<![CDATA[The IMDB bio on Patti (]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Patti D'Arbanville

vats — 22 years ago(September 23, 2003 03:52 PM)

The IMDB bio on Patti (
http://us.imdb.com/board/20001091/bio
) states that
She is the subject of the song "Lady D'Arbanville" by Cat Stevens on his album "Mona Bone Jakon".
AFAIK, Patti is still alive, (as she certainly was when Mona Bone Jakon was released), while the song is sung to a lady love who's died. Anyone know any history on this ?

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I read somewhere that in addition to "Lady D'Arbanville", he also wrote "Maybe You're Right", "Wild World", and "Just Another Night" for/about her also. I always thought it would be great to have a musician ex-boyfriend who wrote a song about me, like "Rosanna" or "Judy Blue Eyes".
I bet Patti likes listening to these songs, even if they are all about breaking up!
I need my 1987 DG20 Casio electric guitar set to mandolin, yeah

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My Lady D'Arbanville,
You look so cold tonight,
Your lips feel like winter,
Your skin has turned to white,
Your skin has turned to white.
I love you my lady,
Though in your grave you lie,
I'll always be with you,
This rose will never die,
This rose will never die.
Seems pretty clear to me I have to sayhe's referring to her as if she is dead, albeit metaphorically.

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I've heard the song "Lady D'Arbanville" many times, but never heard anything in it to lead me to think it was about someone who died. It's clearly about grow5b4ing estrangement and the death of a relationship. He even comments acidly on her "brave new life" foreshadowing the criticisms and warnings of "Wild World".

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I read that she went away for a month and he felt like she was dead so that's why you have those lyrics.

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Actually Cat Stevens' career is not dead. He voluntarily withdrew from the music scene for many years to concentrate on his religion and charity work, but has recently returned to singing (under his new name of Yusuf Islam) and released a new CD.

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Why not?

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Yeah, he's carrer died too, right?

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Why?
Because he became a muslim?

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Cat Stevens's dead too, as far as I'm concerned.

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Bit of an update on this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051013/music_nm/groupie_dc
quote from article:
"and actress and close friend
Patti D'Arbanville ("She was wild her story about
Cat Stevens is beyond belief")."

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she is still very much alive, the posts here were referring to a song cat stevens wrote about the death of their love affair in the 1970s.

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Patti died?!

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Try these links at the CatStevens.com fan site:
http://catstevens.com/articles/00015/index.html
http://catstevens.com/articles/00025/index.html
http://catstevens.com/articles/00076/index.html
I take it that the song is not about the actual death of her, but of the death of their love affair, as she, at that time, was only the 2nd woman in Cat's life that he truly loved. She left him for M5b4ick Jagger.
Hope that they help answer your questions.

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