Year of the Cat (song)

This article is about the Al Stewart song. For the Lemonheads song, see Lovey (album).

"Year of the Cat"
Single by Al Stewart
from the album Year of the Cat
B-side"Broadway Hotel"
ReleasedJuly 1976 (1976-07) (UK)
October 1976 (US)
RecordedJanuary 1976
StudioAbbey Road Studios, London, England
Genre
Length
  • 6:40 (Album Version)
  • 4:38 (Single Version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Alan Parsons
Al Stewart singles chronology
"Carol"
(1975) 		"Year of the Cat"
(1976) 		"On the Border"
(1977)
Official audio
"Year of the Cat" on YouTube
Audio sample
"Year of the Cat"

"Year of the Cat" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart, released as a single in July 1976 in the UK (October 1976 in the US). The song is the title track of his 1976 album Year of the Cat, and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, in January 1976 by engineer Alan Parsons. The song peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the consecutive weeks of March 5 and 12, 1977.[3][4] Although Stewart's highest placed single on that chart was 1978's "Time Passages",[5] "Year of the Cat" has remained Stewart's signature recording, receiving regular airplay on both classic rock and folk rock stations.

  1. ^ "Year Of The Cat – Record Collector Magazine". recordcollectormag.com.
  2. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (2000). Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late '70s. St. Martin's Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.
  3. ^ Al Stewart, Billboard Hot 100 – Billboard.com. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  4. ^ Billboard Hot 100, Week of March 12, 1977 – Billboard.com. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 603.