Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ ‘Saturnight’ Concert Album To Receive First Global Release
The cherished live project was previously only available in Japan.
Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ rare 1974 concert album, Saturnight: Live From Tokyo, will be released globally in multiple formats for the first time ever.
The project arrives more than 50 years after it was originally released only in Japan due to contractual restrictions. The record has been remastered from the original production master at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios and will be available on CD, vinyl and digitally for streaming and download on May 2 via Cat-O-Log Records/UMe.
Order Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ Saturnight: Live From Tokyo.
The CD will be packaged in a digisleeve with a 16-page booklet featuring lyrics and new retrospective recollections from those who were there, including bassist Bruce Lynch and the band’s 1974 tour manager Carl Miller. Also included are additional notes.
The vinyl will be available on 140-gram black vinyl or as a limited edition pressing available only via Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ official website, uDiscover Music and Sound of Vinyl on 140-gram lava splatter vinyl.
Both vinyl editions will be packaged for the first time in a gatefold sleeve with the aforementioned liner notes. Saturnight was released in a super limited edition as an “RSD First” for last year’s Record Store Day Black Friday event exclusively on 180-gram orange splatter color vinyl.
Cat Stevens’ first-ever live album, Saturnight, was recorded on June 22, 1974, at Sun Plaza Hall in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan on the Japanese leg of Cat’s 1974 “Bamboozle World Tour.” The tour comprised 50 shows across North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan to support the release of Buddha and the Chocolate Box.
Cat had long felt an affinity with the aesthetic elegance and spiritual depth of Japanese culture, especially the principles of meditation and reflection upon which their traditions of poetry, design, and craftsmanship are founded.
Saturnight includes the single “King Of Trees” from Buddha and the Chocolate Box, which is available now. The live album features Cat at his peak, performing an incredible concert of songs from that then newest album such as “Oh Very Young” and “A Bad Penny,” alongside some of his greatest hits which dominated the charts in the early 70s.
