Atlantic Crossing by Rod Stewart

Atlantic Crossing, released on 15 August 1975, is Rod Stewart's sixth solo album and the sound of the Faces man going it alone in America. Tom Dowd produced it across five American studios, Muscle Shoals among them, between April and June of that year, and the move gives Stewart's rasp a whole new setting.

The record comes split down the middle, a fast side and a slow side, an idea reportedly suggested by his girlfriend of the time, Swedish actress Britt Ekland, and he kept that format for his next two albums. The fast side struts with "Three Time Loser" and "Stone Cold Sober"; the slow side holds "I Don't Want to Talk About It" and "Sailing", the big, swaying ballad that became one of his best-loved songs. Britain sent it to the top of the album chart, the fourth of his solo records to get there, and America took it to number 9.

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