Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat ( 50th remaster vinyl LP )

Release date: 25-02-2022(Orginally released in 1971)

2022 EU reissue ( 180g vinyl LP )

celebrates 1971's landmark album 'Teaser and the Firecat' with a remastered 50th anniversary set completed at Abbey Road Studios, and overseen by original album producer, Paul Samwell-Smith -Teaser and the Firecat is an album released by Cat Stevens in 1971. It contains 10 songs including hits such as "Morning Has Broken," "Moonshadow," and "Peace Train." It is also the title of a children's book written and illustrated by Stevens. The story features the title characters from the album cover, top-hatted young Teaser and his pet Firecat, who attempt to put the moon back in its place after it falls from the sky. Published in 1972, the book has been out of print since the mid-1970s.

Tracks:
A1 The Wind
A2 Rubylove   
A3 If I Laugh 
A4 Changes IV
A5 How Can I Tell You

B1 Tuesday's Dead
B2 Morning Has Broken 
B3 Bitterblue
B4 Moonshadow 
B5 Peace Train

Even as a serious-minded singer/songwriter, Cat Stevens never stopped being a pop singer at heart, and with Teaser and the Firecat he reconciled his philosophical interests with his pop instincts. Basically, Teaser's songs came in two modes: gentle ballads that usually found Stevens and second guitarist Alun Davies playing delicate lines over sensitive love lyrics, and uptempo numbers on which the guitarists strummed away and thundering drums played in stop-start rhythms.