Never a Dull Moment by Rod Stewart

Never a Dull Moment, Rod Stewart's fourth solo album, hit the racks on Mercury on 21 July 1972 with a tall order to fill: following Every Picture Tells a Story, the 1971 breakthrough that, with "Maggie May", had topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Stewart was still pulling double duty with the Faces, and he didn't blink. The recipe holds, rock and roll roughed up with folk and soul, and that sandpaper rasp of his is in rowdy, generous form.

"You Wear It Well", which he wrote with the classical guitarist Martin Quittenton, is the prize, a loose-limbed, wistful charmer that went to number one in Britain and 13 in the States. Sam Cooke's "Twisting the Night Away" gets a beery, good-natured going-over, and the album itself sat on top of the UK chart for two weeks and climbed to number two in America.

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