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A Beach Full of Shells

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A Beach Full of Shells
Studio album by
Released21 June 2005
GenreFolk
Length48:43
LabelAppleseed (US), EMI (UK)
ProducerLaurence Juber
Al Stewart chronology
Down in the Cellar
(2000)
A Beach Full of Shells
(2005)
Sparks of Ancient Light
(2008)

A Beach Full of Shells is the fifteenth studio album by Al Stewart, released in 2005. Like most of Stewart's later works, much of the content of the CD alludes to people or moments in history.

Historical references

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Class of '58

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Stewart originally wrote the song "Class of '58" as 13 minutes long. When the record company rejected it, he rewrote it to the truncated 4-minute version on the album.[citation needed] The long version was subsequently released as a single. In the blurb on the single, it is suggested that the album A Beach Full of Shells was originally intended to focus around this song, which describes the life of a musician on the 1950s rock and roll scene.

Track listing

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All songs written by Al Stewart.

No.TitleLength
1."The Immelman Turn"4:39
2."Mr. Lear"3:00
3."Royal Courtship"4:10
4."Rain Barrel"4:00
5."Somewhere in England, 1915"6:56
6."Katherine of Oregon"3:07
7."Mona Lisa Talking"4:26
8."Class of '58"4:10
9."Out in the Snow"2:51
10."My Egyptian Couch"2:18
11."Gina in the Kings Road"3:49
12."Beacon Street"2:20
13."Anniversary"2:53

References

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