Honorary doctorate by the University of Gloucestershire for services to education and humanitarian relief. [184] a b c Durrani, Anayat (October 2000). "VH1 Profiles Cat Stevens in "Behind the Music" ". Islamfortoday.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2008 . Retrieved 19 January 2009. a b Stroumboulopoulos, George (3 January 2007). "Interview with Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens". The Hour. CBC . Retrieved 8 June 2009.

His 1967 debut album and its title song " Matthew and Son" both reached top 10 in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970) and Teaser and the Firecat (1971) were certified triple platinum in the US. [7] His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spent weeks at the top of several other major charts. [8] [9] He earned ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for " The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit for four artists. [10] His other hit songs include " Father and Son", " Wild World", " Moonshadow", " Peace Train", and " Morning Has Broken". Note: Yusuf's denial on Radio 4: "I was really certainly not prepared or equipped to deal with sharp-toothed journalists and the whole way in which the media spins stories, and so I was cleverly framed, I would say, by certain questions where I couldn't, for instance, rewrite the ten Commandments; you can't expect me to do that! At the same time, I never actually ever supported the fatwa. I even wrote a whole kind of press statement very early on which the press completely ignored. And they went for the one which was written by the journalist who originally wrote the story, and so I had to live through that; but the interesting thing is that it brought me to kind of study the whole subject of jurisprudence, which again led me to realise that music, where you have certain rules which are dictated to by certain scholars, you have to dig a bit deeper and you find out that no, hang on, this is an opinion, an opinion, that's what a fatwa is actually. An opinion, which doesn't come directly from the Koran at all." Stamberg, Susan (28 July 2005). "Carly Simon Sings American Classics, Again". Morning Edition. NPR . Retrieved 11 February 2009.Why I Still Carry A Guitar: My Spiritual Journey from Cat Stevens to Yusuf, 2014. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-240623-1. In January 2009, Yusuf released a single in aid of children in Gaza, a rendition of the George Harrison song, "The Day the World Gets Round", along with the German bassist Klaus Voormann, who had formerly collaborated with The Beatles. To promote the new single, Voormann redesigned his famous Beatles Revolver album cover, drawing a picture of a young Cat Stevens along with himself and Harrison. [139] Proceeds from the single were donated to charities and organisations including UNESCO, UNRWA, and the nonprofit group Save the Children, with the funds earmarked for Gaza children. [140] Israeli Consul David Saranga criticised Yusuf for not dedicating the song to all of the children who are victims of the conflict, including Israeli children. [141]

a b Blistein, Jon (9 August 2016). "Yusuf Islam Plots Intimate North American Tour". Rolling Stone. Cat Stevens to tour NZ for first time – National – NZ Herald News". The New Zealand Herald. 25 April 2010 . Retrieved 29 June 2010. Farber, Jim (18 October 2009). "Carly Simon revisits her hits on new album 'Never Been Gone' and spills about a past love". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 22 October 2009 . Retrieved 6 January 2010. On 15 September 2014, Yusuf announced the forthcoming release on 27 October 2014 of his new studio album, Tell 'Em I'm Gone, and two short tours: a November 2014 (9-date) Europe tour and a December 2014 (6-date) North America tour, the latter being his first one since 1976. [160] [161] On 4 December 2014, he played to his first public US audience since the 1970s at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. [162]

Word from Our Chairman Yusuf Islam". Small Kindness. Archived from the original on 17 July 2006 . Retrieved 6 May 2006. Yusuf Islam to Release New Album". 1 October 2006 . Retrieved 27 June 2014. Quoted in Agence France-Presse article. On the occasion of the 2000 re-release of his Cat Stevens albums, at the urging of his label rep Sujata, Islam agreed to interviews with the media to tell his story and reconnect with his fans. [122] Islam explained that he had stopped performing in English due to his misunderstanding of the Islamic faith. "This issue of music in Islam is not as cut-and-dried as I was led to believe... I relied on heresy, that was perhaps my mistake." [120] He also participated in the first documentary on his life for a two-part VH1 Behind the Music. [123] Cat Stevens 'In the Dark' Over No-Fly List". ABC News 20/20. 1 October 2004 . Retrieved 14 July 2010.