Mona Bone Jakon

Occupation

• Cat Stevens - guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Alun Davies - guitar
• John Ryan - Bass
• Harvey Burns - Percussion
• Peter Gabriel - Flute

Mona Bone Jakon is the third studio album by the folk-rock singer and songwriter Cat Stevens and was published in 1970.

History

Cat Stevens ( Yusuf today ) wrote his first songs in the late 1960s and joined with mediocre success on tour. 1968, in his 20th year, he contracted tuberculosis and had a longer time to the hospital. He retired completely from the music business and spent several months in a sanatorium. There he wrote the first new songs that appeared in April 1970 on Mona Bone Jakon. As a new producer Paul Samwell -Smith was obliged, in turn, Alun Davies hinzuzog as a studio musician, as well supplemented with Cat Stevens, that he remained an integral part of musical until 1978 and this role in 2006 occupied again.

Cat Stevens style had changed completely and the large number of newly created songs meant that he his next album Tea for the Tillerman published in the same year, which was an even bigger success. The original title of the album was The Dustbin Cried the Day the Dustman Died; this appeared Stevens but too long, so he opted for the name Mona Bone Jakon, in an interview with the French magazine Musique Pop is a pseudonym for his penis, according to his own statement. The album reached only number 63 on the British charts in the U.S. charts Place 164 The Lady d' Arbanville single release placed the other hand, in the British top ten at number 8

The songs from both albums, Mona Bone Jakon and Tea for the Tillerman, form the basis for the film score for Hal Ashby's cult film Harold and Maude from the year 1971. Peter Gabriel, who also was with Genesis at A & M Records, Cat Stevens at Mona Bone Jakon accompanied on the flute.

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

Title list

All tracks were written by Cat Stevens.