Dynamite

Album: Out of Order (1988)
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Songfacts®:

  • Rod Stewart raises a little hell on this rocker, a throwback to his early years in the band Faces when he was engaging in lots of rock and roll shenanigans and writing songs about it.

    "My favorite type of song - three chords and a lot of crashing and banging, eyes-down, see-you-at-the-end approach," Stewart wrote of the track in his Storyteller anthology. "Thoroughly enjoyable boys-night-out type of stuff."
  • The song is an outlier on Stewart's Out Of Order album, which found him mellowing out with songs like "My Heart Can't Tell You No" and a cover of "Try A Little Tenderness."
  • Stewart wrote this song with Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor, who joined him on the Out Of Order album. They produced the album along with Chic bass player Bernard Edwards, who played with Taylor in the group The Power Station.

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