Buddha and the Chocolate Box

Occupation

  • Cat Stevens - synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, vocals
  • Alun Davies - Acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Roland Harker - Banjo
  • Gerry Conway - drums, backing vocals
  • Bruce Lynch - Bass
  • Jean Roussel - strings, keyboards, string arrangements
  • Jim Ryan - Guitar
  • Mark Warner - Guitar
  • Del Newman - string, string arrangements
  • Choir - Suzanne Cox, Rick McCollum, Barry, Brigette, Clifford, Sunny, Danny, Jacqui, Jimmy, Joanne, Joy, Judy, Larry, Ruby

Buddha and the Chocolate Box is the eighth studio album by singer -songwriter Cat Stevens (now Yusuf ). It was released in March 1974.

History

Cat Stevens had during a flight to a concert a Buddha figure and a box of chocolate in his hands and thought that if he was dying, he was caught between something spiritual and something material; so the album title was born.

Musically, the tracks are a departure from the soulful previous album Foreigner towards Catch Bull at Four, and still earlier works. So the partnership with Alun Davies and his producer Paul Samwell -Smith was renewed. Buddha and the Chocolate Box reached # 2 in the U.S., the UK and # 3 in Germany No. 34 of the U.S. charts. As singles Oh Very Young and Ready were released.

The album was re-released in 2000 in a remastered by Ted Jensen Version.

Title list

All songs were written by Cat Stevens.

Record label Island Records Genre Foreigner (Cat Stevens album) Saturnight New Masters Mona Bone Jakon Tea for the Tillerman Teaser and the Firecat Numbers (Cat Stevens album) Izitso Back to Earth (Cat-Stevens-Album) Majikat An Other Cup Roadsinger
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