In 1971, Cat Stevens was riding high and contributed a new song to a film that bombed, yet years later, both the song and the ...
The legendary singer wrote the song ahead of a date with a music icon.
"I wrote these lyrics more than 50 years ago, and I know the words still boom as true and loud today as they did in the 1970s," the singer-songwriter told PEOPLE Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the ...
In the height of his popularity, "Peace Train" singer Cat Stevens, born Yusuf Islam, had only ever made it as high as a No. 6 ...
For the best part of 60 years, the singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, otherwise known as Yusuf Islam, has been a unique figure in music and popular culture. The book is an introspective look at an ...
Cat Stevens is a transformative artist in his own right, but it took a particularly "genius" musical soundtrack to change his ...
On Yusuf / Cat Stevens new song “All Nights, All Days,” from his upcoming album King of a Land, out June 16, 2023, he questions what would happen in the world if he shook things up a bit. “I like to ...
Cat Stevens had already released one album in 1970, Mona Bone Jakon back in April, when Tea for the Tillerman arrived on Nov. 23, 1970. And almost immediately, things changed for the 22-year-old ...
Cat Stevens rose to fame in the swinging ‘60s with chart-topping pop hits such as “Matthew and Son” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest.” His early career was interrupted by a near-fatal battle with ...
Cat Stevens released a cover of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” in 2023. Stevens saw a parallel between himself and “Here Comes the Sun” writer George Harrison. Stevens admired George as a musician ...
Classic rock and Broadway crossed paths more than you might think. For example, Cat Stevens’ “Father and Son” was initially meant for a musical based on major historical events. It’s for the best that ...
THEY say that a cat has nine lives – and this particular one has used up several of his. For the life of Cat Stevens, the singer-songwriter who became Yusuf after converting to Islam, has been shaped ...