Foolish Behaviour by Rod Stewart

Foolish Behaviour, Rod Stewart's tenth studio album, arrived on 21 November 1980, on Riva in Britain and Warner Bros. in America, after sessions at the Record Plant and Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles that ran from February to September of that year. Tom Dowd produced it, and it catches Rod still deep in his disco and new wave phase, that famous rasp riding slick pop-rock grooves.

The singles kept coming: "Passion", "My Girl", "Somebody Special", "Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight" and "Gi' Me Wings". But the album's oddest claim to fame belongs to "She Won't Dance With Me", whose video was the third ever played when MTV launched on 1 August 1981. It came with a cuss word in the lyric, which got drowned out by a foghorn and covered by a crudely pasted-on heron over Rod's mouth; the bird even pops back later to go after the backing singers.

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