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On May 2, Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ concert album “Saturnight” will be released. So far, it has only appeared in Japan due to contractual restrictions. 50 years after the recording, the time has come: “Saturnight” will also be available in Germany.
The album will be available digitally and analogously
The album is published via Cat-O-Log Records/Ume on CD and Vinyl. The label was founded in 2014 to manage the extensive collection of Yusuf/Cat Stevens music recordings. His son Yoriyos looks after the collection.
The album for streaming and download will also be available digitally.
But if you want the hardware, there is the following: “The CD appears in a Digisleeve with a 16-page booklet that offers texts and new retrospective memories of bassist Bruce Lynch and tour manager Carl Miller. The album will be available on black 140-gram vinyl or as a limited 140-gramm-lava-vinyl press ‘Catstevens.com’, ‘The Circle’ and ‘Sound of Vinyl’ are available.
Songs from “Buddha and the Chocolate Box” and more
The live album “Saturnight” was on June 22, 1974 in the Sun Plaza Hall in Nakano, Tokyo, while Cat Stevens’ international tour. His “Bamboozle World Tour” comprised 50 concerts in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, he had played his album “Buddha and the Chocolate Box”. The songs include “Oh very young”, “A Bad Penny” and “King of Trees”.
A foretaste of “King of Trees”
There are also some of his songs that were hits in the early 1970s. Among them “Wild World”, “Where do the Children Play?”, “Hard Headed Woman”, “Father & Son”, “Peace Train” and “Bitterblue”.
His new music video for “Where do the Children Play?”
In addition, his cover version of Sam Cookes “Another Saturday Night” is included.
Shortly afterwards he converted to Islam
Cat Stevens took off his artist name Cat Stevens in 1977, converted to Islam and now called himself Yusuf Islam. Contractually he was obliged to do another cat-stevens album, which he followed with the publication of “Back to Earth” (1978). He then turned away from the music industry for many years.
Since the 90s, the singer has mostly published songs, the profit of which he dedicated to the reconstruction of destroyed residential areas. Including the group album “I have no cannons that Roar” (1998) for Bosnia-Herzegovina and the single “Indian Ocean” (2005) for the people whose everyday life was destroyed by the earthquake in the Indian Ocean (2004).
The group album “I have no cannons that Roar”
To whom the profit goes from the publication of his live album is unknown.