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Island Records no longer control copyrights to post-1974 catalogue of Cat Stevens albums he recorded for Island, including Back to Earth. Two of the songs, " Just Another Night" and " Last Love Song", express bitterness about how he was treated by the music industry, with lyrics such as "If you don't want me, maybe I don't want you." However, in the song Never, Stevens hints that he may return to music someday, "There's going to be another time there's going to be another moment." Eventually, he would return to popular music. It would be the singer's last album for 28 years, until An Other Cup was released in 2006.īack to Earth features a return to the acoustic guitar sound of Stevens' early 1970s albums like Tea for the Tillerman. The UK single release, " Last Love Song"/"Nascimento", released on Island in February 1979, similarly failed to chart. 33 on the Billboard charts, and its singles " Bad Brakes"/"Nascimento", and " Randy"/"Nascimento" made a poor showing in the charts. As he was unwilling to promote the album Back to Earth with a tour, it peaked at only No. The same day the album was released, Yusuf's father Stavros Georgiou died. On 3 December 1978, the album Back to Earth was released. Recorded in several places including Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Longview Farms in Massachusetts, Advision in London, and CBS in New York City, the album was completed at Le Studio in Quebec.Īt this point, Yusuf was praying five times daily and the sessions took on a melancholy edge, as it was implicitly understood that they were to be the last. The old team had now come back together to complete the final record. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam. Yusuf recorded this album in November 1978, re-uniting with his producer from the early 1970s, Paul Samwell-Smith, and arranger Del Newman, which includes his guitarist, Alun Davies, also his drummer Gerry Conway, neither of whom had appeared on Stevens' previous 1977 album " Izitso". Cat Stevens Bio Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British musician. Although he wanted to retire from popular music after his religious conversion, Islam owed his record company Island/ A&M one more "Cat Stevens" album under his recording contract. A E I got in town a month ago A D Ive seen a lot of girls since then, A D If I could meet em I could get em A D But as yet I havent met em A E A Thats how Im in the state. On 4 July 1978, Steven Georgiou changed his name to Yusuf Islam. A D Another saturday night and I aint got nobody A E Ive got some money cause I just got paid A D Now how I wish I had someone to talk to A E A Im in an awful way. On 23 December 1977 Stevens entered the Regent's Park Mosque in London and formally embraced Islam. On 8 December 1977 Stevens was awarded the "Sun Peace Award" by the Symphony for the United Nations in New York City.