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The song was used in a 1993 anti-terrorism advert in Northern Ireland that plays on the song's theme of a father who neglects his son in order to show a terrorist neglecting his family and his son turning out to be like his father and suffering the consequences by going down the same life path. The video ends with the slogan "Don't Suffer It ...
"Father and Son" is a popular song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf/Cat Stevens) on his 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman. The song frames a heartbreaking exchange between a father not understanding a son's desire to break away and shape a new life, and the son who cannot really explain himself ...
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), [1] commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion streams. [ 2 ]
Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam, "Father and Son" Yusuf Islam, then known as Cat Stevens , sang in different registers for the father and son parts of this song. 28.
In 1974, Chapin released his most successful album, Verities and Balderdash, which sold 2.5 million units because of the number 1 hit "Cat's in the Cradle." The song is about a father who does not find time for his son during the boy's childhood; ultimately the son grows up to be just like his father, not making any time for his dad.
Fifty years after the original album's release, in September 2020, Stevens remade the album as Tea for the Tillerman 2, including new lyrics and new instrumentation, and he sings along with his 22-year-old self in "Father and Son". [2] That same year, Tea for the Tillerman was re-released as a 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition. [3]
Pages in category "Songs written by Cat Stevens" ... Father and Son (song) The First Cut Is the Deepest; H. Here Comes My Baby (Cat Stevens song) How Can I Tell You;
Under 'covers and use in popular culture', the first bullet point says cat stevens covered the song... the second says he didn't. I don't know whether Cat Stevens sang it (and the faq link above doesn't work), but it's kind of silly for the wikipedia article to contradict itself. Inhahe 16:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)