Ezeregy dal, amit érdemes meghallgatni: 0341 Cat Stevens: Peace Train (1971) Writer: | Cat Stevens Producer: | Paul Samwell-Smith Label: | Island Album: | Teaser and the Firecat (1971) When he appeared on The Chris Isaak Hour in 2009, Cat Stevens said of this much-loved song: “Musically, I was revisiting a very Greek-sounding riff—the kind of thing you’d hear on a Greek island.” The song reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Stevens’s first Top Ten hit stateside. Spiritually, though, Stevens’s chart-topping hit was about more than channeling his Greek-Cypriot roots: “Peace Train” was a reaction to the horrors of the Vietnam War. Perhaps because of its unashamed optimism, it soon became a hippie anthem. Surprisingly, chart success was not repeated across the Atlantic: Island Records refused to release the single outside of the United States, in a bid to encourage fans to buy the album. “Peace Train” embodies a snapshot in time for Stevens, capitalizing on the spiritual journey he began when he became sick with tuberculosis at the age of nineteen. The singer later mused: “The words were attached to that time, my peace anthem.” Most recently its sentiments were repeated by the renamed Yusuf Islam—Cat Stevens famously converted to Islam at the height of his career, in 1977—in protest about the plight of children in the Iraq War. The song has become a favorite of Yusuf in the years following his Muslim conversion. Fittingly, he performed it at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus in 2006. youtu.be/eaNtV_iU61U
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