The more you listen to this song the more hauntingly beautiful it gets.

My 86-year-old Dad loves Cat Steves. My 52-year-old ears love Cat Stevens just as much. My Dad an I still listen to him together around a fire.

Have always love Cat Steven's music. He is a great singer songwriter with a very unique sounding voice. One of my first albums I ever bought was his "Tea For The Tillerman". The whole album is great. So is the album "Teaser & The Firecat". He has had so many great songs in his career such as "Matthew & Son", "The First Cut Is The Deepest", "Father & Son", "Wild World", "Moonshadow", "Peace Train", "Morning Has Broken" etc. He is still recording & performing live & his voice still sounds great.

@bkm2797

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Sad Lisa is another, Boy with the moon and star on his head, Bitterblue, Hard Headed Woman, Father and Son, goes on and on.

Poor Patti. Although I have seen her in movies she is probably still the most famous for this song.

I always found this song to be so beautiful, yet always thought the lyrics to be unsettling. The instruments become so upbeat as the lyrics display, the ending of her life, or the dissolving of their relationship. When Patti D'arbandville heard this tune she knew their relationship was over. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Brandon. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

@Pinkeye82517

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They had already broken up and he played it to her over the phone to see what she thought. It’s in an old interview somewhere. She moved back to US to do films and he was in London recording. It’s like an old bard with some kind of Spanish influence and melancholy

The song is written in the form of a Madrigal, and a Madrigal is both a type of song, and a dance. Most of the guitar work in this song is from Welsh guitarist Alun Davies. It was one of the first songs the two did together, after Davies was brought in as a session musician. Stevens and Davies formed a partnership through most of his career, and Cat invited Alun to perform again when he returned to music.

Cat Stevens will always one of my top 5 singer songwriters

From Mona Bone Jakon. An absolutely amazing record that I don't think gets enough praise.

Cat Stevens is such a lovely musical poet, I love all his music and was so very sad when he stepped away. My favorite albums are Teaser and the Fire Cat, Tea for the Tiller man, and Catch Bull at Four. Thanks Harri

@kellywann3794

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Catch Bull at Four is an excellent suggestion.

@johnthegreek5836

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I loved the song Sitting

@kellywann3794

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Me too! I love that album from start to finish.

every now and then you find one I haven't heard in years !

I got to see Cat Stevens twice in concert in 1971 (in a small venue) and 1972 (in a much larger venue). He was amazing both times. Fond memories. I had 4 of his albums that I wore out enough to have to buy a second copy of a couple of them. I love his music to this day.

The subject of the song is Patti D'Arbanville, an American model/actress who spent some time in the UK in her teenage years. During this time, Cat and she were a couple. She is also the subect of Cat's song, "Wild World." They both moved on to other relationships. Patti was Don Johnson's partner for most of the '80s. Cat had a transatlantic fling with Carly Simon which ended when she declined his marriage proposal.

@brandonious7732

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I heard this song is rumored to have been written after he found that she was cheating on him with Mic Jagger.

@idemandabetterfuture

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The song also seems to have been inspired by the novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. A classic romantic novel set and written in Victorian England. At the end her true love is reunited with her for a short interlude which ends in a travesty of justice. She is hung - dead. This song perfectly fits as an epilogue as her lover/husband mourns her.

@John_Chu

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@@brandonious7732 Yeah, she dumped Cat for Mick. But they already had issues in their relationship since she spent a lot of time in New York on modeling assignments, months at a time. She became involved with the whole Andy Warhol scene -- that inspired Cat's take in "Wild World."

@brandonious7732

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@@John_Chu you enlighten me john. I appreciate it

@Pinkeye82517

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@@John_Chu wrong. Read her book. No dumping going on and no marriage proposal. They parted respectfully. Have you not read what she said about him? He wrote sweet scarlet for her and she wrote Anticipation and Legend in your own time for him.

So glad you reviewed this one. Cranking it up is good. Try, "TROUBLE,"☺ another jewel.

Beautiful song !!! Just try " Sitting " awesome song.

I wish someone would react to my very favourite Cat Stevens song, "SAD LISA" .. It gets almost zero recognition compared to his many big hits, but it is one of the most haunting and melodically beautiful pieces of music you'll ever hear .. Come on Harri, and check it out ! .. If you really like Cat Stevens, you'll thank me for putting you onto this .. Cheers, Wayne

@caryriggs5719

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I love sad lisa. Had never heard it until a few years ago. I remember thinking this is a great song.

@wayne_twentyfive

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@@caryriggs5719 You were right ! 😊

@cosybully

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I love "Sad Lisa" too. Another great song about a sad woman is "As Sad and Deep as You," by Dave Mason.

Been a Cat Stevens fan since the early seventies. Peace

You're on a roll today dude with some of my favorite musicians., starting with Dylan

I've grown up listening to Cat Stevens, yet I'm still discovering more of his marvellous music. My personal favourite is Peace Train...

Probably my favourite Cat Stevens song- thanks for covering it

I think this is my favourite song of his! ❤️

Harri! Wow! I have always loved Cat Stevens, but truly just know his biggest hits. What an intense, moving song. That was beautiful and I never would have heard it without you. Thank you for what you do. Music is life.

Cat Stevens is one of my favourites. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful but at the same time very Gothic feel, loving forever someone who has passed away. It is very easy to imagine Ville Valo or HIM doing a cover of this.

Cat Stevens was one of Britain's premier solo singer songwriters and an incredible talent. North America seemed to really corner the market with this type of artist with the likes of artists like Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Carole King, James Taylor, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen etc. but we had our great ones too like CS, Bowie, Gabriel, Sting, Elton John.

Tea for the Tillerman. A must have for any music connoisseur.

Among the most mesmerizing of Folk Singers ~

Beautiful is a good choice of words. ☺

I've seen her in several movies, the muse Cat Stevens speaks of. She was married to Don Johnson at a period early in their lives, not sure if it was before or after Melanie Griffith. I'd say he was lucky, but so was I. As many of us are. Being an Air Force kid, far too many were broken at a terrible time. Others probably better that way. Music is the only thing that even came close to my obsession with cheerleaders & gymnasts. Or spinners as I call them, w/o ever saying who. I wouldn't expose anything that shared life & love with me. Many even with me being shipped off to Spain 3 months before turning 17, given more than 32 day's notice, I probably wouldn't have gone. I'd have missed so very much. Getting hired as lead singer & sharing Lead & rhythm guitar with the only Spanish guy in the band. All the rest were 10 years my Sr, but I was the only one who'd studied music theory. So within a month I was learning the new Top 40, teaching them songs I knew & wrote as well writing 3 & 4 part harmonies. Talent & head wise, I wish the band had been Stateside. Most of the others either had at least one anchor, or stricken with what Steven Tyler correctly named LSD. Lead singer disorder Lol! Love the channel, when medical bills aren't draining me dry, I'll take you through the best artists in rock, soul, Southern rock, soft rock to Glen Campbell. Who as part of the Wrecking crew was in 1966 alone was on over 650 Capital hits. Later, Ric C

I Love yhis one. BEAUTIFUL.

One of my favorite Cat STevens songs.

Please do a reaction video to Cat Stevens song Foreigner suite or the hurt. He recorded them in Jamaica and it’s very different vibe to the acoustic albums

Thanks for pointing out the Latin tinge to this. At the time I didn't know enough to recognise that, although I did learn it on guitar. Fifty years later, listening to this vid, I thought "I hear a bit of Latin in this", and then you mentioned it as well.

@LA-vw7hd

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I've always gotten a "gypsy" or North African tinge to this.

@flamencoprof

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@@LA-vw7hd North Africans invaded Spain in 711, influencing culture until 1492, by which time the "gypsies" had arrived. Both cultures influenced the music taken to South America which was mixed with Indigenous music a bit, to become what is now called "Latin". Also has a lot of African slave influence of course.

@LA-vw7hd

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@@flamencoprof You're right. That just came to mind, while thinking about the Moorish influence. My previous comment was made on instinct and years living in North Africa while growing up. Thanks for including the African influence 😀.

@flamencoprof

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@@LA-vw7hd Thanks for the acknowledgement! When I clicked Reply I wondered if I was just going on for the sake of it, but it is a subject I have previously researched, as per my handle, and I like to think I have learned at least something.

@cindyp1033

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@@LA-vw7hd I agree. Reminiscent of some of Loreena McKennett’s music

Sina-drums and Cara Vel did an excellent cover.

Grat Great Song!

my fav song reminds of times gone by

In my opinion Cat Stevens was the best artist of the late sixties and early seventies and I don't think you'll find a much better song than Peace Train and I think the other ones father and son or something like that when he wrote for his son I don't remember the name of it but those are my two favorites I mean I love all of his music but those are my absolute favorites.

Peace Train!

Please cover more CS. Ty

Hi, just subscribed while listening to your Dylan review 'Positively 4th Street ' this is my second listen so obviously I gotta lot to catch up on always loved this song but always thought it was like a medieval type song idk why. Even though years later found out who it was about. But still to me I see him in a Castle and she in her chambers as he walks in. But that's just me. You're an awesome reviewer. Gotta catch up. ✌️

Just seen your reaction to Lindisfarne's 'Lady Eleanor'; you're picking some great stuff!

Patti D'Arbanville, Model and later actress ! Think she was his GF at that time AWW.

It is actually more like a madrigal, the melody is such and the theme.

Patti D'Arbinville. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_D%27Arbanville

Got good song advice

@HarriBest Reactions This is one of my favorite Cat Stevens Song Yet, .....Do you the story behind Cat Stevens Lady D'Arbanville???? Its about the relationship between Cat Stevens & Patti D'Arbanville here is a quote from her Wikipedia page. "In an interview with Warhol, she said wistfully that she had heard the song "Lady D'Arbanville": Stevens wrote that song "Lady D'Arbanville" when I left for New York. I left for a month, it wasn't the end of the world was it? But he wrote this whole song about "Lady D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still." It's about me dead." This is what I remember from that time... She hadn't died, but she was a professional model and had to go to New York for a month for work, he apparently didn't want her to go, but her career was important to her and she went anyway and he felt abandoned and he grieved her absence . I cannot remember why he didn't go with her. But, shortly after she left he wrote recorded and released Lady D'Arbanville, and it seriously creeped her out because she was only going to be in the United States for a single month, but apparently a song about her death when she was young, alive, and well disturbed her so much so she ended the relationship. According to some gossip rags at the time she ended the relationship by having an affair with Mick Jagger, I know how accurate that is yet, I do remember that Mick & Patti did see each other for a while. Does that satisfy your curiosity? if it doesn't, and you want more just Google the relationship between Patricia "Patti" D'Arbanville & Cat Stevens, or even her and Jagger. I enjoyed your reaction very much.✌💖🙏

Thanks to Brandon and Harri, I almost chose this one with Lady Eleanor but it's one off my list now. The song is also a favourite of mine but, as a caution, I would not say that any of Cat's songs is my favourite because he wrote so many great songs. He followed his chosen path, I would have preferred that he did not but he's not answerable to me anyway.

@brandonious7732

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You've caused me to check quite a few songs off my list. I feel in love with cat Stevens music while watching the opening scene to kingpin. They played oh very young.

@LA-vw7hd

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He made a deal with his creator and stuck with it. Only God knows what would have happened had he not left "stardom."

@pauldover1403

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Hi Brandon, you've made my point there. "Oh, Very Young" isn't a song that I would immediately think of but now that you've mentioned it, it's running through my mind and I'm thinking, "I've got to listen to that again. The "Greatest Hits" album (OK, I've got the others as well) is bursting with great songs from beginning to end. He was a musical genius and fortunately gave millions of people enjoyment.

Peace teain is his best song.

Mate - you should read about the Rushdie comments - I lost all respect

@wayne_twentyfive

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I believe he has since recanted his comments regarding Rushdie .. But yes, I too found them to be quite shocking and hateful, and can only put it down to the terrifying effects that radical Islamic teachings and philosophies can have on people .. even on self-proclaimed peace lovers like Cat Stevens.

You understand the song?

That is not an dancing Song listen the Lyrics!

She died

Too bad he f it's with religion beliefs