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Rod Stewart: Out of Order 1981-2001
In 1981, Stewart added elements of new wave and synth-pop to his sound for the
Tonight I'm Yours album. The title song and "Young Turks" both reached top 5 of the Billboard charts with the album going platinum.
Stewart's career then went into a relative slump. He only had three top ten singles between 1982 and 1988 and only 1983's
Camouflage album went gold in the UK. In 1988, he returned with Out Of Order produced by Duran Duran's Andy Taylor and by Bernard Edwards of Chic. "Forever Young" and "Lost in You" from that album were both significant hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and mainstream rock charts.
His version of the
Tom Waits song "Downtown Train" went to #2 of the US singles charts. This song was taken from a four CD compilation set called
Storyteller. The Vagabond Heart album continued his comeback with "Rhythm of my Heart" and "Motown Song" both reaching the top 10.
In 1993, he recorded "All For Love" with
Sting and
Bryan Adams for the soundtrack to the movie The Three Musketeers; the single reached #1 on the US charts.
Stewart reunited with Ron Wood to record an MTV Unplugged special. It featured an acoustic version of "Have I Told You Lately" which topped the Billboard adult contemporary chart and went top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. The Unplugged album reached #2 on the Billboard album charts.
In 1995, Stewart released "A Spanner in the Works" containing a cover of Tom Petty's "Leave Virginia Alone" which reached the top 10 of the adult contemporary charts. The latter half of the 1990s was not as commercially successful with
If We Fall In Love Tonight not making much of an impression on the charts. ('Spanner' is the British term for what American's typically refer to as a 'wrench'.)
When we Were the New Boys from 1998 contained versions of Britpop acts such as Oasis and Primal Scream. Hoever, it only reached #44 on the UK album charts.
Human, his final album on the Warner Brothers label only just reached the top 50 in 2001 with the single "I Can't Deny It" going top 40 in the UK and top 20 in the adult contemporary.
The Story So Far: the Very Best Of a greatest hits album compiled from his time at Warner Brothers went to the top ten in the UK and reached number 1 in places like Belgium and France in 2001.
Stewart has been known for his liaisons with attractive women, including Britt Ekland and was later married to Alana Hamilton and Rachel Hunter. He fathered six children. He was quoted as saying that he'd rather have his penis cut off than cheat on her. He was later sued for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
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