Now a middle-aged man and aided by a prescient cat, he becomes Doctor Sleep.

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After a near-death experience in 1977 helped trigger a spiritual awakening, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and the man long ago known as Steven Demetre Georgiou) converted to Islam and retired from secular music-making in 1979.

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