Foreigner (Cat Stevens album)

Occupation

• Cat Stevens - guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
• Jean Roussel - keyboards, string arrangements
• Phil Upchurch - guitar
• Paul Martinez - bass
• Herbie Flowers - bass
• Bernard Purdie - drums, percussion
• Gerry Conway - Drums, Percussion
• Patti Austin - background vocals
• Barbara Massey - backing vocals
• Tasha Thomas - backing vocals
• Tower of Power - Trumpets

Atlantic Studios, New York, USA

Foreigner is the seventh studio album of the singer -songwriter Cat Stevens.

History

The seventh album by Cat Stevens was released in July 1973. For tax and artistic reasons, Stevens often held to outside the UK, in August 1974, he left even officially his home. The recording of the album took place in Jamaica.

Musically Cat Stevens led a significant change; so he separated temporarily from his musical companions Alun Davies and his producer Paul Samwell -Smith and took over the recordings even the production. Furthermore, the sound was changed as with the previous album, Catch Bull at Four, this time towards the Soul. The first side of that LP consisted of only the 18- minute title Foreigner Suite, which consists of individual fragments and also covers some of the published in 2006 Single Heaven / Where True Love Goes. As a single Hurt was disengaged.

Foreigner reached in the British and American charts in third place, Germany in 18th place

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

Title list

All tracks were written by Cat Stevens.