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Year Of The Cat
Year of the Cat may refer to: * Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese zodiac sign * ''Year of the Cat'' (album), a 1976 Al Stewart album ** Year of the Cat (song) "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 (album), Year of the Cat'', and was reco ..., a single and title track from the album *'' Saigon: Year of the Cat'', a 1983 British television drama about the fall of Saigon * The Year of the Cat (film), a 2024 Iranian comedy film {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of The Cat (song)
"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 (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, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for the consecutive weeks of March 5 and 12, 1977. Although Stewart's highest placed single on that chart was 1978's "Time Passages (song), Time Passages", "Year of the Cat" has remained Stewart's signature recording, receiving regular Airplay (radio), airplay on both classic rock and folk rock stations. Composition Co-written by Peter Wood, "Year of the Cat" is a narrative song written in the second-person narrative, second person whose protagonist, a tourist, is visiting an exotic market when a mysterious silk-clad woman appears and takes him away for a gauzy romantic adventure. On waki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cat (zodiac)
The Cat is the 4th animal symbol in the 12-year cycle of the Vietnamese zodiac, and Gurung zodiac, taking place of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac. As such, the traits associated with the Rabbit are attributed to the Cat. Cats are in conflict with the Rat. Legends relating to the order of the Chinese zodiac often include stories as to why the cat was not included among the twelve. Because the Rat tricked the cat into missing the banquet with the Jade Emperor, the cat was not included and was not aware that the banquet was going on and was not given a year, thus began the antipathy between cats and rats. It is possible domesticated cats had not proliferated through China at the zodiac's induction. Another legend known as "The Great Race" tells that all the animals in the zodiac were headed to the Jade Emperor. The Cat and Rat were the most intelligent of the animals, however they were both also poor swimmers and came across a river. They both tricked the kind, naïve Ox to assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of The Cat (album)
''Year of the Cat'' is the seventh studio album by Al Stewart, released in 1976. It was produced and engineered by Alan Parsons. Its sales helped by the hit single " Year of the Cat", co-written by Peter Wood and described by AllMusic as "one of those 'mysterious woman' songs", the album was a top five hit in the United States. The other single from the album was "On the Border". Stewart wrote "Lord Grenville" about the Elizabethan sailor and explorer Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591). Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded before he even had a title for any of the songs. In a Canadian radio interview he stated that he has done this for six of his albums, and he often writes four different sets of lyrics for each song. The title track derives from a song Stewart wrote in 1966 called "Foot of the Stage" with prescient lyrics about Tony Hancock, one of Britain's favourite comedians who died by suicide two years later. When Stewart disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of The Cat
Year of the Cat may refer to: * Cat (zodiac), a Vietnamese zodiac sign * ''Year of the Cat'' (album), a 1976 Al Stewart album ** Year of the Cat (song) "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 (album), Year of the Cat'', and was reco ..., a single and title track from the album *'' Saigon: Year of the Cat'', a 1983 British television drama about the fall of Saigon * The Year of the Cat (film), a 2024 Iranian comedy film {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
