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- By 1977, Stevens went public with his conversion to Islam and his decision to stop recording secular music; however, A&M, his record company, had enough of his material stored up to release a final album, Back to Earth, in 1978.
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Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), [1] 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. [2]
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
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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. For a long...
Sep 20, 2021 · Billy Joel stopped releasing albums of new work in 1993, but he didn’t stop performing, or ask his record company to stop selling his music, as Cat Stevens did at one point after he became Yusuf...
Apr 21, 2023 · But Stevens' much less well-received second record, "New Masters," was recorded in the midst of a record label dispute, and in a bout of depression, he turned to alcohol and smoked heavily. His health paid the price for it.
Jun 7, 2023 · Although Wild World was never released as a single in Britain, the song helped establish him as a bona fide star in the US, garnering massive mainstream radio play and reaching No 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Since Cat first penned the track, it’s been covered and recorded by artists as varied as Jimmy Cliff, Mr Big, Sacha Distel and James ...
Guitarist Alun Davies says that while recording Wild World – Stevens’ soulful note of caution at the end of his relationship with D’Arbanville – he felt almost outside his own body: “It was just a fantastic thing.
