CAT STEVENS – CATCH BULL AT FOUR LP – Nr MINT UK

Cat Stevens – Catch Bull At Four
(Island Records  1972  ILPS9206)
Matrix No’s: A4/B3 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some light foxing spots and some light ringwear on back
Original Island Inner Sleeve with no splits

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou, 21 July 1948), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His 1967 debut album reached the top 10 in the UK, and the album’s title song “Matthew and Son” charted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart.

Catch Bull at Four is the sixth studio album by Cat Stevens. In the United States it spent three weeks at number one on Billboard’s album chart. The title is taken from one of the Ten Bulls of Zen.

Track listing

All songs written by Cat Stevens except as noted.

Side one

1. “Sitting” – 3:14
2. “Boy with a Moon & Star on His Head” – 5:57
3. “Angelsea” – 4:30
4. “Silent Sunlight” – 3:00
5. “Can’t Keep It In” – 2:59

Side two

1. “18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)” – 4:21
2. “Freezing Steel” – 3:40
3. “O Caritas” (Andreas Toumazis, Jeremy Taylor, Stevens) – 3:41
4. “Sweet Scarlet” – 3:49
5. “Ruins” – 4:24

Personnel

• Cat Stevens – lead and backing vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Böhm Diamond organ, Spanish guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric mandolin, RMI Electra piano, synthesizer, pennywhistle, drums, percussion
• Alun Davies – acoustic guitar, Spanish guitar, backing vocals
• Alan James – bass, backing vocals
• Jean Roussel – piano, Hammond organ, Electric piano
• Gerry Conway – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Andreas Toumazis – bouzouki on “O Caritas”
• C.S. Choir – backing vocals on “Freezing Steel” and “O Caritas”
• Linda Lewis – backing vocals on “Angelsea”
• Lauren Cooper – backing vocals on “Angelsea”
• Del Newman – string arrangements
• Jeremy Taylor – Spanish guitar, who assisted in translating “O’ Caritas” into the Latin language used in the song.^[5]

Production

• Paul Samwell-Smith – producer