Cat Stevens Father and Son Original Music Video (Remastered)

Happy Father’s Day 2023. Fathers share an incredibly unique bond with their sons. That’s precisely the relationship that Cat Stevens wanted to emphasize in his gorgeous ode to fatherhood and letting go of their child as they become independent. ’Father And Son’ is a story of a father and his son going their separate ways in life without necessarily understanding the reasons why. It has become one of Cat Stevens’ most enduring songs and continues to leave fathers and their sons around the world teary-eyed. Cat Stevens wrote ’Father And Son’, as he wanted to write a song about the generational divide that inevitably plays out in every family dynamic. When writing the song, he penned it from the perspective of a father and son in a Russian family during the Russian Revolution, with the son wanting to leave to join the revolution. Stevens in fact wrote the song for a musical he was putting together in 1969 called Revolussia - which never came to fruition - for a sc