I often hear musicians say that the meanings of their songs are ultimately as much up to their listeners as to themselves, and this, I deeply believe, is true: We are not a raggle-taggle bunch of music nerds, we are the song’s second composers.Ĭomposing the life of Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, Steven Demetre Georgiou has taken a long, and at times fraught, road towards himself. Just as much it comes from the listener, the tricks of memory, emotions of sound and a tuned mind’s expectations. But I don’t think this sense comes just from the record itself, although certainly most musical artists search for unity in their work. The best records - and I guess by “record” I mean the standard late 20th-century long player - feel like one long song.
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