Foreigner

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In May 2006, in anticipation of his forthcoming new pop album, the BBC1 programme Imagine aired a 49-minute documentary with Alan Yentob called Yusuf: The Artist formerly Known as Cat Stevens. This documentary film features rare audio and video clips from the late 1960s and 1970s, as well as an extensive interview with Islam, his brother David Gordon, several record executives, Bob Geldof, Dolly Parton, and others outlining his career as Cat Stevens, his conversion and emergence as Yusuf Islam, and his return to music in 2006. There are clips of him singing in the studio when he was recording An Other Cup as well as a few 2006 excerpts of him on guitar singing a few verses of Cat Stevens songs including "The Wind" and "On the Road to Find Out". [79]

On 16June 2023, Yusuf/Cat Stevens released King of a Land, a new studio album with children's music and religious music influences. [177] a b c Williamson, Nigel (17 November 2006). "The Billboard Q and A: Yusuf Islam". Billboard Magazine. Interview with Yusuf Islam; Return to Music. Archived from the original on 6 March 2008 . Retrieved 31 January 2009. a b c d Windeler, Robert (October 1972). "Cat Stevens". Volume 29, No. 4. Stereo Review. p.76 . Retrieved 17 October 2008.

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Offiziellecharts.de – Cat Stevens – Foreigner" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 18 June 2022. even if it’s not politically explicit Stevens manages to awaken the love for humanity and justice within all of us. a b Kent, David (1993) (doc). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W a b "Yusuf Islam sings for tsunami victims and told to make more music and spread Peace" (Press release). Mountain of Light. 24 January 2005. Archived from the original on 9 July 2006 . Retrieved 6 May 2006.

He won't talk to unveiled women, right?". Chinese Whiskers FAQs. YusufIslam.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013 . Retrieved 11 April 2015.

Overview". Islamic Economy Award – Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 July 2017 . Retrieved 28 October 2017. Yusuf Islam to Release New Album". 1 October 2006 . Retrieved 27 June 2014. Quoted in Agence France-Presse article. Paste staff (8 June 2006). "Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters: The List". Paste . Retrieved 18 June 2009. Islam was asked by the Swiss periodical Das Magazin why the title of the album was An Other Cup, rather than "Another Cup". The answer was that his breakthrough album, Tea for the Tillerman in 1970, was decorated with Islam's painting of a peasant sitting down to a cup of steaming drink on the land. He commented that the two worlds "then, and now, are very different". His new album shows a steaming cup alone on this cover. His answer was that this was actually an other cup; something different; a bridge between the East and West, which he explained was his own perceived role. He added that, through him, "Westerners might get a glimpse of the East, and Easterners, some understanding of the West. The cup, too, is important; it's a meeting place, a thing meant to be shared." [128] a b c "Yusuf Islam wins damages for "veiled women" slur". Reuters. 18 July 2008 . Retrieved 7 October 2008.

Foreigner is the seventh studio album released by British-Emirati singer-songwriter Cat Stevens in July 1973. In addition to the minor hit "The Hurt", which received a moderate amount of airplay, Foreigner also included such songs as "100 I Dream" and the 18-minute-long "Foreigner Suite", which took up the entirety of side one. All-star line up for Peace One Day". Musicnews.virginmedia.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008 . Retrieved 27 July 2009. ASCAP Press release". Ascap.com. 11 October 2006. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 27 July 2009. Cat Stevens – vocals, piano, keyboards, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, guitar synthesizer, clavinet, RMI electric piano, string/ brass/ wood arrangementsForeigner transcends the up and close and personal meeting the public the cross over between the unknown and the strangely familiar. It is a musical feast, and it’s also Yusuf’s first fully self composed and self produced project as Cat Stevens, it moves beyond the folk singer genre and transcends the epic and the progressive. The songs and the music brings you up and close and personal with the artist in during his seeker stage, and in particular it finds the artist restless and tired of living the stereotyped life of a world pop star, something he dreamed about becoming when he was young but was never spirtiually satisfied with when it became a reality, thus he exited the commercial pop scene after his conversion to islam, and you can sense this is what is eventually going to happen when you listen to Foreigner. DesBarres, Pamela; D'Arbanville, Patti (1 September 2008). Helter Skelter Publishing (ed.). Let's Spend the Night Together. Chicago Review Press. p.54. ISBN 978-1-55652-789-0. a b O'Driscoll, Michelle (29 July 1972). "Tea with the Tillerman". Disc Magazine . Retrieved 24 October 2008. Having established a signature sound, Stevens enjoyed a string of successes in the following years. 1971's Teaser and the Firecat album reached number two and achieved gold record status within three weeks of its release in the United States. It yielded several hits, including " Peace Train", " Morning Has Broken", and " Moonshadow". The album was also certified by the RIAA as a Multi-Platinum record in 2001, with over 3 million sold in the United States through that time. When interviewed on a Boston radio station, Stevens said about Teaser and the Firecat: There is a great deal of ignorance in the world about Islam today, and we hope to communicate with the help of something more refined than lectures and talks. Our recordings are particularly appealing to the young, having used songs as well as Qur'an verses with pleasing sound effects... [126]