Related: Yusuf Islam AKA Cat Stevens to lead BBC Ramadan series The 72-year-old British musician, still internationally famous for songs such as Father and Son, The First Cut is the Deepest, Moonshadow and Wild World, said he had hoped fans would understand that he felt he had found something more important than music, but he was wrong.“I thought, ‘Everybody should get this’, but it didn’t work out quite like that.