Numbers (Cat Stevens album)
Occupation
- Cat Stevens - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fender Stratocaster, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
- Jean Roussel - piano, organ, electric piano, synthesizer, harpsichord, Hammond organ, ARP String Synthesizer, Keyboards, background vocals, vibraphone
- Alun Davies - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, twelve- sided guitar, Fender Stratocaster, bass, backing vocals
- Gerry Conway - drums, backing vocals
- Bruce Lynch - Bass
- Simon Nicol - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Fender Stratocaster
- Chico Batera - percussion
- Gordie Fleming - Accordion
- David Sanborn - Saxophone
- Choral singing: Magic Children of Ottawa, Barbara Massey, Carl Hall, Tasha Thomas, Lewis Furey, Art Garfunkel, Melba Joyce, Carmen Twillie, Brenda Russell, Vennette Gloud, Suzanne Lynch, Anna Peacock, Vincent Beck
Numbers (A Pythagorean Theory Tale ) is the ninth studio album by singer -songwriter Cat Stevens.
History
The eleventh album ( including live and compilation albums ) by Cat Stevens (now Yusuf ) was released in November 1975. It is the first and last concept album he released under his stage name Cat Stevens. The story of the album is from a distant planet called Polygor that has only ten residents live in a castle and distribute for the whole universe numbers - one of which is the main character Jzero, which is by its wisdom as a prophet.
The story of the album was realized with the help of two British comedian named Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, the drawings for the album came from Stevens. The commercial success of the album was made , so that Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman first time since the U.S. no longer able to place in the top ten (USA: 13th; GB: No placement; Germany ranked 20th ). The coupled- Singles Banapple gas and land O'Freelove & Goodbye also sold poorly.
The album was re-released in 2001 in a remastered by Ted Jensen Version.
Title list
All tracks were written by Cat Stevens.