[simpson96]

*music ping*

[Fresh Wind]

2020 is “Year of the Bat”.

[blackdog]

My favorite high school record album.

[Buckeye McFrog]

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

[dfwgator]

The great Andrew Powell did the orchestration.

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

[PGalt]

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

Play it again, Sam. WOW.

[real saxophonist]

I like Time Passages.

[Red Badger]

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

[CarolinaPeach]

I love the lyrics in this song.

Peach

[thefactor]

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.

[Sans-Culotte]

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

[lee martell]

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.

[truthluva]

One of my favorite tunes!

[BBQToadRibs]

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

[circlecity]

One hit wonder. But it was a good song - it deserved the success it achieved.

[CharleysPride]

Outstanding.

Al is one of the go-to’s on my YouTube playlist.

Love his historical stuff, “Hanno The Navigator”

[Freestate316]

I love Roads to Moscow.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I liked the song, but never understood what the year of the cat meant.

[Pagey]

Ahhh, the Great Al Stewart! He was good friends w/ Jimmy Page who was putting together what became L.Z. He told Al he needed a bass player (BEFORE he came across John Paul Jones) and Al said in an interview once, “ I can play bass, but my heart is a guitarist, and I declined”. I can’t imagine how history would be different if he had agreed.

[NFHale]

One of my favorite albums of all time.

The title song “Year of the Cat” is lyrical genius, eloquent, and very evocative.

“On the Border” has some brilliant guitar throughout it.

I’ve listened to this album over and over and never tire of it.

Thank you for posting this.