Cat Stevens News

This issue's Generation Next is a profile with a twist. Many online players, and indeed gamers, may know the name "TillerMaN" but perhaps have never heard of the man behind the name, Iain Girdwood.

In this week's issue you can also check out our review of Dev Hynes' Lightspeed Champion at Camden's Electric... Dev Hynes to perform a Cat Stevens cover set at Suffolk event Lightspeed Champion is to bring his 'Harold And Maude' show to this year's Latitude Festival .

And now, here's today's lesson in how to get some attention when you've been out of the limelight for a long time.

Caption: Yusuf Islam formally aka Cat Stevens and Fauzia Islam The 3rd Fortune Forum Summit at the Dorchester Hotel - Arrivals London, England .... YUSUF ISLAM is to return to Los Angeles for a rare performance to honour movie legend HAL ASHBY.

The former Cat Stevens has decided he'd rather have a cup of tea with Coldplay than take them to court.

Coldplay is a musical giant. But selling millions of albums and winning a pile of Grammys hasn't turned members of the band into egomaniac rock stars.

Yusuf's new album, Roadsinger , has echoes of Tea for the Tillerman, says the artist.

First he was Steven Georgiou, but he became world famous as Cat Stevens. Songs like "Peace Train," "Wild World," "Morning Has Broken," "Moon Shadow," and a host of others made Cat Stevens one of the most familiar names in music.

London, Yusuf, U2 and Baaba Maal delight in Island Life More reviews by John Aizlewood Yusuf shows the fire still burns After Baaba Maal's intoxicating, inventive set, the Senegalese superstar was joined by the Island label's biggest-selling act U2 , for a spine-tingling version of their standard, One, which morphed jauntily into Bob Marley 's One ...

The man once known as Cat Stevens has resumed his musical journey as Yusuf Islam .

Yusuf Islam / Cat Stevens played a rare intimate gig in London last night . The singer-songwriter headlined at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire as part of the series of Island Life gigs taking place at the venue this week to mark the 50th anniversary of label Island Records .

According to a headline in Newsweek Magazine, "The Cat Came Back." That's shorthand for "Cat Stevens, the folksinger of the 1970s, has come out of his cloistered life as a Muslim to write and sing more songs for the general public." He goes by the name of "Yusuf" now.

Singer-songwriter Cat Stevens agreed on Monday that the Coldplay song, "Viva La Vida," sounds like one of his 1973 songs, but he stopped short of saying he would sue for plagiarism.

With a wry nod to his problems with American immigration authorities, British folk singer Yusuf Islam performed his first U.S. concert in 33 years on Monday, treating 400 fans to classics from his youthful days when he was known as Cat Stevens.

Natalie Imbruglia was among a host of stars at a glitzy party to celebrate Island Records 50th birthday party.

In the April 2009 issue of Entertainment Law & Finance, three partners in the Intellectual Property Group at Kilpatrick Stockton LLP take a look at the role that "amateur musicologists" have played thus far in the copyright battle stemming from Satriani's lawsuit against Coldplay for copyright infringement back in December.

The singer-songwriter Yusuf enjoys the reaction he gets driving through London in his '60s-vintage VW Kombi van which is custom-painted with artwork from his days as the artist known as Cat Stevens _ including images depicting such huge hits as A Peace TrainA and A Moonshadow.

Cat Stevens - Father And Son >> Posted By dissent 3 hours, 25 minutes ago in Arts & Entertainment Cat Stevens - album:Tea for the Tillerman, 1970.

With a wry nod to his problems with American immigration authorities, British folk singer Yusuf Islam performed his second U.S. concert in 33 years on Monday, treating 400 fans to classics from his youthful days when he was known as Cat Stevens.

On Monday night, Cat Stevens performed his first show in Los Angeles in more than 30 years.