Foreigner

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Foreigner transcends the up and close and personal meeting the public the cross over between the unknown and the strangely familiar. It is a musical feast, and it’s also Yusuf’s first fully self composed and self produced project as Cat Stevens, it moves beyond the folk singer genre and transcends the epic and the progressive. The songs and the music brings you up and close and personal with the artist in during his seeker stage, and in particular it finds the artist restless and tired of living the stereotyped life of a world pop star, something he dreamed about becoming when he was young but was never spirtiually satisfied with when it became a reality, thus he exited the commercial pop scene after his conversion to islam, and you can sense this is what is eventually going to happen when you listen to Foreigner. a b "Why Has Yusuf Dropped Islam From His Stage Name?". Chinese Whiskers-FAQs. YusufIslam.com. Archived from the original on 8 July 2009 . Retrieved 8 November 2010.

a b Kent, David (1993) (doc). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W On 15 September 2014, Yusuf announced the forthcoming release on 27 October 2014 of his new studio album, Tell 'Em I'm Gone, and two short tours: a November 2014 (9-date) Europe tour and a December 2014 (6-date) North America tour, the latter being his first one since 1976. [160] [161] On 4 December 2014, he played to his first public US audience since the 1970s at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. [162] Love” for me the above is a very bold and progressive statement, a revolutionary statement yet the same song also leaves room for the passionate and the spiritual in heaven (one of the very few cat era songs yusuf would return to a bit older and wiser.On 26 July 2016, Yusuf announced he would be part of the Global Citizen Festival held on 24 September 2016 in Central Park, New York, New York. [164] Mohammad Bin Rashid honours winners of the Islamic Economy Award". Gulfnews.com. 14 January 2015 . Retrieved 28 October 2017. Dansby, Andrew (21 June 2000). "Cat Stevens Breaks His Silence". Rollingstone.com . Retrieved 22 October 2021.

Islamia Primary School:: History of Islamia". Islamia Primary School. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018 . Retrieved 18 July 2017. Alfred William Cramer (2009). Musicians & Composers of the 20th Century: Gram Parsons-Igor Stravinsky. Salem Press. pp. 1405–1406. ISBN 978-1-58765-516-6. Dansby, Andrew (13 July 2000). "Israel Rejects the Former Cat Stevens". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 5 December 2006 . Retrieved 12 October 2008. The emotional ride that is the suite on the original side one of the LP , is difficult to describe because as a progressive funk ride, it transcends all musical fields, but I realised that in my review of the LP edition I noted down my first imperssion of a really bold, progressivr mind expanding musical arrangement, but never did I reflect as much on the progressive content of the lyrics, and the poetry. There was a time I listened to Cat Stevens. But sorry folks, anyone who openly advocates the murder (on religious grounds) of another artist no longer deserves any consideration for anything.Overview". Islamic Economy Award – Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 July 2017 . Retrieved 28 October 2017. a b Blistein, Jon (9 August 2016). "Yusuf Islam Plots Intimate North American Tour". Rolling Stone.