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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:39:36 EST
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- From: John M <LIBJRM@EMUVM1.BITNET>
- Subject: Yusuf Cat Islam Stevens
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- Mike sez:
-
- >Also, does anyone know what's going on lately with Yusuf Islam (aka
- >Cat Stevens)? Did you know that Peter Gabriel played flute on
- >"Katmandu"? _Mona Bone Jakon_ is a great album. Stevens has such a
- >great storytelling/singing voice. Put out in 1970! Paul Samwell-Smith
- >did an excellent job at producing this album. "Troubled" leaves
- >chills up and down my spine. Iff (IF and only IF) Yusuf Islam ever
- >came back out to play some of his old tunes, who would go to see him?
- >I would certainly be there. That whole "scandal" with the Rushdie
- >thing doesn't bother me at all. In the end, it's his music I want to hear.
- >It touched me.
-
- Well, lessee...
- I've been into the Cat man for quite a while...way before I got around to
- seeing what has become one of my favorite movies of all time, Harold and
- Maude. Anyway, he made alot of great music, IMHO, and some shitty stuff as
- well. What struck me about his stance on the Ayatollah's death threat was
- the seeming contradiction between the (apparent) message of his music and
- his vehement approval of offing some (until then) obscure novelist for the
- heinous crime of creating a scenario in which the name of Almighty Allah
- was besmirched. Maybe I was way off base, but his music gave me the
- impression that he was a reasonable, sort of pacifist kind of guy.
- 'Course, if he ever came out and played anywhere again, I'd probably go
- see him anyway. I'm not holding my breath.
-
- -John M
-