Singer Stevens ‘shocked’ at US ban

FORMER pop star Cat Stevens arrived back in London yesterday saying he was “totally shocked” to have been denied entry to the United States on national security grounds.

The former singer, now known as Yusuf Islam after converting to Islam in the 1970s, told reporters in a media scrum at London’s Heathrow airport: “Half of me wants to smile, half of me wants to growl.

“It’s crazy and everybody knows me from my charitable work and now there has to be explanations, but I’m glad to be home.”