The Unlikely Return of Cat Stevens

Re:The Unlikely Return of Cat Stevens by ScottBurson on Saturday September 16, 2017 @04:03PM (#15266449)

My theory has always been that the Yusuf Islam thing was a reaction to a bad acid trip. (Based on no evidence whatsoever, to be clear :-)

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Re:The Unlikely Return of Cat Stevens by Clubber on Saturday September 16, 2017 @05:46PM (#15266921)

There was a lot to it but the catalyst I believe is that he nearly drowned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens

Bad acid trips won't lead someone to change their life that drastically. (or so I've heard, not that I would know anything about that sort of thing).

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Re:The Unlikely Return of Cat Stevens by nes350 on Saturday September 16, 2017 @07:12PM (#15267264)

I'm not sure whether it's comparable, but Chris Squire from Yes spent months "hibernating" in a hotel after a bad trip with homemade acid:

“I’d had lots of good acid trips prior to that. But I made the mistake of trying some acid some friends of mine had homemade. That knocked me back, and I did sort of hibernate in an apartment in Kensington and spent quite a few months — maybe as much as a year — just playing bass.”

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11706204/Chris-Sq...

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Re:The Unlikely Return of Cat Stevens by ScottBurson on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:29PM (#15268103)

Ah, thanks. I didn't know the story.

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