- Artist Disillusionment: This and his newfound faith is what led to his retirement in the late Seventies.
- Contractual Obligation Project: 1978's Back To Earth. By this point, Cat Stevens had become Yusuf Islam and was planning on leaving the music industry. However, he still owed his record label one more album.
- Creator Recovery: So far, this has happened three times:
- 1970's Mona Bone Jakon. After a lukewarm career in his teens and a long period of health problems, he figuratively and literally started Growing the Beard.
- 1977's Izitso. The merely moderate success of 1975's Numbers (#13) following the successes of his previous five albums almost became a Creator Killer for him, but Izitso peaked at #7 on the Hot 200. He only made one more album after that before going on a long hiatus, but that had less to do with any career downturn and more to do with him converting to Islam.
- 2006's An Other Cup. This was his first album since 1978's Back to Earth and marked his return to popular music as Yusuf Islam.
- What Could Have Been:
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