![]() Live version of Year of the Cat Version from The Old Grey Whistle Test (1976) Cherry Red really are good at producing these box set editions. You also get a poster, four postcards, a 68-page booklet and an immense amount of pleasure. By the time the CD Age came around, this was one of the select albums you dragged along to the hi-fi store to test system performance: If It Doesn’t Come Naturally, Leave It Flying Sorcery Broadway Hotel.Ĥ5 years on and the album is getting the deluxe reissue treatment with a four-disc boxed release on Cherry Red Records, remastered from the original master tapes by Parsons.Īs well as the remastered album on the first CD, you get two discs of a complete show – previously unreleased – recorded at the Paramount Theater in Seattle in October 1976, plus a DVD with a 5.1 mix. The rich arrangements and Alan Parsons’ production were widely praised and have helped it to stand the test of time. ![]() Scottish singer-songwriter Al had come through during the folk revival of the ’60s and ’70s and The Year of the Cat was his seventh – and by far most successful – album, reaching number 5 in the US and selling over a million copies. With the beast that was punk looming, this was the year of Hotel California, Presence, A Night at the Opera and Al Stewart’s The Year of the Cat. ![]() A prime one for me was the Gabriel-free Genesis and A Trick of the Tail, but there were many more. I was 15, spending my hard-earned paper round money on some of the many interesting albums released that year. ![]()
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