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Al Stewart

アル・スチュアート　/　ある・すちゅあーと

Singer-songwriter from United Kingdom

September 5, 1945 (age 80)　・　Glasgow, United Kingdom

singer-songwriter
poet
recording artist

My Take

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.

Overview

Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a British 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 style of combining folk-rock songs with tales of characters and events from history.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

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
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer-songwriter / poet / recording artist / musician / composer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
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3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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6. Links

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

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