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Rod Stewart: Never A Dull Moment - career success 1969-1975
The US band Cactus offered Stewart a job as lead singer but he decided to join The Faces with Ron Wood who was a bass player with the Jeff Beck Group switching to guitar. The Faces were previously The Small Faces until the departure of Steve Marriott. Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols regards The Faces very highly and names them as a main influence on the British punk movement. Stewart also signed a solo contract -
An Old Raincoat Won't Let You Down being his first solo album in 1969 - known as the Rod Stewart album in the US.
The Faces released their debut album
First Step in early 1970 with a rock and roll style similar to the Rolling Stones. While the album did better in the UK than the US, the Faces quickly earned a strong live following. Stewart would release his second album Gasoline Alley with Martin Quittenton as his lead guitarist supplying a mandolin sound. He also launched a solo tour.
Stewart's 1971 album
Every Picture Tells a Story made him a household name when the B-side of his minor hit "Reason to Believe" "Maggie May" started receiving radio play, the album and the single hit number one in both the U.S. and the U.K. simultainiously, a chart first, in September. "Maggie May" was also named in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, which is one of three songs by him to appear on that list.
The second Faces album "Long Player" was released in early 1971 which enjoyed greater chart success than
First Step. The Faces also got their only U.S. top forty hit with "Stay With Me" from their third album A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse released in late 1971. This album reached the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic on the back of the success of Every Picture Tells A Story.
The Faces had an extensive tour in 1972 with growing tension in the band over Stewart's solo career enjoying more success than the band's. Stewart released
Never A Dull Moment in the same year reaching number two on the US album charts and number one in the UK and enjoyed further critical success.
The Faces released their final album
Ooh La La which reached number one in the UK and number 21 in 1973. The Faces went on their final tour in 1974 to support Ooh La La and the single "Pool Hall Richard". The band formally broke up in 1975 with Ron Wood joining the Rolling Stones as their guitar player and Stewart pursuing his solo career.
Stewart would release the
Smiler album in late 1974 which proved to be a disappointment reaching only number 13 on the Billboard pop album charts with the single "Mine For Me" only reaching number 91 on the Billboard pop singles charts.
Smiler is generally regarded as Stewart's weakest album of the seventies.
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