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Al Stewart (Music)
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Alastair Ian Stewart (born September 5, 1945) is a British Singer-Songwriter and guitarist known particularly for exemplifying the 'confessional' school of songwriting in his early years, for writing a large number of songs about history and historical events, and for the hit title tracks from his albums Year of the Cat (1976) and Time Passages (1978).Official website: http://www.alstewart.com/ | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: the narrators of "Apple Cider Re-Constitution," "Timeless Skies," and "Year of the Cat," among others | |
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HypocriticalHumour | |
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Hypocritical Humour: A darker example with "Night of the 4th of May". The narrator begins by telling his girlfriend that he wants an open relationship and goes off with another woman at a party... and then gets huffy because his girlfriend does exactly the same thing. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: several. Past, Present, and Future is a historical based album with a song for each decade of the twentieth century up to the time it was recorded. Between The Wars does the same for the period 1919-1938. Down in the Cellar is a concept album inspired by wine. | |
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The Middle Ages | |
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The Middle Ages: "Merlin's Time," "Constantinople," "Nostradamus," "Merry Monks" The Late Middle Ages: "A Man For All Seasons" | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: The song "Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres," in which the narrator meets a girl in a bookshop, invites her back to his flat, makes her dinner, talks to her about her life story and eventually invites her to live with him to which she replies "But I've not finished school yet" | |
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Granola Girl | |
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Granola Girl: Heroines like these turn up in a few of his songs, including "Carol," "Year of the Cat," and "In Brooklyn". | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: Very fond of history as a theme: Ancient Greece: "Helen and Cassandra," "Hanno the Navigator" The Middle Ages: "Merlin's Time," "Constantinople," "Nostradamus," "Merry Monks" The Late Middle Ages: "A Man For All Seasons" The French Revolution: "The Palace of Versailles," "Charlotte Corday" Wooden Ships and Iron Men: "Lord Grenville" Nineteenth Century: "Lord Salisbury," "Ellis Island" World War I: "Old Admirals," "Manuscript," "Fields of France," "Somewhere in England 1915" Interwar period: Between The Wars, "Warren Harding," "Joe the Georgian," "The Last Day of June 1934," "Laughing Into 1939," "On the Border," "Josephine Baker," "Immelman Turn" World War II: "Roads to Moscow," "Murmansk Run," "Trains" The latter half of The 20th Century: "Post World War Two Blues," "Shah of Shahs," "Running Man," "Night Meeting," "A Child's View of the Eisenhower Years," "Class of '58," "In Red Square", "Gina in the King's Road", "Ton Ton Macoutte". | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: to give just a few examples, "Song on the Radio" (6:19), "Time Passages" (6:43), "Murmansk Run/Ellis Island" (7:41), "Roads to Moscow" (8:00), "Trains" (8:17), "Nostradamus" (9:43)—yet, all of these pale in comparison to "Love Chronicles", which runs for 18:04. | |
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The Late Middle Ages | |
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The Late Middle Ages: "A Man For All Seasons" | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: "A Long Way Down From Stephanie" is a heartbroken lament about a lost lover written in Shakespearian style. The last line reveals that Stephanie was his first-grade crush: "And though lost at six, if I should live to be seven, I might forget Stephanie." | |
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Been There, Shaped History | |
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Been There, Shaped History: Al himself is a real life example. He met Yoko Ono before any of The Beatles and shared a flat with Simon & Garfunkel (and was their roadie on their first big tour). | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: The song “Joe the Georgian� is actually about Josef Stalin's rise to power, re-imagined in a naval setting. While the real life story may be subjective to some, the song definitely isn't. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: On the song "Love Chronicles". Bonus points for using it in its literal sense as well. | |
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The 20th Century | |
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The latter half of The 20th Century: "Post World War Two Blues," "Shah of Shahs," "Running Man," "Night Meeting," "A Child's View of the Eisenhower Years," "Class of '58," "In Red Square", "Gina in the King's Road", "Ton Ton Macoutte". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Terminal Eyes", on the album Past Present & Future, is a deliberate imitation of The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus". The liner notes dedicate the song to "egg-men everywhere." "Soho (Needless to Say)", from the same album, is written In the Style of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". "Year of the Cat" mentions Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre. "Flying Sorcery" references a lot of aviation history. His historical songs are full of them. | |
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Environmental Symbolism | |
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Environmental Symbolism: many songs use the ocean as a setting ("Lord Grenville", "Old Admirals", "Murmansk Run", the first verse of "On the Border") or a metaphor ("The Dark and the Rolling Sea", "Midnight Rocks", "Rocks in the Ocean", "Life in Dark Water", “Joe the Georgian�). Also an instance of Author Appeal. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Post World War II Blues". The tune is bouncy, the lyrics are a catalog of almost every major tragedy of the post-1945 years. "Last Train To Munich". The music is catchy Django Reinhardt-style jazz. The lyrics are about how the narrator is sending his best friend on an espionage mission which will almost certainly lead to his death. | |
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Write Who You Know | |
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Write Who You Know: even after they broke up, Mandi was the inspiration for many of Stewart's relationship songs, including "Where Are they Now?", "Bad Reputation", and "Optical Illusion." | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: Generally Al works hard on the meaning of his lyrics but this trope comes into play in "Red Toupee" which was originally merely meant to be guide lyrics to a backing track from co-writer Peter White. However, they both thought the lyrics sounded so good they kept them as they were. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: "Night of the 4th of May" is a retelling of a real life argument between Stewart and his 1960s girlfriend Mandi. Write Who You Know: even after they broke up, Mandi was the inspiration for many of Stewart's relationship songs, including "Where Are they Now?", "Bad Reputation", and "Optical Illusion." | |
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In the Style of | |
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"Soho (Needless to Say)", from the same album, is written In the Style of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". | |
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Wooden Ships and Iron Men | |
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Wooden Ships and Iron Men: "Lord Grenville" | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: "Terminal Eyes". | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Exemplifies this trope with his historical songs which are all thoroughly researched and contain all manner of references to obscure individuals and little known historical incidents and anecdotes. He is said to have read over seventy books on the Eastern Front while composing the lyrics to "Roads to Moscow." | |
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