Lifeline
-
1 9 7 7
March : March.
LP: Izitso. Produced by Steve and David Kershenbaum, the album was recorded in studios in Massachusetts, Alabama and Denmark, places where Steve – a rootless tax exile – has been living in hotels with his “mobile vegetarian flight case.” Reaches #7 USA, #18 U.K. He spends nearly all of his spare time in this period reading the Qur’an and carrying a prayer mat.May : May.
Single: (Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard/Doves (U.K., #44)/(Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard/Land O’Freelove & Goodbye (U.S., #33)August : August 16.
Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland home.October : October.
Single: Was Dog a Doughnut/Sweet Jamaica (U.S.).December : December 8.
Cat Stevens is awarded the “Sun Peace Award” by the Symphony for the United Nations in New York City.December : December 23.
Steve enters the Regents Park Mosque in London and formally embraces Islam. It is Muharram, 1398, in the Islamic calendar. -
