Yusuf Cat Stevens Desert Island Discs - Talks about Life/Career & more - Radio Broadcast 27/09/2020

Yusuf/Cat Stevens talks about Music, Songwriting, Parents, Jobs, Faith/Religion, The Guitar, Career Name, Illness/Hospital, America, Swimming, The Koran/ Conversion, Fatwa, Personal Change and Desert Island Life.

Interviewed By: Lauren Laverne



DISC ONE: America from West Side Story by Anita (Rita Moreno), Bernado (George Chakiris), The Sharks And Girls

DISC TWO: Tutti Frutti by Little Richard

DISC THREE: Twist and Shout by The Beatles

DISC FOUR: March From A Clockwork Orange (Beethoven: Ninth Symphony: Fourth Movement, abridged) by Wendy Carlos

DISC FIVE: The Wind by Cat Stevens

DISC SIX: Allah Uya by Ali Farka Touré

DISC SEVEN: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone

DISC EIGHT: As by Stevie Wonder

BOOK CHOICE: The Masnavi I Ma'navi of Rumi: Complete by Maulana Jalalu-'d-din Muhammad Rumi (Author), E. H. Whinfield (Translator)

LUXURY ITEM: Bendicks Bittermints
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: As by Stevie Wonder