The album Rod Stewart / Faces Live Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners
entered the UK chart on January 26, where it spent 7 weeks, peaking at the number 3 position, it featured three songs from the Faces' previous albums and six from Stewart's solo releases. Additionally, it includes two previously unreleased tracks: a cover of "I Wish It Would Rain," recorded by The Temptations, and John Lennon's "Jealous Guy."
The performance featured new Faces bassist, Tetsu Yamauchi, who replaced Ronnie Lane after he left the release of Ooh La La frustrated with the group's growing as Stewart's backing band. Coast to Coast was live on October 17,1973, the Anaheim Convention Center and mixed at Island Studios in London.
In an unusual arrangement, LP versions of the album were released in the United States by Mercury Records, which at the time issued's solo albums. Meanwhile, and configurations were issued by Warner Bros. Records, the Faces' former label, with whom Stewart would sign as a solo artist following the Faces' dissolution.
The cassette and 8-track versions also include an additional track, "(I Know) I'm Losing You" by Norman Whitfield, Edward, Jr., and Cornelius Grant.
The back cover photo is actually the Old Boston Garden taken on May 2, 1973.
The crowd noise that plays behind the opening of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs was taken from the opening track It's All Over Now. Rod Stewart can be heard saying "Hey" on the Bowie track.
TRACK LISTING
Side one
"It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack, Shirley Womack)
"Cut Across Shorty" (Wayne Walker, Marijohn Wilkin)
"Too Bad" / "Every Picture Tells a Story" (Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood)
"Angel" (Jimi Hendrix)
"Stay With Me" (Stewart, Wood)
Side two
"I Wish It Would Rain" (Roger Penzabene, Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield)
"I'd Rather Go Blind" (Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan)
"Borstal Boys" (Ian McLagan, Stewart, Wood) / "Amazing Grace" (Traditional, arr. D. Throat)
"Jealous Guy" (John Lennon)
Personnel
Rod Stewart – lead vocals
Ronnie Wood – guitars, backing vocals
Ian McLagan – keyboards, backing vocals
Tetsu Yamauchi – bass, trombone
Kenney Jones – drums
Production
Faces – producer
Gary Kellgren – engineer
Tom Scott and Tom Fly – assistant engineers
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