Atlantic Crossing  by Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart's sixth studio album, Atlantic Crossing, was precisely what its title said. It was the then-thirty-year-old Stewart's attempt to succeed - and succeed very well - in the vast U.S. market.

For that reason, he traveled to the United States, and from April to June 1975, he recorded Atlantic Crossing in five (!) different studios in the U.S., moving across all the lengths and breadths of the U.S. (New York, Miami, Hollywood, Memphis, and Alabama) and having the American producer Tom Dowd produce the album instead of himself, as he had done in his previous works. The recordings did not feature his old collaborator Ronnie Wood for the first time, as Wood was starting his collaboration with the Rolling Stones at that time. Rod Stewart truly began a new chapter in his career with this album.

The enormous success of his single Sailing boosted the album, and despite the fact that it did not lead to crazy sales numbers in the U.S. (only 500,000 copies), Rod Stewart seized upon it and began the golden decade of his career.