of a hotel. It was also included on the soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. The song was also referenced in Jayne Anne Phillips' short story "What It Takes to Keep a Young Girl Alive." While the story's character Sue is lying in bed in the dark "Rod Stewart, scratchy and loud, combed his hair in a thousand different ways and came out looking just the same." Greil Marcus uses the reference to the song in "What It Takes to Keep a Young Girl Alive" to muse on what makes a good record and why "Every Picture Tells a Story" is a good record, i.e., a good record is one that "entering a person's life, can enable that person to live more intensely — as, whatever else it does, 'Every Picture Tells a Story' does for Jayne Anne Phillips' Sue." Personnel Rod Stewart – lead vocals, backing vocals Ronnie Wood – electric guitar, twelve-string guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals Pete Sears – piano Micky Waller – drums Ian McLagan – Hammond organ, backing vocals Long John Baldry, Maggie Bell, Mateus Rose, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane – backing vocals References 1971 singles Rod Stewart songs Songs written by Rod Stewart The Georgia Satellites songs Songs written by Ronnie Wood Song recordings produced by Rod Stewart Mercury Records singles 1971 songs