<i>New Masters</i>

New Masters

<p><i><b>New Masters</b></i> is the second studio album by singer-songwriter <a href="/en/Cat_Stevens" title="Cat Stevens" class="wl">Cat Stevens</a>, released in December 1967 by <a href="/en/Deram_Records" title="Deram Records" class="wl">Deram Records</a> (a new subsidiary of <a href="/en/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records" class="wl">Decca Records</a>) as a follow up to the highly successful debut album, <i><a href="/en/Matthew_and_Son_(album)" title="Matthew and Son (album)" class="wl">Matthew and Son</a></i>.</p>

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background-color: lightsteelblue; font-size: 125%;">New Masters</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Cat_Stevens_New_Masters.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Cat_Stevens_New_Masters.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Cat_Stevens_New_Masters.jpg/220px-Cat_Stevens_New_Masters.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="251" data-file-height="252" data-file-type="bitmap" height="221" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Cat_Stevens_New_Masters.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Cat_Stevens_New_Masters.jpg 2x" alt="Cat_Stevens_New_Masters.jpg"></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/en/Album" title="Album" class="wl">Studio album</a><span> </span>by <div class="contributor" style="display:inline"><a href="/en/Cat_Stevens" title="Cat Stevens" class="wl">Cat Stevens</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data published">December 1967</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recorded</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">5 October 1967</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Studio</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/en/Decca_Studios" title="Decca Studios" class="wl">Decca Studios</a>, West Hampstead, London</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Music_genre" title="Music genre" class="wl">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/en/Baroque_pop" title="Baroque pop" class="wl">Baroque pop</a>, <a href="/en/Folk_pop" title="Folk pop" class="mw-redirect wl">folk pop</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="duration"><span class="min">30</span>:<span class="s">13</span></span> (Original Release)<br> 51:08 (1989 Reissue)<br> 61:12 (2004 Reissue)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_label" title="Record label" class="wl">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/en/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records" class="wl">Deram</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Record_producer" title="Record producer" class="wl">Producer</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/en/Mike_Hurst_(producer)" title="Mike Hurst (producer)" class="wl">Mike Hurst</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description notheme" style="background-color: lightsteelblue"><a href="/en/Cat_Stevens" title="Cat Stevens" class="wl">Cat Stevens</a> chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">
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<td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0"><i><a href="/en/Matthew_and_Son_(album)" title="Matthew and Son (album)" class="wl">Matthew and Son</a></i><br>(1967)</td>
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New Masters is the second studio album by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, released in December 1967 by Deram Records as a follow up to the highly successful debut album, Matthew and Son. 