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1978 single by Rod Stewart
"Hot Legs"
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Foot Loose & Fancy Free
B-side
"You're Insane" or "I Was Only Joking"
Released
20 January 1978 [1]
Recorded
1977
Genre
Hard rock
boogie rock
Length
5:15 (album)
3:55 (single)
Label
Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Rod Stewart, Gary Grainger
Producer(s)
Tom Dowd
Rod Stewart singles chronology
"You're in My Heart" (1977)
"Hot Legs" (1978)
"I Was Only Joking" (1978)
"Hot Legs" is a single by Rod Stewart released in 1978 as the second single from his 1977 album Foot Loose & Fancy Free. The single performed moderately on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 28, but performed better on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 5. In the UK, "Hot Legs" and "I Was Only Joking" charted together as a double A-side.[2]
In 1993, Stewart recorded a live version during his MTV Unplugged session which appeared on the album Unplugged...and Seated. Since the original recording, the lyrics in the last verse have been changed.
The lead guitar that is prominent throughout the song was performed by Billy Peek, a Saint Louis, Missouri native who was in Stewart's band in the mid-seventies.
^"BPI certifications".
^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 531/2. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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