Q 01/05

Which Cat Stevens song from Tea for the Tillerman was later a hit for Jimmy Cliff, Maxi Priest and Mr. Big?

A) Into White

B) Wild World

C) Sad Lisa

D) Oh Very Young

Answer · why

B) Wild World

Wild World peaked at number 11 in the US. He has called it his parting song to a girlfriend, built on a chord sequence common in Spanish music.

Q 02/05

Which Cat Stevens song, written for a musical about the Russian Revolution, was a 1995 hit for Boyzone?

A) Miles from Nowhere

B) Longer Boats

C) Father and Son

D) But I Might Die Tonight

Answer · why

C) Father and Son

Father and Son began as a number for Revolussia, in which a boy wants to join the revolution against his farmer father's wishes. He sings the two role...

Q 03/05

Which 1931 hymn, with words by the children's author Eleanor Farjeon, gave Cat Stevens a US top-ten hit?

A) Amazing Grace

B) The Lord's My Shepherd

C) Lord of the Dance

D) Morning Has Broken

Answer · why

D) Morning Has Broken

Morning Has Broken took only about 45 seconds to sing as a hymn, so his producer insisted it run to three minutes. Piano passages at the start, middle...

Q 04/05

Which Cat Stevens song plays in the football film Remember the Titans and the later drama We Are Marshall?

A) Peace Train

B) Another Saturday Night

C) Tuesday's Dead

D) Can't Keep It In

Answer · why

A) Peace Train

Peace Train was his first US top-ten hit, reaching number seven in 1971. He once told a concert crowd he wrote it on a railway journey while thinking ...

Q 05/05

Which 1971 cult film got a Cat Stevens soundtrack after Elton John dropped out and suggested him instead?

A) Two-Lane Blacktop

B) Harold and Maude

C) The Last Picture Show

D) A Clockwork Orange

Answer · why

B) Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude uses nine of his songs, two of them written for it. Director Hal Ashby put the rough demos of those two straight into the film, which...