ROD STEWART TOOK ONE OF VAN MORRISON’S MOST TENDER SONGS IN 1993 — AND TURNED IT INTO AN UNPLUGGED PERFORMANCE THAT MANY FANS STILL ASSOCIATE WITH HIM MORE THAN THE ORIGINAL Backed by acoustic instruments and singing with far more vulnerability than his swaggering rock image suggested, Stewart transformed the quiet love song into a sweeping declaration. The performance later became a No. 1 hit, despite Morrison having released his own version just four years earlier. It was not the first time Stewart had made another songwriter’s work feel entirely his own, but this cover captured something unusually intimate — and helped introduce the Van Morrison classic to a much wider generation.

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Rod Stewart is a prolific writer, but he doesn’t write all of his music. Not afraid to record songs by other writers, Stewart also wasn’t afraid to take another artist’s song and… Read more