''When We Were the New Boys'' is the eighteenth

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Rod Stewart Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling ...

released on 29 May 1998. It was Stewart's last studio album to be released by Warner Bros. Records. It produced the singles " Ooh La La", " Rocks", and "When We Were the New Boys".

Background

''When We Were the New Boys'' was the first album by Stewart to not be released on

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. The tracks are mostly covers, such as " Cigarettes & Alcohol" by

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, "Rocks" by

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, "Hotel Chambermaid" by

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, and "Superstar" by the band Superstar. Two ballads were included that were suggested by

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: Ron Sexmith's "Secret Heart" and

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Track listing

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" (

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) – 4:03 #" Ooh La La" (

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, Ronnie Lane) – 4:15 #" Rocks" (

Bobby Gillespie Robert "Bobby" Gillespie (born 22 June 1961) is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the lead singer, founding member, and primary lyricist of the alternative rock band Primal Scream. He was also ...

, Andrew Innes, Robert Young) – 4:45 #"Superstar" (Joseph McAlinden) – 4:21 #"Secret Heart" (

Ron Sexsmith Ronald Eldon Sexsmith (born January 8, 1964) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has s ...

) – 4:07 #"Hotel Chambermaid" (

) – 3:49 #"Shelly My Love" (

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" ( Deborah Dyer, Martin Kent,

Robbie France Robbie France (5 December 1959 – 14 January 2012) was an English drummer, record producer, arranger, journalist, music educator, and broadcaster. Early life France was born in Sheffield, and emigrated to Australia in March 1972. He studie ...

, Richard Lewis) – 4:38 #"What Do You Want Me to Do?" ( Mike Scott) – 3:36 #"Careless With Our Love" (

) (bonus track on Japanese release) - 4:28

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Personnel

* Rod Stewart – lead vocals * Kevin Savigar – horn arrangements (1, 3),

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(2),

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated ...

(2, 5), keyboards (4, 7-10), bass (4), drum programming (7, 8) * Jeff Paris – acoustic piano (6), backing vocals (6) * Oliver Leiber – guitar (1, 2, 3, 6, 9), lead guitar (4), backing vocals (6), acoustic guitar (10) *

John Shanks John Matthew Shanks (born December 18, 1964) is an American songwriter, record producer and guitarist. Early life and education John Matthew Shanks was born in New York City. Shanks moved to Los Angeles when he was 17 years old. He was in a ban ...

– guitar (1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9),

electric mandolin The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar. As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms. Most common is a carved-top eight-string instrument fit ...

(2), horn arrangements (3), acoustic guitar (4, 5, 7, 10), electric guitar (4),

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...

(5), backing vocals (6),

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

(10) *

Michael Landau Michael Christopher Landau (born June 1, 1958) is an American musician, audio engineer, and record producer. He is a session musician and guitarist who has played on many albums since the early 1980s with Boz Scaggs, Minoru Niihara, Joni Mitch ...

– electric guitar (4, 7) *

Jeff Baxter Jeffrey Allen "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. More recently, he has worked as a defense consu ...

– acoustic guitar (4),

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

(4, 6), electric guitar (7) * Lance Morrison – bass (1, 2, 3, 5-10) * David Palmer – drums (1-4, 6-10) * Paulinho da Costa –

maracas A maraca (), sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. It is shaken by a handle and usually played as part of a pair. Maracas (from Guaraní ), also known as tamaracas, were r ...

(1, 3), percussion (7) *

Caroline Corr Caroline Georgina Corr MBE (born 17 March 1973), known to fans as the "Chick with the Stick", is an Irish singer and drummer for the Celtic folk rock band The Corrs. In addition to the drums, Corr plays the ''bodhrán'', ''cajón'', percussions ...

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bodhrán The bodhrán (, ; plural ''bodhráin'' or ''bodhráns'') is a frame drum used in Irish music ranging from in diameter, with most drums measuring . The sides of the drum are deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side (synthetic heads or othe ...

(2) *

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

(1, 3) * Nick Lane –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

(1, 3) *

Rick Braun Rick Braun (born July 6, 1955) is a smooth jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone and keyboards player, vocalist, composer, and record producer. Career Braun was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and attended Dieruff High School. His mother was a se ...

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(1, 3) *

Andrea Corr Andrea Jane Corr MBE (born 17 May 1974) is an Irish singer, songwriter, musician and actress. Corr debuted in 1990 as the lead singer of the Celtic folk rock and pop rock group The Corrs along with her three elder siblings Caroline, Sharon ...

– penny whistle (2) *

Eric Rigler Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He performs as a solo artist and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the m ...

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(8) *

Sharon Corr Sharon Helga Corr MBE (born 24 March 1970) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and television personality. She is best known as a member of the pop-rock band The Corrs, which she co-founded in 1990 with her elder brother Jim and younger sis ...

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(2) * Richard Greene – fiddle (6) * Suzie Katayama –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

(9) * Steve Richards – cello (9) * Daniel Smith – cello (9) * Sue Ann Carwell – backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 7), tambourine (3) * Jacki Simley – backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 7) *

Richard Page Richard Lewis Page (born 22 February 1941) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and from December 1979 to 2005. Early life Born the son of Victor Charles Page, he went to the independent H ...

– backing vocals (2) *

Will Wheaton Will Wheaton, born Willie Mack Wheaton Jr. (born October 26, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He grew up in Los Angeles and is the son of Gospel singer Juanita Wheaton. He studied music in his teens and was eventually tuto ...

– backing vocals (4) *

Dee Harvey Demetrius La Vell "Dee" Harvey (August 24, 1965 – December 1, 2012) was an American R&B singer. He was at one time signed to Motown Label and recorded his first album, ''Just as I Am'' with Motown in 1991. Harvey was born in Memphis, Tennes ...

– backing vocals (5, 7, 8) * Lamont Van Hook – backing vocals (5, 7, 8) * Fred White – backing vocals (5, 7, 8) *

Jeff Pescetto Jeffrey "Jeff" Pescetto (born November 21, 1954) is an American musical artist who is most notable for collaborating with David Foster on the 1990 recreation of John Farnham's Australian single, "You're the Voice". Pescetto lent the vocals to Fo ...

– backing vocals (6)

Production

* Producer – Rod Stewart * Co-Producer – Kevin Savigar * Additional Production –

Chris Lord-Alge Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer. He is the brother of both Tom Lord-Alge and Jeff Lord-Alge, both of whom are also audio engineers. Chris and Tom are known for their abundant use of dynamic compression for molding mixes that play wel ...

* Executive Producer and Liner Notes –

Rob Dickins Rob Dickins (born July 1950, East Ham, London) is a British music industry executive, who currently holds a number of trustee and consultant positions in music and the arts in the United Kingdom. Dickins began his music industry career at Warner ...

* Engineers – Barry Rudolph (Tracks 1 & 3-10); Steve Harrison (Tracks 2, 9 & 10); Charlie Bouis (Track 4). * Assistant Engineers – Greg Collins, Jim Horetski, Allan Sanderson, Rafa Sardina and Jeff Thomas. * Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Image Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA), assisted by Michael Dy. * Mastered by

Doug Sax Doug Lionel Sax (April 26, 1936 – April 2, 2015) was an American mastering engineer from Los Angeles, California. He mastered three of The Doors' albums, including their 1967 debut; six of Pink Floyd's albums, including ''The Wall''; Ray Charles ...

at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA). * Artwork – Ed Fotheringham * Art Direction and Design – Lawrence Azerrad * Photography – Ken Sharp * Management – Annie Challis and Arnold Stiefel at Stiefel Entertainment.

Certifications and sales

Notes

References

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External links

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