To make matters worse, tuberculosis sidelined Stevens for months. singles chart.īut things went downhill from there, with subsequent singles and a second album selling relatively poorly. Stevens also had a few hits of his own, including his debut album, Matthew & Son, and its title cut, which reached number two on the U.K. Arnold (and later produced major hits for Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow).
(Nor was it his last he has returned to making records in recent years.) The British artist-born Steven Georgiou and known as Yusuf Islam since his conversion to the Muslim faith-achieved some success in his home country in the mid 1960s, partly as the writer of “Here Comes My Baby,” a hit for the Tremeloes, and the great “The First Cut Is the Deepest,” which charted in England for P.P. Folk/pop singer/songwriter Cat Stevens famously walked away from the music business in 1978, but that wasn’t his first career turning point.
