Zero She Flies is the third studio album by folk artist Al Stewart

Al Stewart

Al Stewart is a Scottish 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.He is...

, released in 1970. It is notable for being the first of his albums to include a song with historical references, namely "Manuscript" which refers to the events which led to the outbreak of World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, including the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić...

.

The term "zero she flies" comes from early aviation and refers to the flight of a plane (typically a biplane) flying blind but exactly on course through darkness or dense fog.

Album information

The album is commercially available as part of a CD boxset To Whom It May Concern, which contains his first three albums as well as a single and its B side

A-side and B-side

A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...

 and a couple of tracks added to the rerelease of Bedsitter Images in 1970. The 2007 re-release includes bonus tracks.

Original LP release

1. "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices" (Stewart, Peter Morgan)
2. "A Small Fruit Song"
3. "Gethsemane, Again"
4. "Burbling"
5. "Electric Los Angeles Sunset"
6. "Manuscript"
7. "Black Hill"
8. "Anna"
9. "Room of Roots"
10. "Zero She Flies"

2007 Collectors' Choice Music

Collectors' Choice Music

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 edition

1. "My Enemies Have Sweet Voices" – 5:14
2. "A Small Fruit Song" – 2:02
3. "Gethsemane, Again" – 5:28
4. "Burbling" – 3:19
5. "Electric Los Angeles Sunset" – 3:47
6. "Manuscript" – 4:45
7. "Black Hill" – 1:22
8. "Anna" – 1:47
9. "Room of Roots" – 3:52
10. "Zero She Flies" – 5:35
11. "Stormy Night" – 3:29
12. "News from Spain" – 6:05
13. "Lyke-Wake Dirge" (Traditional) – 4:22 vocals by Mimi Fariña
    Mimi Fariña
    Mimi Baez Fariña was a singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a Scottish mother and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez .- Early years:Fariña's father, a physicist affiliated with Stanford University and MIT, moved his family...
    
    

Sources

• Al Stewart discography

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