It might be hard to separate the aftermath of Cat Stevens conversion to Islam from his earlier triumphs as a talented singer and songwriter but he always denied that he supported the fatwa on Salman Rushdie and was misrepresented by the media. When you listen to this BBC concert from 1971 you are taken by […]
On the subject of cats in 1970, here’s Cat Stevens and Alun Davies singing the hit Lady D’Arbanville. The song was written about Stevens’ girlfriend Patti D’Arbanville who was a Warhol film star and model. After leaving for a trip to New York Stevens wrote the song associating her absence with her death. Despite its maudlin subejct […]