Al Stewart has been an amazingly prolific and successful musician across 40 years and counting, working in a dizzying array of stylistic modes and musical genres -- in other words, he's had a real career, and has done it without concerning himself too much about trends and the public taste. He's been influenced by several notables, including Ralph McTell, Bob Dylan and John Lennon, but he doesn't sound quite like anyone else, and has achieved his greatest success across four decades with songs that are uniquely his and impossible to mistake.
