Release Date: 12 November 2021
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: UMC/Island
£164.99
Yusuf / Cat Stevens Teaser & The Firecat Limited Super Deluxe 4CD/1BD/2LP/7" Box Set
Overview:
Yusuf / Cat Stevens celebrates 1971’s landmark album with this extensive 4CD, Blu-Ray, 2LP and 7” set in a rigid clamshell box. Includes 41 previously unreleased demos, sessions and live tracks and 21 previously unreleased TV performances. Also contains a 50th Anniversary Remaster of the album overseen by original album producer Paul Samwell-Smith on CD and Blu-Ray HD audio plus a 7” single of ‘Moonshadow’, a 44-page 12” soft-cover replica of the original ‘Teaser and the Firecat’ book – written and illustrated by Yusuf – and an extensive 108-page hard-cover 12” essay book.
The Super Deluxe Edition 4CD/BD/2LP/7” set is the most in-depth and definitive version of Teaser and the Firecat possible. CD1 features the brand new 50th Anniversary Remaster of the album, with audio from the original Island UK stereo master tape prepared by Yusuf and his engineer David Hefti, and remastered at Abbey Road Studios and overseen by album producer Paul Samwell-Smith.
CD2, Demos, Alternate Versions, Bonus Tracks – with early demos; previously unreleased alternate mixes; a rehearsal recording for the 1975/76 Majikat tour; a rendition of “The Wind” recorded during global pandemic lockdown in the summer of 2020; and finally a brand new 2021 recording of “Bitterblue”.
CD3, Live On Air, UK, 1971 – features 20 live performances for two of the UK’s major radio and television broadcasters of the day: the BBC; and Yorkshire Television. With six BBC Radio sessions (8th November 1970, and 23rd March 1971), the entire “Out Front: Cat Stevens And Friends” television broadcast on Yorkshire Television (7th September 1971), and two additional BBC TV broadcasts (The Old Grey Whistle Test from 5th October 1971, and “Cat Stevens In Concert” from 27th November 1971).
CD4, Live In Montreux – features a full previously unreleased live show recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, on 2nd May 1971. With 12 live tracks in all, the performance show Cat and band at their electrifying best.
Blu-ray – features the brand new 50th Anniversary Remaster of Teaser and the Firecat in 24bit/48kHz HD audio, as well as over 80 minutes of video, including a 2020 performance of “The Wind”, the 1977 animated video for “Moonshadow”, and 21 live TV performances.
LP1, Teaser and the Firecat (Alternate Versions) – presents an alternative version of the complete album, made up of studio demos, alternate mixes, and 1975 tour rehearsals. This LP is completely exclusive to the Super Deluxe Edition.
LP2, Live 1971 – features five live performances from Montreux on Side 1, and six live BBC recordings on Side 2. This LP is completely exclusive to the Super Deluxe Edition.
7” Single, Moonshadow – featuring the 50th Anniversary Remaster of “Moonshadow” on Side A, and on Side B, the previously unreleased Spike Milligan “Moonshadow” narration of from the 1977 Teaser and the Firecat animated video. This single is completely exclusive to the Super Deluxe Edition.
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