You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece,

tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe. There's a Stephen Soderberg movie

called The Limey, and it stars the late Terence Stamp, the British actor. And in the movie,

there are moments where Terence Stam's character drifts into memory, and it goes into a

flashback. And in those flashbacks to his younger self, they cut to footage of Terence Stamp

from the 1967 film, Poor Cow. There's no weird CGI de-aging or anything. You get to see his

actual younger self. And I just love that. I was thinking about that recently, and it made me want

to revisit this episode because Yusuf Kat Stevens kind of did a musical version of that same thing

when he re-recorded his song, Father and Son. I think it's such a fascinating way to document

the actual passing of time by interacting with your younger self.

This episode came out originally in 2021, and it was a special episode of the podcast also

because it was our 200th. Here it is.

The legendary singer-songwriter Yusuf Kat Stevens released his first album in 1967.

He's a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and his albums have sold millions.

In 2020, he released Tea for the Tiller Man 2, a reimagining of his hit 1970 album, Tea for the Tillerman. In the song Father and Son,

he sings a duet between the two title characters, doing both voices. But in the 2020 version,

he approached this song in kind of an astonishing way. He recorded the part of the father,

but for the part of the son, he used a live recording of himself from 1970, taken from a show he played at

the Trubidor in Los Angeles. So the two parts are still both sung in his voice, but 50 years

apart. In this episode, the 200th episode of Song Exploder, Yusuf Kat Stevens tells the story

of how he created and then recreated father and son.

Take your time, think a lot.

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