greggerypeccary
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Mr Hammer wrote on Apr 16 th, 2018 at 1:51pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 16 th, 2018 at 1:49pm: Mr Hammer wrote on Apr 16 th, 2018 at 1:38pm: Aussie wrote on Apr 16 th, 2018 at 1:07pm: Mr Hammer wrote on Apr 16 th, 2018 at 12:53pm: I used to love listening to Cat Stevens. Every song was about peace , love and making the world better. Calling for Rushdie's death just blew it all out of the water. He contradicted himself in front of the world. I won't listen to anything from Cat now. He'll be devastated. There's loads of people who think like me aussie. We all add up. He sure doesn't fill the big venues like he used to. I couldn't think of anything worse than listening to songs about Islam. I'd rather read your posts and that's saying something. Yeah, he's suffering. "Back in Australia after a 36 year absence Yusuf walked out to a capacity crowd at Perth's Challenge Stadium to begin his Australian tour."
"Cat Stevens, the singer-songwriter responsible for some of the ... which garners a huge roar of approval from the audience and quickly transforms the almost 14,000-strong crowd into one giant, unified singalong."
"The capacity crowd at the BEC were certainly pleased he was let in. The uncanny coincidence of a lunar eclipse during last night's show was lost on no one, with one fan asking, “have you seen the moon?” To which Islam replied, “have you seen the moon? It's a real one!” He teased fans with frequent ... "
" Yusef Cat Stevens is a living genius. It was no more evident than last night, when the man behind ALL those songs stepped out on the #Perth Arena stage to give the capacity crowd an almost three hour cavalcade of hits, with the odd new tune thrown in for good measure."
"Because the emotion in the capacity crowd was pure joy. Songs like “Trouble”, “Father and Son”, and “Moonshadow” got people to stand up from their seats in applause, while main set closer “Peace Train” found the fans joining in the trademark handclaps."
"His string of hits from the 1970s was certainly enough to attract a capacity crowd of Cat Stevens fans to Stockholm's Hovet in hopes that Yusuf could recall some of the magic that had attracted them to his music so many decades ago."
"Now going by the name Yusuf Islam, the British folk, pop and rock singer-songwriter will play to a practically sold-out crowd of thousands at TSB Bowl of Brooklands on Saturday night.
"Cheap and cheerful passes for the 15,000-capacity venue were snapped up within a week of going on sale, leaving available only deluxe packages with a hefty price tag." 14,000 people venue???? Most of the crowd were probably Muslims. That's small crowd for a big name like him. He was playing venues half that size in the '70s. His audience has got larger - not smaller. Burn your 8-track cartridges if you must, but it won't bother the Cat none.
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