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.

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.

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.