Every Beat of My Heart (Rod Stewart album)

Every Beat of My Heart
Studio album by
Rod Stewart
Released23 June 1986[1]
Recorded1985
GenreRock, pop rock
Length42:37
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerBob 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: 24 November 1986[4]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Rolling Stone(average)[6]

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.

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."[7] Billboard called it a "emotional ballad about belonging, delivered with believability."[8]

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

  • Producers – Bob Ezrin (Tracks 1–5 & 7–10); Michael Chapman (Track 6).
  • Production Coordinator on Tracks 1–5 & 7–10 – Malcolm Cullimore
  • Engineers – Paul Lani (Tracks 1–5 & 7–10); George Tutko (Track 6).
  • Additional Recording on Tracks 1–5 & 7–10 – Jeff Bennette, Brian Christian, Peter Lewis and David Tickle.
  • Remixing – Bob Ezrin and David Tickle (Tracks 1–5 & 7–10); George Tutko (Track 6).
  • Assistant Remixing on Tracks 1–5 & 7–10 – David Ahlert, Jim Dineen, Craig Engle, Stan Katayama and Bob Loftus.
  • Technical Director on Tracks 1–5 & 7–10 – Robert Hrycyna
  • Mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA).
  • Art Direction – Jeff Ayeroff and Jeri McManus
  • Design – Jeri McManus
  • Photography – Phillip Dixon
  • Management – Randy Phillips and Arnold Stiefel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria)[21] Gold 25,000*
Germany (BVMI)[22] Gold 250,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[23] Gold 25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[24] Gold 100,000^

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

References

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  5. ^ AllMusic review
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  8. ^ "Reviews". Billboard. 22 November 1986. p. 79. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  9. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 295. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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  24. ^ "British album certifications – Rod Stewart – Every Beat of My Heart". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  • Every Beat of My Heart liner notes. Warner Bros. Records.