THE
WIND
CAT
STEVENS
SONGWRITER:
CAT STEVENS
COUNTRY:
U. K.
ALBUM: TEASER AND THE FIRECAT
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1971
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21
July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British
singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk,
pop, rock, and, in his later career, Islamic
music, before returning to secular music in 2006. He
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
His 1967 debut
album and its title song "Matthew and Son"
both reached top ten in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea
for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser
and the Firecat (1971) were certified triple
platinum in the US. His 1972 album Catch
Bull at Four spent weeks at the top of several
major charts. He earned ASCAP songwriting
awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is the Deepest",
and the song has been a hit for four artists. His other hit songs include
"Father
and Son", "Wild World",
"Moonshadow",
"Peace Train",
and "Morning
Has Broken".
In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam and
adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all of
his guitars for charity. He has since bought back at least one of these guitars
as a result of the efforts of his son Yoriyos, and left his musical career to
devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community.
He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman
Rushdie. His current stance is that he never supported the fatwa:
“I was cleverly framed by certain questions. I never
supported the fatwa." He has received two honorary doctorates and awards
for promoting peace as well as other humanitarian awards.
In 2006, he returned to pop music – releasing
his first new studio album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup.
With that release and subsequent ones, he dropped the surname "Islam"
from the album cover art – using the stage name Yusuf as a mononym.
In 2009, he released the album Roadsinger and, in 2014, he released the album Tell
'Em I'm Gone and began his first US tour since
1978. His second North American tour since his resurgence, featuring 12 shows
in intimate venues, ran from 12 September to 7 October 2016. In 2017, he
released the album The
Laughing Apple, now using the stage name
Yusuf/Cat Stevens, using the Cat Stevens name for the first time in 39 years.
In September 2020, he released Tea
for the Tillerman 2, a reimagining of his classic
album Tea for the Tillerman to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Teaser and the Firecat is the fifth studio
album by Cat Stevens,
released in October 1971.
At the Australian 1972 King of Pop Awards the album won
Biggest Selling L.P.
I listen to the wind
to the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up well I think,
only God really knows
I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never never never
I never wanted water once
No, never, never, never
I listen to my words
but
they fall far below
I let my music take me where
my heart wants to go
I swam upon the devil's lake
But never, never never never
I'll never make the same mistake
No, never, never, never.
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