CAT STEVENS "BACK TO EARTH" 1978 A&M EX+/EX- 1ST.PRESS/HYPE STKR.OOP POP/ROCK LP

Description: NOTE: MAIL RATES HAVE RECENTLY GONE UP A LITTLE RECENTLY, MY FLAT RATE ENCOMPASSES THAT WITH A LITTLE EXTRA TO COVER THE COST OF THE RECORD MAILERS. THANKS! INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS STILL AFFECTED BY THE VIRUS SO I AM OFFERING LIMITED SHIPPING, PLEASE CHECK THE SHIPPING TAB TO MAKE SURE I DO SHIP TO YOUR COUNTRY. THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY (SORRY ABOUT THAT), BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON OR BUYING. THANKS FOR LOOKING. FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS. NOTE: eBay HAS TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO REMOVE WHAT THEY CALL “OUTSIDE” LINKS, THESE ARE IN THE HTML DESCRIPTION, AND CAN'T EVEN BE SEEN IN MY ITEM DESCRIPTION, SO FROM NOW ON IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ITEM &/OR ARTIST LOOK 'EM UP, ON WIKI, OR OTHER SOURCES ETC. (SORRY 'BOUT THAT!) CLEANING OUT MORE LP'S. SOME FROM THRIFT STORES, SOME FROM MY MUSIC LIBRARY, AND SOME FROM MY RADIO FRIENDS SOLD OR GIVEN TO ME, SOME FROM THE NETWORK I WAS AT. NOTE: I DO NOT ACCEPT "BEST OFFERS" I WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE A FAIR SHOT AT WHAT I AM SELLING. THANKS! I DO COMBINE SHIPPING! THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY. I HAD A SMALL HEART ATTACK A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AND AM SLOWLY LETTING GO OF MY ALBUM COLLECTION, THIS COMES FROM OVER 40 YEARS OF COLLECTING AND ALSO WORKING IN RADIO WHEN STATIONS WERE TRANSITIONING FROM LP's TO CD's. ARTIST: CAT STEVENS TITLE: “BACK TO EARTH” TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS/BELOW: Just Another Night 3:47 Daytime 3:54 Bad Brakes 3:27 Randy 3:08 The Artist 2:27 Last Love Song 3:27 Nascimento 3:14 Father 4:07 New York Times 3:25 Never 2:59 NOTES-"Daytime" was written for the UNICEF 'Year of the Child' This album was mixed using the Aphex Aural Exciter. Published by Ashtar Music B.V. All Administrative Rights for the World Controlled by Colgems-EMI Music Inc. (ASCAP) ℗ 1978 A&M Records, Inc. © 1978 A&M Records, Inc. Issued with a printed inner lyrics-sleeve. Parts of the cover are embossed. Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): SP 5207 Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): SP 5208 YEAR OF RELEASE- 1978 RECORD LABLE: A&M RECORDS CAT.#: A&M SP-4735 RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX+/NM- CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES,BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. LOOKS AND PLAYS BRAND NEW JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/EX- CONDITION. NICE CLEAN EDGES, NO WRITING, BENDS, MARKS, ON IT. LIGHT RING WEAR, (SEE PHOTOS). HOLE IN UPP[ER RIGHT CORNER DONE BY THE RECORD LABEL. THERE'S A TINY, WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN OLD PRICE STICKER THAT WAS PEALED IN THE LOWER LEFT CORNER ON THE BACK (SEE PHOTO) MORE INFO : THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. HAS EMBOSSED GOLD INK ON THE ALBUM TITLE, ALSO HAS THE “HYPE” STICKER ON THE FRONT. ARTIST INFO: Stephen Demitri Georgiou, 21 July 1948, London, England. For Yusuf Islam, the constant search for the meaning of life that littered his lyrics and arose in interviews, seems to have arrived. Those who criticized his sometimes trite espousing now accept that his conversion to the Islamic faith and his retirement from a music world of ‘sin and greed’ was a committed move. His legacy as Cat Stevens is a considerable catalogue of timeless songs, many destined to become classics. The son of a Swedish mother and a Greek Cypriot father, Stephen Georgiou was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith while growing up in London. He first began performing under the name Steve Adams while attending Hammersmith College. In 1966, producer Mike Hurst spotted the singer performing and was so impressed that he arranged to record the newly christened Cat Stevens’ original song, ‘I Love My Dog’. Tony Hall at Decca Records was similarly impressed and Stevens became the first artist on the new Deram Records imprint. The record and its b-side ‘Portobello Road’ showed great promise and reached the UK Top 30. Over the next two years Stevens delivered many perfect pop songs. Some were recorded by himself but many other artists queued up for material from this precociously-talented teenager. His own UK hits, ‘Matthew And Son’ (number 2), ‘I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun’ (number 6) and ‘A Bad Night’ (number 20) were equalled by the quality of his songs written for other artists; the soulful ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’ by P.P. Arnold and the addictive ‘Here Comes My Baby’ by the Tremeloes. His two Decca albums are packed full of short, infectious songs, although they suffer from dated accompaniments. Stevens contracted tuberculosis in 1968 and spent three months in hospital. During his convalescence he took stock of his life, and after releasing the failed comeback single ‘Where Are You’ switched over to the Island Records label. Over the next eight years the astute listener can detect a troubled soul. 1970’s Mona Bone Jakon was the first in the series of albums that came to define what was known as bedsitter music, and featured the beautiful UK Top 10 hit ‘Lady D’Arbanville’ (dedicated to his ex-girlfriend Patti D’Arbanville). It was followed by three hugely successful works: Tea For The Tillerman, Teaser And The Firecat and Catch Bull At Four. These albums revealed the solitary songwriter, letting the listener into his private thoughts, aspirations and desires. Stevens was the master of this genre and produced a wealth of simplistic, yet beautiful songs. Anthems like ‘Wild World’, ‘Peace Train’ and ‘Moonshadow’, love songs including ‘Hard Headed Woman’ and ‘Can’t Keep It In’, are all faultless and memorable compositions. Stevens was at his sharpest with his posing numbers that hinted of dubiety, religion and scepticism. Two of his finest songs are ‘Father And Son’ (from Tea For The Tillerman) and ‘Sitting’ (from Catch Bull At Four). The first is a dialogue between father and son, and gives the listener an insight into Stevens’ lonely childhood in Soho. The line ‘How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again, its always been the same, same old story’ the child continues with ‘from the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen, now there’s a way that I know, that I have to go, away, I know I have to go’. The song is astonishingly powerful in relating Stevens’ own turmoil to virtually every person that has ever heard the song. ‘Sitting’ is similarly powerful, although it is a song of great hope. It opens confidently, ‘Ooh I’m on my way I know I am, somewhere not so far from here, all I know is all I feel right now, I feel the power growing in my hair’. Few were unmoved by these two songs. In his 70s heyday Stevens had eight consecutive gold albums and 10 hit singles in the UK and 14 in the USA. Catch Bull At Four topped the US album charts in 1972, the same year that Stevens contributed several songs to the soundtrack of the hit movie Harold And Maude. In 1975, while swimming off a Malibu beach, he got into trouble and began praying, declaring that if he was saved he would dedicate his life to God. After making it back to shore he stayed true to his promise, and despite recording a few more albums began to distance himself from the music scene. He enjoyed one final transatlantic hit in 1977, duetting with Elkie Brooks on ‘(Remember The Days Of The) Old School Yard’, but after releasing the Back To Earth album the following year announced that Cat Stevens had officially ‘retired’. He converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam. In 1979, he entered into an arranged Muslim marriage and four years later founded a Muslim school in London. In recent years he has been very active teaching and spreading the word of Islam. In 1991 prior to the first Gulf War he travelled to Baghdad to seek the freedom of hostages. Reports in 1994 suggested that he was ready to return to the world of the recording studio, albeit only to offer a spoken word narrative on Mohammed - The Life Of The Prophet. He also wrote and performed two new songs for a 1998 Bosnian charity album I Have No Cannons That Roar. In 2003, the former Cat Stevens began a quiet comeback to the music scene, re-recording ‘Peace Train’ to express his opposition to the war in Iraq and making the track available for download. Later in the year he played a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. His name was splashed all over the media the following September when he was refused entry to the US, supposedly because his name appeared on a terrorism ‘watch list’. This ugly diplomatic incident overshadowed news that the singer had returned to the studio to record a new version of ‘Father And Son’ with Irish artist Ronan Keating. The latter had already recorded a hit version of the track during his time with the Irish boy band Boyzone. The duo’s version reached the UK Top 5 in December. Long-standing fans were naturally overjoyed to hear that the now commercially named Yusuf was recording a non-Islamic album. The resulting An Other Cup, released at the end of 2006, was a step back in time. Yusuf not only enlisted the services of former musical colleagues, notably Alun Davies (guitar) and Danny Thompson (bass), but he created the exact tonal sound of his classic albums. His voice was unchanged and the quality of the songs was first class; albeit, the lyrics were restating old themes of searching, spirituality, love and happiness, and some bordered on being trite. For the most part it was a resounding welcome back to one of the greatest ever singer-songwriters. NOTE: ONLY LIMITED INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING AT THIS TIME DUE TO THE VIRUS! HOPEFULLY THIS WILL CHANGE SOON. PLEASE CHECK THE SHIPPING TAB TO MAKE SURE I SHIP TO YOUR COUNTRY BEFORE BIDDING. THANKS! I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. NOTE: THE SHIPPING PRICE INCLUDES THE COST OF THE LP MAILER. MEDIA MAIL COSTS WENT UP RECENTLY. PLEASE NOTE MY RETURN POLICY! I DO COMBINE SHIPPING………. CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS PLEASE PAY FOR ALL ITEMS WITHIN 7 DAYS, OR MESSAGE ME TO EXPLAIN WHY YOU CAN’T,(IF YOU ARE BIDDING OR PLAN TO BID ON OTHER ITEMS) I WILL DO A ONE WEEK WAIT FROM THE DATE OF THE END OF THE FIRST AUCTION WIN, TO COMBINE SHIPPING ON ITEMS, AFTER THAT I NEED PAYMENT IN FULL AND WILL MAIL OUT THE ITEMS , EVEN IF YOU ARE BIDDING ON OTHERS, THUS BEGINS A NEW BILLING/SHIPPING CYCLE. THIS CASH FLOW IS MY SOURCE OF INCOME FOR PAYING RENT/BILLS, ETC. 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