Biography

Cat Stevens, born Steven Demetre Georgiou, became interested in folk music and rock & roll in his teens while attending Hammersmith College, and in 1965 began performing under the name Steve Adams. He changed his name after signing with Decca Records, where he spent the late '60s topping the British and U.S. charts. He moved to Island Records in the '70s, where he did his most introspective work. In 1977, Stevens formally became a Muslim and adopted the name Yusuf Islam. He retired from pop music the following year, but returned in 2006 with an all-new collection of songs called An Other Cup. ~ William Ruhlmann

Top Tracks

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• (i Never Wanted) To Be A Star

• (remember The Days Of The) Old School Yard

• 18th Avenue (kansas City Nightmare)

• Another Saturday Night

• Bad Brakes

• Be What You Must

• Can't Keep It In

• Come On Baby (shift That Log)

• Daytime

• Everytime I Dream

• Father And Son

• Hard Headed Woman

• Here Comes My Baby

• Here Comes My Wife

• How Many Times

• I Love My Dog

• I Think I See The Light

• If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

• Indian Ocean

• It's A Supa (dupa) Life

• Just Another Night

• Katmandu

• Kitty

• Lady D'arbanville

• Land O' Freelove & Goodbye

• Matthew & Son

• Moonshadow

• Morning Has Broken

• Music

• Oh Very Young

• Peace Train

• Roadsinger

• Sitting

• The First Cut Is The Deepest

• The Hurt

• The Wind

• Trouble

• Where Do The Children Play?

• Whistlestar

• Wild World

Discography

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• Roadsinger

  YA/Yusuf/Universal

  2009

• Majikat: Earth Tour 1976

  Eagle Records / Eagle Rock (Us)

  2004

• Saturnight (Live in Tokyo)

  A&M

  1974

• Matthew & Son

  Deram

  1967

• New Masters

  Deram

  1967