Silent Sunlight

CAT STEVENS  “The Hurt” b/w “Silent Sunlight”  (A&M Records 1418-S, 1973)

There’s a scene in the 1976 Bill Cosby/Harvey Keitel classic Mother, Jugs & Speed where Larry Hagman tries to seduce Raquel Welch with a pair of Cat Stevens tickets.  She resists, of course, but only because that’s the way the script was written.  In real life, no intelligent female of the 1970’s, no matter how liberated, would’ve passed up a chance to see one of the hottest singer-songwriters of the era.  Even if it meant having to sit next to J. R. Ewing.  For Stevens himself, however, matters were completely different.

 

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