Rod Stewart's third solo album brought the singer long-awaited commercial success. Its combination of strong, original songs and plum cover versions was finely judged as the artist paid tribute to mentors and declared his own craft. Members of Stewart's regular group, the Faces, provide intuitive support without the sense of compromise apparent on their own recordings. The singer's voice was rarely better his interpretation of the Temptations' '(I Know I'm) Losing You' brought new dimensions to a Tamla/Motown classic. The highlight is, inevitably, 'Maggie May', one of the great pop anthems, but the remaining selections, such as 'Mandolin Wind' and Tim Hardin's beautiful 'Reason To Believe' contain a similar sense of purpose.

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