Very RARE and Extremely Beautiful and STILL SEALED!   CAT STEVENS 5th studio album TEASER AND THE FIRECAT US Release on A&M - SP4313 from 1971.  Still shrink-wrapped 1st Edition Gatefold Cover. No barcode.
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Teaser and the Firecat

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1. "Moonshadow"
   Released: September 1970 (UK); June 1971 (US)
2. "Peace Train"
   Released: 1971 (worldwide); September 1971 (US)
3. "Morning Has Broken"
   Released: 1972

Teaser and the Firecat is the fifth studio album released by Cat Stevens in 1971. The album contains 10 songs including the hits "Morning Has Broken", "Moonshadow" and "Peace Train". It is also the title of a children's book written and illustrated by Stevens. The story features the title characters from the album cover, top-hatted young Teaser and his pet, Firecat, who attempt to put the moon back in its place after it falls from the sky. Published in 1972, the book has been out of print since the mid-1970s.

The album was a commercial success, surpassing the heights achieved by Stevens' previous album, Tea for the Tillerman, reaching both the UK and US Top 3 and also spending fifteen weeks at the top of the Australian charts, becoming the biggest-selling album of the country in 1972.

In 1977 an animated version, narrated by Spike Milligan, using the song "Moonshadow", was a segment in Fantastic Animation Festival. In November 2008, a "deluxe edition" was released featuring a second disc of demos and live recordings.

Critical reception[edit]

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone magazine, music critic Timothy Crouse praised Stevens' distinctive musical style and introspective songs such as "Tuesday's Dead" and "The Wind", but felt that he lacks Van Morrison's evocative quality and James Taylor's refined lyrics: "Cat has become a dependable artist, a good artist, but he appears to be one of those composers who does not develop, who holds no surprises."[2]

In a retrospective five-star review, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann found the album more simplistic lyrically and musically entertaining than Tea for the Tillerman(1970): "Teaser and the Firecat was the Cat Stevens album that gave more surface pleasures to more people, which in pop music is the name of the game."[3]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks written by Cat Stevens except where noted.