“Year Of The Cat” by Al Stewart - album review
features in: Album Chart of 1976 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |

Seventh album from the 30-year-old Glaswegian singer-songwriter recorded at Abbey Road, and notable for the lush orchestration of Alan Parsons' production. A shortened version of title-track - about a tourist who experiences a lost 24 hrs in a romantic adventure with a mysterious stranger - gave him his only UK hit, which came as a bit of a relief for the man himself: “When I finished Year of the Cat, I thought: ‘If this isn't a hit, then I can't make a hit.' We finally got the formula exactly right.” The album gave him biggest hit in both the UK (#38) and the US (#5). It's all very accomplished musically and comes complete with well written lyrics, but not one track breaks me out of my unrelenting boredom.
The Jukebox Rebel
02–Jan–2011
Tracklist |
A1 | [05:02] ![]() |
A2 | [03:23] ![]() |
A3 | [03:16] ![]() |
A4 | [03:04] ![]() |
A5 | [04:30] ![]() |
B1 | [04:22] ![]() |
B2 | [03:58] ![]() |
B3 | [04:41] ![]() |
B4 | [06:37] ![]() |