Cat Stevens Records for Iraq Children

[SlowwHand]

Evidently, you don't know jack, about Cat.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by gunkulator
How many people think ol' Yusuf would give two farkleberries about Iraqi children if it wasn't for current events?

Considering the amount he's raised for children's educational and health charities (focussed on the Islamic world) I doubt there will be many.

[Spec]

Hey Lazarus,

What do you mean by suspecting that I'm a ****el because of my avatar? Please tell me, I PMed you but you didnt answer.

Thanks.

Spec.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Just a pun. The RX-7 uses a ****el Rotary engine- I couldn't pass up an opportunity like that.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

That's "wan/kel", if you remove the slash.

[gunkulator]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
Considering the amount he's raised for children's educational and health charities (focussed on the Islamic world) I doubt there will be many.

Fair enough, perhaps he'll add a verse or two on the current aid shipments flowing into Iraq, yes?

[Sheik]

I'm listening to Cat Stevens (Longer Boats) right now as I post and came to the forums and saw this thread. Cat Stevens is great, he has so many good songs and has just an amazing voice.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Sheik
I'm listening to Cat Stevens (Longer Boats) right now as I post and came to the forums and saw this thread. Cat Stevens is great, he has so many good songs and has just an amazing voice.

Yes, Cat Stevens was pretty big in the late 60s / early 70s. His major hits include "Peace Train", "Longer Boats", "Morning has Broken", "Tea for the Tillerman", "Moon Shadow" and probably a few more that I've forgotten. He eventually became disenchanted with the rock and roll lifestyle, a procees that I believe was accelerated by the death of a friend from drugs. His brother turned him on to Islam, something that I thought was pretty odd for a family of Greek Cypriots. He's been living in an Islamic community in England since the 1970s. I believe he has actually produced a couple of albums during the interim, but none of them received much notice, possibly because he once went on record as having said that if he ever came across Salman Rushdie he would feel compelled to obey the Ayatollah's orders and execute a fatwah on Mr. Rushdie.

Still, I for one truly regret his loss to the recording / music community.

[Bereta_Eder]

Islam is a very rich culture. And surely goes a long way from a rock'n' roll life style, I'd presume. But so does Christianity or Buddhism.

I'm a bit suspicious of grand rock stars that undergo such "transformations to enlightment" I find them to be fake (the transformations) but if it helps him then why critisize and it's not fake.
Still to my mind these metamorphosis usually constitutes an admittance of defeat of the functionality of your own values in the real world.
Plus I have an inate repulsion towards all encompassing cosmotheories.
But again, why judge.


I read a small autobiographical piece of his. His dad was Greek Cypriot, his mom Swedish. He describes his dad as outgoing, quite emotional and smart and his mother as quite reserved and controlled. Sort of a ballance really.
Still they divorced, went to live in Sweden after London, then London again IIRC. Sort of all around European.

From these mixed families sometimes the kids just reject the whole package and go for something alltogether different (as is Islam).


So much for my mambo jambo psychiatry, good thing he's doing.

[Az]

so Paiktis, are you coming here anytime soon? It's perfectly safe here.

[Bereta_Eder]

Azazel, I wanted to talk to you about that.

I HAVE THE MONEY

And will be coming to Israel. But not in Easter. I don't think it's prudent at this time.... In summer if it is safe.

[RGBVideo]

Evidently, you don't know jack, about Cat.

No, I don't. At first glance, he looked like a typical rocker, trying to get cash from political correctness.
EDIT: Thanks for the info.

[SlowwHand]

Not the case.

Cat put out a quite lengthy message on his web site, following 9/11.

If you knew his music, you'd know he's sincere.





Paiktis! Get that downloaded yet?
Best hurry, before the MP3 police cut you off.

[Bereta_Eder]

Will do

And what MP3 police

They got napster and audiogalaxy and now there's 3 of them brand new and working full time

[Az]

Azazel, I wanted to talk to you about that.

I HAVE THE MONEY

And will be coming to Israel. But not in Easter. I don't think it's prudent at this time.... In summer if it is safe

Why don't you think it is safe? Oh, I forgot, Saddam's deadly stockpile of WMD.