He returned to making secular music in 2006. This is by no means anywhere near completion, it is a continual process as concerts are added as they are discovered.
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His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in his career, Islamic music. Cat Stevens Concerts, TV & Radio gigs and other important dates. The tour commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the first major hit single and debut album Matthew & Son released in 1967. 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. More such revelations would have been welcome, but as it is the album constitutes an excellent Stevens best-of. YUSUF / CAT STEVENS 50TH ANNIVERSARY AUSTRALIAN TOUR AUSTRALIA We are excited to announce A Cat’s Attic Peace Train Tour will be coming to you this November and December. up to this point (omitting "Morning Has Broken," "Sitting," and "Ready"), interspersing them with equally familiar songs such as "Where Do the Children Play," "Tuesday's Dead," and "Father & Son." ("How Can I Tell You," another audience favorite, is missing from the DVD version of this concert, while the DVD boasts performances of "Miles from Nowhere" and "Ruins" not found on the CD.) For most of the show, Stevens says practically nothing, but toward the end he becomes much more talkative, saying of "Sad Lisa" that he may have been writing about himself rather than the woman of the title admitting that his recent single "Two Fine People" is musically a rewrite of his earlier hit "Wild World" and revealing that he actually wrote "Peace Train" on a train, although he was thinking of Alfred Hitchcock (and presumably, of the film Strangers on a Train) at the time. Stevens performs faithful versions of eight of the 11 hit singles he had scored in the U.S. by peaking at number 13 in Billboard.) Supported by the same musicians who had played on his records, including guitarist Alun Davies and keyboard player Jean Roussel, he had a repertoire of hits and other favorites, and the audience can be heard cheering enthusiastically, not only for the chart singles, but also for tracks from albums like Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman, and Teaser and the Firecat. ( Numbers, the album he was promoting, broke a string of six consecutive Top Ten albums in the U.S. The performance captures Stevens on his 1976 American tour, just past his commercial peak. During his popular heyday in the 1970s, Cat Stevens did not release a live album, so it was some surprise that, nearly 30 years later, a live recording turned up on both DVD and CD.
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