XPost: uk.music.folk, rec.music.folk   
   From: peanutjakeNO@usa.com   
      
   > > **/Cat Stevens vows revenge by resuming music career/***/   
   > >   
   > > BY ANDY BOROWITZ   
   > > /**/Los Angeles/**/ Times   
   > >   
   > > Hours after being refused entry into the /**/United States/**/ last   
   > > week, 1970s   
   > > recording star Cat Stevens lashed out at the /**/U.S./**/ government,   
   > > vowing to   
   > > resume his recording career "immediately" as the ultimate act of   
   > > revenge.   
   > >   
   > > Appearing on the Arabic-language satellite TV channel Al Jazeera, a   
   > > visibly angry Stevens -- now known by the name Yusuf Islam -- threatened   
   > > to attack the /**/United States/**/ with the full force of his insipid   
   > > folk-rock   
   > > music.   
   > >   
   > > Brandishing an acoustic guitar, the erstwhile pop star warned that "no   
   > > one in /**/America/**/ would be safe from my insidious melodies" before   
   > > launching into a spirited rendition of his 1971 hit "Peace Train."   
   > >   
   > > A spokesman for the CIA said that experts needed more time to study the   
   > > chilling video but that it appeared to be authentic: "We do not believe   
   > > that anyone but the real Cat Stevens remembers the lyrics to 'Peace   
   > > Train.' "   
   > >   
   > > On the campaign trail, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry   
   > > blasted President Bush for the Stevens incident, saying Bush's reckless   
   > > actions had resuscitated an irritating singer's long-dormant recording   
   > > career.   
   > >   
   > > "When George Bush took office, Cat Stevens was not a threat," Kerry told   
   > > a rally in /**/Akron/**/, /**/Ohio/**/. "Through a successful policy of   
   > > containment, his   
   > > music had mainly been limited to classic-rock stations. But now, thanks   
   > > to George Bush's misguided decision to provoke Cat Stevens, we may be   
   > > subjected to renditions of 'Morning Has Broken' and 'Moonshadow' and   
   > > 'Wild World' for years to come."   
   > >   
   > > Aides to Kerry passed out lyrics of songs by Stevens, including this one   
   > > from 1970: "I wish I knew, I wish I knew; what makes me, me, and what   
   > > makes you, you. It's just another point of view, ooo. A state of mind   
   > > I'm going through."   
   > >   
   > > For his part, Bush defended the decision, telling a /**/Denver/**/   
   > > audience,   
   > > "Cat Stevens is the first front in the war on terror, with Seals and   
   > > Croft a close second."/*   
      
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