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Following on the heels of Al’s successful albums "Year of the Cat" and "Time Passages," this 1980 LP features Jeff Porcaro, the Incredible String Band’s Robin Williamson and members of the band Shot in the Dark. The album and its single "Midnight Rocks" both went U.S. Top 40; this remastered reissue adds the single versions of "Running Man," "Paint by Numbers," unissued demos of "Midnight Rocks," "Mumansk Run—Ellis Island," "Merlin’s Time" (instrumental), unreleased 1980 London performances at the Hammersmith Odeon ("Time Passages," "Broadway Hotel," "Year of the Cat," "Mondo Sinistro") and more. An illustrated booklet with an exclusive Stewart interview rounds out this expanded reissue of a classic slice of Al Stewart soft rock! Esoteric.