![]() ![]() In a tweet last night, Yusuf/Cat Stevens paid tribute to Lewis, calling her “a good soul-friend and fine artist.” Stevens wrote the song “(Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard” for Lewis, which she recorded in 1975. In addition to providing vocals on Stevens’ 1972 album Catch Bull At Four, Lewis accompanied Stevens on a 1974 world tour. One of her most successful collaborations came with her then-boyfriend Cat Stevens. She sang back-up on David Bowie’s 1973 classic Aladdin Sane, Rod Stewart’s Blondes Have More Fun (1978) and Tonight I’m Yours (1981), and Rick Wakeman’s Lisztomania (1975), to name just a sampling. Her five-octave vocal range and versatile phrasing made her a favorite of the British pop vanguard in the 1970s. ![]() Making her most notable early appearance as a singer at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970, Lewis would go on to have a lengthy, decades-long recording and performing career, with four top-40 UK hit singles that included 1973’s “Rock-A-Doodle-Doo” and, in 1975, “It’s In His Kiss,” a disco version of “The Shoop Shoop Song.” ![]()
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