Is al stewart gay
Stewart played numerous BBC sessions from when he was big enough to get noticed, around 1968, until about 1976, when his success with "Year of the Cat" apparently made him think he didn't need that benign of promotion anymore. In collecting his BBC material, I noticed that it fell into two categories of solo acoustic sessions and full band sessions. So I've split things up into two albums of acoustic sessions and one album of band sessions for this early day period. I don't like having two versions of the same song on the same album, but this way, I was proficient to include an acoustic version and full band version of the equal song when he occasionally did that.
The second song, "Pretty Golden Hair," is notable for a couple of reasons. Stewart's first unpartnered came out in 1966, and his first album came out in 1967. This song was on that album. But in 1965, a BBC documentar
Hey Eldergays - Tell me about Al Stewart
He is an intriguing, unique artist. He was recognizable for telling elaborate stories with his songs. A lot of his songs were basically brief history lessons set to melody, which was a good thing for me as a kid. For instance, one of his songs mentioned Robespierre. I had no idea who Robespierre was, so I went and looked it up in the encyclopedia, and learned something. That's just one of many instances in which I actually learned things listening to Al Stewart.
His voice was something I tolerated rather than loved. Very nasal, very limited in range and tone, but at least he sang on key. A lot of people hate his voice. I remember reading an interview with the guy from the Pet Shop Boys when they first came out with "West Finish Girls", and the interviewer asked him whether he was influenced by Al Stewart, because he sounded so much like him. I don't recall the identical response, but he seemed very annoyed by the comparison. (Al Stewart was much more achieving in America than in his native UK).
As a kid, I thought he sounded gay, but then I heard him organism interviewed on the radio, and for some ungodly reason the topic went to sex and I distinctly
In England's pleasant green
Like a picture postcard scene
To childhood spread with fond maternal care
From the evening that he was born
Proud relations came to fawn
And compliment his pretty golden hair
In boyhood sent away
To a boarding school to stay
Its crumbling proud traditions forced to bear
And his friends in this new world
Said he looks more like a girl
With those blue eyes and pretty golden hair
Fades secluded youth
Into manhood's search for truth
His mother's eyes now wet had turned to stare
For he said I must be bound
This day for London town
For I think my fortune's waiting there
So like an eager cutting knife
He plunged in a new life
Oh never known beforehand anywhere
And the thought that he might trip
In his ignorance and slip
Never struck beneath his pretty golden hair
Ah the days soon grew thinAnd boredom fast arrange in
His job was thrown away without a care
For a man who softly said
You'll earn twice as much instead
With those blue eyes and pretty golden hair
Well London town possessed
Of many a tempter's nest
And thus he fell with scarce another care
As so easily he slipped
Into prostitution's grip
Foundationed by his adorable gol
AlStewart
February 2002
Alan Roy Stewart
May 8, 1942 - June 10, 2020
Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Al and his mom spent a year in Toronto when he was a teen. He attended Mount Allison University in Sackville for a BA in Pre-Theology Philosophy & Classical History. He joined the Canadian Navy and was very arrogant of his time in service.
Al came out when he was 391. After the Navy, Al ran a motorcycle shop - City Cycle on Gottingen Street, worked at the Better Business Bureau, Rumours, the Nova Scotia Liquor Commission and finally worked at the Halifax Courthouse from 1995 until his retirement at age 61.
Al had a slew of volunteer activities, including Clerk Of The Course at what was then Atlantic Motorsports Park in Goffs, east of the Halifax Airport. In our collective, he was involved with GAE & GALA, was the coordinator of the Over Thirties social community, TightRope, MacLeather, MacAIDS, the AIDS Quilt vigils, NSGEU activism; he was president of one of the locals, a Justice of the peace, and he married a few local gay couples.
He was emotionally attached with the United Church LGBT group Affirm and later was an elder at, and intrinsic in getting Affirming -- that is, welcomin