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Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam

Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, May 1999

By the summer of 1975 Cat Stevens had it all. In the previous four years he had scored six American Top 10 albums in a row, all international smashes too, plus a host of hit singles – 'Wild World', 'Moon Shadow', 'Morning Has Broken' – and won respect for his intelligent songwriting.

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