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Yusuf Cat Stevens on Islam, the fatwa and playing guitar again

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Related: Yusuf Islam AKA Cat Stevens to lead BBC Ramadan series The 72-year-old British musician, still internationally famous for songs such as Father and Son, The First Cut is the Deepest, Moonshadow and Wild World, said he had hoped fans would understand that he felt he had found something more important than music, but he was wrong.“I thought, ‘Everybody should get this’, but it didn’t work out quite like that.

Everyone wanted me to keep on making music.” Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday, the singer, who was born Steven Demetre Georgiou in London’s Soho to a Greek Cypriot father and a Swedish mother, also talked about the joy he felt when he decided to pick up his guitar again after 20 years.“It was absolute.

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