CAT STEVENS Majikat: Earth Tour 1976 180 Gram 2LP
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CAT STEVENS Majikat: Earth Tour 1976 hails from 2009 and is a 180 Gram 2LP set housed in it’s original plastic sleeve with a gold sticker with black lettering for the numbered issue. The performance captures Stevens on his 1976 American tour, just past his commercial peak. (Numbers, the album he was promoting, broke a string of six consecutive Top Ten albums in the U.S. by peaking at number 13 in Billboard.) Supported by the same musicians who had played on his records, including guitarist Alun Davies and keyboard player Jean Roussel, he had a repertoire of hits and other favorites, and the audience can be heard cheering enthusiastically, not only for the chart singles, but also for tracks from albums like Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman, and Teaser and the Firecat. Stevens performs faithful versions of eight of the 11 hit singles he had scored in the U.S. up to this point (omitting "Morning Has Broken," "Sitting," and "Ready"), interspersing them with equally familiar songs such as "Where Do the Children Play," "Tuesday's Dead," and "Father & Son." For most of the show, Stevens says practically nothing, but toward the end he becomes much more talkative, saying of "Sad Lisa" that he may have been writing about himself rather than the woman of the title; admitting that his recent single "Two Fine People" is musically a rewrite of his earlier hit "Wild World"; and revealing that he actually wrote "Peace Train" on a train, although he was thinking of Alfred Hitchcock (and presumably, of the film Strangers on a Train) at the time. More such revelations would have been welcome, but as it is the album constitutes an excellent Stevens best-of.
1. Wild World
2. Wind
3. Moonshadow
4. Where Do the Children Play
5. Another Saturday Night
6. Hard Headed Woman
7. King of Trees
8. C79
9. Lady D'arbanville
10. Banapple Gas
11. Majik of Majiks
12. Tuesday's Dead
13. Oh Very Young
14. How Can I Tell You
15. Hurt
16. Sad Lisa
17. Two Fine People
18. Fill My Eyes
19. Father & Son
20. Peace Train
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