Atlantic Crossing

Atlantic Crossing
Studio album by Rod Stewart
Released	15 August 1975 (1975-08-15)
Recorded	April–June 1975
Studio	A&R (New York) Criteria (Miami) Wally Heider's Studio 3 (Hollywood) Hi Recording Muscle Shoals (Alabama)
Genre	Pop rock
Length	44:27
Label	Riva Warner Bros.
Producer	Tom Dowd
Rod Stewart chronology
Smiler (1974) Atlantic Crossing (1975) A Night on the Town (1976)
Singles from Atlantic Crossing
"Sailing" Released: 8 August 1975 (UK)[1] "This Old Heart of Mine" Released: November 1975 (UK)[2]

Atlantic Crossing is the sixth solo album by Rod Stewart. Released on 15 August 1975,^[3] and recorded in five American studios including Muscle Shoals, Alabama, between April and June 1975, it was produced by Tom Dowd, and peaked at number one in the UK (his fourth solo album to do so), and number nine on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.^[4][5] During 1975 Stewart moved to Los Angeles, switched record labels to Warner Brothers, and ended his association with Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan and the stable of musicians who had been his core collaborators on his albums for Mercury Records.

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. The album contained two of Stewart's most popular songs, "Sailing" and "I Don't Want to Talk About It”, and classic rock favourites "Three Time Loser" and "Stone Cold Sober". The album was the 14th of Stewart's career, starting with Jeff Beck's Truth in 1968, and his sixth solo.