The words of the Quran all seemedstrangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,’ he told us. He embraced Islam in1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. ‘I identified with the story of Joseph inthe Quran,’ he said. ‘His brothers sold him like goods in the market place.’ Yusuf felt the musicbusiness had treated him not like an artist but as a commodity

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