Yusuf Cat Stevens Desert Island Discs - Talks about Life/Career & more - Radio Broadcast 27/09/2020

Yusuf/Cat Stevens talks about Music, Songwriting, Parents, Jobs, Faith/Religion, The Guitar, Career Name, Illness/Hospital, America, Swimming, The Koran/ Conversion, Fatwa, Personal Change and Desert Island Life.
Interviewed By: Lauren Laverne
DISC ONE: America from West Side Story by Anita (Rita Moreno), Bernado (George Chakiris), The Sharks And Girls
DISC TWO: Tutti Frutti by Little Richard
DISC THREE: Twist and Shout by The Beatles
DISC FOUR: March From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoven: Ninth Symphony: Fourth Movement, abridged) by Wendy Carlos
DISC FIVE: The Wind by Cat Stevens
DISC SIX: Allah Uya by Ali Farka Touré
DISC SEVEN: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone
DISC EIGHT: As by Stevie Wonder
BOOK CHOICE: The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi: Complete by Maulana Jalalu-'d-din Muhammad Rumi (Author), E. H. Whinfield (Translator)
LUXURY ITEM: Bendicks Bittermints
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: As by Stevie Wonder

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I thought the interviewer bordered on being sycophantic.
Overall it was interesting.
I was in high school when they started playing Cat Stevens on the AM radio here in the States.
I played music in bands for a number of years and never really thought about him until I heard about his becoming a Muslim.
He comes across as an earnest and intelligent fellow, but he also reminds me of what we used to call a space shot.
As far as the fatwa against Rushdie, you don’t need to be a religious scholar to speak up and condemn something that is obviously immoral and terroristic.
And as everyone knows, Rushdie eventually was nearly murdered and suffered severe wounds.
So it’s not something that can be ignored.