Murmansk (English) Мурманск (Russian)
-  City[1]  -
Murmansk Port
Location of Murmansk Oblast in Russia
Murmansk Location of Murmansk in Murmansk Oblast
Coordinates: 68°58′N 33°05′E / 68.967°N 33.083°E / 68.967; 33.083Coordinates: 68°58′N 33°05′E / 68.967°N 33.083°E / 68.967; 33.083
Coat of arms	Flag
City Day	October 4[citation needed]
Administrative status (as of April 2011)
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Murmansk Oblast[1]
Administratively subordinated to	City of Murmansk[1]
Administrative center of	City of Murmansk,[1] Murmansk Oblast[1]
Municipal status (as of December 2004)
Urban okrug	Murmansk Urban Okrug[2]
Administrative center of	Murmansk Urban Okrug[2]
Head[citation needed]	Alexey Veller[citation needed]
Representative body	Council of Deputies[citation needed]
Statistics
Area	150.55 km2 (58.13 sq mi)[citation needed]
Population (2010 Census, preliminary)	307,664 inhabitants[3]
- Rank in 2010	61st
Population (2002 Census)	336,137 inhabitants[4]
- Rank in 2002	52nd
Density	2,044 /km2 (5,290 /sq mi)[5]
Time zone	MSK (UTC+04:00)[6]
Official foundation (see text)	October 4, 1916[7]
City status since	July 19, 1916[7]
Previous names	Romanov-on-Murman (until April 16, 1917)[citation needed]
Postal code(s)	183000..183099[8]
Dialing code(s)	+7 8152[citation needed]
Official website
Murmansk on WikiCommons

Central part of Murmansk

Murmansk (Russian: Му́рманск; Kildin Sami: Мурман ланнҍ; Northern Sami: Murmánska; Skolt Sami: Muurman) is a city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It serves as a seaport and is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland. Population: 307,664 (2010 Census preliminary results);^[3] 336,137 (2002 Census);^[4] 468,039 (1989 Census).^[9] Despite its rapidly declining population, Murmansk remains the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.

History[link]

Murmansk was the last city founded in the Russian Empire.^{[citation needed]} In 1915, World War I needs led to the construction of the railroad from Petrozavodsk to an ice-free location on the Murman Coast in the Russian Arctic, to which Russia's allies shipped military supplies.^[7] The terminus became known as the Murman station, and soon boasted a port, a naval base, and an adjacent settlement with a population which quickly grew in size and soon surpassed the nearby towns of Alexandrovsk and Kola.^[7]

On June 29 [O.S. July 12], 1916, Russian Transport Minister Alexander Trepov petitioned to grant urban status to the railway settlement.^[7] On July 6 [O.S. July 19], 1916, the petition was approved, and the town was named Romanov-on-Murman (Рома́нов-на-Му́рмане, Romanov-na-Murmane), after the royal Russian dynasty of Romanovs.^[7] On September 21 [O.S. October 4], 1916, the official ceremony was performed,^[7] and the date is now considered the official date of the city's foundation. After the February Revolution of 1917, on April 3 [O.S. April 16], 1917, the town was given its present name.^{[citation needed]}

From 1918 to 1920, during the Russian Civil War, the town was occupied by the Western powers, who had been allied in World War I, and by the White Army forces.^[10]

On February 13, 1926, local self-government was for the first time organized in Murmansk during a plenary session of the Murmansk City Soviet, which elected a Presidium.^[11] Prior to this, the city was governed by the authorities of Alexandrovsky Uyezd and later of Murmansk Governorate.^[11] On August 1, 1927, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) issued two Resolutions: "On the Establishment of Leningrad Oblast" and "On the Borders and Composition of the Okrugs of Leningrad Oblast", which transformed Murmansk Governorate into Murmansk Okrug within Leningrad Oblast and made Murmansk the administrative center of Murmansk Okrug.^[11]

In 1934, the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee developed a redistricting proposal, which included a plan to enlarge the city by merging the surrounding territories in the north, south, and west into Murmansk.^[11] While this plan was not confirmed by the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee, in 1935–1937 several rural localities of Kolsky and Polyarny Districts were merged into Murmansk anyway.^[11]

Per the Presidium of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee resolution of February 26, 1935, the administrative center of Polyarny District was moved from Polyarnoye to Sayda-Guba.^[12] However, the provisions of the resolution were not fully implemented, and due to military construction in Polyarnoye, the administrative center was instead moved to Murmansk in the beginning of 1935.^[12] In addition to being the administrative center of Murmansk Okrug, Murmansk also continued to serve as the administrative center of Polyarny District until September 11, 1938.^[11] On February 10, 1938, when the VTsIK adopted a Resolution changing the administrative-territorial structure of Murmansk Okrug, the city of Murmansk became a separate administrative division of the okrug equal in status to that of the districts.^[11] This status was retained when Murmansk Okrug was transformed into Murmansk Oblast on May 28, 1938.^[11]

During World War II, Murmansk was a link with the Western world for Russia, with large quantities of goods important to the respective military efforts traded with the Allies: primarily manufactured goods and raw materials into the Soviet Union. The supplies were brought to the city in the Arctic convoys.

German forces in Finnish territory launched an offensive against the city in 1941 as part of Operation Silver Fox, and Murmansk suffered extensive destruction, the magnitude of which was rivaled only by the destruction of Leningrad and Stalingrad.^[13][14] However, fierce Soviet resistance and harsh geography prevented the Germans from capturing the city and cutting off the vital Karelian railway line and the ice-free harbor. For the rest of the war, it served as transit point for weapons and other supplies entering the Soviet Union from other Allied nations. This unyielding resistance was commemorated at the 40th anniversary of the victory over the Germans in the formal designation of Murmansk as a Hero City on May 6, 1985.^[15] During the Cold War Murmansk was a center of Soviet submarine and icebreaker activity and, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the nearby city and naval base of Severomorsk remains the headquarters of the Russian Northern Fleet.

In 1974, a massive 35.5-meter-tall statue Alyosha, depicting a Russian World War II soldier, was installed on a 7-meter (23 ft) high foundation. In 1984, the Hotel Arctic, the tallest building above the Arctic Circle, opened.

To commemorate the 85th anniversary of the city's foundation, the snow-white church of the Savior-on-the-Waters was modeled after the White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal and built on the shore for the sailors of Murmansk (see photograph).

Administrative and municipal status[link]

Administratively, it is incorporated as the City of Murmansk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.^[1] Municipally, the City of Murmansk is incorporated as Murmansk Urban Okrug.^[2]

Transport[link]

The port of Murmansk remains ice-free year round due to the warm North Atlantic Current and is an important fishing and shipping destination. It is home port to Atomflot, the world's only fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.^[16]

The port is the headquarters of Sevmorput (Northern Sea Route), and the administration of Russian Arctic maritime transport.

Murmansk is linked by the Murman Railway to St. Petersburg and is also linked to the rest of Russia by the M18 Kola Motorway. Murmansk Airport provides air links to Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as an international connection to Tromsø, Norway.

Local public transport consists of buses and trolleybuses.

Arctic Bridge[link]

Location

Murmansk is set to be the Russian terminus of the Arctic Bridge (or Arctic Sea Bridge), a sea route linking it to the Canadian port of Churchill, Manitoba. The passage has not been fully tested for commercial shipping yet but Russia has shown interest in it. It is believed that, once developed (along with the Northwest Passage), the bridge will serve as major trade route between Europe and Asia.

Climate[link]

Murmansk features a subarctic climate, with long and cold winters and short but relatively mild summers. In the city, sub-freezing temperatures are routinely experienced from October through May. Average temperatures exceed 0 degrees Celsius only from May through October. The average low during the coldest part of the year in Murmansk is approximately −14 °C (7 °F). However temperatures routinely plunge below −20 °C (−4 °F) during the winter. Murmansk's brief summer is mild, with average highs in July exceeding +17 °C (63 °F). Murmansk is slightly wetter during the summer than the winter, seeing on average roughly 470 millimeters (19 in) of precipitation each year.

Education[link]

Murmansk is home to Murmansk State Technical University, the Murmansk State Pedagogical University and the Murmansk Institute of Humanities. The city also has eighty-six primary schools and fifty-six secondary schools, two boarding schools, and three reform schools.

Media[link]

Murmansk's evening newspaper is Vecherny Murmansk, published since 1991.

Sports[link]

The city association football team, FC Sever Murmansk, plays in the Russian Second Division.

Bandy club Murman plays in the highest division of the Russian Bandy League. The city is one of only three places with representation in the female league, through the team Arktika.

Culture[link]

Murmansk has two main (and several small) museums: Murmansk Oblast Museum and Murmansk Oblast Art Museum. There are also three professional theaters, libraries, and an aquarium in Murmansk.

Notable people[link]

• Nikita Alexeev, ice hockey player
• Aleksey Goman, pop singer
• Irina Kovalenko, supermodel and Miss Russia winner
• Vladimir Konstantinov, ice hockey player
• Larisa Kruglova, sprinter
• Sergey Kuryokhin, actor and musician
• Irina Malgina, triathlete
• Sergey Rozhkov, biathlete
• Alexei Semenov, ice hockey player

Twin towns and sister cities[link]

Murmansk is twinned or has sister city relationships with:

References[link]

Notes[link]

Sources[link]

• Мурманская областная Дума. Закон №96-01-ЗМО от 6 января 1998 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Мурманской области», в ред. Закона №1335-01-ЗМО от 11 апреля 2011 г «О внесении изменений в Закон Мурманской области "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Мурманской области"». Опубликован: "Мурманский Вестник", №10, стр. 3, 16 января 1998 г. (Murmansk Oblast Duma. Law #96-01-ZMO of January 6, 1998 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Murmansk Oblast, as amended by the Law #1335-01-ZMO of April 11, 2011 On Amending the Law of Murmansk Oblast "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Murmansk Oblast". ).
• Мурманская областная Дума. Закон №531-01-ЗМО от 2 декабря 2004 г. «О статусе муниципального образования город Мурманск». Вступил в силу 1 января 2005 г. Опубликован: "Мурманский Вестник", №234, стр. 3, 7 декабря 2004 г. (Murmansk Oblast Duma. Law #531-01-ZMO of December 2, 2004 On the Status of the Municipal Formation of the City of Murmansk. Effective as of January 1, 2005.).
• Архивный отдел Администрации Мурманской области. Государственный Архив Мурманской области. (1995). Административно-территориальное деление Мурманской области (1920-1993 гг.). Справочник. Мурманск: Мурманское издательско-полиграфическое предприятие "Север". 

External links[link]

• Official website of Murmansk (Russian)
• News of Murmansk
• Interactive map of Murmansk
• Barentsnova.com, Murmansk business news, statistics
• Atomic ice breaker fleet
• Murmansk's gorgeous garages — a photo journal by BBC news journalist Jorn Madslien
• Murmansk travel guide
• Views of Murmansk group on Flickr
• Video overview of Murmansk in English, 4½ minutes, 2009
• Murmansk State Technical University
• British North Russian Expeditionary Force 1918–1919 (based at Murmansk)
• "Big-dollar deals tempt Arctic firms" BBC article on the energy industry's effect on Murmansk

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Al Stewart
Stewart performing in Santa Monica, California on 13 February 2010
Background information
Birth name	Alastair Ian Stewart
Born	(1945-09-05) 5 September 1945 (age 66) Glasgow, Scotland
Origin	Wimborne, England
Genres	Rock Folk rock Pop rock Psychedelic rock Soft rock
Occupations	Musician Songwriter
Instruments	Vocals guitar keyboards
Years active	1966–present
Website	www.alstewart.com

Al Stewart (born Alastair Ian Stewart, 5 September 1945) is a Scottish^[1] singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician.

Stewart came to stardom as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s, and developed his own unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history.^[2]

He is best known for his 1976 hit single "Year of the Cat", the title song from the platinum album of the same name.

Though Year of the Cat and its 1978 platinum follow-up Time Passages brought Stewart his biggest worldwide commercial successes, earlier albums such as Past, Present and Future from 1973 are often seen as better examples of his intimate brand of historical folk-rock - a style to which he has returned in recent albums.^[3]

Stewart was a key figure in a fertile era in British music and he appears throughout the musical folklore of the age. He played at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970, knew Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon, shared a London apartment with a young Paul Simon, and hosted at the legendary Les Cousins folk club in London in the 1960s.^[4]

Stewart has released sixteen studio and three live albums since his debut album Bedsitter Images in 1967, and continues to tour extensively around the US and Canada, Europe and the UK. His latest release, is Uncorked, which was released on his independent label, Wallaby Trails Recordings.^[5]

He has worked with Peter White, Alan Parsons, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, Rick Wakeman, Tori Amos and Tim Renwick and recently has played with Dave Nachmanoff and former Wings lead-guitarist Laurence Juber.

Early life[link]

Though born in Glasgow, Al Stewart grew up in the town of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England after moving from Scotland with his mother. He attended Wycliffe College school in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, as a boarder. After that, as he sings in the song "Post World War II Blues" (from Past, Present and Future): "I came up to London when I was 19 with a corduroy jacket and a head full of dreams."

Having bought his first guitar from future Police guitarist Andy Summers, Stewart traded in his electric guitar for an acoustic guitar when he was offered a weekly slot at Bunjies Coffee House in London's Soho in 1965. From there, he went on to compete at the Les Cousins folk club on Greek Street, where he played alongside Cat Stevens, Bert Jansch, Van Morrison, Roy Harper and Ralph McTell.^[4]

It was at this time that Stewart also met Yoko Ono, who persuaded him to part with the only £100 he had in the world to put towards her film entitled No 4, a compilation of naked bottoms^{[citation needed]}.

Career[link]

Stewart's first record was the single "The Elf" (backed with a version of the Yardbirds' "Turn into Earth"), which was released in 1966 on Decca Records, and included guitar work from Jimmy Page (later of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin), the first of many leading guitarists Stewart worked with, including Richard Thompson, Tim Renwick and Peter White. Stewart then signed to Columbia Records (CBS in the UK), for whom he released six albums. Though the first four of these attracted relatively little commercial interest, Stewart's popularity and cult-following grew steadily through albums that contain some of Stewart's most incisive and introspective songwriting.

Early albums[link]

Stewart's debut album Bed-Sitter Images was released on LP in 1967 (though technically his first recording was 'The Elf', an extract from Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' set to music and released by Decca in 1966, which sold an estimated 496 copies). A revised version appeared in 1970 as The First Album (Bed-Sitter Images) with a few tracks changed, and the album was reissued on CD in 2007 with all tracks from both versions. His first recording of any kind appears on Jackson C. Frank's first album, 1965's Jackson C. Frank, playing guitar on "Yellow Walls".

Love Chronicles (1969) was notable for the 18-minute title track, an anguished autobiographical tale of sexual encounters that was the first mainstream record release ever to include the word "fucking".^[6] It was voted "Folk Album of the Year" by the UK music magazine Melody Maker, and also features Jimmy Page and Richard Thompson on guitar.

His third album, Zero She Flies followed in 1970 and included a number of shorter songs which ranged from acoustic ballads and instrumentals to songs that featured electric lead guitar. These first three albums (including The Elf) were later released as the two CD set To Whom it May Concern: 1966–70.

In 1970, Stewart jumped into a car with fellow musician Ian Anderson and headed to the small town of Pilton, Somerset. There, at Michael Eavis's Worthy Farm, Stewart performed at the first ever Glastonbury festival to a field of 1,000 hippies who had paid just £1 each to be there.

On the back of his growing success, Stewart released Orange in 1972. It was written after a tumultuous break-up with his girlfriend and muse, Mandi, and was very much a transitional album, combining songs in Stewart's confessional style with more intimations of the historical themes that he would increasingly adopt (e.g. "The News from Spain", with its prog-rock overtones, including dramatic piano by Rick Wakeman).

The fifth release, Past, Present and Future (1973), was Stewart's first album to receive a proper release in the United States, via Janus Records. It echoed a traditional historical storytelling style and contained the song "Nostradamus," a long (9:43) track in which Stewart tied into the re-discovery of the claimed seer's writings by referring to selected possible predictions about twentieth century people and events. While too long for mainstream radio airplay at that time, the song became a hit on many U.S. college/university radio stations, which were flexible about running times.

Such airplay helped the album to reach #133 on the Billboard album chart in the US. Other songs on Past, Present and Future characterized by Stewart's 'history genre' mentioned American President Warren Harding, World War II, Ernst Röhm, Christine Keeler, Louis Mountbatten, and Joseph Stalin's purges.

Alan Parsons years[link]

Stewart followed Past, Present and Future with Modern Times (1975), in which the songs were lighter on historical references and more of a return to the theme of short stories set to music. Significantly, though, it was the first of his albums to be produced by Alan Parsons, and Allmusic regards it as his best. It produced his first hit single, "Carol", and received substantial airplay on album oriented stations and reached #30 in the US, some 30 years before Bob Dylan would release an album of the same name.

Stewart's contract with CBS Records expired at this point and he signed to RCA Records for the world outside North America. His first two albums for RCA, Year of the Cat (released on Janus in the U.S., then reissued by Arista Records after Janus folded) and Time Passages (released in the U.S. on Arista), set the style for his later work, and have certainly been his biggest-selling recordings.^[7]

As Stewart told Kaya Burgess of The Times: "When I finished Year of the Cat, I thought: ‘If this isn’t a hit, then I can’t make a hit.’ We finally got the formula exactly right."^[4]

The most amazing fact about this album is that Stewart had all of the music and orchestration written and completely recorded before he even had a title for any of the songs. He mentioned, in a Canadian radio interview, that he has done this for 6 of his albums, and he often writes 4 different sets of lyrics for each song.^[8]

Both albums reached the top ten in the US, with "Year of the Cat" peaking at #5 and "Time Passages" at #10, and both albums produced hit singles in the US ("Year of the Cat" #8, and "On the Border", #42; "Time Passages" #7 and "Song On the Radio", #29). Meanwhile "Year of the Cat" became Stewart's first chart single in Britain, where it peaked at #31. The overwhelming success of these songs, both of which still receive substantial radio airplay on classic-rock/pop format radio stations, has perhaps later overshadowed the depth and range of Stewart's body of songwriting.^[9] On tour in 2008, Stewart commented that he wished his fans would "never again listen to anything I recorded prior to 1988."

1980s[link]

Stewart then released 24 Carrots (#37 US 1980) and his first live album Live/Indian Summer (#110 US 1981), which both featuring backing by Peter White's band Shot in the Dark (who released their own unsuccessful album in 1981). While "24 Carrots" did produce a #24 single with "Midnight Rocks," the album sold less well than its two immediate predecessors.

After those releases, Stewart was dropped by Arista and his popularity declined. Despite his lower profile and waning commercial success, he continued to tour the world, record albums, and maintain a loyal fanbase. There was a four-year gap between his next two albums, the highly political Russians and Americans (1984) and the upbeat pop-oriented Last Days of the Century (1988), which appeared on smaller labels and had lower sales than his previous works.

1990s[link]

Stewart followed up with his second live album, the acoustic Rhymes in Rooms (1992), which featured only himself and Peter White, and Famous Last Words (1993), which was dedicated to the memory of the late Peter Wood (who co-wrote "Year of the Cat"), who died the year of its release.

Stewart followed these up with a concept album, Between the Wars (1995), covering major historical and cultural events from 1918 to 1939, such as the Versailles Treaty, Prohibition, the Spanish Civil War, and the Great Depression.

In 1995, Stewart was invited to play at the 25th anniversary Glastonbury festival, taking to the same stage he had graced in 1970 at the first ever festival.

21st century[link]

In 2000, Stewart released Down in the Cellar, a concept album themed on wine. Stewart had begun a love-affair with wine in the 1970s when, he admitted, he had more money than he knew how to spend,^[10] and so turned to fine wines.

In 2005 he released A Beach Full of Shells, which was set in exotic places from First World War England to the 1950s rock'n'roll scene that influenced him.

In 2008, he released Sparks of Ancient Light produced, like his most recent albums, by Laurence Juber. Here he weaves tales of William McKinley, Lord Salisbury and Hanno the Navigator.

Stewart and guitarist Dave Nachmanoff released a live album, Uncorked (Live with Dave Nachmanoff) on Stewart's label, Wallaby Trails Recordings, in 2009.^[11]

Stewart and Nachmanoff played the Glastonbury Festival 40th anniversary in June 2010 on the Acoustic stage.

Stewart sang a duet with Albert Hammond of Hammond's "It Never Rains in Southern California" on Hammond's 2010 album "Legend."

In 2011, Stewart sang a duet with his guitarist and opening act Dave Nachmanoff on Nachmanoff's album "Step Up". The song, "Sheila Won't Be Coming Home", was co-written by Stewart and Nachmanoff.

Residence[link]

Born in Scotland, raised in Dorset and gaining fame in London, Stewart moved to Los Angeles in the late 1970s. He married in the mid-1990s, and he, his wife and their two daughters moved to Marin County, California.

Use of historical and literary sources[link]

Historical references[link]

Stewart's historical work includes such subjects as:

• World War I pilots - "Fields of France", from the album Last Days of the Century
• The career of Admiral Sir John Fisher of the World War I Royal Navy inspired "Old Admirals", from Past, Present, and Future
• The Wehrmacht's invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II is the focus of "Roads to Moscow", from Past, Present, and Future.^[12] There are references to both Wehrmacht General Heinz Guderian and also to the German Tiger tank^[12] and to the brutal treatment of returning Russian soldiers, which is drawn from the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book The Gulag Archipelago.
• Both the Basque separatists in Spain and the crisis in the former republic of Rhodesia are referenced in "On the Border", from Year of the Cat
• The Soviet Union is the focus of "In Red Square", from Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.
• The English sailor Sir Richard Grenville is profiled in "Lord Grenville", from Year of the Cat.
• The French Revolution is addressed in the song "The Palace of Versailles", from Time Passages.
• Henry VIII of England (misidentified by Stewart as Henry Plantagenet (Henry II))^[13] and Thomas More (Henry VIII's chancellor) are referenced in "A Man for All Seasons" from Time Passages.
• The assassin of Jean-Paul Marat is the subject of "Charlotte Corday", from Famous Last Words.
• The subject of Nazi war criminals hiding in South America is featured in "Running Man" from 24 Carrots.
• The scandals of the foreshortened Warren Harding administration are the subject of "Warren Harding" from Past, Present and Future.
• Ernst Röhm, leader of the Nazi SA, is the subject of "The Last Day of June, 1934" from "Past, Present and Future."

Literary sources[link]

"Sirens of Titan", from Modern Times is a musical precis of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same title.

On occasion, Stewart has set poems to music, such as "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices" (lyrics by the poet Pete Morgan) on the 1970 album Zero She Flies. During his 1999 UK tour, Stewart invited Morgan to read the lyrics as he performed this song in the Leeds City Varieties Theatre show of 7 November 1999.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• Bed-Sitter Images (1967)
• Love Chronicles (1969)
• Zero She Flies (1970) #40 UK
• Orange (1972)
• Past, Present and Future (1973) #133 US
• Modern Times (1975) #30 US
• Year of the Cat (1976) #5 US (RIAA: Platinum) (BPI: Gold) #38 UK
• Time Passages (1978) #10 US (RIAA: Platinum) (BPI: Silver) #39 UK
• 24 Carrots (1980) (with Shot In The Dark) #37 US #55 UK
• Russians and Americans (1984) #83 UK
• Last Days of the Century (1988)
• Famous Last Words (1993)
• Between the Wars (1995) (with Laurence Juber)
• Down in the Cellar (2000)
• A Beach Full of Shells (2005)
• Sparks of Ancient Light (2008)

Live albums[link]

• Live/Indian Summer (1981) #110 US
• Rhymes in Rooms (1992) (with Peter White)
• Uncorked (2009) (with Dave Nachmanoff)

Compilations[link]

• The Early Years (1977)
• The Best of Al Stewart - Songs From the Radio (1985)
• Chronicles... The Best of Al Stewart (1991)
• To Whom it May Concern 1966-1970 (1993)
• Premium Gold Collection (1996)
• Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1996) (limited distribution of B-sides and rarities)^[14]
• On the Border (1998)
• Singer Songwriter (2001)
• The Very Best Al Stewart Album Ever (2002)
• The Essential Al Stewart (2003)
• Introducing... Al Stewart - Running Man (2003)
• Greatest Hits (2004)
• Just Yesterday (2005)
• A Piece of Yesterday - The Anthology (2006)
• The Definitive Pop Collection (2006)

Charted Singles[link]

• Year of the Cat (1976 #8 US, #31 UK)
• On the Border (1977 #42 US)
• Time Passages (1978 #7 US, #1 US Adult Contemporary)
• Song on the Radio (1979 #29 US)
• Midnight Rocks (1980 #24 US)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Page
• Al Stewart at Allmusic
• Dutch Fan Page
• German Fan Page
• German Fan Page (alternative link)
• Comprehensive discography
• Al Stewart Friends
• The Al Stewart Mailing List
• Blogcritics.org Al Stewart Collection: Interviews, Discography, more
• Al Stewart and Awaken evenings