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  • "just one favor I'll be asking you - don't bury me here, it's too cold"

  • even though i am not a big fan of this dude this song is infectious

  • OLD = It took 20 years to learn to walk, talk, live & laugh...just imagine what you can accomplish between 20-40 yrs old? Why do you think time is flying? You need to re-think what time has occured and realize that if it took all that time to grow into an adult (0-20) then just think what u can do between 30-50 or 50-70. AGE is a NUMBER! Just ask ROD!

  • Nice vid. Great cut.

  • Happy Birthday,ROD !!!

  • THERE WILL BE ONLY 1 ROD STEWART! GREAT PERFORMER!!!!!!!! GREW UP ON THIS STUFF! O YEAH!

  • I grew up listening and digging Rod Stewart; greatest song he ever did. Why isn't on the "Greatest hits"??

  • @MrBobbysee - It is probably not on his greatest hits because he was more or less "underground" at that time. He got all "poppy" and popular with his songs that more or less appealed to more mainstream folks.

  • 13 people should take a trip back to Gasoline Alley....

  • This is so EXCELLENT!!!!! My favorite song from Rod Stewart.ROCK ON!!!!!

  • Sorry but Gasoline Alley has been FORECLOSED by the banks ! ;-) BTW, do I hear some 'Flaminco' style on one of these guitars or is that being done with a mandolin ?

  • What a lovely song!

  • I was 15 when this came out, and its so good, it made me yearn for my long lost home even though I hadn't left home yet.

  • @joyfulstones haha thats very good someone should write a song about that

  • Gasolene Alley, Mandolin Wind and Reason to Believe. Rod Stewart`s best !!

  • ROCK ON ROD!!!!

  • the audio suks my balls

  • @MyThrillKillKult so does your mum whats your point lol

  • @luke200202 ..No your mom sucked my balls then i stabbed her  twise

  • Totally agree with Empress....saw him before he went "silly"...awsome voice

  • This song was way before my time, but I know & love it courtesy of the soundtrack to Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film, 'Walkabout'. Great track.

  • I wish I were going to Gasoline Alley....

  • great quality upload... but the song is not really about gas stations and urban decay... its about roots!

    

  • Don't you just love those tortured and stretched steel strings at the end?

  • I was 15 years old when this was released. Rod was definitely meant to be a rocker, not a disco/pop merchant!

  • this song is why there is a word NOSTALGIA!!!

  • @tennesseelvr yeah take me back.

  • Rod never sold out he did what he wanted. all time greatest

  • have NEVER been able to just play this song ONCE!!!

  • goosebumps chills tears of JOY thank you Rod!!!

  • noble

  • My dad made me a Rod Stewart mix CD a couple years ago. He said, "just trust me, he used to make some really good music." I gave it a chance and man was he right.

  • rod stewart at his best 2 bad he sold out and today is a sell out

  • One of the greatest songs ever recorded. I used to listen to it on my bedside radio - WLS in Chicago, I believe. Then I got the album and wore it out. Good memories...

  • God the memories this song brings. To my soul...

  • one of the best songs in the world, i first heard it in the movie Walkabout

  • Came home from The Nam in Nov 1970, got a great job, moved down to Redondo Beach, California and had the greatest parties within 20 miles of the Pacific Ocean and did it for years. THIS album played so many times that it still seems to run thru my head ~ more than 40 years later. What puzzles me is how TEN people could hit that thumbs down icon on this all-time Stewart great?? For me ~ this song helped clear many bad bad memories of that living hell called Vietnam. Thanks Rod, I needed that!

  • @MrRonnieG I am 30 years old and used to wince when my mother would play rod stewart. The older I grew the more I came to appreciate Stewart. I still think of the first time I heard this song. I was 29, had borrowed her iPOD and gone for my daily run. The longing and sorrow in this haunting song broke my heart. I had just been divorced and had spent the last year poisoning myself and running from life. Something in this song chills me and pulls me back to better days. Painful and beautiful.

  • Rod was Fanfriggintastic...went to see him in late 60's, Music Hall in Boston...Thumbed t Boston with my sister to see him at the Miller High Life Outdoor Concert Series in early 70'a. Kinda scary for people got somewhat rowdy and for a while thought this what be what it feels like in a stampede...He was the GREATEST then..He ane his musicians. Unfortunately he kind of sold out for a while..Hot Legs and that crap..But I think he's coming back to his true talented self now.Go Rod!

  • I first heard this song on a progressive rock station here in Pittsburgh, Pa back in 1971; AM station mind you! LOL From that time forward I was hooked not only with the station, but, with Rod Stewart's musicianship period. With the advent of disco he lost my following. Fortunately for Rod, he did not get pigeon holed like most artists had by jumping on the dicso band wagon.

  • This song really reminds me of and makes me want to be back at the house i lived at when i was younger. So much nostalgia. When i'm dead will someone please take me back, carry me back to the gasoline alley where i started from.

  • Rod is a living legend although not to many people see that.Great vocals and music dont make it like this anymore,

  • This is one for the common man....

  • A great song by Rod, I did not like the newer shit.

  • Rod is one of the greatest rock musicians ever. He is so under-rated.

  • The good old days, music, had meaning & sounded great

  • takes me back the faces were a great band e.

  • Nice video to a great ol' song, thanks!

  • Love rod stewart see him with The Faces at The Rainbow back in the day!!!

  • saw him 28 times...was there for all his "phases"" you should've stuck by,,,your loss...sorry

  • love it plain and simple

  • @RAIDERWIZARD88 who is elkie brooks?? i know elkie summers...

  • I wonder if he can do that last note at 3:25 today ?

  • killer tune

  • A soul-touching classic!

  • "Gasoline Alley" was the name of an old (1930s?) comic strip that

    ran in US newspapers. Don't know if there is any connection with

    the title of the song.

  • @JSTONE9352 oh yah, your right!!! i never saw it but i heard about it. but did it have a dog in it? i can't remember now. i know all the words to roger millers trailers for sale or rent, does that count for anything?? :)

  • @JSTONE9352 oh yah, your right!!! i never saw it but i heard about it. but did it have a dog in it? i can't remember now. i know all the words to roger millers trailers for sale or rent, does that count for anything?? :) i know, lets go get a beer, and listen to some creednce clearwater rivial !!

  • This song has got the lot in string instrumental variations , just listen from 1:30 , acoustic guitar , lead guitar , mandolin . its a masterpiece !!.!!!!!!. , this song will fit in to any video or film clip , But come to think of it it did , a film with jenny aggetter , lost in the Australian outback ,

  • i have loved him ever since i was little, me and my family. I am so EXCITED i am seeing him and stevie 2mrw. this will be the greatest concert ever!!!

  • thank you, thank you

  • ah memories - walking down a sunlit country road around '71 singing this song.

    no where to go - no time to be there - nothing to protect - nothing to care for except the shining sun.

    thanks.

  • Always loved this album and song. The gas station pics in this video are COOL!

  • Rod was amazing before he hit his sell out disco phase. I was lucky to get to see him before he donned pink spandex.

  • @EmpressOfWyoming58 pink spandex? ok i don' t even want to know. now i have to go find a song he sang with somebody like the yardbirds, but i cant remember. it's called "walk me out in the morning dew".

  • @m1kewithaone  it's called Morning Dew

  • @william3231954 oh, thanx william! humm, my son's middle name is william. is that your phone number you've got there? just wondering. anyway i gotta go, i promised somebody i would go drink a beer and listen to some creedence clearwater rivival. :)

  • @EmpressOfWyoming58 Amen Bro ,same thing happened to Elton John must be a disease caused by lotsa money !!!

  • @jsilence418 Or : ran out of ideas. When an artist gets to this stage, I call it it their Rod-Stewert-Disco-Phase. I think Led Zepplelin hit it with Physical Graffiti and Elton hit it with Island Girl.

  • @Killdozer1973 Agree for the most part, but as for the Zeppelin,' in through the out door ' was the nail for me !!

  • @jsilence418 Yeah, notice it was their last LP.

  • I so wish he will sing this one tomorrow at MSG... but ppbly not. Love this song so much

  • Uh, I don't suppose by "Gasoline Alley," he is referring to the Indianapolis Speedway..and no, the so called music radio stations don't play this song anymore or anything like it.

  • this song is soo  awesome....

  • takes me back alongway

  • GOD 46 and feeling old, I am 52 and feeling it... Come on Rods still rocking and so should we,at least we were around when this master piece was released

  • Superb.

  • if you love this song check out the acapella version rod singing in a old tower type block courtyard ?see the old doll on the balcony bet she doesnt realise what she was witnessing class !!

  • Yup, remember when radio would play this and others like it?

    Those were the days, my friend!

  • Ah the memories come flooding back. Over and over we would play these records and wonder today, what happened to the music and artistry of years past.

  • the version of this from MTV Unplugged Collection was stellar!!

  • my older brother jimmy played this one and all rods songs in the 60s and70s when i was young and i thot he was crap, now i,am one of rods biggest fans!

  • @bobcorb You are STILL young :-). Why do you use the past tense?

  • rod at his finest 

  • The 6 people who don't like this must be brain dead.

  • @Deadeyedgc or liked Long John Baldry's cover better: watch?v=Dvv6o0htfIs#t=4m

  • Elkie Brooks sings this better !!!

  • @zinesilol88 Yeah Elkie's version was class as well. My mum's got it on one of those cheapo Best of's.

    (David.)

  • @zinesilol88 You are insane.

  • @chizzidydoodah Nah !!!! just got good hearing.

  • NICE guitar-work from Ronnie Wood!

  • Rod's early solo work and The Faces output was absolute class. Not really much a fan of his later work (the leopard skin pants just didn't do it for me, ha ha). Cheers for posting, excellent track.

  • i need tab u.u

  • superb,ageless track....oh rod...where did it all go wrong!!

  • oooer...superb!, this song plays on the strings in yer heart ...t'album's not 3 bad either !! ...quality upload too! much luv n that. :-)

  • Can't get 'Walkabout' out of my head now whenever I hear this song.

  • You can't beat these early tracks. Superb

  • my favourite...touches the heart!

  • Used to listen to this in Robbie Ducros' place in Arabi... Ivy Robbie, and his big brother John Ducros on KAAY Little Rock Arkansas....Beaker Street in very early 70s... Those were special days!!!

  • for some reason this song touched me like no other-one of my fave albums but nothing ever stuck with me like this-songs part of my soul

  • this is so very good and rod had one of the voice,s around

  • this is such a timeless song ...

  • fantastic rod before he went daft and started the american songbook thing

  • bRILLANT TUNE, WELL DONE MATE!!!!!

  • the mandolin in this song is the icing on the cake...;-)

  • I got my love of Rod Stewart from my old man...and I intend to pass that straight on to my kids (when I have them). It's too good a music not to.

  • Rod's voice was outstanding. The entire band was outstanding. This little tune gave me chills. 

  • Please help me. I heard an electric guitar version of this in the 70's. Maybe just Ronnie Wood playing. Never been able to find it again.

  • I first heard this song when I was 12, and never forgot it. It's not only Rod crying to go back home, it's like the guitars are crying too. Incredible song.

    Oh, I just love the pics. There is something very comforting about old gas stations.

  • Class

  • Ah yea... good stuff. As many have already said, from a time when Rod had some fibre in him, before he became a pop tart! ☼ ;-j

  • I wish Rod and Ronnie would do a tour together again. This song made Rod famous - a traditional sound. Easy to love forever. We are all a little Brit.

  • When Rod the Sod was master ... Woodys geetar ain't bad either ...

  • yummy,..early stuff by stewart is just class!

  • Reason to Believe is a fantastic album. Rod and the Faces at the top of their form!

    Every track a beauty! Including this one!

  • I think we got way off on a tangent of a tangent . Point trying to be made is one of music not word play.. This effort by Mr. Steward shows a transition, a sequey from the sixties into the seventies-a wonderful diddy. You can see reflections of songs already popular and premonitions of songs yet to be writ. I refuse to argue when decades begin; either you know this or you don't, your foul language, notwithstanding. It's really not a point of opinion or logic.

    And you , sir , are illogical.

  • The word hell is foul language? What are you a Mormon? I am illogical? You are the only person I know that contends a decade starts in 1961 or 1971 now that is just plain stupid. As for the music I don't see a transition, the sound of Gasoline Alley is just a continuation from the Rod Stewart album to Every Picture Tells A Story. A point can be made that the sound of the 60s continued well into the 70s look at Who's Next, Morrison Hotel, LA Woman they were all released in the 70s.

  • @Steven197450 i think his point was there is no year 0. so 0-10 are one decade 11-20 the next and so on. all the way up to 1961-70, 71-80

  • @Bigpolak57: Bourbon, Scotch, Rye, Or Irish Whiskey? Anything else is just liquor.

  • Wood's guitar playing on this is exquisite.

  • I love whiskey and the Faces!

  • take me back,carry me back down the gasoline alley were i was born...

  • This song ROCKS...brings back good memories!!!!

  • Technically 1970 is the last year of the sixties.

    If you count 1 to 10 , you don't count 0.

    1970 is the tenth year of the sixties.

    This song shows a transition from the sixties to the seventies.

  • @truegrit999 That's using pretzel logic.

  • @AugustusCaesar1

    Define pretzel logic? Besides, that is , the third Steely Dan effort.

  • @truegrit999 what the hell are you talking about, the 1960s are from 1960 to 1969, if you follow your weird logic why don't you say if you count 2 to 11, you don't count 0 or 1 so 1970 is the ninth year of the sixties and 1971 is the tenth year of the sixties which is of course total nonsense just as what you wrote. The first year of the 1960s was 1960 and the tenth or last year of the 1960s was 1969 end of story...oh yeah this song rocks!!!

  • @truegrit999 Hahaha.

  • Wow ! who needs word to say how good this is,

  • I'll be home before the milk's upon the door...

  • Im I right in thinking this used to be the theme music to the eighties series Prospecters??

  • I wanna go back, but my silly country pride won't let me

  • Brilliant.

  • Thanks for this, one of Rod's best---i used to drive my poor [late] stepdad crazy playing this 1 endlessly---but he'd given me a mandolin, so... :D

  • watching the indy 500....had to listen to this song again

  • I grew up listening to these guys.....fantastic music......I have met Rod in Australia when he is now old and grey........such a nice guy......

  • If you can't feel the feeling when the guitars kick in during the choruses, theres no hope for you! Beautiful soul music.

  • @alternatereality85

    I feel the feeling from beginning to end..fantastic song..back when Rod was good.

  • there is 1 dumbass who does not like this,, quite frankly get some TASTE :)

  • My favourite Rod Stewart song and I haven't heard it since 1970. Spooky.

  • So coooool ! Almost sounds oriental.

  • keep on rockin rod!!

  • thx 74sodapop...................th­e memories are worth a million......and the talent 10x that AWESOME

  • can somebody post "Lady Day"?

  • THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.... This song touches my soul

  • many photos of things that won't last- not much more intelligence created the instruments in this song-- the instruments last as well today and perform as well. the instruments don't loose value - but the buildings and real estate do--- because the buildings and real estate will always belong to the rich.

  • It feels like just yesterday I was listening to this song on my older sister bed. Life is short, this year I will turn 46 and I lost to good friends within a months time this year. RIP

  • Today songs like this are not written and/or sung.

  • I still think this is the best Rod Sewart stuff. He did do many very good written by my old pal Pete Sears.

    My only observation is that Rod is Scottish.The photos should be scenes of the UK.instead of the US.

  • @ronicarmen Rod is not Scottish. Rod is a Norf London Boy........okay

  • @rameses200 Of Scottish descent though! ;-)

  • I can understand why Rod had to continuously change his style--that's how he's managed to stay in the game as long as he has. Having said that, this is still my favorite Rod tune. Probably always will be.

  • Wow. Rod at his best. Loved this song then, love it more now.

    carry me back to gasoline alley where I started from.

  • Wow. Rod at his best. Loved this song then, love it more now.

    carry me back to gasoline alley where I started from.

  • Wow. Rod at his best. Loved this song then, love it more now.

    carry me back to gasoline alley where I started from.

  • That song makes me think of the Indianapolis 500 where is the Gasoline Alley (pits)

  • Thanks for the great memories - so stoned to this tune.... I love how the music stops and it is almost acupla when the blood runs cold in my veins

  • awesome tune..thanks for posting

  • In an interview, Rod says he was talking backstage once with a fan and she said she had to leave or her mom would accuse her of hanging out down at "Gasoline Alley". He loved the phrase and used it in this Faces song. Don't know if it's true, but makes a good story.

  • thank you for this tune. it's a true classic

  • brilliant timeless classic, rods stewart is fantastic god even more fierce than Zeus himself......... Seriously by's, it's music, nothing to get all hokey and horney about, enjoy it if you like it and hate if you don't, but the cheesy comments are too much to handle

  • Too bad someone convinced Rod Stewart to become a pop star and stop being a rock and roller. In the early 70's his music still mattered.

  • Agreed. Shame hes such a tosser now...

  • THANK YOU.

  • Love it,thanks for the post!

  • This is great - a look back at vintage gas stations and rustic structures of days gone by. Takes me back to memories if my grandpa's farm, the old red tractor, the places where my parents grew up. Wow... Thanks for putting this together and sharing!

  • great song and iam a hard rock lover :P

  • powerful, raw, uninhibited, timeless, life enhancing God almighty thank you Rod for how the hell can it be 40 years of rocknroll ecstacy and joy!!!

  • unbefuckinglievalbe song...... fantastic..... well done rod....

  • rod stewart is one of the best

  • Faces were fantastic.

  • I'm wondering if this was inspired by Frank King's famous comic strip of the same name.