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‘Where Do The Children Play?’: Behind Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ Timeless Message
The classic Yusuf/Cat Stevens song ‘Where Do the Children Play?’ was the opening track on his 1970 album Tea For The Tillerman. The singer-songwriter said that song’s message had such lasting “value”...
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From Herb Alpert To Quincy Jones: 20 Must-Hear A&M Albums
We’re celebrating one of the great record labels around, one which consistently and resolutely stood for artistic quality and released some of the greatest music ever heard. It’s A&M, founded by...
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Watch Video For Yusuf/Cat Stevens’‘Where Do The Children Play?’ Remake
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has shared the video for the 2020 reimagination of his vintage 1970 track ‘Where Do The Children Play?’ It’s an allegorical, visually arresting animated clip directed by Chris...
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Watch Making Of Yusuf/Cat Stevens’‘Where Do The Children Play?’ Video
Yusuf/Cat Stevens and director Chris Hopewell have shared three “making of” films of the environmentally-conscious video for the artist’s new version of “Where Do The Children Play?” The remake of the...
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Watch The Video For Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ New Recording Of ‘On The Road To Find...
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has released “On The Road To Find Out,” newly recorded and reimagined for the upcoming Tea for the Tillerman² album release, due September 18 via UMe in celebration of the 50th...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Duets With His Younger Self In New Single, ‘Father And Son’
Yusuf / Cat Stevens today unveils a 2020 reimagining of his seminal hit “Father and Son.” The song is the latest release from his highly anticipated forthcoming album Tea for the Tillerman², out...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ Widely Acclaimed ‘Tea for the Tillerman²’ Out Now
Yusuf/Cat Stevens revisits one of his career high points with the UMe release of Tea for the Tillerman², on which he recasts the 11 songs from the landmark 1970 LP for a new age. The album, out now,...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Shares Wes Anderson-Esque Clip For New ‘Wild World’
The video for Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ new version of his classic “Wild World,” taken from the hugely-acclaimed Tea for the Tillerman² album, is available to watch now. The album, a complete, 50th...
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Deluxe 50th Anniversary Reissues For Key Yusuf/Cat Stevens Albums
Yusuf/Cat Stevens will follow his much-admired Tea for the Tillerman² album with December 4 deluxe reissues of the original 1970 album that inspired it, and of his other LP that year, Mona Bone Jakon....
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Shares Rare ‘Lady D’Arbanville’ Video From 1970
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has unearthed a rare promotional video for “Lady D’Arbanville.” Filmed in 1970 in a Gothic English mansion, the video combines newly remastered audio with black and white footage of...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ Catalog To Be Celebrated In Online CatSong Festival
CatSong Festival, a live broadcast celebrating the 50th anniversary of Cat Stevens’ newly-expanded 1970 albums Tea For The Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon, will air on the official Yusuf/Cat Stevens...
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Watch HAIM, Feist, Jack Johnson And More Cover Yusuf/Cat Stevens Classics
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 1970 albums Tea for the Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon, over 40 bands and musicians covered the legendary musician and songwriter at the...
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Watch Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ Video For New Version Of ‘Tea For The Tillerman’
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has shared a new music video for “Tea for the Tillerman” in a poignant message of hope and optimism for 2021. You can check it out below. Click to load video The new video arrives...
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HarperCollins To Publish Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ ‘Peace Train’ Picture Book
Yusuf/ Cat Stevens has partnered with New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds to produce Peace Train, a children’s book celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the iconic...
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A Guide To All the Livestreams And Virtual Concerts
As live music has been put on hold in 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic, musicians are still eager to connect with their fans. To help you stay abreast of the growing list of virtual events, we’re...
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Volume 2 Of Island’s ‘The Vinyl Series’ Curated By Chris Blackwell Set For...
On July 23, Island Records / UMe will release ‘Volume Two’ of The Vinyl Series, a nine-track album covering the years 1969 to 1973, curated by Island’s Chris Blackwell. Volume One, which included...
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See Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Keb’ Mo’, And More Playing For Change On ‘Peace Train’
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has teamed up with Playing For Change, the multimedia company behind the hugely popular Songs Around The World video series, to create a new version of his anthemic “Peace Train” with...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Announces 50th Anniversary Edition Of ‘Teaser And The Firecat’
Following last year’s 50th anniversaries of the era-defining albums, Tea for the Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon, 2021 will see Yusuf / Cat Stevens celebrate the succeeding album that immortalized his...
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‘Catch Bull At Four’: Cat Stevens’ Search For Spiritual Fulfillment Continues
Cat Stevens was in such form in 1972 that, exactly 12 months after Teaser and the Firecat helped him become one of the defining album rock artists of that decade, he was able to create a follow-up that...
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Four Landmark War Child Charity Compilations To Receive Vinyl Reissues
Four landmark compilation albums – 1 Love, Hope, Help! A Day In The Life and War Child Presents Heroes – which were originally released to raise funds for the War Child charity between 2002 and 2009 –...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Releases ‘Bitterblue²’ From Deluxe ‘Teaser And The Firecat’
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has released the new single “Bitterblue²,” a newly-recorded version of the track from his 1971 album Teaser and The Firecat. It will feature on the Super Deluxe Box Set edition of...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Shares New Video For Classic Track ‘Morning Has Broken’
Following the 50th anniversaries of the era-defining albums Tea for the Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon in 2020, Yusuf/Cat Stevens celebrates the same anniversary for Teaser and the Firecat this year...
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Sting, Burt Bacharach & More To Celebrate A&M’s Jerry Moss In L.A. Music...
Jerry Moss, who stood at the helm of A&M Records with Herb Alpert for nearly three decades, will be feted at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for two nights in February, with a lineup of...
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50th Anniversary Edition Of ‘Harold And Maude’ Soundtrack Set For February...
50 years since its release, the original motion picture soundtrack for Hal Ashby’s 1971 classic cult film Harold and Maude, made up exclusively of songs by Cat Stevens, will be released on February 11,...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Guests In Latest Episode Of The ‘Broken Record Podcast’
Yusuf/Cat Stevens is the featured guest on this week’s episode of the ‘Broken Record’ podcast. Cat/Yusuf and presenter Bruce Headlam discussed the artist’s much-acclaimed releases Teaser and The...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens Partners With Gibson For J-180 Collector’s Edition Acoustic...
The Gibson Acoustic Custom Shop and Yusuf/Cat Stevens have partnered to introduce the Cat Stevens J-180 Collector’s Edition, which is created from the original acoustic guitar that helped produce the...
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ Seminal ‘Catch Bull At Four’ For 50th Anniversary Editions
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ hugely significant, chart-topping 1972 album Catch Bull At Four will be released in a newly remastered 50th anniversary edition on December 2. Shop the best of Yusuf/Cat Stevens’...
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British Singer-Songwriter And Sought-After Vocalist Linda Lewis Dies At 72
British singer-songwriter Linda Lewis, whose five-octave range helped her win widespread popularity and several hits in the 1970s, died yesterday (3) at the age of 72. The news was announced by her...
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Best Father’s Day Songs: 37 Tunes That Celebrate Dads
Having a father, or being a father or a stepfather, the familiar bonds of fatherhood can be joyous and complicated. Love songs reign the pop music world, but musicians have been inspired by their...
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All You Need Is The Summer Of Love: How 1967 Sparked A Revolution
“The year 1967 seems rather golden,” Paul McCartney later reflected. “It always seemed to be sunny and we wore far-out clothes and far-out sunglasses. Maybe calling it the Summer Of Love was a bit too...
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Songs About The Moon: 20 Essential Tracks For Lunar-Ticks
The Moon, the astronomical body that orbits Earth, is one of the most inspirational objects for human creativity. It has inspired words from Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Joyce, and paintings from...
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Best Yusuf / Cat Stevens Songs: 20 Peaceful Pop Hits
Although he’s best known as a rosy-eyed, hippie-era guitarist, Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ lyrical honesty and varied instrumentation are far more complex than first meets the ear. His voice – at times...
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‘A Better Life’: The Delicate Craftsmanship Of Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam, the artist born Steven Georgiou and still best known to the world as Cat Stevens, was born in London on July 21, 1948. Our playlist has hours of fine music by this quintessential...
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The Plumpton Festival – The Place To Be In 1969
In the annals of rock, there are certain locations synonymous with historic, even iconic, festivals, especially around the late 1960s and early 70s. But putting Woodstock and Glastonbury to one side,...
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‘Another Saturday Night’: Cat Stevens Relives Sam Cooke’s Lonely Weekend
It wasn’t just Sam Cooke’s emotive voice and unique singing style that made him such a powerful force in popular music. It was also the fact that he sang about everyday issues that his fans could...
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The Best Songs About Dogs: A Tribute To Our Four-Legged Friends
Popular music is rife with songs inspired by romantic partnerships, but one of mankind’s greatest muses is our four-legged friends. We’ve highlighted the best songs about dogs to mark the occasion....
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All You Need Is Love: 25 Inspiring Peace Songs
Pop music always has a way of reminding us what matters most. It’s worth remembering that some of the most hopeful, enduring protest anthems have come from especially tense moments in history. With...
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Road Works: How Life On The Road Made Music Matter
The quest for new audiences, an artistic challenge, or simply the need for money and applause: the reasons for musicians to travel have remained pretty constant since troubadours wandered around Europe...
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Muscle Shoals Studio: A History Of The Soul Of America
The sleepy town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, would become the unlikely destination for America’s greatest recording artists, churning out classic hits like Percy Sledge’s “When A Man Loves a Woman”; “I...
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‘Father And Son’: Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ Classic From ‘Tea For The Tillerman’
The songbook of Yusuf/Cat Stevens contains many songs that resonate loudly with his legions of fans worldwide. But few have continued to touch the hearts of successive generations as much as “Father...
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‘Harold And Maude’: How Yusuf/Cat Stevens Soundtracked A Cult Classic
Hal Ashby’s 1971 movie Harold & Maude was many things – a supremely quirky romance, an existential treatise, and one of the most enduring cult movies of all time. But it was above all a celebration...
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‘Morning Has Broken’: New Year Of 1972 Dawns For Cat Stevens
As 1972 dawned, Cat Stevens was still in the early stages of reshaping his musical persona from the singles artist of the “Matthew and Son” era to sensitive album-maker. But now he was proving that he...
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Best Movie Songs: 50 Themes From Hollywood Film Classics
From the moment Al Jolson started warbling on screen in 1927, songs in movies have found a treasured place in the popular consciousness. Some of the best movie songs – such as “Mona Lisa,” “Moon River”...
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Cover Story: A History Of Album Artwork
Tony Bennett said of the marvelous album covers of the 50s that, when you bought a record, “you felt like you were taking home your very own work of art.” Indeed, artwork can be as much a part of the...
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‘Matthew & Son’: How Cat Stevens Grew Up In Public
The album’s title, just like the single that preceded it, sounded like a family business, and in a way it was. As the 60s started to swing, Steven Georgiou, soon to be known as Cat Stevens, grew up in...
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‘Buddha And The Chocolate Box’: The ‘Lush, Full Sound’ Of Cat Stevens
It was one of those albums that adorned turntables and living rooms throughout the 1970s, from the moment it was released on March 19, 1974. The Cat Stevens LP Buddha and the Chocolate Box entered the...
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Best Earth Day Songs: 30 Save The Environment Classics
Every year, on April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement. Songs about the natural world, including those by Woody Guthrie, have been around since the...
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Best Rick Wakeman Songs: 20 Classics From The Keyboard Genius
His name is synonymous with excess: keyboards stacked higher than Stonehenge; capes that resemble the outer shell of an interplanetary spacecraft; and, of course, concept albums. On ice. However,...
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Yusuf / Cat Stevens Preps Reissue Of ‘Foreigner’
Yusuf / Cat Stevens has announced a reissue of his album, Foreigner. Originally released in July 1973 on Island Records, Foreigner was the first album written and produced solely by the legendary...
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‘Foreigner’: Cat Stevens Embraces His Soulful Side
In the early 70s, the artist then known as Cat Stevens could do no wrong. After recovering from a bout of tuberculosis, a run of hit albums – 1970’s Mona Bone Jakon and Tea For The Tillerman, 1971’s...
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