![]() ![]() He famously was sent, just three months later, to The Beatles’ Apple Studio to op for Glyn Johns for the Get Back sessions. Parsons began, like all freshman engineers at the studio, in the tape library, and then as a tape operator (“second engineer,” officially). “Two weeks after that, I was walking up those steps, as I did for many years, from that point on,” he says. In the fall of 1968, at age 19, he applied to work at EMI’s studio at Abbey Road, and was hired by studio chief Allen Stagg that October. Parsons had joined EMI in 1965 at age 16, working in various departments at the company’s Hayes tape duplication and pressing plants. ![]() Their second project together generated what became one of Stewart’s signature hits, “Year of the Cat,” the title track of his seventh album, reissued in a glorious 45th anniversary boxed set last year by Esoteric Recordings. But upon meeting producer/engineer Alan Parsons at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios, he shifted to folk rock. Most of his songs were historical in nature, the telling of tales a la a modern bard or minstrel. The 45th anniversary release of ‘Year of the Cat’ features a remaster of the album, along with a new 5.1 surround mix, both by Parsons.įor most of his career up until 1975, Al Stewart considered himself a folk singer, playing in the English folk scene. ![]()
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