A Night on the Town (Rod Stewart album)
1976 studio album by Rod Stewart / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Night on the Town is Rod Stewart's seventh album, released in 1976. The cover art is based on Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting Bal du moulin de la Galette, with Stewart inserted in the centre in period costume. On 30 June 2009, Rhino reissued the album as a two-disc CD with bonus tracks. A Night on the Town was Stewart's last UK number-one studio album until Time in 2013.
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Released | 18 June 1976 | |||
Recorded | December 1975-April 1976 | |||
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Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 41:19 | |||
Label | Riva, Warner Bros. | |||
Producer | Tom Dowd | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B[2] |
Rolling Stone | (favourable)[3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
The album is regarded as one of Stewart's finest. "The Killing of Georgie" is one of Stewart's most hard-hitting sets of lyrics, a melancholic tale of a gay friend who is cast out by his family and becomes a sensation in the New York nightlife, only to be murdered by a New Jersey gang during an attempted robbery. Controversial "Tonight's the Night" was a No. 1 hit but was banned by some radio stations due to the very obvious lyrics about sex and loss of virginity. A cover of Cat Stevens' "The First Cut Is the Deepest" was also a success and has since become one of Stewart's signature songs.