In the summer of 1971, I was a camp counselor at a sleep-away camp for a bunch of 5- to 7-year-olds. For those eight weeks, I walked home with about $50. I bought a guitar and began to learn the songs I'd come to love from the recently released Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens.

"Father and Son" touched me most — it's a song about growing old, and about beliefs and conviction. More than 40 years later, that songwriter is performing at my desk with his son standing right behind me. You can never imagine the turns life will take.

Nor could he. In 1976, Cat Stevens almost drowned off the coast of Malibu. In his panic, he says, he shouted, "Oh, God! If you save me, I will work for you" — at which point he recalls a wave that came and carried him ashore. He converted to Islam, changed his name and left the pop world after one last album in 1978.

He finally returned in 2006, and now we have a new record, Tell 'Em I'm Gone. From that album of great blues covers and originals, produced with Rick Rubin, Yusuf plays some powerful new music, as well as the 1967 classic "The First Cut Is the Deepest" — and then brought me to tears by dedicating a version of "Father and Son" to me. As I walked around the office after this Tiny Desk Concert, I heard one story after another of an artist who has touched so many. It's a joy to have him back. --BOB BOILEN

Set List
"I Was Raised In Babylon" (1:08)
"The First Cut Is the Deepest" (4:32)
"Doors" (7:45)
"Father and Son" (10:38)

Credits
Producers: Bob Boilen, Maggie Starbard; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Colin Marshall, Maggie Starbard; Assistant Producer: Susan Hale Thomas; photo by Susan Hale Thomas/NPR

One of my favourite songs, delivered by Cat Stevens in 1971

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Cat Stevens Greatest Hits Full Album - Folk Rock And Country Collection 70's/80's/90's
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits Full Album - Folk Rock And Country Collection 70's/80's/90's
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits Full Album - Folk Rock And Country Collection 70's/80's/90's

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PERFORMING AT THE MORTON STANLEY PARK FESTIVAL 2014.

December 1973

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HISTORICAL NOTE: In '64 - when Do Wah Diddy first broke into the U.S. charts - as a publicity stunt to HYPE this 'new band' - some "Top-40" AM radio stations repeated a story claiming that all the member of the band had LEGALLY CHANGED their names to match that of the Organ Player and Group Leader...Manfred Mann. So the twist was that the name of the band and the name of all the band members was supposedly the same... Manfred Mann

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* Labels: HMV - Ascot (US) - Capitol
* Music - "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by Manfred Mann
* Writer(s) Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich
* Producer John Burgess
* Recorded - 11 June 1964
* Released - 10 July 1964

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From the 1991 album Jump, Boogie and Jive

From the 2002 album Hey Rock n Roll

BBC 24 December 2000

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Showaddywaddy's Christmas song from 1974

Medley from the 2002 album Hey Rock n Roll