Every Beat of My Heart (Rod Stewart album) explained

Every Beat of My Heart
Type:Studio
Artist:Rod Stewart
Cover:Every Beat of My Heart.jpg
Released:23 June 1986[1]
Recorded:1985
Genre:Rock, pop rock
Length:42:37
Label:Warner Bros.
Producer:Bob Ezrin
Prev Title:Camouflage
Prev Year:1984
Next Title:Out of Order
Next Year:1988

Every Beat of My Heart is the fourteenth studio album by Rod Stewart released in 1986 by Warner Bros. Records. The tracks were recorded at One on One Studios, Can Am Recorders, Cherokee Studios, The Village Recorder, The Record Plant, and Artisan Sound Recorders. The album produced four singles: "Love Touch", "Another Heartache", "In My Life", and "Every Beat of My Heart". In the United States, the album was released under the eponymous title of Rod Stewart.

Content

Included on this album is the song "Love Touch", which gained popularity as the theme to the Robert Redford film Legal Eagles. "Love Touch" was written by Holly Knight, Mike Chapman, and Gene Black. The album also includes a cover of Lennon–McCartney's "In My Life", one of several times Rod covered them. It was released as a single which failed to chart. According to the liner notes, this album is dedicated to Rod's parents Bob and Elsie Stewart. "Every Beat of My Heart" was the biggest hit of the album and reached number two in the UK Singles Chart in July 1986.

Cash Box said of the title track that it's "a rock ballad that shimmers with solid production values and the singer's trademark grainy voice."[2] Billboard called it a "emotional ballad about belonging, delivered with believability."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Here to Eternity" (Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar) – 5:58
  2. "Another Heartache" (Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance, Stewart, Randy Wayne) – 4:29
  3. "A Night Like This" (Stewart) – 4:06
  4. "Who's Gonna Take Me Home" (Stewart, Savigar, Jay Davis) – 4:38
  5. "Red Hot in Black" (Stewart, Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar) – 3:30
  6. "Love Touch" (Mike Chapman, Gene Black, Holly Knight) – 3:59
  7. "In My Own Crazy Way" (Stewart, Frankie Miller, Troy Seals, Eddie Setser) – 3:17
  8. "Every Beat of My Heart" (Stewart, Kevin Savigar) – 5:18
  9. "Ten Days of Rain" (Stewart, Savigar, Tony Brock) – 5:21
  10. "In My Life" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:00

Personnel

Production

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1986)Position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[5] 14
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[6] 74
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[7] 32
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[8] 19

References

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BPI certifications.
  2. Single Releases. Cash Box. November 22, 1986. 2022-08-07. 9.
  3. Billboard. November 22, 1986. 2022-08-07. 79. Reviews.
  4. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 295.
  5. Web site: Jahreshitparade Alben 1986. austriancharts.at. 3 January 2021.
  6. Web site: Jaaroverzichten – Album 1986. dutchcharts.nl. 3 January 2021.
  7. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. de. GfK Entertainment. 3 January 2021.
  8. Web site: Schweizer Jahreshitparade 1986. hitparade.ch. 3 January 2021.

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