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Cat Stevens Nominated for Rock Hall
Fox News ^ | September 14, 2005 | Roger Friedman

Posted on 09/15/2005 4:36:35 AM PDT by Brainhose

It had to happen eventually. Cat Stevens — now known as Yusuf Islam — has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

My sources tell me he's a shoo-in, too.

Stevens had several huge-selling popular records in the 1970s, until he became a Muslim and changed his name. Those hits were "Moon Shadow," "Peace Train," "Oh Very Young," a cover version of Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night," "Father and Son" and "Wild World."

A decade or more ago, Stevens was roundly denounced for seeming to back the fatwa, or death sentence, placed by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini on the head of writer Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses."

Last year he was refused entry into the United States on suspicion — ridiculous as it was — that he was a terrorist of some sort.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: catstevens; music; rockhall; yusufislam
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Is it my misunderstanding or in order to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, shouldn't you have to play Rock and Roll?
1 posted on 09/15/2005 4:36:36 AM PDT by Brainhose
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To: Brainhose

I'd rather pull my toenails out with a pair of pliers than listen to his whiny garbage. Well, on the other hand, if I needed to fall asleep fast, listening to Yusaf could easily do the trick.


2 posted on 09/15/2005 4:40:57 AM PDT by highlymotivated (If American ever falls, a STINKING LIBERAL will be behind it.)
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To: Brainhose

Take that your Joozzzz!


3 posted on 09/15/2005 4:41:23 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: stocksthatgoup

your = you


4 posted on 09/15/2005 4:41:48 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: Brainhose
Not if your liberal and anti-american. That is much more 'relevant' than such minor concerns, like standards.

(would it be considered a "fatwa" if I said a pox on his house??)
5 posted on 09/15/2005 4:42:10 AM PDT by MCCRon58 (Loose slips sink hips)
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To: Brainhose

What are they smoking?


6 posted on 09/15/2005 4:42:58 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: Brainhose

And am I correct that Lynyrd Syknyrd is still not there? Any so-called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that doesn't include them, that would even consider Cat Stevens, is a joke.


7 posted on 09/15/2005 4:43:21 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Brainhose

I used to buy his LPs when I was in high school in the early 70's. Too bad he turned out the way he did. At least Hendrix has a legacy.


8 posted on 09/15/2005 4:44:20 AM PDT by texianyankee
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To: Brainhose

If Cat Stevens, does that mean Raffi can get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. What about Barney the Dinosour and The Giggles. Yusef is about on the same level.


9 posted on 09/15/2005 4:45:08 AM PDT by evolved_rage (Zot away!!!!)
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To: Brainhose

Rock and Rollover Hall of Fame. Oooh baby, baby it's a wild world, when Yusuk Islam is considered a rocker.


10 posted on 09/15/2005 4:52:08 AM PDT by PGalt
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Will he be going in as Yusuf Islam?

They'd better put him through a metal detector and cavity search before letting this clown in for the ceremony.


11 posted on 09/15/2005 4:53:22 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Brainhose

He also wrote two great tunes made famous by others:"Here Comes My Baby", by the Tremeloes [a great rocker], and "The First Cut is the Deepest", done by both Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crowe.


12 posted on 09/15/2005 4:59:46 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame continues to dilute the honor induction should bring. Cat Stevens ain't no Cat Scratch Fever.
13 posted on 09/15/2005 5:02:49 AM PDT by auboy
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To: Brainhose

No Lynyrd Skynyrd? No Yusuf Islam (may hog snot and dog poo be upon him)!

BTW, I am old enough to remeber all of the 70's (but young enough to remeber it clearly, without the coke, pot, and LSD-induced fog). He really wasn't all that spectacular.


14 posted on 09/15/2005 5:06:27 AM PDT by PAMadMax (Islam is the enemy of all mankind...AlJazeera is its PR Firm)
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Is it my misunderstanding or in order to get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, shouldn't you have to play Rock and Roll?

One would think..

15 posted on 09/15/2005 5:07:20 AM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: mtbopfuyn

What are they smoking?

Anything they can find.


16 posted on 09/15/2005 5:08:49 AM PDT by television is just wrong (http://hehttp://print.google.com/print/doc?articleidisblogs.blogspot.com/ (visit blogs, visit ads).)
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To: PAMadMax

Agreed. Heard his pablum rock throughout Jr High and H.S. He sucked big-time.


17 posted on 09/15/2005 5:12:45 AM PDT by highlymotivated (If American ever falls, a STINKING LIBERAL will be behind it.)
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To: evolved_rage
YEAH! The Wiggles for the Rock and Roll Hall of fame!
Nothing screams Rock and Roll like 4 homosexual Star Trek cast members.
The dork in the red shirt shouldn't look so happy, he'll get killed by the monster on the away team.

If they all became radical Islamofacists they'd be a shoe in.
18 posted on 09/15/2005 5:12:55 AM PDT by Brainhose (THINK OF THE KITTENS!)
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To: Brainhose

Thank God there was so much great R & B during the 70's so that I didn't have to listen to whiney twerps like Cat Stevens....


19 posted on 09/15/2005 5:14:29 AM PDT by NRA1995 (When liberals speak I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: FreedomPoster

They the liberal music groups are just trying to make the government let the a$$wipe in the country to rub it in the governments face, but according to his current religion singing is not allowed, so let him in if he will sing all of those songs he is famous for.


20 posted on 09/15/2005 5:15:04 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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