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Happy Birthday - Cat Stevens - 72 today (Original Post) Danascot Jul 2020 OP
Happy birthday. Polly Hennessey Jul 2020 #1
Reminds me of my mom oregonjen Jul 2020 #2
Happy Birthday! Arkansas Granny Jul 2020 #3
Happy Birthday Yusuf ornotna Jul 2020 #4
Anyone remember DENVERPOPS Jul 2020 #5
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert invited him to sing for US. saidsimplesimon Jul 2020 #10
Happy Birthday Doc_Technical Jul 2020 #6
Happy Birthday, Yusuf saidsimplesimon Jul 2020 #7
I played his albums 'til the wax melted. And it's his Tuesday birthday, time for my favorite song! ancianita Jul 2020 #8
And his classic! ancianita Jul 2020 #9
He gave us some good music..... lastlib Jul 2020 #11
He did apologize for that Salman Rushdie caper PlanetBev Jul 2020 #12
Cat Stevens... thanks for the beautiful memories Hekate Jul 2020 #13
Since we're posting our favorites. TomSlick Jul 2020 #14

oregonjen

(3,335 posts)
2. Reminds me of my mom
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 10:18 AM
Jul 2020

She used to listen to him and play his songs on the piano. I still listen to his music occasionally. ❤️

DENVERPOPS

(8,810 posts)
5. Anyone remember
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 11:57 AM
Jul 2020

When he was coming to do a concert in the U.S. after 9/11, and Cheney/Rumsfeld wouldn't let him enter the U.S. because he was a threat to our security.........

About the same time, coincidentally, that all the radio stations across the nation were banned from playing any of the Vietnam War Protest Songs......

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
7. Happy Birthday, Yusuf
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 01:28 PM
Jul 2020

He will always be known as "Cat Stevens" in my memories.

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ancianita

(36,023 posts)
8. I played his albums 'til the wax melted. And it's his Tuesday birthday, time for my favorite song!
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 01:29 PM
Jul 2020




If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine
I'm only the underline of the word
Yes, I'm like him, just like you, I can't tell you what to do
Like everybody else I'm searching through what I've heard

Whoa, where do you go?
When you don't want no one to know?
Who told tomorrow Tuesday's dead

Oh preacher won't you paint my dream, won't you show me where you've been
Show me what I haven't seen to ease my mind
'Cause I will learn to understand, if I have a helping hand
I wouldn't make another demand all my life

Whoa, where do you go?
When you don't want no one to know?
Who told tomorrow Tuesday's dead

What's my sex, what's my name, all in all it's all the same
Everybody plays a different game, that is all
The man may live, the man may die, searching for the question why
But if he tries to rule the sky he must fall

Whoa, where do you go?
When you don't want no one to know?
Who told tomorrow Tuesday's dead

Now every second on the nose, the humdrum of the city grows
Reaching out beyond the throes of our time
We must try to shake it down
Do our best to break the ground
Try to turn the world around one more time
Yeah, we must try to shake it down
Do our best to break the ground
Try to turn the world around one more time

Whoa, where do you go?
When you don't want no one to know?
Who told tomorrow Tuesday's dead

lastlib

(23,214 posts)
11. He gave us some good music.....
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:11 PM
Jul 2020

...and I had NO problem with him converting to Islam---
But when he approved Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie, I dropped him. That was all she wrote--I haven't listened to him since. And won't.

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