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- Artist: Rod Stewart
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- Release Date: 1972
- Total Time: 32:55
- Genre: Rock
Review
Essentially a harder-rocking reprise of Every Picture Tells a Story, Never a Dull Moment never quite reaches the heights of its predecessor, but it's a wonderful, multi-faceted record in its own right. Opening with the touching, autobiographical rocker "True Blue," which finds Rod Stewart trying to come to grips with his newfound stardom but concluding that he'd "rather be back home," the record is the last of Stewart's series of epic fusions of hard rock and folk. It's possible to hear Stewart go for superstardom with the hard-rocking kick and fat electric guitars of the album, but the songs still cut to the core. "You Wear It Well" is a "Maggie May" rewrite on the surface, but it develops into a touching song about being emotionally inarticulate. Similarly, "Lost Paraguayos" is funny, driving folk-rock, and it's hard not to be swept away when the Stonesy hard rocker "Italian Girls" soars into a mandolin-driven coda. The covers -- whether a soulful reading of Jimi Hendrix's "Angel," an empathetic version of Dylan's "Mama, You Been on My Mind," or a stunning interpretation of Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" -- are equally effective, making Never a Dull Moment a masterful record. He never got quite this good ever again. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| True Blue (Lyrics) | Rod Stewart, Ron Wood | Rod Stewart | (3:35) |
| Lost Paraguayos (Lyrics) | Rod Stewart, Ron Wood | Rod Stewart | (3:59) |
| Mama, You Been on My Mind (Lyrics) | Bob Dylan | Rod Stewart | (4:29) |
| Italian Girls (Lyrics) | Rod Stewart, Ron Wood | Rod Stewart | (4:57) |
| Angel | Jimi Hendrix | Rod Stewart | (4:06) |
| Interludings | Rod Stewart | (0:40) | |
| You Wear It Well (Lyrics) | Rod Stewart, |
Rod Stewart | (4:26) |
| I'd Rather Go Blind | Rod Stewart | (3:53) | |
| Twistin' the Night Away (Lyrics) | Sam Cooke | Rod Stewart | (3:13) |
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