Happy Birthday Al Stewart

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  1. fit

    fitzytyke Well-Known Member

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    80 today!

     
    fitzytyke, Sep 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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    Is this year the year of the cat?
     
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    I got the chance to see him a few years ago in San Francisco.
     
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    I never really understood what the lyrics were all about !
     
    x11barnsley, Sep 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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    There with the best of them.

    When I enter the crem, "Lord Grenville" will be playing.
     
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    In short, it was about a tourist in a foreign town (I always imagine Marakesh) meeting a local beauty and missing the next leg of his journey.
     
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    ‘Almost Lucy’ is one of my faves
     
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    Could be the year of the twa t!
     
    Tonjytyke, Sep 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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    That Cat just had it's cream.
     
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    Got to see him 50 odd years ago in Clacton. I went out and bought ‘Love Chronicles’ after. His best album in my opinion. Happy birthday mate.
     
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    Me neither.
     
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    It's because it was AI.
     
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    I love the sea songs.
     
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    I saw Al Stewart around 50 years ago and I totally understand you buying "Love Chronicles". At a time when 4-5 minutes on an LP was considered a longish track he produced a song (title track) which was (18 minutes ?) long and had 3 or 4 different melodies in it.
    Great talent.
     
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    Thank you for that. Really enjoyed it. I'm at my house in Spain just now so really enjoyed the Spanish guitar. Sat out side, 1:30 a.m. 23 degrees, "you can't whack it"......
     
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    I saw him decades ago, when I was a student in London.
     
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    Flamin galah.
     
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    Past, Present and Future. Genius.
    Waterboys and Mike Scott were quite fond of it too, hence Red Army Blues on A Pagan Place, Roads to Moscow re mix.
     
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    Year of the Cat is one of my funeral tracks, along with:

    Peaceful - Georgie Fame

    and

    McArthur Park - Richard Harris.
     
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    BBC Radio 2 plays only 3 of Al's catalogue:

    This one - On the Border
    Time Passages
    and Year of the Cat
     
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