Rock and roll music
| "You Wear It Well" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Single by Rod Stewart | ||||
| from the album Never a Dull Moment | ||||
| B-side | "Lost Paraguayos" | |||
| Released | August 1972 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 4:09 (Single Version) 4:25 (Album Version) 5:04 ("Storyteller" Version) | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton | |||
| Rod Stewart singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
| Official audio | ||||
| "You Wear It Well" on YouTube | ||||
No videos available
Singles chronology
You Wear It Well
Rod Stewart
Label: Mercury · ·
1972 single by Rod Stewart
"You Wear It Well" is a song written by Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, performed by Stewart. It uses an arrangement markedly similar to "Maggie May", one of Stewart`s hits from the previous year.[1]
Leer másReview
1972 single by Rod Stewart
"You Wear It Well" is a song written by Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, performed by Stewart. It uses an arrangement markedly similar to "Maggie May", one of Stewart`s hits from the previous year.[1]
Leer másStewart recorded "You Wear It Well" for the 1972 album Never a Dull Moment, and released it as a single on 12 August. The song became an international hit, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart.[2] In the US, it peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3]
Upon the release of the single, Record World felt that it "could equal [`Maggie May``s] phenomenal success."[4]
Stewart performed the song live on BBC`s Top of the Pops with the full lineup of Faces, along with Quittenton on classical guitar and Dick "Tricky Dicky" Powell on fiddle joining them. A live version of the song from his 2013 performance at the Troubadour, West Hollywood was included on the deluxe edition of the album Time.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
|
Cover versions
- The 1999 compilation album I Have Been To Heaven And Back: Hen`s Teeth and Other Lost Fragments of Unpopular Culture Vol. 1 by the Mekons includes a cover of the song.[12]
- Ali Campbell covered the song on his 2010 album Great British Songs.
- In 2016 Dexys featuring Kevin Rowland covered the song on their album Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul
- A cover by Hurricane No. 1 is included in their compilation Step into My World.
- In 2022 The Black Crowes covered the song on their 1972 EP.[13]
1972 single by Rod Stewart
"You Wear It Well" is a song written by Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, performed by Stewart. It uses an arrangement markedly similar to "Maggie May", one of Stewart`s hits from the previous year.[1]
Stewart recorded "You Wear It Well" for the 1972 album Never a Dull Moment, and released it as a single on 12 August. The song became an international hit, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart.[2] In the US, it peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3]
Upon the release of the single, Record World felt that it "could equal [`Maggie May``s] phenomenal success."[4]
Stewart performed the song live on BBC`s Top of the Pops with the full lineup of Faces, along with Quittenton on classical guitar and Dick "Tricky Dicky" Powell on fiddle joining them. A live version of the song from his 2013 performance at the Troubadour, West Hollywood was included on the deluxe edition of the album Time.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
|
Cover versions
- The 1999 compilation album I Have Been To Heaven And Back: Hen`s Teeth and Other Lost Fragments of Unpopular Culture Vol. 1 by the Mekons includes a cover of the song.[12]
- Ali Campbell covered the song on his 2010 album Great British Songs.
- In 2016 Dexys featuring Kevin Rowland covered the song on their album Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul
- A cover by Hurricane No. 1 is included in their compilation Step into My World.
- In 2022 The Black Crowes covered the song on their 1972 EP.[13]
![Never A Dull Moment [Remastered]](/cache/muscol/muscol_cache_221_8daa8c4e90_neveradullmomentremastered1730543942.jpg "Never A Dull Moment [Remastered]")
