Every Beat of My Heart (Rod Stewart album)

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Every Beat of My Heart
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Studio album by
Released23 June 1986 [1]
Genre Rock, pop rock
Length42:37
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Bob Ezrin
(except "Love Touch" – Michael Chapman)
Rod Stewart chronology
Camouflage
(1984)
Every Beat of My Heart
(1986)
Out of Order
(1988)
Singles from Every Beat of My Heart
  1. "Love Touch"
    Released: 12 May 1986 [2]
  2. "Every Beat of My Heart"
    Released: 30 June 1986 (UK) [3]
  3. "Another Heartache"
    Released: August 1986 (US)
  4. "In My Life"
    Released: November 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Rolling Stone (average) [5]

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.

Contents

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." [6] Billboard called it a "emotional ballad about belonging, delivered with believability." [7]

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

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria) [20] Gold25,000*
Germany (BVMI) [21] Gold250,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [22] Gold25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [23] Gold100,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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