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Yusuf Cat Stevens on Islam, the fatwa and playing guitar again – The Guardian
The singer-songwriter tells Desert Island Discs about walking away from his fans, and the difficulties of following a spiritual path
The singer-songwriter now known as Yusuf Cat Stevens has spoken of the pain of his decision to leave music behind in 1977, when he first converted to Islam, and of the difficulty of being used as a representative of an entire faith.
It was a hard tug. I felt a responsibility to my fans, but I would have been a hypocrite. I needed to get real. So I stopped singing and started taking action with what I now believed, he said. The singer, who first performed as Cat Stevens, adopted the name Yusuf I…
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