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My theory has always been that the Yusuf Islam thing was a reaction to a bad acid trip. (Based on no evidence whatsoever, to be clear :-)

• Clubber 9y ago
  There was a lot to it but the catalyst I believe is that he nearly drowned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens Bad acid trips won't lead someone to change their life that drastically. (or so I've heard, not that I would know anything about that sort of thing).
  • nes350 9y ago
    I'm not sure whether it's comparable, but Chris Squire from Yes spent months "hibernating" in a hotel after a bad trip with homemade acid: “I’d had lots of good acid trips prior to that. But I made the mistake of trying some acid some friends of mine had homemade. That knocked me back, and I did sort of hibernate in an apartment in Kensington and spent quite a few months — maybe as much as a year — just playing bass.” Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11706204/Chris-Squire-bass-guitarist-obituary.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11706204/Chris-Sq...
    • trumpisyourdad 9y ago
      if you believe this, you are retarded.
  • ScottBurson 9y ago
    Ah, thanks. I didn't know the story.