When We Were the New Boys
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| Studio album by Rod Stewart | ||||
| Released | 28 May 1998 | |||
| Genre | Rock, pop rock | |||
| Length | 41:51 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | Rod Stewart and Kevin Savigar | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | C |
| The Hartford Courant | (mixed) |
| People | (favorable) |
| Rolling Stone | |
When We Were the New Boys is a studio album released by Rod Stewart on 29 May 1998 (see 1998 in music). It was Stewart's eighteenth studio album and was released on Warner Bros. Records (WEA 9362-46792-2). It produced the singles "Ooh La La", "Rocks", and "When We Were the New Boys".
When We Were the New Boys was the first album by Rod Stewart to not be released on vinyl. The album was recorded at Ollywood Studios (Hollywood, CA), Royaltone Studios (Burbank, CA), Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood, CA), Le Mobile (Carlsbad, CA), Beverly Park (Los Angeles, CA), Satinwood Studios, and Record One (Sherman Oaks, CA).
The tracks are mostly covers, such as "Cigarettes & Alcohol" by Oasis, "Rocks" by Primal Scream, "Hotel Chambermaid" by Graham Parker, and "Superstar" by the band Superstar. Two ballads were included that were suggested by Elvis Costello: Ron Sexmith's "Secret Heart" and Nick Lowe's "Shelly My Love".
The album also includes "Ooh La La", a song recorded by Stewart's previous band the Faces. The Faces' version of the song was originally sung by the band's guitarist Ronnie Wood; Stewart recorded the song for When We Were the New Boys as a tribute to the song's co-author, Faces bassist Ronnie Lane, who had died in 1997 shortly before the album's release.
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