Pre-order the 50th anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of Teaser and the Firecat, which will be released on November 12.Yusuf/ Cat Stevens will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his two 1970 albums, Mona Bone Jakon and the classic Tea for the Tillerman, with huge reissues dedicated to both LPs.īoth boxsets come packed with dozens of unreleased tracks - 24 unearthed recordings for Mona Bone Jakon and 21 for Tea for the Tillerman - as well as discs full of demos, alternate takes, outtakes, and live recordings from the era.Īmong the unreleased tracks are “Can This Be Love?” and “I Want Some Sun,” which Stevens dropped prior to the reissues’ December 4th release. The augmented sets have the direct involvement and direction of Yusuf and his son Yoriyos, who curates and designs each one. The new edition, presented in a rigid clamshell box, is the latest in a series of extended boxsets of Stevens’ work, so far also including Back To Earth and Mona Bone Jakon. It also includes a 44-page, 12” soft-cover replica of the book named after the album, handwritten and illustrated by Yusuf in 1972, and now with text in 10 languages and a 108-page hardcover 12” essay book, plus many other rarities across 4CDs, Blu-Ray, 2 LPs, and 7” vinyl. The new Super Deluxe Edition of Teaser and the Firecat is presented in a new version of Yusuf’s original artwork, and includes 41 previously unreleased audio tracks and 21 live video performances on disc for the first time, among an entire CD and LP of studio demos and alternate mixes. It was the record that elevated him to superstar status, featuring such signature hits as “Moonshadow,” “Peace Train,” and “Morning Has Broken.” In later years, fresh appreciation of the album came as “The Wind” was featured in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore and in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. Teaser and the Firecat was Cat Stevens’ third LP for Island Records, on A&M in the US.
You can hear the new version of the track below. The lyric exudes a sense of passing the lantern of wisdom on to new generations who will keep the flame alive. The song’s narration tells of a traveler, hurt, slightly bitter and bruised by the trials of life, striving to recapture the eternal hope of youth while accepting the progression into the next life. Lyrics such as “I’ve been running a long time/Summer’s come and gone/Drifting under the dream clouds/Past the broken sun” now take on a sense of reflection about the changes and progressions in Yusuf’s own life, and his unchanging efforts to make the world a better place.
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