Cat Stevens
Mick Brown, Sounds, 13 December 1975
"I reckon I lost my way somewhere along the line. The whole thing was too regimented. It was getting really silly".
It was perhaps inevitable that Cat Stevens, of all people, should suffer the musicians equivalent of a mild seizure.
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