"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's how Cat Stevens used to get high before a show: "You need to loosen up before going on stage. So to have a drink beforehand ...

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 ...

From the opening strum of "The Wind" to the closing notes of the classic "Peace Train," Steven's fifth album, Teaser and the Firecat, remains one of his strongest works. The LP spawned three worldwide ...

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 ...

Singer was set to tour in support of his book, Cat on the Road to Findout, out in the US in October Cat Stevens, who also goes by Yusuf Islam, has postponed the North American leg of his book tour due ...

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 ...

Back in 1968, Cat Stevens was admitted to hospital with tuberculosis, and it was the sounds of The Band and their 1969 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'I'm an unrepentant child of the Sixties': Cat Stevens, who goes by the name of Yusuf Islam, circa 1970 - Jim McCrary/Redferns For ...

You know a song is something special when it can become a hit several times over in wildly disparate styles. “Wild World”, the touching song by Cat Stevens that he first released in 1970, enjoyed that ...

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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 ...