CAT STEVENS : (I NEVER WANTED) TO BE A STAR / THE DOVES [ISLAND - ESP 1977] 7”

Cat Stevens "(I Never Wanted) To Be A Star" single 7"

(Island) 1977 made in Spain

cat. num. 17 920-A

#rock #folk rock

a. (I never wanted) to be a star

b. the doves

Cat Stevens bounced back from the lackluster Numbers with an album of pop/rock songs that brought his usual rhythmic folk-rock into contemporary style with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, a snappy Dave Kershenbaum production, and lots of synthesizers. Most of the songs were unusually lightweight, but the autobiographical "(I Never Wanted) To Be a Star" explored Stevens' ambivalence about being in the music business, an attitude that would find him dropping out and finding religion after one more album.