Rod Stewart - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Abbey Road Studios, London, Britain, 10-8-2004

Here's another BBC album performed by Rod Stewart. Like the previous three, it's a BBC concert.

The last Stewart BBC concert I posted was from 1986. There's a big jump of nearly 20 years to this concert in 2004. In the meantime, his career had been slowing down until 2002. That year, he released the album "It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook." Consisting entirely of covers of songs from the pre-rock and roll era, it was a big hit, going multi-platinum. Furthermore, he realize it was an easily repeatable formula. By the time of this concert just two years later, he'd released two more albums along the same lines, with those big hits as well. His next four albums would be thematic cover albums as well.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of these "Great American Songbook" cover albums. Others, such as Linda Ronstadt or Sinead O'Connor, have done the same idea better. So I was worried this concert would be dominated by those covers, since he'd just released three albums like that. However, it turns out this is pretty much just a typical Rod Stewart concert, consisting of hits from earlier in his career. There's only a four song stretch near the end of the concert (tracks 15 to 19) that has songs from his most recent "Great American Songbook" album, which was "Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III," released the same month this concert took place. Additionally, Robert Palmer had recently died at the time of this concert, so Stewart played one of Palmer's biggest hits, "Addicted to Love," as a tribute to him.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 talk (Rod Stewart)
02 Tonight I'm Yours (Rod Stewart)
03 Some Guys Have All the Luck (Rod Stewart)
04 Addicted to Love (Rod Stewart)
05 talk (Rod Stewart)
06 Handbags and Gladrags (Rod Stewart)
07 talk (Rod Stewart)
08 Reason to Believe (Rod Stewart)
09 talk (Rod Stewart)
10 The First Cut Is the Deepest (Rod Stewart)
11 It Takes Two (Rod Stewart)
12 talk (Rod Stewart)
13 Baby Jane (Rod Stewart)
14 talk (Rod Stewart)
15 Blue Moon (Rod Stewart)
16 What a Wonderful World (Rod Stewart)
17 The Way You Look Tonight (Rod Stewart)
18 For Sentimental Reasons (Rod Stewart)
19 Maggie May (Rod Stewart)
20 Gasoline Alley (Rod Stewart)
21 talk (Rod Stewart)

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The cover photo is from the Olympic Torch Concert in London on June 26, 2004.