Post by Chris on Feb 9, 2009 17:28:32 GMT -5
Those of you, who are now AARP members may be surprised with your newest issue of the AARP magazine. Can you believe they have a small article of Cat Stevens in the March/April 2009 issue? How Cool!
I couldn't find the article on line, just information on the AARP issue and the table of content (where you can see the Cat Stevens article listed)..... AARP TABLE OF CONTENT So I took the liberty of typing it out for you.
Still a Cool Cat
But That Peace Train is Running Kinda Late
In a fit of youthful optimism, Cat Stevens wrote that the peace train was “getting nearer/it soon will be with you”
Thirty Eight years, a name change, and a dozen or so wars later, the artist formally known as Cat Stevens – now known as Yusuf – has come to the conclusion that most folks aren’t about to “jump upon the peace train”
“I rewrote those lyrically recently,” says Yusuf 60, at home in London. “It goes: ‘How long has this peace train been gone?…. how long must this world wait for you?”
That acknowledgement of harsh reality – leavened with a spark of enduring hope-runs through Yusuf’s new, yet –to-be-titled album, from Universal Music. It’s his second release, following ‘An Other Cup’ in 2006, after what he calls a 28 year “fantastic respite” from the studio and concerts; he quit the music business in response to his new found Islamic faith. During that time away, in 1989, he ignited the firestorm with comments regarding an Iranian fatwa against author Salman Rushdie – but his subsequent work for international understanding earned him the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates‘ Man of Peace award in 2004.
In recent years his views of the Koran has shifted, and he now believes there is no conflict between his faith and music. “When I first picked up the guitar again, I was amazed to find I where all the chords were,” he says. “And with that came a new discovery of music for me.”
~Bill Newcott~
I couldn't find the article on line, just information on the AARP issue and the table of content (where you can see the Cat Stevens article listed)..... AARP TABLE OF CONTENT So I took the liberty of typing it out for you.
Still a Cool Cat
But That Peace Train is Running Kinda Late
In a fit of youthful optimism, Cat Stevens wrote that the peace train was “getting nearer/it soon will be with you”
Thirty Eight years, a name change, and a dozen or so wars later, the artist formally known as Cat Stevens – now known as Yusuf – has come to the conclusion that most folks aren’t about to “jump upon the peace train”
“I rewrote those lyrically recently,” says Yusuf 60, at home in London. “It goes: ‘How long has this peace train been gone?…. how long must this world wait for you?”
That acknowledgement of harsh reality – leavened with a spark of enduring hope-runs through Yusuf’s new, yet –to-be-titled album, from Universal Music. It’s his second release, following ‘An Other Cup’ in 2006, after what he calls a 28 year “fantastic respite” from the studio and concerts; he quit the music business in response to his new found Islamic faith. During that time away, in 1989, he ignited the firestorm with comments regarding an Iranian fatwa against author Salman Rushdie – but his subsequent work for international understanding earned him the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates‘ Man of Peace award in 2004.
In recent years his views of the Koran has shifted, and he now believes there is no conflict between his faith and music. “When I first picked up the guitar again, I was amazed to find I where all the chords were,” he says. “And with that came a new discovery of music for me.”
~Bill Newcott~
Much less in the same periodical??
