Atlantic Crossing

Product Information

Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.

Rolling Stone Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013 . Retrieved 24 August 2017. Top Selling Albums of 1977 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 8 November 2021. Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1976. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021 . Retrieved 2 April 2022.Skye Boat Song (The Atlantic Crossing Drum & Pipe Band)" [Alternate Version] (Boulton, MacLeod) 4:20 Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Rod Stewart; 'Atlantic Crossing ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 16 February 2012. British album certifications – Rod Stewart – Atlantic Crossing". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 16 February 2012.

That just leaves the two original single releases from it, the first, "Sailing" another good spot in transforming the almost unknown Sutherland Brothers song into a scarf-waving anthem and the second a twinkling slow-burn version of the Motown classic "This Old Heart Of Mine" although years later he would take it at the original speed in conjunction with original singer Ronald Isley.

Credits

El disco se compone de dos caras, como es lógico en cualquier vinilo, divididas en temáticas. La cara A, la llama Fast Side y son canciones más movidas, a mi juicio, sin demasiada trascendencia. La mayoría son de Rod Stewart y no, no es un gran compositor. La cara B en cambio, llamada Slow Side, son esos temas míticos compuestos por otros y dónde Rod Stewart brilla como la estrella baja bragas que es. I don't want to talk about it, This old heart of mine, Sailing... pa qué las prisas, que decimos en mi tierra. This Old Heart of Mine" [Alternate Version] (with Booker T. & The MG's) (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Moy) – 3:54 Top 50 Albums of 1976" (PDF). Music Week. 25 December 1976. p.14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2021– via worldradiohistory.com. The title indicated Stewart's new commercial and artistic direction, referring to both his crossing over to Warner Brothers and on his departure to escape the 83 per cent top rate of income tax introduced by British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for the jet-set lifestyle in Los Angeles (where he had applied for American citizenship at this time). The album was divided into a fast side and a slow side, apparently at the suggestion of Stewart's then-girlfriend, Swedish actress Britt Ekland. Stewart would repeat the format for his next two albums. Atlantic Crossing is the sixth studio album by English singer-songwriter Rod Stewart, released on 15 August 1975. It peaked at number one in the UK (his fifth solo album to do so), and number nine on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. [7] [8]

When going through Stewart's solo early solo records I'm always wary that maybe this one will be the one in which he abandons his early sound for the money-chasing of his later career. But the truth is never so straight-forward and so I find myself listening to a record that manages to both sound close enough to his early sound to not piss me off but also has enough signs of impending doom as to piss me off. Of the ballads, "Drift Away" must rank as one of his most pointless covers especially as Dobie Gray's hit version was still a recent memory. "It's Not The Spotlight" and "Still Love You" both unconvincingly attempt to reintroduce the mandolin to his sound which so characterised earlier hits. "I Don't Want To Talk About It" is a sensitive cover of a lesser-known Crazy Horse tune and became one of his signature songs although it wasn't released as a single until partnering the next album's "The First Cut Is The Deepest" as a double A-side over a year later. Dutchcharts.nl – Rod Stewart – Atlantic Crossing" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

Release

At the start of this review I popped it on just to blow away the cobwebs. Y'know, I was planning on giving this a 4.5, but it's actually a '5'. It's timeless. Highly recommended. Nice one, Rod. Top Selling Albums of 1975 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 3 November 2021. a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Offiziellecharts.de – Rod Stewart – Atlantic Crossing" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 3 November 2021. Este disco, aunque está perfecto, no me parece que se escuche especialmente bien. Se oye bien, ojo, pero no es el sonido ese espectacular que se espera.