The Time Cat Stevens Sold “The First Cut is the Deepest” for 30 Quid

PP Arnold, Cat Stevens, and a song about the pain of a breakup

PP Arnold performing on the Dutch TV show, Fenklup, 9 February 1968. Photographers: A Vente, A & F van Geelen. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 nl

It was in 1965 that a 17-year-old Cat Stevens Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou and later known as Yusuf Islam) wrote a song called “The First Cut is the Deepest.”