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The Very Best of Rod Stewart

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Released
  
12 November 2001

Length
  
155:11

Release date
  
12 November 2001

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
1969–2000

Artist
  
Rod Stewart

Label
  
Weton-Wesgram

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The Very Best of Rod Stewart (2001)
  
It Had to Be You The Great American Songbook (2002)

Producers
  
Rod Stewart, Patrick Leonard, Trevor Horn, Bernard Edwards, Michael Omartian, Tom Dowd, Andy Taylor

Similar
  
Rod Stewart albums, Rock music albums

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The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart is a 2001 Rod Stewart career-retrospective compilation album, which summarizes his solo work beginning with material from his 1971 breakthrough album Every Picture Tells a Story until his 2001 album Human. For contractual reasons, only two songs from his Mercury Records tenure ("Maggie May" and "You Wear It Well") were included (a third song from the Mercury era, "Reason to Believe", was included in a live acoustic version from the Warner Bros. album Unplugged...and Seated). The rest of the material is from different albums released under Warner Bros. Records.

Contents

The compilation was particularly notable for dividing the songs between rock and pop tunes on the first disc (A Night Out) and love songs on the second disc (A Night In). Also, even though most of the songs included on the album enjoyed big success (29 out of the 34 songs originally reached the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and/or the United States), many hit singles were missed-out, including US Top 10 hits as "Passion", "Infatuation", "Handbags and Gladrags" and "My Heart Can't Tell You No".

In the United States the album was released separately as The Voice: The Very Best of Rod Stewart and Encore: The Very Best of Rod Stewart Vol. 2, though there are some differences in the content. Warner Bros. Records released The Story So Far on 12 November 2001 (see 2001 in British music) and the next day The Voice was released. On 26 August 2003 (see 2003 in music) Encore was released.

The Voice

  1. "Rhythm of My Heart" (Marc Jordan, John Capek) – 4:14
  2. "Maggie May" (Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton) – 5:46
  3. "Have I Told You Lately" (Live) (Van Morrison) – 4:04
  4. "This Old Heart of Mine" (with Ronald Isley) (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland, Sylvia Moy) – 4:11
  5. "Young Turks" (Stewart, Carmine Appice, Kevin Savigar, Duane Hitchings) – 5:04
  6. "Downtown Train" (Tom Waits) – 4:40
  7. "You Wear It Well" (Stewart, Quittenton) – 5:00
  8. "Reason to Believe" (Live with Ronnie Wood) (Tim Hardin) – 3:52
  9. "Some Guys Have All the Luck" (Jeff Fortgang) – 4:34
  10. "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" (Stewart) – 3:56
  11. "Hot Legs" (Stewart) – 5:15
  12. "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (Stewart, Appice) – 5:30
  13. "My Heart Can't Tell You No" (Simon Climie, Dennis Morgan) – 5:16
  14. "You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" (Stewart) – 4:30
  15. "Ooh La La" (Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane) – 4:16
  16. "Forever Young" (Stewart, Jim Cregan, Savigar) – 4:05

Encore

  1. "Your Song" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) – 4:47
  2. "Having a Party" (Live) (with Ronnie Wood) (Sam Cooke) – 4:15
  3. "Don't Come Around Here" (with Helicopter Girl a/k/a Jackie Joyce) (Paul Berry, Jackie Joyce, Mark Taylor, Kenny Thomas) – 3:50
  4. "So Far Away" (Carole King) – 4:24
  5. "The Motown Song" (with The Temptations) (Larry McNally) – 4:16
  6. "Broken Arrow" (Robbie Robertson) – 4:23
  7. "Crazy About Her" (Cregan, Hitchings, Stewart) – 4:29
  8. "Lost in You" (Stewart, Andy Taylor) – 4:26
  9. "Love Touch" (Gene Black, Michael Chapman, Holly Knight) – 4:03
  10. "People Get Ready" (Live) (Curtis Mayfield) – 4:46
  11. "Infatuation" (Hitchings, Rowland Robinson, Stewart) – 4:05
  12. "Baby Jane" (Jay Davis, Stewart) – 4:45
  13. "Tonight I'm Yours" (Cregan, Savigar, Stewart) – 4:13
  14. "That's What Friends Are For" (Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager) – 3:546
  15. "Passion" (Phil Chen, Cregan, Gary Grainger, Savigar, Stewart) – 5:30
  16. "I Don't Want to Talk About It" (Danny Whitten) – 4:14
  17. "I Was Only Joking" (Grainger, Stewart) – 4:49
  18. "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (Cat Stevens) – 3:21

Charts

Album

Songs

1Just a Little Misunderstood3:57
2Shake2:33
3Can I Get a Witness3:35

References

The Very Best of Rod Stewart Wikipedia
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