Yusuf Islam performed one of rock’s great fading acts when he walked away from music for nearly 30 years. His memoir
“Cat on the Road to Findout” is out
Cat Stevens, helped define the singer-songwriter.
After converting to Islam, he emerged as a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all.
The third time Yusuf Islam, then acknowledged best as the singer-songwriter almost died, he didn’t tell anyone.
His first near-death experience had been as a gallivanting teen, when he slipped while jumping amid British rooftops, only to be caught by his best friend an instant before the plummet. His second had come at
20, when doctors diagnosed him, then a pinup pop star, with tuberculosis after he began coughing blood onto his piano.
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