At the start of this review I popped it on just to blow away the cobwebs. Y'know, I was planning on giving this a 4.5, but it's actually a '5'. It's timeless. Highly recommended. Nice one, Rod.

Top Selling Albums of 1975 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 3 November 2021. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1976. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021 . Retrieved 2 April 2022. Top Selling Albums of 1976 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 8 November 2021.

Top 50 Albums of 1976" (PDF). Music Week. 25 December 1976. p.14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2021 . Retrieved 30 November 2021– via worldradiohistory.com.

British album certifications – Rod Stewart – Atlantic Crossing". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 16 February 2012. Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. The title indicated Stewart's new commercial and artistic direction, referring to both his crossing over to Warner Brothers and on his departure to escape the 83 per cent top rate of income tax introduced by British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for the jet-set lifestyle in Los Angeles (where he had applied for American citizenship at this time). The album was divided into a fast side and a slow side, apparently at the suggestion of Stewart's then-girlfriend, Swedish actress Britt Ekland. Stewart would repeat the format for his next two albums. Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Rod Stewart; 'Atlantic Crossing ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 16 February 2012. With Atlantic Crossing, Stewart ended his association with Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan and the stable of musicians who had been his core collaborators on his classic run of albums for Mercury Records, fusing soul and folk. Instead, he used a group of session musicians, including The Memphis Horns and three-quarters of Booker T. and the MG's. The album was produced by Tom Dowd, the famous engineer and producer on records by so many of Stewart's heroes during Dowd's time on staff at Atlantic Records. The only song performed from this album on The Faces' final US tour in autumn 1975 was "Three Time Loser", and the rest of the group heavily disliked Stewart's change in musical direction on this album. Following the success of the album, and his move to the U.S., Stewart announced his exit from the Faces by the end of the year.Dutchcharts.nl – Rod Stewart – Atlantic Crossing" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

Sailing" was a number one hit in the UK in September 1975, and returned to the UK Top 3 a year later when it was used as the theme for the BBC series Sailor; both acoustic and electric guitars in the song were played by Pete Carr. [9] In 1977, almost two years after the album was released, Stewart scored another UK number one from the album with the double A-side single " I Don't Want to Talk About It" and " The First Cut Is the Deepest" (from the album A Night on the Town - 1976). Atlantic Crossing is the sixth studio album by English singer-songwriter Rod Stewart, released on 15 August 1975. It peaked at number one in the UK (his fifth solo album to do so), and number nine on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. [7] [8] Top Selling Albums of 1978 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 26 January 2022. When going through Stewart's solo early solo records I'm always wary that maybe this one will be the one in which he abandons his early sound for the money-chasing of his later career. But the truth is never so straight-forward and so I find myself listening to a record that manages to both sound close enough to his early sound to not piss me off but also has enough signs of impending doom as to piss me off.El disco se compone de dos caras, como es lógico en cualquier vinilo, divididas en temáticas. La cara A, la llama Fast Side y son canciones más movidas, a mi juicio, sin demasiada trascendencia. La mayoría son de Rod Stewart y no, no es un gran compositor. La cara B en cambio, llamada Slow Side, son esos temas míticos compuestos por otros y dónde Rod Stewart brilla como la estrella baja bragas que es. I don't want to talk about it, This old heart of mine, Sailing... pa qué las prisas, que decimos en mi tierra. Offiziellecharts.de – Rod Stewart – Atlantic Crossing" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

Wouldn't we all rather have heard an album recorded with the MGs (who make an appearance) than the session musicians he replaced them with? I know I would have. Of the ballads, "Drift Away" must rank as one of his most pointless covers especially as Dobie Gray's hit version was still a recent memory. "It's Not The Spotlight" and "Still Love You" both unconvincingly attempt to reintroduce the mandolin to his sound which so characterised earlier hits. "I Don't Want To Talk About It" is a sensitive cover of a lesser-known Crazy Horse tune and became one of his signature songs although it wasn't released as a single until partnering the next album's "The First Cut Is The Deepest" as a double A-side over a year later. Baker, Glen A. (28 May 1983). "Australia - Explosive Talent Gains Temper Year of playing Dangerously" (PDF). Billboard. p.A-3 . Retrieved 31 October 2020– via World Radio History. This Old Heart of Mine" [Alternate Version] (with Booker T. & The MG's) (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Moy) – 3:54Top Selling Albums of 1977 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 8 November 2021. The Official UK Charts Company: ALBUM CHART HISTORY". Archived from the original on 16 December 2007 . Retrieved 16 December 2007. Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9. a b c Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.