ISLAND LP ILPS-9154: CAT STEVENS - Teaser & The Firecat - 1971 Pink Rim Label UK

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Background -

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His 1967 debut album reached the top 10 in the UK, and the album's title song "Matthew and Son" charted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. His albums Tea For The Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were both certified triple platinum in the US by the RIAA. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and Islamic music.

His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard 200, and 15 weeks at number one in the Australian ARIA Charts. He earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is The Deepest", and the song has been a hit for four different artists. His other hit songs include "Father and Son", "Wild World", "Peace Train", "Moonshadow", and "Morning Has Broken". In 2007 he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection.

In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam, and he adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all his guitars for charity and left his music career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace from two organisations founded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

In 2006, he returned to pop music – releasing his first album of new pop songs in 28 years, titled An Other Cup. With that release and subsequent ones, he dropped the surname "Islam" from the album cover art – using the stage name Yusuf as a mononym. In 2009, he released the album Roadsinger, and in 2014, he released the album Tell 'Em I'm Gone, and began his first US tour since 1978. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. His second North American tour since his resurgence, featuring 12 shows in intimate venues, began on 12 September 2016."

Teaser and the Firecat is the fifth studio album released by Cat Stevens in 1971. The album contains 10 songs including the hits "Morning Has Broken", "Moonshadow" and "Peace Train". It is also the title of a children's book written and illustrated by Stevens. The story features the title characters from the album cover, top-hatted young Teaser and his pet, Firecat, who attempt to put the moon back in its place after it falls from the sky. Published in 1972, the book has been out of print since the mid-1970s.

The album was a commercial success, surpassing the heights achieved by Stevens' previous album, Tea for the Tillerman, reaching both the UK and US Top 3 and also spending fifteen weeks at the top of the Australian charts, becoming the biggest-selling album of the country in 1972.

In 1977 an animated version, narrated by Spike Milligan, using the song "Moonshadow", was a segment in Fantastic Animation Festival. In November 2008, a "deluxe edition" was released featuring a second disc of demos and live recordings.

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone magazine, music critic Timothy Crouse praised Stevens' distinctive musical style and introspective songs such as "Tuesday's Dead" and "The Wind", but felt that he lacks Van Morrison's evocative quality and James Taylor's refined lyrics: "Cat has become a dependable artist, a good artist, but he appears to be one of those composers who does not develop, who holds no surprises."

In a retrospective five-star review, Allmusic's William Ruhlmann found the album more simplistic lyrically and musically entertaining than Tea for the Tillerman (1970): "Teaser and the Firecat was the Cat Stevens album that gave more surface pleasures to more people, which in pop music is the name of the game."

• LP made by ISLAND Records, in the UK / England / Great Britain

• LP released in 1971
  

• LP is recorded in STEREO

• Record Catalog Number: ILPS 9154

• Record Labels are primarily White and Blue, with the Island Logo, sporting the pink rim around the entire label and uses black lettering.
  

Cat Stevens

Teaser & The Firecat

Track Listing -

1. "The Wind" (Recorded: March 1971 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London, UK) - 1:42
2. "Rubylove" (Recorded: 15 February 1971 at Paramount Studios, Los Angeles) - 2:37
3. "If I Laugh” - 3:20
4. "Changes IV” - 3:32
5. "How Can I Tell You” - 4:24
6. "Tuesday's Dead” - 3:36
7. "Morning Has Broken" (Traditional, arranged and adapted Cat Stevens with words by Eleanor Farjeon: Recorded: March 1971 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London, UK) - 3:20
8. "Bitterblue" (Recorded: March 1971 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London, UK) - 3:12
9. "Moonshadow" (Recorded: July 1970 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London, UK) - 2:52
10. "Peace Train" (Recorded: March 1971 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London, UK) - 4:04

Performers -

• Cat Stevens – acoustic guitar, keyboards, vocals

• Alun Davies – acoustic guitar, possible backing vocals

• Larry Steele – bass guitar, congas

• Gerry Conway – drums, percussion

• Harvey Burns – drums, percussion

• Jean Roussel – Hammond organ on "Peace Train"

• Linda Lewis – backing vocals

• Andy Roberts (uncredited) – Kriwaczek string organ (on 5)

• Rick Wakeman – piano on "Morning Has Broken" (uncredited)

• Andreas Toumazis – bouzouki

• Angelos Harzipavli – bouzouki

• Del Newman – string arrangements

The GATE-FOLD LP jacket is in excellent plus condition! The jacket is tight and clean, with NO seam splits, with just a bit of shelf wear at the seams, spine and corners (see pics). The colors on the jacket are sharp. Considering the age of the LP, the jacket is in superb condition (see pictures with this listing as they are of the actual item). 

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