Rod Stewart - Have You Ever Seen The Rain

What this video is

Released in September 2006 as a single from 'Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time,' Rod Stewart's cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic represents a deliberate pivot from his multi-album Great American Songbook cycle back toward rock heritage. The video arrives during a mid-2000s cultural moment when legacy rock artists leveraged high-production music videos on digital platforms and music…

Why it matters

This video documents the mid-2000s commercial classic-rock covers economy — a format in which arena-legacy artists (Stewart, Rod; Bryan, David; others) produced slickly shot performance clips to anchor radio-serviced singles from rock-heritage albums. Nigel Dick's direction exemplifies the…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England) is a British-American music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He trained in architecture at the University of Bath before entering the music industry at Stiff Records. He…