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| Artist: | Yusuf Islam, Cat Stevens |
| Title: | Cat Stevens Back To Earth 40th anny ltd remastered vinyl 2 LP / 5 CD / Blu Ray box set |
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| Released: | TBC |
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| Format: | VINYL 2LP/5 CD/BLU-RAY |
| Country | EU |
| Barcode: | 4050538441932 |
| Catalogue number: | BMGCAT335BOX |
| Store location: | pre-order |
| SKU: | Y55816 |
| Condition: | NEW |
| The items we sell are brand new and unused official releases supplied to us by record companies, unless stated otherwise in the listing. Generally all items are sealed (this will be stated in the listing title). Occasionally we may open an LP to confirm any colour variant. We sometimes sell used items, this will be shown in the listing. | |
| Genre: | Classic Rock , Pop Rock , Soft Rock , Folk Rock |
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5 CD & 2 LP Boxset
CD1 Remastered – Original album remastered from analogue tapes
Just Another Night
Daytime
Bad Brakes
Randy
The Artist
Last Love Song
Nascimento
Father
New York Times
Never
CD2: Return to Earth – The original stereo mix
Just Another Night
Daytime
Bad Brakes
Randy
The Artist
Last Love Song
Nascimento
Father
New York Times
Never
CD3: Unearthed – Live tracks, rare demos and two beautiful, completely unheard recordings
Butterfly (previously unreleased)
Toy Heart (previously unreleased)
New York Times (new mix) previously unreleased
Just Another Night (demo) previously unreleased
Last Love Song (Session Mix) previously unreleased
Daytime (Live 2017 Adelaide)
Bad Brakes (Live 2011 Albert Hall)
Last Love Song (Live 2014 Toronto)
Nascimento (Solto) previously unreleased
Just Another Night (Live 2016 Nashville)
Bad Brakes (instrumental) previously unreleased
CD4: Alpha Omega (A Musical Revelation) – Completion of the circle. Yusuf helps his brother David realise his own musical ambition by producing the 1978 album Alpha Omega, featuring the much loved ‘Child For A Day’
Universe
I Who Am I
Paradise
Inventions
I See That Face
Child For A Day
Sing, Love Is Everywhere
Alpha Omega
Music Is The 7th Wonder
Dreamer
World
Listen To Me
I Believe
CD5: UNICEF Year Of The Child Concert at Wembley Arena 1979 – The last love song. Cat performs under this name, what will be his final farewell at UNICEF’s 1979 Year Of The Child charity concert at London’s Wembley Arena.
The Wind with intro from Paul Gambaccini
On The Road To Find Out
Just Another Night
Daytime/Where Do The Children Play?
Father & Son
Morning Has Broken (with Belmont Junior School Choir)
Peace Train
Child For A Day (with Richard Thompson and David Essex)
LP 1: Remastered – Original album remastered for vinyl from analogue tapes
A1 Just Another Night
A2 Daytime
A3 Bad Brakes
A4 Randy
A5 The Artist
B1 Last Love Song
B2 Nascimento
B3 Father
B4 New York Times
B5 Never
LP 2: Year Of The Child Concert at Wembley Arena 1979
A1 The Wind with intro from Paul Gambaccini
A2 On The Road To Find Out
A3 Just Another Night
A4 Daytime/Where Do The Children Play?
B1 Father & Son
B2 Morning Has Broken
B3 Peace Train
B4 Child For A Day
BLURAY: The Year Of The Child – Historical concert footage + original album lossless audio
BACK TO EARTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, REMASTERED TO STUNNING EFFECT AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS.
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.
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 Song’ and ‘Just Another Night’.
“What’s going on behind the appearance of stardom or the stage itself can be a completely different world,” he says now, “and that’s what it was a lot of the time. I kept my sanity and I kept my eyes open.”
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 London’s West End. Tracks such as ‘New York Times’ and ‘Randy’ recalled the influence upon him of the UK capital’s 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.
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