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Hi All

I saw a show on Sunday morning about the former Cat Stevens. I won't tell you what it was about because it has nothing much to do with my point.

When I was a young child in the late 70's I LOVED Cat Stevens. My Mom had a record, Great Hits?, I really don't know. I listened to it a lot. I had a record player in my room (among various other things). One day I didn't put the record away when I was done with it and somehow, it eventually ended up under the wheel of my bed (there wasn't any carpeting). When my Mom was helping me clean my room, we came across the record and the sun must've hit it because it had curled up and looked like a taco salad shell. My Mom freaked out and said we had to go to the store right away and get another one because if my Father saw it he would be mad. So we went to the store and got a replacement record and my "love affair" with Cat continued. The years went on and had a whole entire dance I had made up to Moonshadow and made my Dad come to my room and see it. Anyway, what I guess I am trying to say is that I have a lot of memories that have to do with Cat Stevens. Every once in a while I would hear a song on the radio and remember or, if I came across a song in a JukeBox, I would play it. It seems to me like it had been too long since I had thought about it and I was refreshed again to see him on the TV.

Anyway, I don't care what he calls himself, he will always be Cat Stevens to me. Plus, I learned something this week, I didn't know that he wrote the music and lyrics to, First Cut is the Deepest. **SHOCKED**

I always had thought that Davey Jones from the Monkees was my first love, but now I remember the truth.