Farewell (Rod Stewart song)

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"Farewell"
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Smiler
B-side "Bring It On Home to Me/You Send Me"
Released27 September 1974 [1]
Genre Folk rock
Length4:34
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s) Martin Quittenton, Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart singles chronology
"Oh! No Not My Baby"
(1973)
"Farewell"
(1974)
"Mine for Me"
(1974)

"Farewell" is a song written by Martin Quittenton and Rod Stewart. Stewart released it on his 1974 album Smiler . Among the musicians featured were Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne on mandolin, and Ric Grech on violin.

When released as a single in the United Kingdom in September 1974, the song became a Top 10 hit (No. 7) as part of a double A-side with his medley "Bring It On Home to Me/You Send Me". [2] In the United States, this song was released as a single but its flip side, "Mine For Me," was the track that charted.

Billboard praised the story told by the lyrics, which it described as being "about a young man leaving home to make it in the world of show business." [3]

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  2. "Rod Stewart full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. 9 November 1974. p. 58. Retrieved 20 July 2020.