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Rod Stewart in 2004; Yui Mok – PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images
Rod Stewart has been making videos for his songs since the ’70s, and was a fixture on MTV through the ’80s and ’90s. But his first video to hit 1 billion views isn’t for any of those hit singles.
The one that rang the billion-view bell for Rod is a 2004 live performance of “I Don’t Want to Talk About It,” which was a big hit for him in the U.K. in 1977. He cut a new version in 1989, which was a big hit in the U.S. The 2004 video is taken from Rod’s concert video One Night Only! Live At Royal Albert Hall — it’s sung as a duet with Scottish singer Amy Belle.
This is good news for Rod, who’s had a spate of bad news lately: He had to postpone two concerts and missed the landmark 200th show of his Las Vegas residency due to illness.
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