Last week in The Wall Street Journal, my "Anatomy of a Song" column was on Al Stewart's Year of the Cat, a mystifying soft-rock hit in 1976 with nine influences (go here). Al and I talked about the roles that the following played in the song's creation: Bob Dylan (two influences), the films Casablanca and Last Tango in Paris, English comedian Tony Hanco…
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