The Very Best Of Cat Stevens

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New Zealand album certifications – Cat Stevens – Very best of". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 16 October 2021. written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus; discussed by Islam in a November 2006 interview

present: as Yusuf / Cat Stevens, The Laughing Apple, TT2 [ edit ] Yusuf performing " Peace Train" at the National Remembrance Service for victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings, in Hagley Park, Christchurch, on 29 March 2019 He took up meditation, yoga, and metaphysics, [47] read about other religions and became a vegetarian. [37] As a result of his serious illness and long convalescence [47] and as a part of his spiritual awakening and questioning, he wrote as many as 40 songs, many of which would appear on his albums in later years. [13] Changes in musical sound after illness [ edit ] Islam, Yusuf. "Biography". catstevens.com. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021 . Retrieved 26 May 2022.On the occasion of the 2000 re-release of his Cat Stevens albums, at the urging of his label rep Sujata, Islam agreed to interviews with the media to tell his story and reconnect with his fans. [122] Islam explained that he had stopped performing in English due to his misunderstanding of the Islamic faith. "This issue of music in Islam is not as cut-and-dried as I was led to believe... I relied on heresy, that was perhaps my mistake." [120] He also participated in the first documentary on his life for a two-part VH1 Behind the Music. [123] Yusuf often wavers between optimism and pessimism in his songs. Sometimes, though, they’re more fully dejected. “Trouble,” for instance, was written after a year of convalescence, when at 19, he was hospitalized and expected to die. It marinates in sorrow. (You may have heard it in Harold and Maude, where it plays before Maude’s death.) Two years later, in December 2006, Islam was admitted without incident into the United States for several radio concert performances and interviews to promote his new record. [110] He said of the incident at the time, "No reason was ever given, but being asked to repeat the spelling of my name again and again, made me think it was a fairly simple mistake of identity. Rumours which circulated after made me imagine otherwise." [111] Following his conversion to Islam, Cat Stevens (now named Yusuf Islam), abandoned his musical career for nearly two decades. When he became a Muslim in 1977, the Imam at his mosque told him that it was fine to continue as a musician, as long as the songs were morally acceptable, but others were saying that "it was all prohibited", and he decided to avoid the question by ceasing to perform. [86] He has said that there was "a combination of reasons, really", and that the continuing demands of the music business had been "becoming a chore, and not an inspiration anymore". [86]

In June 2023, Yusuf / Cat Stevens performed shows in Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Marbella and made his first ever appearance at Glastonbury Festival. [176] [nb 1] a b UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 11 June 2022. a b Stroumboulopoulos, George (3 January 2007). "Interview with Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens". The Hour. CBC . Retrieved 8 June 2009. Cat Stevens performs at the Kennedy Center Sept. 22 (by Peggy McGlone)". The Washington Post. 9 August 2016 . Retrieved 15 August 2016.

Yusuf / Cat Stevens Announces New Album: The Laughing Apple (by Alex Gallacher)". Folkradio.co.uk. 21 July 2017 . Retrieved 16 September 2017.

On 26 July 2016, Yusuf announced he would be part of the Global Citizen Festival held on 24 September 2016 in Central Park, New York, New York. [164] a b c "Yusuf Islam wins damages for "veiled women" slur". Reuters. 18 July 2008 . Retrieved 7 October 2008. Overview". Islamic Economy Award – Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 July 2017 . Retrieved 28 October 2017. May 2003 – Platinum Europe Awards". IFPI. 6 June 2003. Archived from the original on 11 January 2009 . Retrieved 11 February 2009.Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Cat Stevens; 'Very Best of ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 11 June 2019. ASCAP Press release". Ascap.com. 11 October 2006. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 27 July 2009. In May 2006, in anticipation of his forthcoming new pop album, the BBC1 programme Imagine aired a 49-minute documentary with Alan Yentob called Yusuf: The Artist formerly Known as Cat Stevens. This documentary film features rare audio and video clips from the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as an extensive interview with Islam, his brother David Gordon, several record executives, Bob Geldof, Dolly Parton, and others outlining his career as Cat Stevens, his conversion and emergence as Yusuf Islam, and his return to music in 2006. There are clips of him singing in the studio when he was recording An Other Cup as well as a few 2006 excerpts of him on guitar singing a few verses of Cat Stevens songs including "The Wind" and "On the Road to Find Out". [79]

On 16June 2023, Yusuf/Cat Stevens released King of a Land, a new studio album with children's music and religious music influences. [177] In April 2007, BBC1 broadcast a concert given at the Porchester Hall by Islam as part of BBC Sessions, his first live performance in London in 28 years (the previous one being the UNICEF "Year of the Child" concert in 1979). He played several new songs along with some old ones like "Father and Son", "The Wind", "Where Do the Children Play?", "Don't Be Shy", "Wild World", and "Peace Train". [137]

"Moonshadow"

Certificaciones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Type Cat Stevens in the box under the ARTISTA column headingand Very Best of in the box under the TÍTULO column heading. His 1967 debut album and its title song " Matthew and Son" both reached top 10 in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were certified triple platinum in the US. [7] His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spent weeks at the top of several other major charts. [8] [9] He earned ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for " The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit for four artists. [10] His other hit songs include " Father and Son", " Wild World", " Moonshadow", " Peace Train", and " Morning Has Broken". Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 February 1989, p.5A, "Iran: West to blame Islam for forthcoming terrorism". a b "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 3 November 2003. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012 . Retrieved 24 October 2008.