On The Road To Findout: Greatest Hits (2LP)

Cat-O-Log Records, in partnership with Universal Music Recordings, is proud to announce On The Road To Findout: Greatest Hits, a brand-new collection of Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ most beloved songs from his 58-year recording career, slated for release on 5th September, 2025.

Presented across multiple product formats, On The Road To Findout: Greatest Hits presents one of the UK’s greatest recorded music artists and his phenomenal body of work, defined by timeless tracks including “The First Cut Is The Deepest”, “Where Do The Children Play?”, “Wild World”, “Moonshadow”, The Hurt”, and “Father And Son”, with songs from his debut 1967 LP, Matthew & Son, through to his 2023 King Of A Land album.

Cat Stevens released his first single, “I Love My Dog”, in 1966 via Decca Records imprint DERAM. It reached #28 in the UK charts. The album that it featured on, Matthew & Son, would be released in 1967, and produced two more singles, including “Matthew & Son”, which reached #2 in the UK charts.

Stevens released his second album, New Masters, that same year, but was tragically struck down with tuberculosis in 1968. It was during his year-long recuperation that he decided that his true musical direction was Folk, and during those months he wrote a body of more than 20 songs which would see him sign to Chris Blackwell’s Island Records.

Produced by former Yardbird, Paul Samwell-Smith, Cat’s first Island album, Mona Bone Jakon, was released in April 1970, led by the classic single “Lady D’Arbanville”. The record presented a new sound which would go on to define Cat’s music over the coming years, led in particular by his acoustic guitar and thoughtful lyrics. It was his international breakthrough and became a Top 10 Billboard hit album.

Tea for the Tillerman was released just eight months later, and featured the timeless songs “Where Do The Children Play?”, “Father And Son” and US Top 20 hit “Wild World”. In recent years, the album has appeared on countless ‘Best Albums’ lists, including Rolling Stone magazine’s definitive ‘500 Greatest Albums Of All Time’ list (#206).

1971’s Teaser and the Firecat saw Cat deliver another Samwell-Smith-produced set that blended his trademark singer/songwriter acoustic tracks, blended with higher energy numbers, with hit singles “Moonshadow”, “Peace Train”, and “Morning Has Broken” being complimented by classic album tracks “The Wind” and the exquisitely beautiful “How Can I Tell You”.

1971 would also see Cat lend his music to the cult-classic Hal Ashby movie Harold And Maude, with original songs “Don’t Be Shy” and movie theme “If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out” still among some of his standouts.

Over the following years, Cat released six more LPs on Island Records (Billboard #1 Album Catch Bull At Four, Foreigner, Buddha and the Chocolate Box, Numbers, Izitso, and Back To Earth), which, in their way, chart the spiritual path which led him to embrace Islam, and in 1978 he took the name Yusuf Islam.

SIDE ONE
1. Matthew & Son
2. Here Comes My Baby
3. The First Cut Is The Deepest
4. Lady D’Arbanville
5. Where Do The Children Play?
6. Wild World

SIDE TWO
1. If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out
2. The Wind
3. Morning Has Broken
4. Moonshadow
5. Peace Train
6. Sitting
7. Can’t Keep It In

SIDE THREE
1. The Hurt
2. Oh Very Young
3. Banapple Gas
4. (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard
5. Just Another Night

SIDE FOUR
1. Heaven/Where True Love Goes
2. Thinking ‘Bout You
3. Gold Digger
4. Blackness Of The Night
5. Father And Son
6. Take The World Apart