Tag Archives: Cat Stevens
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REVIEW: All sides of Yusuf / Cat Stevens come out on ‘King of a Land’
Yusuf / Cat Stevens, “King of a Land.” Cat Stevens, a significant presence on the ‘70s radio landscape with hits like “Peace Train,” “Moonshadow,” “Wild World” and “The First Cut is the Deepest,” has lived what seem like several lifetimes since the late those days. He converted to Islam,…
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REWIND: Zayn Malik and five more Muslim artists in honor of Ramadan
Zayn Malik performs at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City on March 25, 2016. Photo courtesy iHeartRadio. It is currently Ramadan. I’m far from a religious scholar so I’m not going to embarrass myself by getting into too much detail, but I do know that it’s the ninth…
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PROFESSOR MUSIC: This column is going into the mystic
Van Morrison performs in 2018; courtesy. I’ve invented a moment in musical history that I like to envision over and over again: It’s New York, late summer, 1969 in the penthouse of A & R Recording studios. Producer Lewis Merenstein is at the board with a couple of engineers.…
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REWIND: Five songs to help you chill out in a stressful year
Pictured: Enya leading a SoulCycle class through meditation on the night the president tried to start a war with Iran. The year 2020 is excruciatingly long, and we’re only a week and a half in. Fortunately music has your back. Just as it can help you get hyped, it…
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REWIND: Recap the decade with our editor’s top Spotify song of each year
Andrew WK gave everyone the permission to party hard. Yes, even to Cat Stevens. This week Spotify rolled out its annual Year in Review app, for subscribers to see what their top songs and artists of 2019 were. This year, since 2020 is right around the corner, they stretched…
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REWIND: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and the author are very tired
Actual image of editor Daniel J. Willis after his third concert in three nights. In my tireless quest to come up with a new topic every week, I’ve been lucky the past month or so. Holidays, awards shows; they’re conceptual gold. But my luck has run out. Do you…
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RIFF Rewind — A time machine for your ears: 1970
So you know how when I started this endeavor I set rules? Five songs per year, one song per band, qualifies in year of release, listed in chronological order? Pretty straightforward, right? For 1970 I’m breaking that first one. I didn’t realize it until this exercise but 1970 was…