{"id":872,"date":"2025-05-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/cat-stevens-memoir\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:00:00","slug":"cat-stevens-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/cat-stevens-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf\/Cat Stevens Is On The \u2018Road\u2019 To His First Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1210533750-scaled.jpg\" width=\"1290\" height=\"958\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Esteemed singer\/songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/tag\/cat-stevens\">Yusuf\/Cat Stevens<\/a> will tell his fascinating life story in the memoir <em><a href=\"http:\/\/catstevens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat on the Road to Findout<\/a><\/em>, which will be released Sept. 18 in the U.K. through Constable and Oct. 7 in North America through Genesis Publications.<\/p>\n<p>After a decade of massive success thanks to such generation-defining songs as \u201cFather and Son,\u201d \u201cWild World,\u201d \u201cMorning Has Broken,\u201d \u201cThe First Cut Is the Deepest\u201d and \u201cPeace Train,\u201d Stevens walked away from music in 1978 and converted to Islam, after which he adopted the name Yusuf Islam and focused his efforts on philanthropy and humanitarian relief. He did not regularly record or perform in his prior style until the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/wilco-celebrates-mothers-day-in-chattanooga-tennessee\/\">Wilco Celebrates Mother\u2019s Day in Chattanooga, Tennessee<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/hot-as-hell-but-rilo-kiley-makes-it-just-like-heaven\/\">Hot as Hell, but Rilo Kiley Makes it Just Like Heaven<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/road-work-farm-aid-newport-jazz\/\">Road Work: Farm Aid, Newport Jazz, Making Time \u221e<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since then, he has been active in the studio and on the road, with his most recent release being the 1974 concert document <em>Saturnight: Live From Tokyo<\/em> earlier this month. The album was previously only available in Japan for contractual reasons.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Stevens also reimagined his classic 1970 album\u00a0<em>Tea for the Tillerman<\/em>, which will be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame during a Friday (May 16) ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been on an amazing journey, which began in the narrow streets of London and led me through the most iconic cities, to perform upon the great stage of Western culture, ascending the dizzying heights of wealth, recognition and artistic pinnacles; freely exploring vast ranges of religions and philosophies, wandering through churches, temples, all the way to the Holy abode in Jerusalem \u2014 ignoring myths and warnings \u2014 and crossing the foreboded, desert heartlands, to arrive at the House of One God in Abrahamic Arabia,\u201d says Stevens. \u201cWhat finally elevated my perspective was a luminous Book that perfectly alchemized my thoughts [and] beliefs with human nature. It taught me Oneness, and my place and purpose within the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stevens, who turns 77 this summer, will support <em>Cat on the Road to Findout<\/em> with a book tour this fall, although details have yet to be announced. He\u2019ll also perform his most high-profile concert in two years on July 11 as part of a triple bill with Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts and Van Morrison at London\u2019s Hyde Park.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esteemed singer\/songwriter Yusuf\/Cat Stevens will tell his fascinating life story in the memoir Cat on the Road to Findout, which will be released Sept. 18 in the U.K. through Constable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pushly","category-yusuf-cat-stevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}