Foot Loose & Fancy Free

This article is about the Rod Stewart album. For the tour, see Foot Loose & Fancy Free Tour. For the phrase, see Siamese twins (linguistics) § With alliteration. For the 2002 album, see Earthworks (band). For the travelogue, see Prema Srinivasan.

Foot Loose & Fancy Free is the eighth studio album by Rod Stewart, released in November 1977 on Riva Records in the UK and Warner Bros in the US.

Foot Loose & Fancy Free
Studio album by Rod Stewart
Released	4 November 1977
Recorded	1976–1977
Studio	Manta Sound, Toronto, Canada Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock
Length	44:06
Label	Riva, Warner Bros.
Producer	Tom Dowd
Rod Stewart chronology
A Night on the Town (1976) Foot Loose & Fancy Free (1977) Blondes Have More Fun (1978)
Singles from Foot Loose & Fancy Free
"You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" Released: September 1977 "Hot Legs" Released: January 1978 "I Was Only Joking" Released: April 1978 "You Keep Me Hangin' On" Released: August 1978 (Japan)[1]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B−[3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed)[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

The album is the second-to-last album of Stewart's 1970s albums, including the platinum-selling A Night on the Town. The album contains elements of hard rock ("Hot Legs"), funk rock ("You're Insane"), and progressive rock via Motown ("You Keep Me Hanging On"), as well as Stewart's usual ballads ("You're in My Heart"). "I Was Only Joking" was the third of four singles released from the album.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rod Stewart and Gary Grainger unless noted otherwise.

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hot Legs"		5:14
2.	"You're Insane"	Stewart, Phil Chen	4:48
3.	"You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)"	Stewart	4:30
4.	"Born Loose"	Stewart, Grainger, Jim Cregan	6:02
Total length:			20:34

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You Keep Me Hangin' On" (The Supremes cover)	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland	7:28
2.	"(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" (Luther Ingram cover)	Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Raymond Jackson	5:23
3.	"You Got a Nerve"		4:59
4.	"I Was Only Joking"		6:07
Total length:			23:57

Personnel

The Rod Stewart Group

• Rod Stewart – lead and backing vocals^[6]
• Gary Grainger – guitar, backing vocals
• Jim Cregan – guitar, backing vocals
• Phil Chen – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Carmine Appice – drums, backing vocals
• Billy Peek – guitar, backing vocals
• John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards, backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Fred Tackett – acoustic guitar (A3)
• Steve Cropper – guitar
• David Foster – keyboards
• Nicky Hopkins – synthesizer
• Roger Bethelmy – drums (B2)
• Paulinho Da Costa, Tommy Vig – percussion
• John Mayall – harmonica on "Born Loose"
• Phil Kenzie – saxophone
• Richard Greene – violin
• Mark Stein – background vocals on "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
• Andy Johns – background vocals, recording and mixing
• Wally Heider – engineering
• John Naslen – engineering
• Sy Potma – engineering
• Lee Hulko – mastering
• Kosh – art design and direction

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1977-78) Peak position Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[7] 1 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[8] 1 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[9] 1 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[10] 34 Japanese Albums (Oricon)[11] 19 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[12] 1 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[13] 6 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[14] 6 UK Albums (OCC)[15] 3 US Billboard 200[16] 2 Chart (2024) Peak position Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ)[17] 33

Year-end charts Chart (1977) Peak position Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[18] 10 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[19] 34 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[20] 10 UK Albums (OCC)[21] 31 Chart (1978) Peak position Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[22] 16 Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[23] 13 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[24] 33 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[25] 16 US Billboard 200[26] 14

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[27]	4× Platinum	280,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[28]	4× Platinum	400,000^
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[29]	Platinum	20,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[30]	Platinum	15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[31]	Platinum	300,000^
United States (RIAA)[32]	3× Platinum	3,000,000^
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.