Al Stewart
Al Stewart
Alastair Ian "Al" Stewartis a Glasgow-born singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of characters and events from history...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth5 September 1945
uprising faces be-you
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
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Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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It was a nine?point lead, but it didn't feel like it. It was so back?and?forth. They missed shots, and we missed shots.
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It really is remarkable how turkeys have flourished in Michigan. When all of this first started, it was believed that you needed vast areas of timber which was exactly what we had in northern Michigan. But then it became known that turkeys could and would thrive in broken farmland. That's what southern Michigan has and the population has really flourished there.
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We cut the gap to 34-33 early in the fourth quarter, but those kind of comebacks take a lot out of a team. We were down all the way around, but I think we had a pretty good year.
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there are certain cities here where I've always done well. The coasts are really good for me. The Midwest gets difficult. And I can't even get arrested in Dallas.
running reality peers
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.