Song · Rod Stewart
“You Wear It Well” by Rod Stewart
From the album Never a Dull Moment (1972)
“You Wear It Well” by Rod Stewart appears on 12 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1982 and 2025. It was first released in 1972 on the album Never a Dull Moment. Its best result is #198 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,633 alternative song of all time.
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Rod Stewart cut "You Wear It Well" for Never a Dull Moment in 1972, producing it himself and writing it with Martin Quittenton, and plenty of ears heard it as "Maggie May" all over again, a year on and freshly pressed. It's folk rock with a pub singalong's heart, that sandpaper voice riding an easy, rolling lope, and when it went out as a single on 12 August, Record World reckoned it could match the earlier smash. In Britain it went all the way to number one; in America it stopped at 13.
On Top of the Pops, Stewart played it with the whole of the Faces behind him, plus Quittenton on classical guitar and Dick "Tricky Dicky" Powell sawing away on fiddle.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 416 | 95.5 KLOS | KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) | 499 |
| 1991 | 222 | WNEW-FM | WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) | 500 |
| 1997 | 668 | 102.3 WBAB | WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) | 1023 |
| 1997 | 364 | 100.7 WZLX | WZLX Memorial 500 (1997) | 499 |
| 2001 | 311 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2001 | 717 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2004 | 352 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 198 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2006 | 445 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
| 2014 | 852 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2021 | 739 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2025 | 367 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
Also listed as: Your Wear it Well; You Wear it Well.
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