(I Know) I'm Losing You / Maggie May

Originally released on Mercury 73244. This is my very favorite Rod Stewart rocker, featuring as it does the swashbuckling backup of the great band Faces. This is a beautiful copy of the blue-label Mercury "Celebrity Series" reissue. The reissue has the best pairing of the best singles released from Stewart's classic album, Every Picture Tells A Story, preserving the original Mono mix of the 45s in all their power. In this case, it also preserves the brilliant edit from the 45, which is almost 2 minutes shorter than the 5:22 LP cut. Note: This side's audio grades Near Mint, with a touch of surface noise I noted near the beginning but mostly Mint thereafter.