Cat Stevens: A Rather Cool Cat
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 28 January 1967
CAT STEVENS won't purr if you poor him a saucer of milk. But if, as a reward for his sensational leap up the chart with 'Matthew And Son', you pour him a glass of vodka, he will chatter most amiably, about pop, art, the classics and dreams.
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