{"id":530628,"date":"2026-07-08T04:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530628\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:16:22","slug":"yusuf-cat-stevens-announces-reissue-of-buddha-and-the-chocolate-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/530628\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf \/ Cat Stevens Announces Reissue of &#8216;Buddha and the Chocolate Box&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/artist\/cat-stevens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yusuf \/ Cat Stevens<\/a> has announced a new remastered edition of his 1974 album Buddha and the Chocolate Box. It arrives September 4, and comes in a variety of formats, including digital, CD, and two vinyl colorways.<\/p>\n<p>Buddha and the Chocolate Box reunited the musician with two longtime collaborators, producer Paul Samwell-Smith and guitarist Alun Davies. The pair\u2019s return steered the sound back toward the warmer, more intimate style that had defined his biggest albums earlier in the decade. The record\u2019s title nodded to the singer\u2019s own description of feeling torn between competing spiritual paths at the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuddha and the Chocolate Box reopened the doors of my familiar melodious soft delivery and sentiments,\u201d Yusuf wrote in his 2025 memoir, Cat On the Road to Findout. \u201cAlthough still experimental in compositional terms, it was what most of my fans desperately wanted to hear next. Following on from Foreigner, the Buddha album proved \u2013 especially to those who had no faith \u2013 that the missing Cat had simply wandered away from home for a while. My principle of independence was asserted as with most cats, don\u2019t ever dare think you own them! As far as the critics were concerned, album-wise, it marked my heralded return to \u2018Cat Stevens\u2019 form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album went platinum stateside, and was internationally popular, reaching No. 2 in the US and No. 3 in Britain. In particular, \u201cOh Very Young\u201d cracked the American top ten on release and resurfacing commercially last year after being used in the closing scene of Netflix\u2019s The Thursday Murder Club, which sent the decades-old track back onto UK sales charts.\n<\/p>\n<p>The new pressing of Buddha and the Chocolate Box compiles nine tracks, including \u201cMusic,\u201d \u201cSun \/ C79,\u201d \u201cGhost Town,\u201d and \u201cHome in the Sky,\u201d and follows a recent run of archival projects from the singer, including a live recording from Tokyo and a hits compilation. The latter. titled On the Road to Findout: Greatest Hits, came out last September and pulled selections from across nearly six decades, stretching from his 1967 debut up through 2023\u2019s King of a Land.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.udiscovermusic.com\/collections\/yusuf-cat-stevens?utm_campaign=products&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=udiscovermusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Order Buddha and the Chocolate Box here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yusuf \/ Cat Stevens has announced a new remastered edition of his 1974 album Buddha and the Chocolate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[242184,146,19368,85,46,409,1548,105336],"class_list":["post-530628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-buddha-and-the-chocolate-box","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage-featured","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-yusuf-cat-stevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}