I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

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His early 1970s record albums Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were both certified triple platinum in the United States by the RIAA. In 2006 he returned to pop music with his first album of new pop songs in 28 years entitled An Other Cup. Stevens converted to Islam in December 1977 and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year.