The Very Best Of Cat Stevens

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In early 2005, Islam released a new song, entitled "Indian Ocean", about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster. The song featured Indian composer/producer A. R. Rahman, a-ha keyboard player Magne Furuholmen and Travis drummer Neil Primrose. Proceeds of the single went to help orphans in Banda Aceh, one of the areas worst affected by the tsunami, through Islam's Small Kindness charity. At first, the single was released only through several online music stores but later featured on the compilation album Cat Stevens: Gold. "I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again." [129] Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Cat Stevens; 'Very Best of ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 11 June 2019. Dansby, Andrew (13 July 2000). "Israel Rejects the Former Cat Stevens". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006 . Retrieved 12 October 2008.

a b Kent, David (1993) (doc). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.WIn January 2009, Yusuf released a single in aid of children in Gaza, a rendition of the George Harrison song, "The Day the World Gets Round", along with the German bassist Klaus Voormann, who had formerly collaborated with The Beatles. To promote the new single, Voormann redesigned his famous Beatles Revolver album cover, drawing a picture of a young Cat Stevens along with himself and Harrison. [139] Proceeds from the single were donated to charities and organisations including UNESCO, UNRWA, and the nonprofit group Save the Children, with the funds earmarked for Gaza children. [140] Israeli Consul David Saranga criticised Yusuf for not dedicating the song to all of the children who are victims of the conflict, including Israeli children. [141] Note: Yusuf's denial on Radio 4: "I was really certainly not prepared or equipped to deal with sharp-toothed journalists and the whole way in which the media spins stories, and so I was cleverly framed, I would say, by certain questions where I couldn't, for instance, rewrite the ten Commandments; you can't expect me to do that! At the same time, I never actually ever supported the fatwa. I even wrote a whole kind of press statement very early on which the press completely ignored. And they went for the one which was written by the journalist who originally wrote the story, and so I had to live through that; but the interesting thing is that it brought me to kind of study the whole subject of jurisprudence, which again led me to realise that music, where you have certain rules which are dictated to by certain scholars, you have to dig a bit deeper and you find out that no, hang on, this is an opinion, an opinion, that's what a fatwa is actually. An opinion, which doesn't come directly from the Koran at all." Former Cat Stevens To Donate Some Box Set Royalties To September11Fund". VH1. 28 September 2001. Archived from the original on 8 December 2008 . Retrieved 11 February 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]

While on holiday in Marrakesh, [ when?] Stevens was intrigued by the sound of the adhān, the Islamic ritual call to prayer, which was explained to him as "music for God". Stevens said, "I thought, music for God? I'd never heard that before – I'd heard of music for money, music for fame, music for personal power, but music for God!?" [75] a b UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 11 June 2022. Marrin, Minette (26 September 2004). "Profile: Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens: Not so much a zealot more a lost musician". The Sunday Times. London . Retrieved 22 July 2008.Fong-Torres, Ben (1 April 1971). "Cat Stevens Out of a Bag". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 1 March 2010– via majicat.com. Cohen, Moshe (10 April 2014). "Report: Muslim Convert Cat Stevens Has a Jewish Brother". Arutz Sheva . Retrieved 23 November 2016. Gordon is the co-founder with Yael Drouyannoff of Peace Child Israel, which teaches coexistence using theater and the arts. Roadsinger, "My People" and tours [ edit ] Yusuf performing at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, May 2009 Yusuf performing at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Cardiff in 2015 On 30 October 2010, Yusuf appeared at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's spoof Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, DC, singing alongside Ozzy Osbourne. Yusuf performed " Peace Train" and Ozzy performed " Crazy Train" at the same time, followed by The O'Jays performance of " Love Train". [146]

Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. My Journey from Cat Stevens to Yusuf Islam by Yusuf Islam (Mountain of Light, 2001), an autobiographical account ISBN 1-900675-35-8, In October 2004, The Sun and The Sunday Times newspapers voiced their support for Yusuf's exclusion from the United States and claimed that he had supported terrorism. He sued for libel and received an out-of-court financial settlement from the newspapers, which both published apology statements saying that he had never supported terrorism and mentioning that he had recently been given a Man of Peace award from the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. However The Sunday Times managing editor Richard Caseby said that while there was an "agreed settlement", they "always denied liability" and "disagreed with Cat Stevens' lawyers interpretation", but took a "pragmatic view" of the lawsuit. [113]May 2003 – Platinum Europe Awards". IFPI. 6 June 2003. Archived from the original on 11 January 2009 . Retrieved 11 February 2009. a b Islam, Yusuf. "NEW Yusuf Islam Interview and a Is For Allah Peace Train Cat Stevens". Video of Interview. Turn to Islam. pp.1–6. Archived from the original on 26 May 2008 . Retrieved 30 July 2008. Paste staff (8 June 2006). "Paste's 100 Best Living Songwriters: The List". Paste . Retrieved 18 June 2009. Cat Stevens 'In the Dark' Over No-Fly List". ABC News 20/20. 1 October 2004 . Retrieved 14 July 2010. Two years later, in December 2006, Islam was admitted without incident into the United States for several radio concert performances and interviews to promote his new record. [110] He said of the incident at the time, "No reason was ever given, but being asked to repeat the spelling of my name again and again, made me think it was a fairly simple mistake of identity. Rumours which circulated after made me imagine otherwise." [111]