Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)

Born Steven Demetre Georgiou and now known as Yusuf Islam following his conversion to Islam, Cat Stevens was one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the 1970s. After securing a U.K. deal with his song “I Love My Dog”—which eventually charted there in 1966—he wrote “Here Comes My Baby,” a hit for the Tremeloes in both the U.K. and U.S. P.P. Arnold’s 1967 British hit of Stevens’”The First Cut Is the Deepest” would later be a U.S. hit for both Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow; meanwhile, Stevens became a major star on both sides of the Atlantic with his version of “Wild World,” which was a previous hit for Jimmy Cliff in England, and such follow-up hits as “Moon Shadow” and “Peace Train” and “Morning has Broken.”

Key songs in the Islam catalog include “Moonshadow,” “Morning Has Broken,” “Peace Train,” “The First Cut Is The Deepest,” “Wild World,” “Oh, Very Young” and “On The Road To Find Out.”

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