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From the Billboard website:
Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) is set to re-release his 1984 collection "Footsteps in the Dark -- Greatest Hits 2" June 24 via A&M/UME. The album, which has been digitally remastered from the original two-track tapes, features 14 of Stevens' most well-known tunes, along with personal liner notes explaining his embrace of the Islam religion in 1977, which led him to abandon pop music.
The reissue will bring to an end A&M/UME's three-year campaign to reintroduce Stevens' music, including the September 2000 release of "The Very Best of Cat Stevens" and the following year's 79-track box set "On the Road To Find Out."
"Footsteps in the Dark" will be reissued with the original album artwork and liner notes. The album includes 11 favorites that hadn't appeared on the 1975 "Greatest Hits" collection, alongside three tracks that hadn't been released on a Cat Stevens album: "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" and "Don't Be Shy" from the film "Harold and Maude," and the B-side "I Want To Live in a Wigwam."
In 2003, Islam recorded some of his Cat Stevens compositions for the first time since his religious conversion. He made new versions of "Peace Train" and "Lady D'Arbanville" (retitled "Angel of War") available on the Internet, via his official Web site (http://www.yusufislam.org.uk/).
Capt. Bacardi
Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) is set to re-release his 1984 collection "Footsteps in the Dark -- Greatest Hits 2" June 24 via A&M/UME. The album, which has been digitally remastered from the original two-track tapes, features 14 of Stevens' most well-known tunes, along with personal liner notes explaining his embrace of the Islam religion in 1977, which led him to abandon pop music.
The reissue will bring to an end A&M/UME's three-year campaign to reintroduce Stevens' music, including the September 2000 release of "The Very Best of Cat Stevens" and the following year's 79-track box set "On the Road To Find Out."
"Footsteps in the Dark" will be reissued with the original album artwork and liner notes. The album includes 11 favorites that hadn't appeared on the 1975 "Greatest Hits" collection, alongside three tracks that hadn't been released on a Cat Stevens album: "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out" and "Don't Be Shy" from the film "Harold and Maude," and the B-side "I Want To Live in a Wigwam."
In 2003, Islam recorded some of his Cat Stevens compositions for the first time since his religious conversion. He made new versions of "Peace Train" and "Lady D'Arbanville" (retitled "Angel of War") available on the Internet, via his official Web site (http://www.yusufislam.org.uk/).
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