Al Stewart

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Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock guitarist who came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the British folk revival.

Stewart is best known for his 1976 hit single "Year of the Cat," a reference story of a famous celebrity and events from history.

Although Stewart's time in the Cat and its 1978 platinum successor Time Passages brought him his biggest commercial hits, earlier albums like Past, Present, and Future from 1973 are often seen as better examples of his personal brand of historical folk-rock, a style to which he returned in later albums.

He attended the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970 and knew Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon, rented a London flat with a young Paul Simon, and hosted the Les Cousins folk club in London in the 1960s.

In 2009, Stewart's independent company, Uncorked, was released, and Stephen White, Alan Parsons, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman, Francis Monkman, Tori Amos, and Tim Renwick, among others, has played with Dave Nachmanoff and former Wings lead guitarist Laurence Juber.

Early life

Despite being born in Glasgow, Al Stewart grew up in Wimborne, Dorset, England, after moving from Scotland with his mother, Joan Underwood. Alastair MacKichan Stewart, a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force volunteer reserve, died in a plane crash in 1945 during a training exercise before Stewart was born. As a boarder at Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire, Stewart was boarded. "I came up to London when I was 19 with a corduroy jacket and a head full of hopes," the singer says of "Post World War II Blues" (past, Present, and Future).

Stewart traded in his electric guitar for an acoustic guitar when he was offered a weekly slot at Bunjies Coffee House in London's Soho in 1965. From there, he went on to serve as master of ceremonies at the Les Cousins folk club in Greek Street, where he performed with Cat Stevens, Bert Jansch, Roy Harper, Ralph McTell, and Paul Simon, with whom he shared a flat in Stepney, London, on Greek Street.

Personal life

Stewart was born in Scotland, raised in Dorset, and rising to fame in London, only after the introduction of Year of the Cat. Kristine's husband was he married from 1993 to 2005. He then married Jill on September 12, 2020.

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Career

Stewart's debut album was on Jackson C. Frank's debut album, 1965's Jackson C. Frank, who appeared on "Yellow Walls" on "Yellow Walls." Jimmy Page (later of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin) was his first album, "The Elf" (backed with a copy of The Yardbirds' "Turn into Earth), which was released on Decca Records in 1966 and featured guitar work from Jimmy Page (later of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin). Stewart then signed to Columbia Records (CBS in the United Kingdom), for whom he has released six albums. Despite the fact that the first four of these albums piqued little commercial interest, Stewart's fame and cult following grew steadily on albums that featured some of Stewart's most incisive and reflective songwriting.

Bedsitter Images, Stewart's debut album, was released in 1967. A new version of The First Album (Bedsitter Images) appeared in 1970, with only a few tracks changed, and the album was reissued on CD in 2007 with all tracks from both versions.

Love Chronicles (1969) was a hit on the 18-minute title track, an autobiographical story of sexual encounters that was the first mainstream record release to include the word "fucking." It was named as the UK music magazine Melody Maker's "Folk Album of the Year" and featured Jimmy Page and Richard Thompson on guitar.

Zero She Flies was his third album, which came out in 1970 and featured a number of shorter songs, ranging from acoustic ballads and instrumentals to electric lead guitars on his third album. These first three albums (including The Elf) were later released as part of the two-CD set To Whom it Concern: 1966–70.

Stewart and fellow singer Ian A. Anderson travelled to Pilton, Somerset, in 1970. Stewart performed at the first-ever Glastonbury Festival to a field of 1,000 hippies who had paid only £1 each to be there.

Stewart introduced Orange in 1972 in the wake of his increasing fame. It was written after a turbulent breakup with his wife and muse, Mandi, and was very much a transitional album, mixing songs in Stewart's confessional style with more modern rock overtones, including dramatic piano by Rick Wakeman).

Past, Present, and Future (1973), Stewart's first album to be released in the United States by Janus Records, was his first album to be released in the United States. It echoed a traditional historical storytelling style and featured "Nostradamus," a long (9:43) track in which Stewart tied into the discovery of the seer's writings by referring to selected potential future dates and events. Although the song was too long for mainstream radio airplay at the time, it became a hit on several US college/university radio stations, which were flexible about running times.

Thanks to such airplay, the album soared to No. 1 on the charts. In the United States, 133 shows on the Billboard album chart. Also listed are songs on Past, Present, and Future based on Stewart's "history genre," as well as American President Warren G. Harding, World War II, Ernst Röhm, Christine Keeler, Louis Mountbatten, and Joseph Stalin's purges.

In 1975, Stewart appeared in Past, Present, and Future, in which the songs were lighter on historical references and more of a return to the theme of short stories set to music. Nevertheless, it was the first of Alan Parsons' albums to be produced.

AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the album as "exquisite" in a highly favourable retrospective review of Modern Times. Erlewine wrote that the album "establishes Stewart's timeless sound of folky tales and Lennonesque melodies," all wrapped up in a lush, layered performance by Alan Parsons. Epics like the title track have a real sense of grandeur that makes their sentiments ring true."

"Carol" was Stewart's first hit song, according to the Modern Times. The album debuted at No. 1. 30 years ago, Bob Dylan's album of the same name was released in the United States and received significant airplay on album-oriented stations 30 years before Bob Dylan's debut on an album of the same name.

Stewart's deal with CBS Records came to an end, and he signed to RCA Records for the world outside of North America. His first two albums for RCA, Year of the Cat (which were issued on Janus Records in the United States and later reissued by Arista Records after Janus folded) and Time Passages (which were released in the United States on Arista) set the tone for his later music and became his best-selling albums.

"I thought, if this isn't a hit, I can't make a hit," Stewart told Kaya Burgess of The Times: "I thought, if this isn't a hit, then I can't make a hit." We finally got the recipe exactly right," says the chef.

Before he had a name for any of the songs, Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded. In a Canadian radio interview, he said he has done this for six of his albums, and he often writes four separate sets of lyrics for each song.

Both albums made it to the top ten in the United States, with Year of the Cat debuting at No. 1. At No. 5, Time Passages. Both albums had hit singles in the United States, and No. 10 was released. "On the Border," #8, and "Time Passages" (No. 8) No. (#9) on the 7th and "Song on the Radio" in addition. "Year of the Cat" became Stewart's first chart single in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at No. 1 in No. 68. 31. Capital Radio's Capital Radio had a great success, ranking second on the Capital Countdown chart, at number two. Stewart's songwriting on the two albums, both of which receive substantial radio airplay on classic-rock/pop format radio stations, has unquestionably influenced Stewart's songwriting's breadth and breadth.

Stewart's first live album Live/Indian Summer (#37 US 1980) and his first live album Live in the Dark (#110.81), with both featuring support from Peter White's band Shot in the Dark (who first released their own album in 1981). Though "24 Carrots" did not produce a No. The album was less popular than its two immediate predecessors, "Midnight Rocks" on 24 singles.

Stewart was dropped by Arista after those launches, and his fame has dwindled. Despite his low profile and waning commercial success, he continued to tour the world, record albums, and have a devoted fan base. There was a four-year gap between his next two albums, the highly political Russians and Americans (1984), and the upbeat pop-oriented Last Days of the Century (1988), which appeared on smaller labels and saw lower sales than his previous works.

Stewart and Peter White appeared on his second live album, The acoustic Rhymes in Rooms (1992), which featured just Stewart and Peter White, and Famous Last Words (1993), which was dedicated to the life of the late Peter Wood (co-writer of "Year of the Cat"), who died within a year of its release.

Stewart and former Wings guitarist Laurence Juber began to collaborate on Between the Wars (1995), a series of historical and cultural events from 1918 to 1939, including the Treaty of Versailles, Prohibition, the Spanish Civil War, and the Great Depression. Peter White, a longtime collaborator of nearly 20 years (who was also on every studio and live album from Year of the Cat and Famous Last Words, was also his regular songwriting partner), joined together in 1996 to produce a concept album, Juber produced the album and went on to produce Stewart's subsequent studio albums.

Stewart was invited to perform at the 25th anniversary Glastonbury Festival in 1995.

Stewart launched Down in the Cellar, a minimalist album focusing on wine, in 2000. Stewart began a love affair with wine in the 1970s when he admitted that he had more money than he knew how to invest, and so he moved to fine wines.

He released A Beach Full of Shells, a film that appeared in places from First World War England to the 1950s rock 'n' roll scene that inspired him.

Sparks of Ancient Light, his most recent albums, was released in 2008. On this album, he weaves tales of William McKinley, Lord Salisbury, and Hanno the Navigator. In December 2013, the song "Elvis at the Wheel" was released in a video.

In 2009, Stewart and guitarist Dave Nachmanoff released Uncorked, a live album on Stewart's label, Wallaby Trails Recordings. In June 2010, they appeared on the acoustic stage for the Glastonbury Festival's 40th anniversary.

On Hammond's 2010 album Legend, Stewart sang a duet with Albert Hammond of Hammond's "It Never Rains in Southern California."

On Nachmanoff's album Step Up, Stewart performed a duet with his guitarist and opening act Dave Nachmanoff. Stewart and Nachmanoff co-wrote "Sheila Won't Be Coming Home."

Stewart performed Past, Present, Future, and Year of the Cat in their entirety at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2015, including Tim Renwick, Peter White, and Stuart Elliott, who had appeared on the original recordings.

Stewart was given a Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in April 2017, with whom he had briefly performed in a band in Dorset.

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