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16 Jan 2013, 7:30 am

Steven Georgiou has certainly changed his style a lot from his Matthew And Son days, and that goes without saying.

Now I'll be the first in line to congratulate him for finding his calling in life, but if he hadn't subscribed to Islam I like to think that he'd still be mining gold the likes of Matthew And Son and New Masters. The spiritual flavour of his new stuff really hasn't won me over.

I've had my say, now I want to hear yours.

On a random note, I just found out he's only sixty-four! With all that tea he's been drinking, should be a ways to go before he buys the farm.


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18 Jan 2013, 5:44 pm

BeauZa wrote:
Steven Georgiou has certainly changed his style a lot from his Matthew And Son days, and that goes without saying.

Now I'll be the first in line to congratulate him for finding his calling in life, but if he hadn't subscribed to Islam I like to think that he'd still be mining gold the likes of Matthew And Son and New Masters. The spiritual flavour of his new stuff really hasn't won me over.

I've had my say, now I want to hear yours.

On a random note, I just found out he's only sixty-four! With all that tea he's been drinking, should be a ways to go before he buys the farm.


Always a great trivia question to pull out your holster at a party: "He was born 'steven georgiou', today he answers to "Yusef Islam", in between he had another name. What was is that name that he is best know by?"

But seriously- I didnt know he was back to recording.

When did THAT start- I mean recording under Yusef Islam?

I thought he gave up music- or atleast that what VH1 implied back in the nineties.



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18 Jan 2013, 7:42 pm

He left his music career behind in 1979 when he devoted himself to Muslim studies. He returned to music in 2006.


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18 Jan 2013, 7:45 pm

BeauZa wrote:
He left his music career behind in 1979 when he devoted himself to Muslim studies.


I do hope all sane people dropped him like a stone after his comments on Rushdie.



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30 Jan 2013, 4:00 am

I don't really bother with his later long haired post 1969 image.

I prefer the 1966-1968 stuff.


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17 Mar 2013, 10:08 pm

(1972) Cat Stevens ー Morning Has Broken (Cover Version)

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