The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.

After gazing down at the wreckage, he dances away, picking out on his banjo Cat Stevens ' " If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out ".

* 1948 – Cat Stevens, English singer-songwriter and musician

Others who worked on production with Nirvana include Muff Winwood ( formerly of the Spencer Davis Group ; arranger / producer Mike Hurst who worked with Jimmy Page, Cat Stevens, Manfred Mann, Spencer Davis Group and Colin Blunstone ; arranger Johnny Scott who arranged for the Hollies and subsequently scored films such as The Shooting Party and Greystoke.

Among them was the ballad " The First Cut is the Deepest " ( originally a Cat Stevens song ), which became her biggest radio hit since " All I Wanna Do.

** Cat Stevens ( Yusuf Islam ), English musician

Examples include Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay ; Ivan Aguéli, who became Abd al-Hadi Aqhili ; Cat Stevens, who became Yusuf Islam ; and Yousuf Youhana, who became Mohammad Yousef.

* Cat Stevens

He worked with numerous artists including the Rolling Stones on Their Satanic Majesties Request ( Jones ' string arrangement is heard on " She's a Rainbow "); Herman's Hermits ; Donovan ( on " Sunshine Superman " and " Mellow Yellow "); Jeff Beck ; Françoise Hardy ; Cat Stevens ; Rod Stewart ; Shirley Bassey ; Lulu ; and numerous others.

He went on to feature on songs by artists including Black Sabbath, David Bowie, T. Rex, Elton John and Cat Stevens.

He also played the piano on the Cat Stevens ' hit " Morning Has Broken ".

Boxer Cassius Clay's adoption of the name Muhammad Ali is a well-known example, as is Cat Stevens ' change to Yusuf Islam and Malcolm Little's adoption of the name Malcolm X and later El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

Foreign artists who have performed at Liseberg include Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Cliff Richard, Nightwish, Delta Rhythm Boys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cat Stevens, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, PJ Proby, Frank Zappa with The Mothers Of Invention, Bill Haley & His Comets, Procul Harum and Toto, among others.

* Cat Stevens lived in a flat above a Catford furniture shop in the early sixties

Although Decca had set up the first of the British " progressive " labels, Deram Records, in 1966, with such stars as Cat Stevens and The Moody Blues, by the time the punk era set in 1977, Decca had pop success with such acts as John Miles, novelty creation Father Abraham and The Smurfs, and productions by longtime Decca associate Jonathan King.

Cat Stevens wrote a song for the Live Aid concert, which he never got to perform – had he done so, he would have made his first public concert appearance since converting to Islam and changing his name to Yusuf Islam.

Moon Shadow again featured Labelle doing gospel-influenced renditions of rock and roll numbers including the title track ( originally by Cat Stevens ) and The Who's " Won't Get Fooled Again " and another sexually intense Hendryx composition, " Touch Me All Over ".

Tired of playing cover songs — though their first notable American hit was found in covering the Cat Stevens hit " Peace Train "— the band started to write their own music, usually with Merchant handling the lyrics and Lombardo the music.

" It was removed from subsequent pressings after Cat Stevens ( now Yusef Islam ) made comments implying he agreed with a death Fatwa against author Salman Rushdie.

* March 31 – Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time.

Unable to secure a new management contract, Johnson began working as a session guitarist for some well-known acts, including Cat Stevens,

* Back to Earth by Cat Stevens ‒ " Bad Brakes " ( 1978 )

Mark was best known as Marianne Faithfull's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band Sweet Thursday ( which included pianist Nicky Hopkins and future Cat Stevens collaborator Alun Davies, also a guitarist ).

Folk rock musician Cat Stevens performing in 1976

In 1997, DJ Gruff dissed Articolo 31 in a track titled 1 vs 2 appearing on the first album of the beatmaker Fritz da Cat, but Articolo 31's lawyers obtained a retraction of the record, and its reissue without the song.

* Cinema ( The Cat Empire album )

First, Waits appeared on the Primus album Sailing the Seas of Cheese as the voice of " Tommy the Cat ", which exposed him to a new audience in alternative rock.

Ono released the album Yes, I'm a Witch in 2007, a collection of remixes and covers from her back catalog by various artists including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Antony, DJ Spooky, Porcupine Tree and Peaches, released in February 2007, along with a special edition of Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band.

In his earliest days, Gabriel played flute on Cat Stevens's first album on the Island records label, Mona Bone Jakon as a " nervous session musician ".

She also released her album, Snoopycat: The Adventures of Marian Anderson's Cat Snoopy, which included short stories and songs about her beloved black cat.

* Available in All Colours, 1998 album, Big Cat Records

The album features cover artwork by Anne Stokes ( the copyright is owned by Big Cat Records, however ) which portrays fetuses in orange and green tubes with the labels " racist ", " prophet ", " anarchist ", " humanitarian ", " psychopath ", " dictator ", etc.

In 1980, Thelma Houston recorded " Before There Could Be Me ", " Breakwater Cat ", " Gone ", " Long Lasting Love ", and " What Was that Song " on her album Breakwater Cat.

Perkins's last album, Go Cat Go !, was released during 1996, and featured new collaborations with many of the above artists, as well as George Harrison, Paul Simon, John Fogerty, Tom Petty, and Bono.

This includes the work of Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, and includes Mr. Natural ; Keep on Truckin '; Fritz the Cat ; Fat Freddy's Cat ; Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ; the album cover art for Cheap Thrills ; and contributions to International Times, The Village Voice, and Oz magazine.

The album was supported by the singles " Jerry Was a Race Car Driver " and " Tommy the Cat ", both of which appeared on MTV.

* Punk rock band Blink-182's debut studio album is called Cheshire Cat.

* French singer Nolwenn Leroy produced the album Le Cheshire Cat et moi in 2009

The band's break through debut album, the multi platinum Look What the Cat Dragged In was released in 1986 and they hit their peak with the second album, the multi-platinum selling Open Up and Say ... Ahh!

Their debut album: Look What the Cat Dragged In, was released 2 August 1986.

The quartet held a basement jam session ( later christened The Black Cat Jam ) which spawned the core grooves for several songs on their first album.

Their second and final album, Rhythm and Stealth ( 1999 ) maintained a similar style, and featured Roots Manuva, Afrika Bambaataa, and MC Cheshire Cat from Birmingham.

Yo La Tengo reunited with Dave Schramm in 1990 to record Fakebook, an album of mostly acoustic tunes, including covers of Cat Stevens, Gene Clark, The Kinks, Daniel Johnston, among others, with five original songs by the band themselves, including an acoustic version of Barnaby Hardly Working.

This album also featured " Cleopatra's Cat ", " Mary Jane ", " Hungry Hamed's ", and " Bags of Dirt ".