Al Stewart’s 1976 album, Year of the Cat, has received a 45th Anniversary release. The expanded 3-CD/1-DVD boxed set has been newly re-mastered for the first time from the original first-generation master tapes by Alan Parsons. It also features Parsons’ new 5.1 Surround sound mix from the original multi-track tapes. In addition, the set includes a complete, previously unreleased concert recorded at the Paramount Theater, in Seattle, Wash., in October 1976 on Stewart’s Year of the Cat tour.
Recorded in the early months of 1976 at Abbey Road studios (with some sessions and mixing taking place at Davlen Studios in Los Angeles), Year of the Cat was Stewart’s seventh album and the second on which he collaborated with Parsons as producer.
DISC ONE
YEAR OF THE CAT /RE-MASTERED BY ALAN PARSONS
1. LORD GRENVILLE
2. ON THE BORDER
3. MIDAS SHADOW
4. SAND IN YOUR SHOES
5. IF IT DOESN’T COME NATURALLY, LEAVE IT
6. FLYING SORCERY
7. BROADWAY HOTEL
8. ONE STAGE BEFORE
9. YEAR OF THE CAT
BONUS TRACK
10. BELSIZE BLUES (RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS IN SEPTEMBER 1975)
DISC TWO:
LIVE AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATER, SEATTLE – OCTOBER 1976 / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
1. APPLE CIDER RE-CONSTITUTION
2. THE DARK AND THE ROLLING SEA
3. ONE STAGE BEFORE
4. SOHO (NEEDLESS TO SAY)
5. NOT THE ONE
6. ON THE BORDER
7. BROADWAY HOTEL
8. ROADS TO MOSCOW
DISC THREE:
LIVE AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATER, SEATTLE – OCTOBER 1976 / PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
1. NOSTRADAMUS
2. SIRENS OF TITAN
3. THE POST WORLD WAR TWO BLUES
4. YEAR OF THE CAT
5. SAND IN YOUR SHOES
6. CAROL
7. IF IT DOESN’T COME NATURALLY, LEAVE IT
