Al Stewart - Past, Present and Future (1974) and similar items

Catalog Number: AL-9524 Condition Details: Unopened/new vinyl, factory sealed, and in excellent condition. Label design can't be confirmed because it's sealed. sticker and sticker residue near center-right on shrink on front. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Old Admirals Warren Harding Soho (Needless To Say) The Last Day Of June 1934 Post World War Two Blues Roads To Moscow Terminal Eyes Nostradamus About The Record: Past, Present and Future, by Al Stewart, is considered his first "major album" and it reached No. 133 on the Billboard Rock Album chart in 1974. He had taken on a different approach from his previous, folkier work, an approach that would stay with him for most of his career. All songs on this record have historical themes, each song representing a decade of the 20th century. The final song, Nostradamus, is about the famous supposed prophet and his prophecies. In the programme for the UK concert tour that promoted the album, Stewart is quoted as saying "My first four albums have been, for me, an apprenticeship. The new album.....is my thesis". Terminal Eyes was released as a single. The US album cover, by Hipgnosis and George Hardie, is a photography-like rendition of the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange using his Cloak of Levitation to travel through a hole created in the air into an alternative universe. The album was performed in its entirety live at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England on May 16, 2015 as part of Al Stewart's UK tour.