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Originally Posted by Omah

Rod Stewart's last good album was Smiler (1975) on Mercury, released before he moved to the USA and shacked up with Britt Ekland .....

Rolling Stone's 1980 Illustrated History of Rock & Roll includes this in its Stewart entry:



Sadly true .....
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What's with all the hate on Rod, Omah?
That's a very poor opinion you have accumilated there. Rod has released so many good albums since Smiler. The only bad thing about Rod and slightly wasted bit of talent is that he didn't write many songs, when he did do his own material it was absolutely brilliant, but then again he's never claimed to be a songwritter just a singer, a man who can take a song and make it his own, even now though at the age of 67 he is about to make up for that with his new album which will be released in the summer, a rock album with all of his own songs, which he has never done before. He will top all this off with a tour, which I suggest you attend as you clearly have lost faith in one of musics biggest legends. I hope you find peace within yourself Omah, as you are really in a bad place right now.