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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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To: simpson96
Love that!

My cousin gave me that album back in the day and I still have it.

41 posted on 03/05/2020 9:32:49 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Calvin Locke

Only song I know that has the word “patchouli” in it.


42 posted on 03/05/2020 9:35:11 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: simpson96

My favorite solo male singer ... I have every one of his albums.


43 posted on 03/05/2020 9:43:33 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: simpson96

I read somewhere that Al Stewart said if this song didn’t become a hit, then he just cannot write one.


44 posted on 03/05/2020 9:44:03 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again".)
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To: CharleysPride

Very few seem to have interest in history. One is Iron Maiden. The other is Sabaton.


45 posted on 03/05/2020 9:44:18 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: real saxophonist

Me too! Time Passages was the song playing on the radio as my son and I drove out of his college campus for the last time, car loaded up with all his stuff. It was perfect! We both felt so free! He had made it! It was an excruciating journey. CR has always been “different”—extremely bright, seeing the world in a different way, and questioning everything. He has carved out a very interesting life since then, and he turns 40 this year, happier than he has ever been in his life. It was worth all my husband and I went through to get him to this place. He has been true to himself through all.


46 posted on 03/05/2020 9:51:10 AM PST by Bookwoman (And I am unanimous in that.)
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To: IronJack

Barely ManEnough?


47 posted on 03/05/2020 10:02:11 AM PST by real saxophonist (I'll be Bach. You be Brahms. He'll be Beethoven.)
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To: blackdog
The girls liked year of the cat ;).

So it was your Year of the...er,....uh......well, it means cat.


48 posted on 03/05/2020 10:29:14 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: blackdog

On the Border is another one with a strong history message.


49 posted on 03/05/2020 12:06:23 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: dfwgator

WOLD by Harry Chapin is another


50 posted on 03/05/2020 12:07:07 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Flycatcher

Well...., https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/patchouli

... says 40 count, including Aerosmith’s “Face”, but a glance has “Year of the Cat” at least thrice, including a cover.


51 posted on 03/05/2020 12:53:31 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: thefactor

Cmon, what about Convoy?


52 posted on 03/05/2020 1:10:35 PM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Red Badger

I actually remember buying the Album in ‘76

Some department store on Water St. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada. Still have it!


53 posted on 03/05/2020 1:18:03 PM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: CodeJockey

I bought it at a local record store in 76 when I was in the Marines at Camp LeJeune, NC....................


54 posted on 03/05/2020 1:23:23 PM 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 stumbled into a Fells Point bar in Baltimore during the summer of ‘92 and Stewart was just starting his first set. Couldn’t have been more than 100 people in the joint. Stewart was joined by a bass player and some guy on piano. One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. He played 90 minutes and covered all his best stuff. Don’t remember what caused me to enter that particular bar right then, but I am sure glad I did.


55 posted on 03/05/2020 1:40:27 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: cyclotic

I’m not that old. Haha.


56 posted on 03/05/2020 2:07:27 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor

Convoy was released in 1975. The Wreck 9f the Edmund Fitzgerald was released in 1976.

You argument holds as much water at the boat does.

Convoy is a great story that tells a story from start to finish. It must, simply must be included on your list.


57 posted on 03/05/2020 2:35:28 PM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: simpson96

Love Al Stewart - one of the great voices of popular music.

I especially liked his historical stuff - like “Lord Grenville”, but “Year of the Cat” and “Time Passages” are classics.


58 posted on 03/05/2020 7:24:31 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: simpson96

I was born in the Year of the Cat.


59 posted on 03/06/2020 7:04:44 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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