When We Were the New Boys is a studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 released by Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....

 on May 29, 1998 (see 1998 in music

1998 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...

). It was Stewart's eighteenth studio album and was released on Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

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 (WEA 9362-46792-2). It produced the singles "Ooh La La", "Rocks", and "When We Were the New Boys".

Album information

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

Gramophone record

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. The album was recorded at Ollywood Studios (Hollywood, CA), Royaltone Studios (Burbank, CA), Ocean Way Recording

Ocean Way Recording

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 (Hollywood, CA), Le Mobile (Carlsbad, CA), Beverly Park (Los Angeles, CA), Satinwood Studios, and Record One (Sherman Oaks, CA).

The tracks are mostly covers

Cover version

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 such as, "Cigarettes & Alcohol

Cigarettes & Alcohol

"Cigarettes & Alcohol" is a song by English rock band Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. It was released as the fourth single from their debut album Definitely Maybe, and their second to enter the UK top ten in the United Kingdom, peaking at #7 , eventually spending 35 weeks on the charts,...

" by Oasis

Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...

, "Rocks" by Primal Scream

Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...

, "Hotel Chambermaid" by Graham Parker

Graham Parker

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, and "Superstar" by the band Superstar. On this album, Stewart also includes the Faces

Faces (band)

Faces are an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie...

 song "Ooh La La" which was originally sung by band member Ronnie Wood.

Charts

When We Were the New Boys rallied to #2 in the UK where it went gold

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 on June 15, 1998. In the US the album would reach #44 on the charts.

Singles

Year	Song	Rank
1998	"When We Were the New Boys"	75 (GER)
1998	"Rocks Rocks (song) "Rocks" is a song by UK group Primal Scream. It is taken from the group's fourth album, Give Out But Don't Give Up. The song was released as a single in 1994 and reached number 7 on the UK Singles Chart, acting as a double A-side with another of the band's songs, "Funky Jam"... "	55 (UK)
1998	"Ooh La La Ooh La La (Faces song) "Ooh La La" is the title song to the album, a Faces song, written by Ronnie Lane and Ronnie Wood. It was Ronnie Wood, not Rod Stewart or Ronnie Lane, who sang the lead vocal for this song. Stewart did not think the song was up to his standards although both he and Lane recorded lead vocals for it... "	16(UK) 39(US) 73(GER)

Track listing

1. "Cigarettes & Alcohol
   Cigarettes & Alcohol
   "Cigarettes & Alcohol" is a song by English rock band Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. It was released as the fourth single from their debut album Definitely Maybe, and their second to enter the UK top ten in the United Kingdom, peaking at #7 , eventually spending 35 weeks on the charts,...
   
   " (Noel Gallagher
   Noel Gallagher
   Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis. He is currently fronting his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.Raised in Burnage, Manchester with his...
   
   ) – 4:03
2. "Ooh La La" (Ron Wood
   Ron Wood
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   , Ronnie Lane
   Ronnie Lane
   Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Lane was an English musician, songwriter, and producer who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of two prominent English rock and roll bands; the Small Faces where he was nicknamed "Plonk", – and, after losing the band's frontman, Faces, with two new...
   
   ) – 4:15
3. "Rocks" (Bobby Gillespie
   Bobby Gillespie
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   , Andrew Innes
   Andrew Innes
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   , Robert Young) – 4:45
4. "Superstar" (Joseph McAlinden) – 4:21
5. "Secret Heart" (Ron Sexsmith
   Ron Sexsmith
   Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
   
   ) – 4:07
6. "Hotel Chambermaid" (Graham Parker
   Graham Parker
   Graham Parker is a British rock singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the popular British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.-Early career :...
   
   ) – 3:49
7. "Shelly My Love" (Nick Lowe
   Nick Lowe
   Nicholas Drain "Nick" Lowe , is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer.A pivotal figure in UK pub rock, punk rock and new wave, Lowe has recorded a string of well-reviewed solo albums. Along with vocals, Lowe plays guitar, bass guitar, piano and harmonica...
   
   ) – 3:38
8. "When We Were the New Boys" (Rod Stewart, Kevin Savigar) – 4:39
9. "Weak" (Martin Kent, Robbie France
   Robbie France
   Robbie France is an English drummer, producer, arranger, journalist, music educator, and broadcaster.-Early life and career: Australia:...
   
   , Richard Lewis) – 4:38
10. "What Do You Want Me to Do?" (Mike Scott
    Mike Scott (musician)
    Michael 'Mike' Scott is the founding member, lead singer and chief songwriter of rock band The Waterboys. He has also produced two solo albums, Bring 'em All In and Still Burning...
    
    ) – 3:36
11. "Careless With Our Love" (Rod Stewart
    Rod Stewart
    Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
    
    ) (bonus track on Japanese release)

Personnel

• Rod Stewart – lead vocals
• Oliver Leiber – guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
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• John Shanks
  John Shanks
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   – guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
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  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , slide guitar
  Slide guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Michael Landau
  Michael Landau
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   – guitar
• Jeff Baxter
  Jeff Baxter
  Jeff "Skunk" Baxter is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s...
  
   – guitar, pedal steel guitar
  Pedal steel guitar
  The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
  
  
• Lance Morrison – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Dave Palmer – drums
  Drum kit
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• Kevin Savigar – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , organ
  Organ (music)
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  , accordion
  Accordion
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• Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
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   – percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  , maracas
• Jeff Paris – piano
  Piano
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• Rick Braun
  Rick Braun
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   – trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Nick Lane – trombone
  Trombone
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• Jimmy Roberts – saxophone
  Saxophone
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• Sharon Corr
  Sharon Corr
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   – fiddle
  Fiddle
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• Richard Greene – fiddle
• Caroline Corr
  Caroline Corr
  Caroline Corr is an Irish singer and drummer for the Celtic folk rock band The Corrs. In addition to the drums, Caroline also plays the bodhrán and piano...
  
   – bodhrán
  Bodhrán
  The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
  
  
• Andrea Corr
  Andrea Corr
  Andrea Jane Corr is an Irish musician, songwriter 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, and Jim...
  
   – penny whistle
• Eric Rigler
  Eric Rigler
  Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...
  
   & His Icy Pipes – low whistle
• Steve Richards – cello
  Cello
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  , backing vocals
• Fred White, Dee Harvey, Lamont VanHook, Sue Ann Carwell, Jacki Simley, Richard Page, Jeff Pescetto, Wil Wheaton – backing vocals
• Suzy Katayama, Daniel Smith – cello
• Horns arranged by Kevin Savigar and Oliver Leiber

Production

• Rod Stewart – producer
• Kevin Savigar – co-producer
• Rob Dickins – executive producer
• Chris Lord-Alge
  Chris Lord-Alge
  Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums. He is the brother of Tom Lord-Alge, another audio engineer. Chris Lord-Alge is known for his extreme use of dynamic range compression in both hardware and software plug-in versions....
  
  – production and mixing
• Barry Rudolph – engineer (except on "Ooh La La")
• Steve Harrison – engineer on "Ooh La La"
• Jim Horetski, Rafa Sardina, Allan Sanderson, Jeff Thomas, Greg Collins – assistant engineers
• Ed Fotheringham – artwork
• Lawrence Azerrad – art direction & design
• Ken Sharp – photography

External links

• http://www.rodstewartfanclub.com/about_rod/disco/album_detail.php?album_id=21