Prior to 1976, Al Stewart was a folk rock artist with an inclination to write songs with historical and geographical references. After the release of the “Year of the Cat” album, Stewart still wrote ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before he’d cracked the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 thanks to the sax-driven splendor of “Year of the Cat,” Al ...

The interview came just after Stewart’s seventh album was issued. Year Of The Cat went platinum in the US in March 1977. In the UK, it became his first chart album since 1970’s Zero She Flies but ...

Then Zero She Flies and Orange were not as good, and consequently I received some bad press. After Past, Present, and Future I came here and never toured England with a good band. In England they have ...