Yusuf/Cat Stevens Shares Video For Reimagined ‘Father & Son’
By Scott Bernstein Sep 10, 2020 • 9:03 am PDT
Yusuf / Cat Stevens gave his iconic 1970 Tea For The Tillerman album a fresh coat of aural paint for Tea for the Tillerman². The famed singer-songwriter unveiled an animated video for the 2020 version of “Father & Son” from the forthcoming LP, which is set release on September 18 via UMe.
Stevens combined the original version of “Father & Son” with new parts to create a duet with his younger self. “‘Father & Son’ feels pretty appropriate for what’s going on right now, if you take the father figure as being the establishment,” noted Yusuf. “However, I don’t think revolutions are that kind to the previous order, its main objective is to turn it around and to get rid of them. Whereas I don’t personally believe in that; I believe in a kind of a change that would not necessarily destroy everything.”
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Chris Hopewell, Jacknife Films and Black Dog Films put together a stop-frame animated video for the revised “Father & Son.” “It’s not often in the world of music videos that you get the chance to work with a truly iconic song not to mention artist. This track is so well known worldwide and means so much to so many people,” director Chris Hopewell said of the experience.
See the “Father & Son” video below:
