Cat Stevens To Be Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
CAT STEVENS TO BE INDUCTED INTO ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMEINDUCTION APRIL 10 AT BARCLAYS CENTER
Photo Credit: Aminah Yusuf
New York, NY—December 18, 2013— Honoring a career that spans almost 50 years, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced that Cat Stevens will be included in the class of 2014. He will be inducted with Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates and Linda Ronstadt.Cat Stevens, also known as Yusuf, is quite honored and with an air of humbleness remarks, “It will certainly bring happiness to a lot of my loyal fans, and fulfillment to all those who have long-campaigned for it—not to mention how kinda embarrassingly good it makes me feel too. The sleepy Peace Train is beginning to chug its way slowly uphill, again.”
The 2014 induction ceremony will be the first ever open to the public and held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on April 10. Tickets will be made available in January and the ceremony will air on HBO in May.Yusuf’s career began as a teenage London art school songsmith named Cat Stevens, when he penned classics such as “The First Cut is the Deepest” and “Here Comes My Baby”.His big success came when Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat and Catch Bull at Four made him an integral part of the 1970s singer songwriter movement and later an international, multiplatinum selling artist. After his last LP as Cat Stevens, 1978’s Back To Earth, he hung up his guitar and married under a new name, Yusuf Islam. Yusuf then returned with An Other Cup in 2006, his first pop album in nearly 30 years, which UNCUT said sounded “astoundingly like an album from his‘70s heyday”. Following this Yusuf again confirmed his welcomed return with Roadsinger in 2009.
Photo Credit: Aminah Yusuf
New York, NY—December 18, 2013— Honoring a career that spans almost 50 years, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced that Cat Stevens will be included in the class of 2014. He will be inducted with Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates and Linda Ronstadt.Cat Stevens, also known as Yusuf, is quite honored and with an air of humbleness remarks, “It will certainly bring happiness to a lot of my loyal fans, and fulfillment to all those who have long-campaigned for it—not to mention how kinda embarrassingly good it makes me feel too. The sleepy Peace Train is beginning to chug its way slowly uphill, again.”
The 2014 induction ceremony will be the first ever open to the public and held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on April 10. Tickets will be made available in January and the ceremony will air on HBO in May.Yusuf’s career began as a teenage London art school songsmith named Cat Stevens, when he penned classics such as “The First Cut is the Deepest” and “Here Comes My Baby”.His big success came when Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat and Catch Bull at Four made him an integral part of the 1970s singer songwriter movement and later an international, multiplatinum selling artist. After his last LP as Cat Stevens, 1978’s Back To Earth, he hung up his guitar and married under a new name, Yusuf Islam. Yusuf then returned with An Other Cup in 2006, his first pop album in nearly 30 years, which UNCUT said sounded “astoundingly like an album from his‘70s heyday”. Following this Yusuf again confirmed his welcomed return with Roadsinger in 2009.
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