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50 Years Later, Yusuf/Cat Stevens Reworks A Lost Song

The folk-pop legend returns by revisiting an early, unreleased demo. "Mary and the Little Lamb" is gentle but brightly rendered, complete with a new verse.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens' new album, <em>The Laughing Apple</em>, comes out Sept. 15.

From 1978 to 2006, was absent from the secular music world, a long-but-temporary retirement motivated by his conversion to Islam. In the decade since

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