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The former Cat Stevens performs song for Gaza

The musician formerly known as Cat Stevens released a charity song on Monday to help the children of Gaza.

Comeback of Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, has quietly returned to music with a new album and concerts. And he's sounding a lot like ... Cat Stevens.

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F U - Yusuf ... (and Ticket Master too)

As a big Cat Stevens fan I was appalled at his complicity in the decree of death known, as a fatwa, against Salman Rushdie (even though he later tried to deny it) followed by his admittance that his religion forbid his kind of music but was allowing it as he would be giving the p …

Cat Stevens - Peace Train (live)
Source: YouTube

There are no words I have for the unrest in this world... I turn to music because it keeps me from going completely mad.

U2, Cat Stevens (Yusuf) and Baaba Maal at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, review
Source: Telegraph

Bono irradiates the stage when U2 make a surprise appearance at the Island 50 concert at the Shepherd's Bush Empire.

Island Records turns 50 - Bob Marley, Roxy Music, Grace Jones, U2 and more (Audio slideshow)
Source: BBC News

The record label that brought Bob Marley, Roxy Music and U2 to the world's attention has turned 50 - and as part of the celebrations a month-long exhibition, Island Life, is opening in London on Friday 22 May.

Yusaf Islam (Cat Stevens) wins damages for veiled women slur
Source: Reuters

British folk singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, accepted libel damages and an apology on Friday from a news agency that reported he had refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil.

Muslim fury grows over Rushdie knighthood
Source: the Mail online

Muslim fury grows over Rushdie knighthood By DAVID WILLIAMS Last updated at 07:26am on 19th June 2007 Outrage over Salman Rushdie's knighthood threatened to ignite across the Muslim world yesterday.

Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood
Source: The Times

From The TimesJune 19, 2007 Muslim world inflamed by Rushdie knighthood Ben Hoyle Sir Salman Rushdie celebrates his 60th birthday today in familiar circumstances: he is once again the subject of death threats across the Islamic world.

Hey, this sounds like Cat Stevens
Source: The Seattle Times

Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, has quietly returned to music. And he's sounding a lot like ... Cat Stevens. Thirty years after the folk singer converted to Islam, changed his name and dropped out of music, calling it un-Islamic, he has picked up the guitar once more.

Cat Stevens Is Back - Analysis of His Return
Source: Associated Press

His name and beliefs may have changed but he still sounds good and writes and sings great tunes

Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years
Source: The Washington Post

Each day, thousands of pieces of intelligence information from around the world -- field reports, captured documents, news from foreign allies and sometimes idle gossip -- arrive in a computer-filled office in McLean, where analysts feed them into the nation's central list of ter …

Yusuf Islam Steps Back Into Cat Stevens's Old Sound - New York Times
Source: The New York Times

Cat Stevens returns to make music again for the public.

Yusuf Islam to visit US with new album
Source: mp3.com

Two years after being denied entry, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens will come to America to promote his new album.

Cat Stevens Returns as a Bridge Builder
Source: AOL

It's the comeback no one ever expected. More than a quarter-century after his last commercial recording, Yusuf Islam, the artist known internationally as Cat Stevens, returns to the musical spotlight.

Cat Stevens releases first album since embracing Islam in 1970s - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

LONDON (AFP) - Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens before he became a Muslim in the 1970s, has released his first commercial album for nearly three decades.

Review: A tasteful yet tepid brew left standing for decades
Source: living.scotsman.com

There is something very natural and unforced about An Other Cup.

The Cat is back
Source: Guardian Unlimited

The moment you walked inside my door I knew that I need not look no more I've seen many other souls before Ah, but heaven must have programmed you

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