Editing Rod Stewart (section)

===1995–2001: New ventures and record labels===
[[File:Rod Stewart 1995.jpg|thumb|left|Stewart in Paris, 1995]]
By the early 1990s, Stewart had mostly abandoned creating his own material, saying that he was not a natural songwriter and that the tepid response to his recent efforts was not rewarding.<ref name="bbc122306">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6193284.stm|work=BBC News|author=Young, Kevin|title=Stewart goes beneath the covers|date=23 December 2006|access-date=1 January 2007}}</ref> In 1995, Stewart released ''[[A Spanner in the Works]]'' containing a single written by [[Tom Petty]], "[[Leave Virginia Alone]]", which reached the Top 10 of the adult contemporary charts. The latter half of the 1990s was not as commercially successful though the 1996 album ''[[If We Fall in Love Tonight]]'' reached number 8 in the UK and went gold and hit No. 19 on the ''Billboard'' album chart.<ref name="BillboardChart"/>

''[[When We Were the New Boys]]'', his final album on the [[Warner Bros.]] label released in 1998, contained versions of songs by [[Britpop]] acts such as [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] and [[Primal Scream]], and reached number two on the UK album charts. That same year, he recorded the song "[[Faith of the Heart]]", written by Diane Warren, for the film ''[[Patch Adams (film)|Patch Adams]]''. In 2000, Stewart left Warner Bros. and moved to [[Atlantic Records]], another division of [[Warner Music Group]].{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} In 2001, he released ''[[Human (Rod Stewart album)|Human]]''. The single "I Can't Deny It" went Top 40 in the UK and Top 20 in the adult contemporary. Stewart then signed to [[Clive Davis]]' new [[J Records]] label. ''[[The Very Best of Rod Stewart|The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart]]'', a greatest hits album compiled from his time at Warner Bros., is certified four times platinum in the UK with over 1.2 million copies sold and reached number one in 2001 in Belgium and France.<ref>[https://www.bpi.co.uk/brit-certified/ “British album certifications – Rod Stewart – The Story So Far"]. British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 6 August 2019. Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type The Story So Far in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter</ref>