Did the comments made by a washed-up musician, in 1989, influence a guy born ten years later into attacking someone thirty years later?
I’m going to go with “no.”
You do you.
Yusuf’s comments were just one of many screaming for Rushdie’s death. So instead of being the sole cause, he’s just a member of the chorus.
But if he had gone against the fatwa back in the day, maybe people would have listened. He wasn’t “washed up” then.
The fatwa happened in 1989, more than ten years after he stopped recording music. That’s pretty well pas the prime of his celebrity.
If Trump (or Manson) made music that I deemed worth listening to, then I would listen to it.
(I think that answers the question you meant to ask)
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Don’t know what it is about crescent moons on old outhouse doors, but indeed “Moonshitter, Moonshitter” was as fine a paean to that phenomenon as any.
I’ve been a fan since my teens. “Sitting” is my favorite song, but I need to go over his discography again. Back in 71, “Harold and Maude” came out with his music, and that same year in the equally great “McCabe & Mrs. Miller”, you had Leonard Cohen.
New album released this week.
King of a Land.
I enjoyed it a lot - the closest to his 70s style in sound and lyrics of all his comeback work.
What’s up, my username is from a Cat Stevens song so I figured I should chime in. I agree that he seems to have an old man voice. Well, either that or his songs just seem like they’d be suited for an old man singing them. But I disagree that his old man voice sounds creepy or bad. I find his music soothing.