The "fantastic" 1968 album Cat Stevens called the future of music

The "fantastic" 1968 album Cat Stevens called the future of music

Nowadays, the musical landscape is awash with nostalgia merchants and musicians attempting to evoke years gone by, but back in the 1960s, virtually every musician was aiming to capture the sounds of the future. According to Cat Stevens, one record succeeded in that aim more so than any other.  Stevens was firmly among those figures trying to predict the future of music and songwriting during the late 1960s. After spending much of the decade penn…