FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST, THE

Created on 12/05/2001
Latest update on 25/10/2023

Artist: P.P. Arnold
Author: Cat Stevens
Label: Immediate
Year: 1967

Top 20 UK. Ex Ikette who settled in Britain following a tour with the Turners. Her back-up band was signed by that same Immediate label under the name The Nice. Seemed they became close friends, since it's P.P.'s little daughter you hear at the end of Nice hit America, reciting: "America is pregnant with promise and anticipation, but is murdered by the hand of the inevitable".

Covers:

1967:

Norma Fraser

1967:

Cat Stevens [author]

1968:

Koobas

1969:

Love Affair

1973:

Keith Hampshire

1973:

I-Roy

1973:

Linda Ronstadt

1976:

Rod Stewart [on A Night On The Town and n°1 UK]

1983:

Martin Simpson

1994:

Dawn Penn

1995:

Papa Dee

1995:

Haddaway

1997:

Tony Hadley

2003:

Sheryl Crow

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

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