Cat Stevens: The Honest Way For It To Happen
Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 5 June 1971
MR STEVENS is, one might suppose of a young man who has survived the horrors of being initially conceived as a teen idol at 18 and collapsing two years later with one lung in urgent need of repair — not to mention the "brain damage" — to re-emerge after a medically enforced rest two years subsequent as one of our most significant young composer-artists, a very interesting "Cat!".
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