Back to Earth - Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Música - BMG - 4050538441932 - 10 de abril de 2020

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Back to Earth Super Deluxe edition

Yusuf / Cat Stevens

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12x12 box with 2 x LPs, 5 x CD, 50 page hardcover book and memorabilia

In 1978, after having sold millions of records and become one of the biggest international artists of the 1970s, Cat Stevens decided to step out of the rock star spotlight and walk away. That year, he was to release his final album under that name.

While Stevens legions of fans were saddened by the news, along with the musicians who had played with him on record and stage, the singer himself was exhilarated by the prospect of moving on. It was like going back to my original nature, he reflected at the time. Back to wide-eyed childhood again. The appropriately-titled Back To Earth was his parting gift: an album that saw the London-born singer saying farewell to his fans, while obliquely explaining his decision to quit in songs such as Last Love S

Whats going on behind the appearance of stardom or the stage itself can be a completely different world, he says now, and thats what it was a lot of the time. I kept my sanity and I kept my eyes open.In May 2019, Back To Earth is to be reissued in various formats on Cat-O-Log Records / BMG, including a 6 Disc, 2LP Deluxe Boxset featuring the original album (remastered at Abbey Road), along with demos, unreleased tracks, and material from UNICEFs 1979 Year Of The Child concert, the singers last live

Upon its original release, Back To Earth received rave reviews. Cat has come up with the kind of quality album that originally made him a superstar, declared the London Evening News. Just one knockout song after another. Billboard meanwhile applauded the albums tender, folksy ballads [and] up-tempo and spirited pop tunes. Hot Press hailed it as a lush and intricately woven tapestry of fine melodiesreally a return to form.

Cat Stevens had been thinking long and hard for some time about quitting his music career. Aside from general disillusionment with fame, the singer had experienced a spiritual epiphany after being caught in a rip current and nearly drowning when swimming in the Pacific Ocean three years earlier. Crying to the heavens, If you save me, Ill work for you, he was rescued by a gentle wave which carried him back to the shore.

What he calls his gradual awakening and decision to become a Muslim in 1977, changing his name to Yusuf Islam, was sparked by his brother gifting the singer a copy of the Quran for his 27th birthday. I had discovered a new way to view the universe, he explained back then. Like a kid who had travelled by spiritual rocket to an exciting new world.

Back To Earth was indeed a remarkable return to form, reuniting Stevens with Paul Samwell-Smith, the producer of his landmark, multi-platinum albums Tea For The Tillerman (1970) and Teaser And The Firecat (1971), as well as continuing his creative partnership with long-time guitarist Alun Davies.

Musically, the album was a blend of the acoustic balladeering and spiritually-questing style that had made the singer a worldwide star, along with more distant echoes of his years growing up as Steven Demetre Georgiou in Londons West End. Tracks such as New York Times and Randy recalled the influence upon him of the UK capitals theatre land, and since parts of the album had been recorded in New York City Broadway.

There was this other side of me which was the sort of musical composer, he remembers. I loved musicals and I was surrounded by them where I lived. So, I had Bernstein in my blood.

Long overdue for re-evaluation, Back To Earth is a brilliant and fascinating album capturing Yusuf / Cat Stevens at a defining point in his life.

Now, as he said at the time of his departure from the music world, Ive come down from the stars."

Back To Earth

SUPER DELUXE EDITION : 2LP+5CD

Mídia	Música CD (Disco compacto)
Número de discos	8
Specielt cover	Box set
Lançado	10 de abril de 2020
EAN/UPC	4050538441932
Gravadora	BMG BGRT384419.1
Genre	Pop
Dimensões	330 × 331 × 51 mm · 2,82 kg

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