The Very Best of Cat Stevens

Tracklist

• 1
  Where Do the Children Play?
  3:53
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Wild World
  3:20
  3.9 ★
• 3
  Tuesday's Dead
  3:37
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Lady d'Arbanville
  3:43
  3.5 ★
• 5
  The First Cut Is the Deepest
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Oh Very Young
  2:34
  3.3 ★
• 7
  Rubylove
  2:36
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Morning Has Broken
  3:19
  4.2 ★
• 9
  Moonshadow
  2:50
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Matthew & Son
  2:41
  3.1 ★
• 11
  Father and Son
  3:40
  4.2 ★
• 12
  Can't Keep It In
  3:00
  3.4 ★
• 13
  Hard Headed Woman
  3:49
  3.1 ★
• 14
  (Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard
  2:44
  3.9 ★
• 15
  I Love My Dog
  2:19
  3.2 ★
• 16
  Another Saturday Night
  2:29
  4.5 ★
• 17
  Sad Lisa
  3:42
  3.9 ★
• 18
  Peace Train
  4:04
  4.1 ★

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Early Tapes 1993

Release credits

• Alan James
  bass [12]
• Alan Tew
  arranger [10, 15]
• Alun Davies
  acoustic guitar [12], guitar [1-3, 7-9, 11, 13, 17-18]
• Andy Newmark
  drums (drum set) [14]
• Angelos Hatzipavli
  bouzouki [3, 7-9, 18]
• Big Jim Sullivan
  guitar [5]
• Bruce Lynch
  bass guitar [14]
• Cat Stevens
  Moog [14], arranger [4], celesta [14], electric guitar [12], guitar [1-3, 7-9, 11, 13, 17-18], keyboard [1-3, 7-9, 11, 13, 17-18], lead vocals [3, 7-9, 18], organ [12], percussion [14], piano [14], producer [6, 14, 16], strings [14], vocal [1-2, 5, 11, 13, 17]
• David Kershenbaum
  producer [14]
• Del Newman
  strings [1-3, 7-9, 11, 13, 17-18]
• Elkie Brooks
  vocal [14]
• Gerry Conway
  drums (drum set) [3, 7-9, 12, 18]
• Harvey Burns
  drums (drum set) [1-3, 7-9, 11, 13, 17-18]
• Jean‐Alain Roussel
  organ [14], piano [12], strings [14]
• John Paul Jones
  bass [5]
• John Rostein
  solo [1-2, 11, 13, 17], violin [1-2, 11, 13, 17]
• John Ryan
  bass guitar [1-2, 11, 13, 17]
• John Wood
  recording [6]
• Larry Steele
  bass [3, 7-9, 18], congas [3, 7-9, 18]
• Mike Bobak
  engineer [4]
• Mike Hurst
  arranger [10, 15], guitar [5], producer [5, 10, 15], vocal [5]
• Paul Samwell-Smith
  producer [1-4, 6-9, 11-13, 17-18]
• Rick Wakeman
  piano [8]
• Suzanne Lynch
  choir vocals [14]
• Vic Coppersmith‐Heaven
  recording [10, 15]
• Victor Gamm
  recording [6]
• Yusuf Islam
  phonographic copyright [14]
• Ανδρέας Τουμαζής
  bouzouki [3, 7-9, 18]
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  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  1989
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  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  12" Vinyl
  1990
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  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  Cassette
  1990
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  The Very Best Of

  CD
  1990
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  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  1990
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  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  1990
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  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  1990
• T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  12" Vinyl
  1990
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  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  1990
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  T
  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  3 January 1995
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  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD
  11 July 2002
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  The Very Best of Cat Stevens

  CD