Rod Stewart / Faces Live Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners

Faces
Jan 10, 1974
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The album Rod Stewart / Faces Live Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners was released on January 10, 1974, and entered the UK chart on January 26. It spent seven weeks on the chart, peaking at number three. The album features three songs from the Faces' previous albums, six from Stewart's solo releases, and two previously unreleased tracks: a cover of The Temptations' "I Wish It Would Rain" 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.