14 of his best-known videos. Rod Stewart has sold over 250 million albums worldwide to date and is one of the world’s most successful chart artists of all time; the newly assembled collection offers something for everyone.
With roots in the British blues-rock and folk scenes of the ‘60s, Stewart’s diverse career has encompassed major success as a member of the Jeff Beck Group and Faces, solo superstardom since the early ‘70s, and a recent incarnation as a premiere interpreter of the Great American Songbook.
This new anthology presents stellar tracks spanning 1971 to 1998 including a Faces favourite ‘Stay With Me’, decades of solo hits, unplugged gems, soundtrack selections and more. Arranged chronologically, Stewart’s early solo years are represented by several cuts (‘Maggie May’, ‘You Wear It Well’) from the unforgettable, Every Picture Tells A Story (1971) and Never A Dull Moment (1972).
The 2nd half of Disc one shifts to his Warner Bros. years with the huge ballad, ‘Sailing’, and hits such as ‘Tonight’s The Night’, ‘You’re In My Heart’ and ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy’ from Blondes Have More Fun (1978). The second disc concentrates on music made during the ‘80s and ‘90s including ‘Infatuation’, ‘Some Guys Have All The Luck’, ‘Love Touch’, ‘Forever Young’ and ‘Motown Song’ from Vagabond Heart (1991).
Other highlights include a cover of Tom Waits’ tracks ‘Downtown Train’ and ‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’ as well as ‘Have I Told You Lately’, ‘Reason To Believe’ and ‘Handbags and Gladrags’ (from MTV’s Unplugged series). The collection concludes with a previously unreleased track, ‘Two Shades of Blue’, recorded in 1998 during the When We Were The New Boys session. The Deluxe Version features a bonus DVD with 14 music videos spanning 1975 to 1998 which includes some rarely seen videos such as ‘The Killing of Georgie (Part 1 & II) and ‘She Won’t Dance With Me’, along with MTV-era staples like ‘Hot Legs’, ‘Da Ya Think I’m Sexy’, ‘Young Turks’ amongst others.
Disc One
1. Maggie May
2. Mandolin Wind
3. Every Picture Tells A Story
4. Stay With Me - Faces
5. You Wear It Well
6. Sailing
7. The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II)
8. Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
9. The First Cut Is The Deepest
10. You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
11. I Was Only Joking
12. Hot Legs
13. Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?
14. Passion
15. Young Turks
Disc Two
1. Tonight I’m Yours (Don’t Hurt Me)
2. Baby Jane
3. Infatuation
4. Some Guys Have All The Luck
5. Love Touch
6. Forever Young
7. My Heart Can’t Tell You No
8. Downtown Train
9. This Old Heart Of Mine (1989 Version with Ronald Isley)
10. I Don’t Want To Talk About It (1989 Version) 11. Rhythm Of My Heart
12. The Motown Song - with The Temptations
13. Tom Traubert’s Blues (Waltzing Matilda)
14. Handbags And Gladrags (Unplugged Version)
15. Have I Told You Lately (Unplugged Version)
16. Reason To Believe (Unplugged Version with Ronnie Wood)
17. Two Shades Of Blue **
** Previously Unreleased
Disc Three - DVD (Deluxe Edition only) Sailing
1. I Don’t Want To Talk About It
2. The Killing Of Georgie (Part I and II)
3. The First Cut Is The Deepest
4. You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
5. Hot Legs
6. Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?
7. Ain’t Love A Bitch
8. She Won’t Dance With Me
9. Young Turks
10. Tonight I’m Yours (Don’t Hurt Me)
11. Baby Jane
12. If We Fall In Love Tonight
13. Ooh La La