Rod Stewart Version
| "The First Cut Is the Deepest" | ||||
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| Single by Rod Stewart | ||||
| from the album A Night on the Town | ||||
| B-side | "I Don't Want to Talk About It" "The Balltrap" (U.S.) |
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| Released | 1977 | |||
| Format | 7-inch | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:52 | |||
| Label | Riva | |||
| Writer(s) | Cat Stevens | |||
| Producer | Tom Dowd | |||
| Rod Stewart singles chronology | ||||
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Stewart recorded the song at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA and, and it appeared on his 1976 album A Night on the Town. It was released as a double A-side single with "I Don't Want to Talk About It". It was a huge success, and spent four weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart in May 1977, number 11 in April in Canada, and also reached number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. In a departure from the original, Stewart excludes the concluding "But when it comes to being loved, she's first" from the refrain.
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