In Reply to: "and all the adults stopped listening to his music"? posted by LtMandella on April 6, 2021 at 10:58:38:
I was in grade school, but you never forget how the neighboring adults were upset at Cat Stevens (a) converting to Islam, and (b) no longer performing music. The adults seemed just as upset at Cat Stevens, as they were with the Oakland Raiders losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers. My neighbors stopped playing their Stevens records. I'd hear "Morning Has Broken" and "Wild World" occasionally on Bay Area radio stations.
But by the early 90s, attitudes had changed, 70s culture and style made a comeback, and others around me started to dust off their Cat Stevens records. Interestingly, both my neighbors at home and in college did not have Cat Stevens cassettes. The former had vinyl, while the latter had CDs.
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Follow Ups
- s/b all the adults "around me" - Luminator 04/6/2111:17:49 04/6/21 (5)
- Converting to Islam when an Islamic revolutionary is holding US citizens as prisoners - Goober58 15:13:00 04/6/21 (2)
- RE: Converting to Islam when an Islamic revolutionary is holding US citizens as prisoners - semuta 19:58:08 04/8/21 (1)
- RE: Converting to Islam when an Islamic revolutionary is holding US citizens as prisoners - JDK 15:12:26 04/13/21 (0)
- RE: s/b all the adults "around me" - LtMandella 11:48:38 04/6/21 (1)
- 1978, perhaps? - Luminator 12:11:15 04/6/21 (0)