Artist:Cat Stevens
Song:Moonshadow
Album:Teaser & The Firecat
Cat Stevens was one of the most popular singer songwriters of the 70s. Of course it is well known that he left the music business in 1977 and is now trying to return as Yusuf Islam. He was born Stephen Georgiou July 21, 1948 in London. He began performing in 1965 under the name Steve Adams. Former Springfields member Mike Hurst had become a record producer and took Georgiou into the studio. This got him a contract with Deram Records and he was renamed Cat Stevens. He had some chart success in England but contracted tuberculosis in Apr. 1968 and recuperated for a year. Stevens started writing more introspective songs and signed with Island Records in 1970. His album Tea For The Tillerman had some chart success and it was licensed to A & M Records in the US. The success of the single Wild World vaulted the album to the top ten in the US. Moonshadow was the first single from the 1971 album Teaser & The Firecat. Stevens was one of the biggest music stars of the 70s and that continued until he became a Muslim on Dec. 23, 1977 and changed his name to Yusuf Islam. His music remained popular despite his retirement. Yusuf Islam returned to pop music with An Other Cup in 2006. Reviews have been mixed. But there's no question that Cat Stevens' 70s music holds up very well today. Here's Cat Stevens performing Moonshadow in 1971.
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