Yusuf/Cat Stevens, some of the beloved singer-songwriters of his technology, introduced his upcoming memoir Cat on the Street to Discover Out on Tuesday. The autobiography is ready to launch within the U.Okay. on September 18th via Constable, and in North America on October 7 via Genesis Publications.
Cat on the Street to Discover Out chronicles Stevens’ profession from his begin as a recording artist within the ’60s and subsequent ascent into superstardom by the ’70s off iconic data like “The First Lower is the Deepest” and Tea for the Tillerman. The e book will even element the 1975 near-drowning expertise that impressed him to transform to Islam and alter his title to Yusuf Islam as he left the music enterprise behind, in addition to his regular return for the reason that ’90s. (He launched An Different Cup, his first pop album in almost 30 years in 2006 and has launched 5 extra albums since then, together with his most up-to-date album, King of the Land again in 2023.)
Yusuf/Stevens has toured a number of instances since he got here again to pop music, together with his first comeback tour in 2014. He’s offered over 100 million data thus far and was inducted within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame in 2014. He was inducted within the Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 2019. Preorder info for the e book and presale data for his e book tour is offered on Stevens’ web site.
“I’ve been on a tremendous journey, which started within the slender streets of London, and led me via probably the most iconic cities, to carry out upon the nice stage of Western tradition, ascending the dizzying heights of wealth, recognition and inventive pinnacles; freely exploring huge ranges of religions and philosophies, wandering via church buildings, temples, all the best way to the Holy abode in Jerusalem — ignoring myths and warnings — and crossing the foreboded, desert heartlands, to reach on the Home of One God in Abrahamic Arabia,” he mentioned in a press release. “What lastly elevated my perspective was a luminous E-book that completely alchemized my ideas, beliefs, with human nature. It taught me Oneness, and my place and objective inside the universe.”
