A Spanner in the Works is a studio album released by Rod Stewart on 26 May, 1995. It is Stewart's seventeenth studio album and ended a four-year gap since his previous studio album. At the time it was Stewart's longest break between albums. It was released on Warner Bros. Records (WEA 9362 45867-1/2) in The United States, The United Kingdom, and Japan. Five singles were released: "You’re The Star", "Leave Virginia Alone", "This", "Lady Luck", and "Purple Heather".
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The AlbumCharts
The album achieved a gold certification in both the US and UK. In those countries it would peak at #35 and #4 respectively.
Track listing
- "Windy Town" (Chris Rea) – 5:12
- "The Downtown Lights" (Paul Buchanan) – 6:33
- "Leave Virginia Alone" (Tom Petty) – 4:07
- "Sweetheart Like You" (Bob Dylan) – 4:54
- "This" (John Capek, Marc Jordan) – 5:19
- "Lady Luck" (Carmine Rojas, Jeff Golub, Kevin Savigar, Rod Stewart) – 4:25
- "You’re The Star" (Billy Livsey, Frankie Miller, Graham Lyle) – 4:39
- "Muddy, Sam and Otis" (Stewart, Savigar) – 4:42
- "Hang on St. Christopher" (Tom Waits) – 4:04
- "Delicious" (Stewart, Andy Taylor, Robin LeMesurier) – 4:43
- "Soothe Me" (Sam Cooke) – 3:33
- "Purple Heather" (Traditional, arranged Stewart) – 4:58
- Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 12 produced by Trevor Horn
- Tracks 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12 produced by Rod Stewart
- Tracks 7, 10, and 11 produced by Bernard Edwards
- Track 3 produced by James Newton-Howard, Michael Ostin, and Lenny Waronker
- Track 10 produced by Andy Taylor
Personnel/Tour
- Rod Stewart – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Jeff Golub – guitar
- Jimmy Crespo – guitar
- Tim Pierce – guitar
- Robin LeMesurier – guitar
- Davey Johnstone – guitar, mandolin
- Steve Lipson – guitar, bass guitar
- Andy Taylor – guitar
- Jim Cregan – guitar
- Michael Landau – guitar
- Lol Crème – guitar
- Carmine Rojas – bass guitar
- Bernard Edwards – bass guitar
- Guy Pratt – bass guitar
- Mike Higham – bass guitar, keyboards
- Kevin Savigar – bass guitar, keyboards, squeezebox
- Trevor Horn – bass guitar
- Leland Sklar – bass guitar
- Dave Palmer – drums
- Paul Robinson – drums
- Kenny Aronoff – drums
- Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards, percussion, piano
- Billy Preston – organ
- Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
- Martin O’Conner – accordion
- Anne Dudley – piano, strings arrangement
- Don Teschner – mandolin, American fiddle
- Dónal Lunny – bouzouki
- Leslie Butler – harmonica
- Rick Braun – horns
- Nick Lane – horns
- David Woodford – horns
- The Kick Horns – horns
- John McSherry – bagpipes
- Máire Ní Chathasaigh – Irish fiddle
- Fred White, Lamont VanHook, Joey Diggs, Joe Turano, Aleisha Irving, Oren Waters, Jossef Powell, Terry Young – backing vocals
- Glasgow Gaelic Music Association – choir
- Gavin Wright – orchestra leader
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