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Al Stewart - "Year Of The Cat" 1976
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Posted on 03/05/2020 8:25:58 AM PST by simpson96

(Stewart in 1976, and still performing in 2019...)

Year of the Cat is the seventh studio album by Al Stewart, released in 1976 and was produced and engineered by Alan Parsons; it is considered his masterpiece, its sales helped by the hit single "Year of the Cat", "one of those 'mysterious woman' songs," co-written by Peter Wood.

Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded before he even had a title of any of the songs. In a Canadian radio interview he stated that he has done this for 6 of his albums, and he often writes four different sets of lyrics for each song. The title track derives from a song Stewart wrote in 1966 called "Foot of the Stage" with prescient lyrics about Tony Hancock, one of Britain's favourite comedians who tragically committed suicide two years later. When Stewart discovered that Hancock was not well known in the United States, he went back to his original title "Year of the Cat".

Al Stewart - "Year Of The Cat" 1976

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1 posted on 03/05/2020 8:25:58 AM PST by simpson96
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To: trisham; hoosiermama; Dawgreg; OddLane; Fiji Hill; originalbuckeye; Southside_Chicago_Republican; ..

*music ping*


2 posted on 03/05/2020 8:26:11 AM PST by simpson96
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Laxative rock. I can dig it.


3 posted on 03/05/2020 8:26:59 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: simpson96

2020 is “Year of the Bat”.


4 posted on 03/05/2020 8:27:26 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: simpson96

My favorite high school record album.


5 posted on 03/05/2020 8:27:31 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: simpson96

The extended piano into (edited out of the radio airplay version) is tremendous.


6 posted on 03/05/2020 8:27:34 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: blackdog
My favorite high school record album.

You no doubt took abuse from the Foghat and Led Zepplin fans every day. I did.


7 posted on 03/05/2020 8:28:51 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Stewart is a big history buff. This album was an attempt at combining history lore with music.


8 posted on 03/05/2020 8:29:19 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: simpson96

The great Andrew Powell did the orchestration.

Any Alan Parsons fan would know of Powell’s greatness.


9 posted on 03/05/2020 8:30:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96

Thanks so much. One of my favorites...lyrics, instruments, arrangement, love song.

Play it again, Sam. WOW.


10 posted on 03/05/2020 8:30:17 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: simpson96

I like Time Passages.


11 posted on 03/05/2020 8:30:35 AM PST by real saxophonist (I'll be Bach. You be Brahms. He'll be Beethoven.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The girls liked year of the cat ;).

Priorities.

12 posted on 03/05/2020 8:30:55 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: simpson96

I HAVE THAT ALBUM!.................


13 posted on 03/05/2020 8:31:07 AM PST by Red Badger (If people were to God like dogs are to people, the world would be a really great place..............)
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To: simpson96

I love the lyrics in this song.

Peach


14 posted on 03/05/2020 8:31:38 AM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: simpson96
Great song that tells a good story. I have come to really like songs that tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end.

My favorites are "Lying Eyes" by the Eagles and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.

15 posted on 03/05/2020 8:31:51 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor

Or Harry Chapin’s “Taxi”.

It seems to be a lost art these days.


16 posted on 03/05/2020 8:32:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96

An album I enjoyed in college. I also like “Past, Present and Future”.


17 posted on 03/05/2020 8:36:10 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: simpson96

Al Stewart looks good for his age (74), and more importantly, he looks happy. Al was brave enough to cut his formerly long curly hair. Not all musicians from that era can let go of their long hair, even when they probably should.

I’m thinking of Brian May, the lead guitarist for Queen.
Brian still has that exact same ‘Freedom Wig’ curly do that he sported in 1974. The difference now is his dark brown hair is now grey and white. It gives him the appearance of an
English Barrister with the requisite horse hair wig.


18 posted on 03/05/2020 8:37:35 AM PST by lee martell
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To: simpson96

One of my favorite tunes!


19 posted on 03/05/2020 8:39:17 AM PST by truthluva
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To: simpson96

Alan Parsons had his hands in a lot of projects, and always turned out well.


20 posted on 03/05/2020 8:41:02 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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