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Yusuf, Cat Stevens

The Laughing Apple

Decca Records

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Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Blackness Of The Night (Official Audio)
Yusuf Cat Stevens SiriusXM 2017
Cat Stevens on SiriusXM - Village Folk Show

Tour Dates

11/08/2017 - Ticketpro Dome / Johannesburg, South Africa
11/09/2017 - Ticketpro Dome / Johannesburg, South Africa
11/11/2017 - Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens / Cape Town, South Africa
11/12/2017 - Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens / Cape Town, South Africa
11/15/2017 - Durban ICC / Durban, South Africa
11/22/2017 - Perth Arena / Perth, Australia
11/25/2017 - Botanic Park / Adelaide, Australia
11/27/2017 - Rod Laver Arena / Melbourne, Australia
11/28/2017 - Rod Laver Arena / Melbourne, Australia
12/02/2017 - Roche Estate / Hunter Valley, Australia
12/04/2017 - Qudos Bank Arena / Sydney, Australia
12/07/2017 - ICC Sydney Theatre / Sydney, Australia
12/09/2017 - Brisbane Entertainment Centre / Brisbane, Australia
12/10/2017 - Brisbane Entertainment Centre / Brisbane, Australia
12/13/2017 - Spark Arena / Auckland, New Zealand
12/14/2017 - Spark Arena / Auckland, New Zealand
12/16/2017 - TSB Bowl of Brooklands / New Plymouth, New Zealand
12/19/2017 - Horncastle Arena / Christchurch, New Zealand
1 Blackness of the Night
2 See What Love Did to Me
3 The Laughing Apple
4 Olive Hill
5 Grandsons
6 Mighty Peace
7 Mary and the Little Lamb
8 You Can Do (Whatever)!
9 Northern Wind (Death of Billy the Kid)
10 Don't Blame Them
11 I'm So Sleepy
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Yusuf / Cat Stevens, one of the most influential singer-songwriters of all time, released his highly anticipated new album, The Laughing Apple, on September 15 under his Cat-O-Log Records logo exclusively through Decca Records, the same label that launched his career 50 years ago. The Laughing Apple follows the common ‘60s template of combining newly-written songs with a number of covers – except that all the covers are from Yusuf's 1967 catalogue. The Laughing Apple celebrates some of his earliest material, presenting the songs as he has always wished they had been recorded. "There are some I always wanted to hear differently," he explains. "Many of my earlier recordings were overcooked with big band arrangements. They crowded the song out a lot of times."

16 NEW  121 TOTAL
SYND: UnderCurrents, Folk Alley, Radio DeLuxe, Acoustic Cafe, CBC
Direct: SiriusXM
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INTER: Canada, UK, Spain, Wales, Australia, New Zealand
Online: RollingStone, CSM, AccuRadio, CBFwebRADIO, Music To Heal the Heart, CalmRadio.com, Phase Global Radio, Jazz From Gallery 41, Consequence Of Sound, Jazz Weekly, Green Arrow Radio, ZephyrPlanetRadio, Quiet Music

  • All sides of Yusuf/Cat Stevens comes out on 'King of a Land'
    Posted At: June 11, 2023 12:00 AM
    Riff's Sam Richards writes….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, changed his name to Yusuf Islam and concentrated for many years much less on music than on humanitarian and charity work – and stirr...
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  • Yusuf / Cat Stevens wants to collab with Green Day / Radio X
    Posted At: March 20, 2023 12:00 AM
    The singer-songwriter has praised the band's political music and revealed he would love to work with them. Radio X - Jenny Mensah writes…..Yusuf /Cat Stevens has revealed Green Day is one of the only popular bands he listens to. The 74-year-old musician - who recently announced a new album, King of a Land - revealed he's an unlikely fan of the US pop punk veterans and would love to work with them. ...
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  • Christmas cheer for three Brent charities, thanks to Yusuf Islam Foundation / Brent & Kilburn Times
    Posted At: December 28, 2019 12:00 AM

    Christmas cheer came early for three Brent charities thanks to a foundation founded by Brondesbury's global music superstar. St Laurence's Larder, in Brondesbury, Salusbury World, in Queen's Park, and Stonebridge-based Sufra NW London received donations of £7,000 each from the Yusuf Islam Foundation, headed by Yusuf, formerly Cat Stevens. Multiple businesses in Kensal Rise came out to s...
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  • glide Magazine celebrates Yusuf Islam, Cat Stevens' 70th birthday with Live 1971 KCET-TV Los Angeles performance
    Posted At: July 21, 2018 12:00 AM

    Happy 70th birthday today to Yusuf Islam, better known to many as Cat Stevens, who was born on 7/21/48. The singer, songwriter  2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee has one of the more revered folk catalogs from the 70's, where many of the songs have been modernized in recent years by other artists. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were both certifie...
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  • Yusuf/Cat Stevens - Laura Marling collab makes npr: world cafe '5 we'd love to see sunday night' list
    Posted At: January 27, 2018 12:00 AM

    The 60th annual Grammy Awards takes place Sunday night. Billed as "music's biggest night," the evening recognizes achievement, yet always promises incredible live performances to draw in the viewers (and boost the ratings). This year, CBS and The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences are counting on big numbers from big names: Kendrick Lamar, Sam Smith, U2, Pink, Rihanna, and Bruno Mars and...
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  • Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat makes windsorsquare: Top 10 classic rock albums
    Posted At: January 2, 2018 12:00 AM

    Musical tastes travel a route to all genres from classical to classic rock, from hip hop to funk, from adult contemporary to big band, and all in between. Each genre can be stratified and branched off, creating a myriad and often confusing pattern of group compositions, influences, and off-shoots. For example, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and sometimes Young have a varied lineage. Before coming together as ...
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  • Yusef, Cat Stevens - 50th anniversary Peace Train tour comes to Australia / VVN Music
    Posted At: November 27, 2017 12:00 AM

    Cat Stevens is investing heavily in his lesser known 1967 album New Masters on his current Australian tour. New Masters was the second studio album for Cat Stevens. Its best known song is ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest'. For his 2017 album The Laughing Apple,  Stevens has re-recorded a chunk of his album from 50 years earlier. The set list is as follows Set 1 Don't Be Shy (from Harold &...
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  • Yusef, Cat Stevens - The Laughing Apple / Jazz Weekly review
    Posted At: November 21, 2017 12:00 AM

    THE PEACE TRAIN RETURNS…: by George W. Harris • November 11, 2017  Back in the late 60s and early 70s, Cat Stevens was THE most popular folk-styled singer/songwriter on the planet, with major hits like "Peace Train" and "Where Do The Children Play" and million selling albums like Tea For the Tillerman. Major health, life and spiritual directions lead  him to convert to Islam, wh...
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  • Yusuf Cat Stevens on the Peace Train at SiriusXM
    Posted At: October 12, 2017 12:00 AM

    Yusuf / Cat Stevens, one of the most influential singer-songwriters of all time, released his highly anticipated new album, The Laughing Apple, on September 15 under his Cat-O-Log Records logo exclusively through Decca Records, the same label that launched his career 50 years ago. The Laughing Apple follows the common ‘60s template of combining newly-written songs with a number ...
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  • Yusuf / Cat Stevens 'The Laughing Apple' stretches back to pre-Tillerman days / Consequence of Sound
    Posted At: September 19, 2017 12:00 AM

    The forward slash in Yusuf / Cat Stevens' billing says quite a lot about the folksinger's return to conventional Western recording and performing over the past decade. With each album, Yusuf seemed to have one paw scratching about the musical alleyways of ‘70s icon Cat Stevens while the other foot stood bare at the foot of a prayer mat, drawing inspiration from a different type of spiritual well. A...
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  • Yusuf / Cat Stevens - The Laughing Apple / Los Angeles Times review
    Posted At: September 15, 2017 12:00 AM

    An inescapable sense of foreboding runs through "Blackness of the Night," the opening track from "The Laughing Apple," the new album by Yusuf, aka Cat Stevens. "In the blackness of the night I seem to wander endlessly, with a hope burning out deep inside," Yusuf sings in the same soft, gravelly baritone that helped make him one of pop music's biggest stars of the 1970s. "I'm a fugitive; community has dri...
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  • A childlike simplicity runs through Yusuf, Cat Stevens - The Laughing Apple / Philly.com
    Posted At: September 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    After creating some of the most beloved albums of the early 1970s singer-songwriter era, Cat Stevens (born Steven Georgiou), converted to Islam, changed his name to Yusuf Islam, and retired from the music business for nearly three decades. In 2006, he started recording again (going solely by Yusuf). The Laughing Apple, his fourth album since his return, is a self-conscious nod to his early career: He'...
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  • Yusuf, Cat Stevens premieres 'See What Love Did to Me' on RollingStone
    Posted At: July 20, 2017 12:00 AM

    Yusuf / Cat Stevens will release a new album in the fall, his fourth since returning to the folk-pop style of his classic Sixties and Seventies work. The Laughing Apple bridges the artist's present and past, combining newly written songs with covers of tracks from his early repertoire. "'See What Love Did to Me' is a a song which extolls the virtue of Love and its destructive properties," Yus...
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