Year of the Cat is the seventh studio album by Al Stewart, released in 1976… Read Full Bio ↴Year of the Cat is the seventh studio album by Al Stewart, released in 1976. It was produced and engineered by Alan Parsons. Its sales helped by the hit single "Year of the Cat", co-written by Peter Wood and described by Allmusic as "one of those 'mysterious woman' songs," the album was a top five hit in the United States. The other single from the album was "On the Border". Stewart wrote "Lord Grenville" about the Elizabethan sailor and explorer Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591).
Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded before he even had a title for any of the songs. In a Canadian radio interview he stated that he has done this for six 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"
Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded before he even had a title for any of the songs. In a Canadian radio interview he stated that he has done this for six 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"
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Year Of The Cat
Al Stewart Lyrics
Broadway Hotel You told the man in the Broadway Hotel Nothing was stranger…
Flying Sorcery With your photographs of Kitty Hawk And the biplanes on your…
If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It Nothing that's forced can ever be right If it doesn't come…
Lord Grenville Go and tell Lord Grenville that the tide is on…
Midas Shadow You've got your ticket and your hotel keys And your overnigh…
On The Border The fishing boats go out across the evening water Smuggling …
One Stage Before It seems to me as though I've been upon this…
Sand in Your Shoes You always were a city kid though you were country…
Year of the Cat On a morning from a Bogart movie In a country where…