Foolish Behaviour

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Released 21 November 1980 Artist Rod Stewart Label Warner Bros. Records Producers Rod Stewart, Andy Johns		Length 41:01 Release date 21 November 1980 Genres Rock music, Pop music

Recorded November–December 1979; February–September 1980 Foolish Behaviour(1980) Tonight I'm Yours(1981) Similar Rod Stewart albums, Rock music albums

Foolish Behaviour is Rod Stewart's tenth studio album released on 21 November 1980 (see 1980 in music) and on the Riva label in the United Kingdom (RVLP 11) and on Warner Bros. Records in both The United States (HS 3485) and Germany (WB 56 865). The tracks were recorded at The Record Plant Studios and Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles from February to September, 1980. "Passion", "My Girl", "Somebody Special" and "Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight" were released as singles.

The video to another song on the album, "She Won't Dance With Me", was the third video to be played on MTV when it launched 1 August 1981. The lyrics contain the use of the word "fuck" which remained unedited in the video.

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Dedication

In the liner notes of the album the following dedication is attributed to Stewart:

This album is dedicated to the following personages:
All those who engage in a little foolish behaviour of a Friday night, All those who enjoy a good laugh and a drink, Those who don’t take life seriously, Scottish Football Supporters wherever they are, Tom Dowd, My band & last but not least, my Offsprings!
GOD BLESS THEM AND THEIR BICYCLE CLIPS

Charts

Foolish Behaviour peaked at No. 4 in the UK and at No. 12 on the US charts. It went platinum on 8 January 1981 in the UK and on 4 March 1981 in the US. The album contained one popular single, "Passion", which reached No. 5 on the singles chart in the US. The album has sold more 5 million in worldwide.

Track listing

All songs composed by Rod Stewart, Phil Chen, Kevin Savigar, Jim Cregan and Gary Grainger; except where noted.

"Better off Dead" (Stewart, Chen, Savigar, Carmine Appice) – 3:07
"Passion" – 5:29
"Foolish Behaviour" – 4:24
"So Soon We Change" – 3:44
"Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight" – 5:02
"Gi’ Me Wings" – 3:47
"My Girl" (Stewart, Chen, Savigar, Cregan, Grainger, Appice) – 4:27
"She Won’t Dance with Me" (Stewart, Jorge Ben) – 2:30
"Somebody Special" (Stewart, Chen, Savigar, Cregan, Steve Harley) – 4:29
"Say It Ain’t True" – 4:02
"I Just Wanna Make Love to You" (Live) (Willie Dixon)

Track 11 only appeared on the German Cassette release.

The song "Passion" was also released as a Promo DJ-Only 12" Single. It's basically a continuation of the ad-lib vocals where the LP version fades, continuing to a time length of 7:30. This extended version was a bonus track on the US 8-track release. Oddly, where the album version (and later CD version) timed out to 5:29, the 45RPM Single timed out to a few seconds longer of 5:35 (even though the label stated 5:29) making it essentially about :06 seconds longer than the album version. The Promo 45RPM Single/Radio Edit was shortened to 4:45, vividly editing the piano intro and going into a quick fade-out, just before the closing choruses. The B-side of the Radio Edit Promo was the 5:35 version, as was the B-side of the DJ-Only 12" Single.

Personnel

Jim Cregan, Gary Grainger, Billy Peek – guitar

Phil Chen, Tim Bogert, James Haslip – bass guitar

Carmine Appice, Colin Allen, Roger Bethelmy – drums

Kevin Savigar, John Jarvis – keyboards

Paulinho Da Costa – percussion

Rod Stewart – lead vocals, harmonica

Phil Kenzie, Earl Price, James Gordon – saxophone

Billy Lamb, Jim Price – trombone

Lee Thornburg – trumpet

Sid Page – violin

Susan Grindell, Valerie Carter, Tony Brock, The Rod Stewart Group – backing vocals

Del Newman – string arrangements

Rick Charles Delena – second engineer

Mixed by Jeremy Andrew Johns and The Somerset Segovia

Karat Faye – engineer

Songs

1Better Off Dead3:09
2Passion5:32
3Foolish Behaviour4:25

References

Foolish Behaviour Wikipedia

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