Lyrics and Albums by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) born on July 21, 1948 in London. Cat Stevens is an UK singer. In 1977 Cat Stevens converted into Islam adapted name his Yusuf Islam. Cat Stevens music career has been started at his age of 12. In 1966, he formed with British vocal group The Spring fields. The first releasing music single “I Love My Dog”,” Matthew and Son” and “I’m Gonna Get Me A Gun”. He is First chart music album name is “Matthew and Son”. Cat Stevens next album “New masters” released on 1967. The song “The First Cut Is the Deepest” is an international big hit and received ASCAP songwriter Awards of the year. In 1970, he released the music album “Mona Bone Jakon”. The album is fully based folk style muiscs. All songs and lyrics from the album “Lady D’Arbanville” was written by Cat Stevens.

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Cat Stevens Music Albums and Songs

His biggest hit album “Tea for the Tillerman”sold around 3 million records. The album also reached Billboard top 10 and the songs “Wild World”, Hard Headed Woman” and “Father and Son” are reached and peaked on top 20 charts. Latter, the album was received multi platinum record by RIAA. The music album reached number 203 in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. He also released one more multi platinum album “Teaser and the Fire cat” in the year 1971. This album sale as crossed over 3 million records and reached NO. 2 position in U.S music charts.” Peace Train”, “Morning has broken” and “Moon Shadow” are some of the hit songs from the music album “Teaser and the Fire cat”. In 1972,”Catch Bull at Four” music album was released. The album took the Gold Record of the year and reached No. 1 position in Billboard chart. The music album “Greatest Hits” by Cat Stevens was sold over 4 million copies in world wide. The music received Platinum Europe Award. The song “Remember Cat Stevens” and “The Ultimate Collection” and its music were sold over million records in USA. He released the music album”Back to Earth” in 1978.

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Yusuf Islam Music Albums and Songs

In 1990s Yusuf Islam released his first Islamic song “God Is the Light”. He released the music album “A Is for Allah”; this music album was based on Children’s album. The music album “A Is for Allah” was released in 2000. In 1995; Yusuf Islam released the music album “The Life of the Last Prophet”. He released many songs and music album in the name of Yusuf Islam. some of the music albums under the name by Yusuf Islam are as follows, “Prayers of the Last prophet”, “Bimillah”,”I Have No Cannons that Roar”, “I Look I See”, “Night of Remembrance”, Footsteps in the Light and Yusuf ‘s Cafe Session. In 2005, he played the music album “Those Were the Days” and “Where Do the Children Play”. Yusuf Islam was released his own music album in 2006. The music album “An Other Cup” gave him a big hit music. He released the music album “Indian Ocean”. This music album is fully based on Tsunami. His total music record was sold over 60 million copies in the manner of mp3 and downloads worldwide.

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