Cat Stevens on CBS Sunday, with new album - An Other Cup

[Annces]

Listen:

http://exodus.interoutemediaservices.com/?id=7d1a7b0f-a96e-4799-af32-01edb74ca46b&delivery=st

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http://www.yusufislam.com/

"A big turning point happened when my son brought back a guitar into the house," he said. "You know, 'cause I'd given all those guitars away to charity way back in 1979. I hadn't really touched the instrument, you know, for like two decades. So one day ... when everybody's asleep and nobody's watching, I pick it up ... and lo and behold, I still know where to put my fingers. Out comes this music. I said, 'Maybe I've got another job to do.'"

Thus he released "An Other Cup" last month. It is his first album of original songs since ending his career as Cat Stevens 28 years ago.

"You know, the cup is there to be filled, you know, with whatever you want to fill it with," Islam said. "For those people looking for Cat Stevens, they'll probably find him in this record. If you want to find Yusuf, go a bit deeper, you'll find him."


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/30/sunday/main2221286.shtml

[NotGivingUp]

1. cat's back!

[marmar]

2. That noted terrorist, the former Cat Stevens?

:scared: Be afraid, be very afraid. :sarcasm:

[sam sarrha]

3. the tide changed and proved Allah was merciful..

[Warpy]

5. ....or the conversion happened 27 years ago

and he finally grew up, leaving the fanaticism of the recent convert behind him.

I'm glad he's back.

[sam sarrha]

26. he said he made a deal with gOD to save him, the tide changed an washed him into shore

gOd is GREAT..!! gOD can change the tides to save a Hippie..!!

[InternalDialogue]

4. His new album slipped totally by me!

But thanks for the story and link! Great site he has for himself, and the new stuff is pure, um, Cat Stevens, I guess I'd say.

[Nabia2004]

6. was he on in the first or last half of the show?

I hope I didn't miss him.

[Annces]

8. last half

[dddem]

7. Thank you for the link to the article.

I've never really understood the whole Cat Stevens death threat thing. I would never support anyone who would call for the death of another human being, so I was glad to see that, as usual, the media blew his comments out of proportion, and the man who wrote 'Peace Train' and 'Father and Son', wasn't, in fact, out for blood.

[Annces]

9. He says in the interview how he got sort of caught up

in politics with that book by Rushdie, but he really is not about politics and wanted to get away from that.

[sam sarrha]

24. wrong religion to get away from politics.. LINK>

http://www.islam-watch.org/index.html these people are very thoughtful, intelligent insightful i really like the article mid way down ..non-arab muslens: Islam is a monkey on your backs.

[Rex_Goodheart]

17. Please...

He had ample opportunity to set the record straight, but never did.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

10. Wow, so cool, thanks for the heads up. The timing of his rediscovering his music is exquisite! n/t

MKJ

[Annces]

12. Ya - we need him singing right now.

I am glad he did an album.

[leftofthedial]

11. has he helped Islamic nutbags kill any authors lately?

[Greyhound]

13. Didn't like him much as Cat Stevens and was happy to ignore him after

his 'conversion'. Hopefully he'll just slide back into obscurity.

[Annces]

14. Well he is a human being - and we all tend to go overboard

in some areas. I think he has a great gift and he can bring more harmony into the world.

[Greyhound]

15. I didn't mean it personally, bad wording on my part, I just never cared for his music. n/t

[cali]

20. Overboard?

He supported a fatwa against Salman Rushdie, for the love of pete. He, an artist, supported the TERRORIZING of another artist. I won't forget that, and he can't try and weasel out of now. All he can do and should do, is beg Rushdie's forgivenessl- publically. And admit it was greivously wrong.

[bmbmd]

16. I love his music-then and now.

He should sing at the next inauguration.

[Cha]

18. How Sweet~ My daughter &

son will be happy, too..they grew up listening to their mommy's and daddy's "Peace Train" :smoke: :)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

19. I don't know what sect of Islam

he joined, but my order is actually based upon praising God through music-the founder was a veena player. Not all Muslims forbid the playing of music-in fact the whole controversy over that is based on some hadeeths (sayings of the Prophet) that are open to interpretation. My husband got into a debate on an Islamic board about this and won the argument in favor of music.

[Diogenes2]

21. That's the central point about hadeeths...

& commandments, & religious exhortations of all kinds & faiths-- all, ALL, are OPEN to interpretation. Would that we all could learn it!

[Annces]

22. I have heard him say that he stopped playing because he wanted to.

Because he wanted to devote himself entirely to the religion.


"He has often been asked why he gave up music so completely and did not find a way to accommodate his faith and his career. “Interestingly, I gave an interview in 1980 to a Muslim magazine and they asked me about music and the future and I said I'd suspended my musical activities for fear that it may divert me from the true path," he recalls. "But I also added that I couldn't be dogmatic and say I'll never make music again. There's nothing in the Koran that says music is forbidden, yet when I looked at the music business I realised it was definitely a negative infringement on what I wanted from my spiritual life. I didn't want to have to worry about it, so for me that meant giving away my guitars and getting down to the job of living, starting the charitable work I wanted to do, and having a family life."

http://www.emimusicpub.com/worldwide/artist_profile/yusuf_profile.html

[sam sarrha]

25. i didn't see it all... is he still a Muslim

[ray of light]

23. thanks.

I'll have to listen later.