Mostrando postagens com marcador Alan Parsons. Mostrar todas as postagens
Mostrando postagens com marcador Alan Parsons. Mostrar todas as postagens
sexta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2019
quinta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2018
quarta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2017
quinta-feira, 20 de abril de 2017
ÁLBUM DA QUINTA
YEAR OF THE CAT - 1976 - AL STEWART
Year of the Cat é o sétimo álbum de estúdio do escocês Al Stewart, lançado em 1976, e é considerado sua obra-prima. As vendas foram catapultadas pelo single "Year of the Cat", canção sobre uma misteriosa mulher, parceria com Peter Wood, que rendeu um disco de platina. O outro single do álbum foi "On the Border".
O álbum foi gravado nos estúdios de Abbey Road, em Londres, e produzido por Alan Parsons, que dois anos antes produzira The Dark Side of the Moon, do Pink Floyd. Com influência do filme Casablanca (que Stewart tinha revisto dias antes), a música "Year of the Cat", composta a partir de um riff de piano de Peter Wood, cita os atores Humphrey Bogart e Peter Lorre. A letra conta a história de um turista que, num mercado de um país cujos habitantes voltam no tempo, encontra uma mulher misteriosa vestida de seda e cheirando a patchuli. Ela o toma pela mão e ambos partem para uma aventura de amor. Na manhã seguinte, o turista se vê sozinho, perde seu ônibus e seu tíquete, ficando, não se sabe até quando, no Ano do Gato.
Side 1
1. Lord Grenville – 5:00
2. On the Border – 3:22
3. Midas Shadow – 3:08
4. Sand in Your Shoes – 3:02
5. If it Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It – 4:28
Side 2
1. Flying Sorcery – 4:20
2. Broadway Hotel – 3:55
3. One Stage Before – 4:39
4. Year of the Cat (Stewart, Peter Wood) – 6:40
Al Stewart - vocals, guitar, keyboards
Peter White - guitar, keyboards
John Perry - background vocals
Tim Renwick - guitar
Andrew Powell - string arrangements
Bobby Bruce - violin
Marion Driscoll - percussion
Stuart Elliott - drums, percussion
George Ford - bass
Phil Kenzie - alto saxophone
Don Lobster - keyboards
David Pack - background vocals
Tony Rivers - background vocals
Graham Smith - harmonica
Peter Wood - keyboards
quarta-feira, 7 de maio de 2014
segunda-feira, 29 de abril de 2013
CLÁSSICOS PARA A VIDA ETERNA
DAY AFTER
DAY (1977) ALAN PARSONS
Sérgio Luiz Gallina
Alan Parsons nasceu em Londres em 20 de dezembro de 1948.
Produtor de discos, atuou como engenheiro de som no estúdio Abbey Road, onde
trabalhou em produções dos Beatles e no disco The Dark Side of the Moon, do
Pink Floyd.
Lançado pela Arista Records, I Robot (1977), baseado na
série Os Robôs, de Isaac Asimov, que explora temas filosóficos sobre
inteligência artificial, é o segundo álbum da banda The Alan Parsons Project.
And picture
a memory
Of days in
your life
You knew
what it meant to be happy and free
With time
on your side
----
Remember
your daddy
When no one
was wiser
Your ma
used to say
That you
would go further than he ever could
With time
on your side
----
Think of a
boy with the stars in his eye
Longing to
reach them but frightened to try
Sadly,
you'd say, someday, someday
----
But day
after day
The show
must go on
And time
slipped away
Before you
could build any castles in Spain
The chance
had gone by
----
With
nothing to say
And no one
to say it to
Nothing has
changed
You've
still got it all to do
Surely you
know
The chance
has gone by
----
Think of a
boy with the stars in his eye
Longing to
reach them but frightened to try
Sadly,
you'd say, someday, someday
----
But, day
after day
The show
must go on
And you
gaze at the sky
And picture
a memory of days in your life
With time
on your side
----
With time
on your side
(day after
day the show must go on)...
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segunda-feira, 22 de abril de 2013
CLÁSSICOS PARA A VIDA ETERNA
THE YEAR OF THE CAT (1976) AL STEWART
Sérgio Luiz Gallina
Produzido por Alan Parsons e lançado em 1976,
Year of the Cat é o sétimo disco do compositor britânico
Al Stewart (5/9/1945).
Sucesso de vendas e execução,
o álbum lhe rendeu um disco de platina
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
----
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat
----
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
----
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
----
She looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat
----
Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometimes you're bound to loose her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat
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