Al Stewart is certainly one of a kind. Not many rock stars choose to sing about Basque terrorism, Hitler’s purge of Ernst Röhm and his followers, Sputnik I or the Soviet Gulag.
Agreed! Roads to Moscow, Nostradamus, Lord Grenville... And then there were others like Alan Parsons taking on the writings of Poe, and so on. Real creativity, real talent... It was a special time in music history,