Yusuf / Cat Stevens (Father)

I said, I don't think that's going to work.

Using the original vocal was an idea, but it's kind of a repeat.

And I didn't want to just do that.

So we wanted to use something from that moment in time, but something new, something different that other people haven't heard.

But you know what?

We found this great recording of me singing Father and Son in the troubadour back in 1970.

The first thing to do was actually to lay down the whole song.

So that's basically what we did.

We laid down the whole song, including the part which will be taken over by the 1970s version.

Anyway, when we finally got into the studio, there were lots of ideas.

And this was one of them, you know, to have the sun shipped in from 1970.

There were other things too.

I'd actually been involved in putting on a kind of a musical again.

I wrote this thing called Moonshadow.

And because we did that, and because Father and Son was in it, I'd come up with all these new ideas.

One of them was this counterpoint melody, which I really loved.

And it's played by Slide Butar.

and voices come in.

The band I used for most of the album of T for the Silly Man 2 were the guys that I play live with.

And my songs more recently have turned towards the electric guitar much, much more.