British folk singer Yusuf Islam takes the stage on Sunday on his first full tour since 1976, when he was still known as Cat Stevens and was famous the world over for hits...
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Yusuf, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, doesn't bear any grudges about being denied entry into the U.S. five years ago. He's responded to the widely publicized...
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Singer-songwriter Yusuf enjoys the reaction he gets while driving his 1960s-vintage Volkswagen van though London — a vehicle he recently had custom-painted with artwork...
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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...
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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...
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Cat Stevens has said that he believes that Coldplay's hit "Viva La Vida" is a take-off of his own song, "Foreigner Suite." Coldplay recently denied accusations by guitarist...
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Yusuf Islam is wearing a starched white shirt and sitting on a stark white couch at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel, sipping tea from a white teacup and admitting that...
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The musician formerly known as Cat Stevens released a charity song on Monday to help the children of Gaza. The United Nations said the London-born Yusuf Islam recorded a...
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British folk singer Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, accepted libel damages and an apology on Friday from a news agency that reported he had refused to talk to women at...
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Girl Power is alive and well.
With the film doing record business at the box office and picking up plenty of awards mojo going into the Oscar season, the Dreamgirls...
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Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, who founded A&M Records, will be honored by the Recording Academy with the President's Merit Award for their contributions to popular...
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Yusuf Islam, the former superstar once
known as Cat Stevens, performed on stage before a live U.S.
audience on Tuesday for the first time in nearly three decades
as he...
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The charts got Game...and vice versa.
The erstwhile Dr. Dre and 50 Cent protégé scored big as his latest solo outing, Doctor's Advocate, debuted at number...
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It's the comeback no one ever
expected. More than a quarter-century after his last commercial
recording, Yusuf Islam, the artist known internationally as Cat Stevens,...
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The former Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, will be among the performers at this year's Nobel Peace Prize Concert, promoters said.
The Oslo concert honors each...
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam, joined the furor over Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments about Islam...
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Yusuf Islam is hoping fans will remember him with a smile. And
an open wallet.
The singer-songwriter formerly known as
Cat Stevens has announced plans to release An...
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English musician Yusuf Islam,
formerly known as Cat Stevens, is eyeing a November U.S.
release date for his first album of pop music in 28 years.
"An Other Cup," recorded...
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Heavy metal maven Dave Mustaine is
so angry with the United Nations that he is naming his group
Megadeth's next album "United Abominations."
"I was watching TV and saw the...
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If pop star Michelle Branch and her pal Jessica Harp had their way, their new country album "Stand Still, Look Pretty" would have registered even higher on the twang...
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An absent Sex Pistols. A backstabbing Blondie. And a kinder,
gentler Ozzy Osbourne and
Black Sabbath.
Crazy, but
that's how it went Monday night at New York's Waldorf...
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A singer who has shot to fame in the
Middle East with songs about Islam and the Prophet Mohammad
says his music is quenching a thirst for spirituality in pop.
Sami Yusuf...
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Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof was scheduled to receive a peace award in Rome on Thursday from a foundation headed by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Geldof is...
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The other day, Pamela
Des Barres' name came up in conversation with a friend who
asked, "Wasn't she a ... uh ... a roadie or something?"
Well, no, she was a groupie. The...
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The Redneck Woman has gotten all jacked up on the charts.
Gretchen Wilson, the country music rebel who created a huge splash with
last year's surprise hit Here for the...
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As Lance Armstrong pedaled to another Tour de France victory, Sheryl Crow found herself in an unfamiliar position: on the sidelines.
For years, Crow's universe revolved...
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Heartland rocker John Mellencamp is among the nominees for a new class of inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, joined by jazz legend Miles Davis, rap pioneers...
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Apparently, 1980 just wasn't a rockin' year.
In the
way of the music world, acts that have seen 25 years elapse since the
release of their first record become eligible...
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EMI Group Plc's publishing arm on
Friday said it has licensed the complete catalog of songs
written by singer/songwriter Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf
Islam.
Industry...
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Yusuf Islam, the singer-songwriter
formerly known as Cat Stevens , releases his first new song in
27 years on Monday (March 21).
"Indian Ocean" will be available only as a...
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Korn has lost its Head.
Guitarist Brian "Head" Welch is
exiting the chart-topping n-metal band after finding God, according to
a message on the band's official...
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The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens has just run the peace
train over a couple of British newspapers.
The musician, now a
Muslim convert known as Yusuf Islam, has...
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The singer once known as Cat Stevens visited Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province, handing out money to orphaned children and praying at a mosque.
The 56-year-old...
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The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens will headline a concert in Indonesia for victims of the Asian tsunami, said a statement posted on his Web site Thursday.
Yusuf...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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A classic Gibson guitar played by George Harrison on the Beatles' "Revolver" album and by John Lennon during the recording of the "White Album" sold Friday to an anonymous...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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U2, the Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy
Sledge, and the O'Jays will be inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame at its 20th annual induction ceremony, to be held
March 14...
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The Franz Ferdinand rock band, Pretenders lead singer Chrissie Hynde , Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall and Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens ) performed at a benefit concert...
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Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets
can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly
known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said on Wednesday was
its...
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Rock 'n' roll fans with deep pockets
can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly
known as Cat Stevens at what Christie's said on Wednesday was
its...
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Yusuf Islam, the pop star formerly known
as Cat Stevens , says he has received "more apologies than you
can count" from Americans embarrassed after their government
deported...
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The singer once known as Cat Stevens , now a peace activist whose name was on a U.S. list of people suspected of having terrorist links, will receive a peace prize from a...
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Lawyers for the singer once known as Cat Stevens said Friday that they have asked American officials to remove his name from a "no fly" list. The musician, now a peace...
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Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly
known as Cat Stevens , blasted the United States' system of
screening airline passengers for potential terrorists as
"indiscriminate" and...
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Next time, better just take the Peace Train.
A
Washington, D.C.-bound United Airlines flight carrying Yusuf Islam, the
London-based artist formerly known as Cat Stevens...
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A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine when it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam — formerly known as singer Cat Stevens — was on a government...
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Yusuf Islam, formerly known as
Cat Stevens , hopes that the performance captured on his first
DVD brings back the "energy, passion and beautiful messages" of
the...
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Pop singer Mandy Moore has signed
with Sire Records, the Warner Bros. imprint whose roster
includes the Distillers, the Von Bondies and Hot Hot Heat, she
told Reuters on...
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In late 1974, a studio in south Minneapolis took center stage in Bob Dylan 's musical life — the re-recording of half of the songs on his "comeback" album, "Blood on...
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The White Stripes have confirmed a
New Year's Eve concert in Chicago, and will kick off 2004 with
a handful of European/U.K. dates, taking up the latter half of
January and...
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Organizers of the Nelson
Mandela-inspired "46664" AIDS -awareness and fundraising
campaign are claiming the biggest TV and radio audience for any
single music...
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Beyonce Knowles , Bono, Peter Gabriel and other musicians from around the world took to the stage for an AIDS benefit concert hosted by former South African President...
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The former Cat Stevens and Paul McCartney are among the artists who appear on an upcoming benefit album for children in Iraq. The collection, called Hope, will be released...
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Moulin Rouge uses song to advance the storyline of a naive writer who falls in love with a beautiful and magnetic consumption-stricken courtesan--the French equivalent of a...
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Yusuf Islam -- better known as singer-songwriter Cat Stevens -- is speaking out against allegations that he's been a supporter of the militant Palestinian outfit Hamas...
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The man once known as Cat Stevens has received a warm re-welcome from the pop market with the reissue of his classic '70s albums, but at least one country wants no part of...
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