Al Stewart

Al Stewart is the kind of songwriter I respect because he refused to stay in the obvious lane. Coming out of the 1960s British folk revival, he could have settled into earnest folk-rock, but instead he started weaving actual history into his songs, turning characters and events into narratives you could sing along to. That historian's instinct gives his catalogue a texture most of his contemporaries never reached. Born in Glasgow in 1945, he's British to the core even as his storytelling roams across centuries. I like that he treated the pop song as a place where a curious mind could wander, not just confess.

Name (English)

Al Stewart

Name (Japanese)

アル・スチュアート

Reading

ある・すちゅあーと

Born

September 5, 1945 (age 80)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rooster

Origin

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer-songwriter / poet / recording artist / musician / composer

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.alstewart.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

Tags

• singer-songwriter
• poet
• recording artist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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