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Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion streams.
Mar 13, 2023 · Cat Stevens was denied entrance into Israel in both 1990 and 2000 due to allegations that he had donated money to Hamas – an Islamic terrorist organization – during a previous visit in 1988. Stevens denied these allegations, claiming he was only providing humanitarian aid.
- Becky Stephenson
Sep 15, 2017 · It was an acknowledgment by artist and audience alike: Cat Stevens, a figure who, for all intents and purposes, had ceased to exist more than three decades ago, had come back.
Jun 21, 2020 · Cat Stevens – now mononymously Yusuf – released Tea For The Tillerman in 1970. Half a century later, he has collaborated with his son Yoriyos on a reimagining of the album. By Thomas Barrie.
- Thomas Barrie
- “Where Do The Children Play?”
- “Hard Headed Woman”
- “Wild World”
- “Sad Lisa”
- “Miles from Nowhere”
- “But I Might Die Tonight”
- “Longer Boats”
- “Into White”
- “On The Road to Find Out”
- “Father and Son”
This song has become even more vivid as a statement of what our world is going through and what we've done to it. In the last verse we sing about the development of science and the way in which it's influencing our humanity: "Will you tell us when to live? Will you tell us when to die?" That's really not far off considering how it's all going, and ...
I've amended the lyrics to "Hard Headed Woman" [for Tea for the Tillerman²]. Now, instead of saying, "I'm looking for my hard-headed woman," I say, "I've found my hard-headed woman." That's my reality now with my wife. It brings it into focus who I am today.
"Wild World" is probably the biggest departure [on the new record]. If you look at it alongside the original, it's gone in a completely different direction. I've made it slightly film-esque. I imagine it being part of Casablanca, where Humphrey Bogart is in that bar with the gun and playing piano. It's kind of got a '40s tilt to it.
Looking at the oncome of lonesome individuals experiencing virtual life through more and more social technology, this song seems to have growing relevance. It was about a real sweet girl called Lisa from Sweden who came to work in our home in 1969. Though I captured the spirit of her loneliness in this beautiful song, I can only hope she made it ou...
A very important song. It defines where I was at that particular time. I can't say I'm at that place anymore, but that doesn't mean there are no mountains to climb. Once you've started this search for higher meaning, that never stops. You can't I don't think there's an end to knowledge. But that's [still] me in the song. That's my bones. That's my ...
"But I Might Die Tonight" has a message that's consistently relevant to so many people. We talk about corporate companies, and they're getting bigger and more monstrous as time goes on. Now they're bigger and more powerful than governments! Either you belong to a company or you don't belong. If you don't belong to a company, you're in the danger zo...
I gave "Longer Boats" a new twist [on Tea for the Tillerman²]. You hear the original folky intro, and then we have this rap introduction to this next moment, where we break into this James Brown explosion. I've always loved R&B, so I just experimented with that song. One of the reasons I did that was I was using it in a musical I was working on cal...
This is one of my favorite songs on the album, and it always has been. It's a very folky tune. It paints a picture—which I always tried to do with my songs—but it does it very vividly. I was always a fan of Van Gogh, and that's my Van Gogh tribute in a way.
As you pass through different thresholds of life, you look at some of the memories, and (for me) the songs that represent those memories. For sure, you see another dimension. One very obvious example would be "On the Road to Find Out," which almost foretold, in very prescriptive terms, what was going to happen to me and my [faith]. "Yes, the answer...
A very, very important, profound song. You can analyze "Father and Son" until the cows come home, but one of the most important things I think it talks about is change. I've talked about change in lots of songs. I wrote a song once called "Changes IV." (I called it "Changes IV," because there were lots of other songs called "Changes," so I gave it ...
Jun 25, 2023 · Cat Stevens provided a soothing mid-afternoon balm to Glastonbury's partied-out fans, as he played the festival's coveted "legend slot". The singer, also known as Yusuf, struck a chord with his...
Jun 26, 2020 · In 1977, Stevens changed his name to Yusuf Islam and converted to the Muslim faith. Along with his adherence to his newfound religion, Stevens mandated that he would no longer record secular...
