Yusuf/Cat Stevens 2020 in London
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“Catch Bull At Four”, the sixth album by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens aka Yusuf, turns 50 this year. To celebrate the anniversary, the album will be released in numerous formats as a remaster on December 2nd.
The LP version will be released on 180 gram vinyl, both classic in black and as a limited version in orange. The orange LP is available exclusively on CatStevens.com, UDiscover Music and Sound Of Vinyl. There is also a CD version, and the remaster will also be available in streaming. The album has been remastered from the original stereo tapes, and the original artwork has also been restored for the LP release.
For Catch Bull At Four, Cat Stevens collaborated with longtime producer and former Yardbirds musician Paul Samwell-Smith and guitarist Alun Davies. The title was inspired by The Ox and Its Shepherd, a series of short poems in the Chan Buddhist tradition. In the songs, Stevens grappled with his meteoric rise to fame while also tackling spiritual issues. “Half my soul bleeds in bad company/I thank the moon I had the strength to quit,” he sings on “Sitting.”
“Contrary to the spiritual nature and theme of the album, Catch Bull At Four went straight to number one and became one of my biggest commercial successes,” Stevens says today. “That was scary! I feared it would distract me from my spiritual goal. That’s why I followed up with an album called Foreigner that would sacrifice my newfound disdain for a welcome return to obscurity.”
CATCH BULL AT FOUR
1LP 50TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER
Side A
1. Sitting
2. Boy with a Moon & Star on His Head
3. Angelsea
4. Silent Sunlight
5. Can’t Keep It In
Side B
1. 18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)
2.Freezing steel
3. O’Caritas
4.Sweet Scarlet
5. Ruins
50th ANNIVERSARY REMASTER (1CD, 24bit/96kHz Hi-Res Digital, Standard Digital)
1. Sitting
2. Boy with a Moon & Star on His Head
3. Angelsea
4. Silent Sunlight
5. Can’t Keep It In
6. 18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)
7. Freezing steel
8. O’Caritas
9.Sweet Scarlet
10. Ruins
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