On September 5, Al Stewart will turn 78. Although he has recorded hardly any new songs for more than a decade, he has an impressive catalogue going back to the 1960s. Many are timeless, which is what one would expect from the inventor of historical folk-rock, but others will strike a personal chord with the […]
During the hopefully long gone lockdowns, many performers put on live shows broadcast by YouTube, including Al Stewart acolyte and collaborator Dave Nachmanoff. Al’s backing band has now gone one better with on-line ticket events to supplement their live shows. The inventor of historical folk-rock is taking December off, he’s not touring anyway, but The […]
Al Stewart played Cadogan Hall October 9, 2019. I hadn’t expected him to cross the Atlantic again but apparently he and The Empty Pockets were scheduled to tour in 2020. We all know what happened next. The delayed 2020 tour is now underway, and they play not one but three nights at London’s Cadogan Hall. […]
Well, not that new as he died in 1888, but PhD student Amy Wilcockson was researching at the British Library recently when she came across some pages written by Lear which had apparently not yet seen the light of day. Although the mainstream media has just reported on the find, she co-wrote an article on the […]
John Lennon would have been eighty this month, a theme many news outlets have taken up. Incredibly, it is nearly forty years since he was gunned down on a New York street by a deranged “fan”. Most people alive today were not born then, and even fewer of us are old enough to remember Beatlemania, the phenomenon that rocked especially the Western world even more dramatically than rock ’n’ roll a decade earlier.
In April this year, legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore celebrated his 75th birthday. This month, singer-songwriter Al Stewart reached the same landmark. If you haven’t heard of Al, why not?
He was born in Scotland on September 5, 1945, the posthumous son of a Royal Air Force volunteer. Named after his father, his widowed mother lived for a while with Al’s paternal grandfather before relocating to England.
