Thankyou for a fantastic night in Oberhausen. An outstanding concert...it was well worth waiting all those years for it. Thank God you're back Yusuf, we've missed you so much xx
Thankyou for a fantastic night in Oberhausen. An outstanding concert...it was well worth waiting all those years for it. Thank God you're back Yusuf, we've missed you so much xx
The concert in Stockholm was so amazing.
Thank you for a wonderful evening in Hovet.
I've been waiting for this moment nearly forty years,
and finally the dream became true.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your wonderful music, since 1972 when I first heard you.
Besta regards from Erika. F Sweden
The concert was amazing and warmed up the hearts of 10 000 - and we all felt like being ONE. Thank you very,very much. God gave a gift to the world when you were born; a person who has dedicaded his life to make this world a better place, a loving, caring and giving person. Thank you for the love you put into the world and to remind the world what really is important.
Your poetry is band aid for for the wounds of our soul.
God bless you.
Dear Yusuf,thank you so much for coming back on stage and sharing your charisma, your talent, your music, your voice, your poetry and your powerful vision with us!! Your intuition for the timing could not be more right." It is time to make a change". Your songs guided me through difficult, important and emotional moments of my life in the last couple of years, but seeing you performing live on stage with your wonderful team 2 days ago in Hamburg was such a magical, delightful experience. I am flattered + still flying that I could participate. You make a difference in peoples life- thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!!! Inshallah
The power of your voice on "The First Cut" is a testament to what can be accomplished through faith and hard work when one has a higher purpose. Watching you re-learn instruments after a thirty year hiatus is even more inspiring. Bravo! The second of Aminah's photos makes me want to sing: man
and
piano It was amazing man
Such a beuatiful person Yusuf. Spreading the word Peace around the world. I was there in Stockholm...and I couldn't hold back the tears when you did "Father and Son" ...so many feelings. Thank God for you... Yusuf/Cat. I feel reborned!!!
I have been at the Hamburg concert last night. Great show, great music, songs for eternity.
Just a little note: Don't get to excited about the set list! "Foreigner Suite" was (at least in Hamburg) not more than a very short excerpt, about 60 seconds, starting with "The moment you walked inside my door", immeditaley followed by "Heaven". Same with "Be what you must": just a few notes from the beginning and then "Sitting". I would suggest that the webmaster of the tour site ought to clarify the setlist a bit, just for honesty.
What a night!
Michael Kjær Enemark
I lost may father 9 months ago, because of a disease , a Glioblasoma it's a cancer in his brain, its was horrible, devastading, and these past days I was searching the internet and I saw one old video of Yusuf singing Father and Son, my goodness I can't explain in words what I felt at that moment because to be honest I didn't hear that music in ages untill that minute, I must say I cried all night long, thinking about what I needed to say to him before he left. So I know exactly what you are feeling.
I made a blog its a nice way to put out in words what we feel. If you like to read it: www.kindnessandfaith.blogspot.com
God bless
The concert in Stockholm was so amazing.
Thank you for a vonderfull evening in Hovet
I had waiting for this moment
nearly forty years, and finally the dream
became true. From the bottom of my heart
thank you for your vonderfull music since 1972
when I first heard you.
Best regards from Erika in Sweden
The opening show in Stockholm was amazing. Yusuf has got the voice to sing live! I loved it. The absolute highlights for me were 'Morning has broken', 'Sitting', 'Father and son' and 'Trouble'. I'm German who lives in London and I'll see Yusuf more often on his European tour...
Experience of the concert in Stockholm
My brother and I, who were also there 35 years ago, really enjoyed the simple build-up of the programme on stage, step by step, the uncomplicated use of pictures and the naïve manner. There was never the feeling of anyone wanting to impress the audience. Rather a cosy family feeling in a huge format. This is liberating in times where technique gets overused, over-stimulating and jading our senses.
The audience was so enthusiastic from the very beginning, it clearly felt like the majority was opening up their banks of sweet memories. Like a collective tide of emotion that not even the reserved Swedes could resist! The response from the audience was beautiful, a very happy evening that you treasure having shared.
Yusuf’s appearance having developed into a mature, stable, comfortable man with a totally different freedom to express, being light and really generous with the audience was beautiful and uplifting to watch. A very good advertisement for what comes with age if you take care of your life well.
Purplemoon, were you there?- did he play the original excerpt from Foreigner as well as the remix for Heaven where true love goes? Did it include the section from Foreigner which goes "Love, love, love, Love must have made you on a Sunday. And the sky all glistens with gold when you're talking to me." It's so beautiful. it just sounds like he meant God all along. Is there a video of Yusuf playing the excerpt from Foreigner kicking around, I couldn't find one on Youtube? M
Regarding the infamous hair-mussing fedora: Surely you're not taking sartorial cues from Leonard. He may have won Best Dressed of Montreal with his fedoras, silk ties and double-breasted pin stripes, but it is too unkind to compete with a schlemiel for whom necessity is the mother of world tours? (The father was NOT Harold Spleen.) You must, at the very least, leave the poor fellow his threaded shreds of human dignity.
The set list is astonishing, but there are so few songs from recent albums. Please come to the USA and please consider singing more of your wonderful new music!
The utube videos from Hoven are a God-send for those of us who can't make it to Europe. Thanks to all who have shared those treats!
You got through an amazing amount of songs, Yusuf. It's great to see you did so many more of your older songs than you did on the UK tour. You certainly show your Swedish ancestry in a couple of the photos! It will be great to see some of the videos, when they appear.PEACE, and LOVE, alwaysxx
@ Marion: He played the "Heaven" excerpt, " The moment you walked inside my door, I knew that I need not look no more ... " and followed with the recent elaboration, "Where True Love Goes." I hope Yusuf will continue to develop a keyboard repetoire. What a gift it would be if he shared that journey of renewal via some impromptu "house concert" videos. "Thirty-three Short Films About Yusuf Learning 'Foreigner Suite' "? ;D
The concert in Stockholm was amazing! I had been longing to see Cat/Yusuf in concert since I was 5 - so I have waited for more than 40 years for this occasion and it was truly just as good as I had ever hoped it would be!
Thank you, Yusuf, for giving me this chance - and thank you for all your beautiful music.
As a child I had no idea what you were singing about, but the intensity and the sincerity fascinated me. And children listen with their hearts - so they are the best at discerning God's voice behind the human one.
Perhaps you didn't think so when you decided to leave the music in the 70ties, but you still have a lot of work to do with your music. And with your background, your spiritual journey and experience, you would be the perfect ambassador for peace and understanding. I hope you're up for the job. :)
Foreigner Suite! Can anyone tell me did Yusuf perform the whole thing, or an excerpt? I have been listening to the Foreigner Suite a lot at the moment, I can't believe they played it live! M
The power of your voice on "The First Cut" is a testament to what can be accomplished through faith and hard work when one has a higher purpose. Watching you re-learn instruments after a thirty year hiatus is even more inspiring. Bravo! The second of Aminah's photos makes me want to sing: "Kom lilla gitarr och dansa med mig . . . " ;) Some unabashed begging: Please, please, please, does someone have a video of "Angelsea"?
A dream came true.
'Morning has broken' is by no comparison the most meaningful song in my life. It's the song of my parents, the song that my father would put on to wake my mother up on their anniversaries, the song that symbolizes their love for each other and therefore the only song that we could ever choose to be played at my father's much too early funeral not long ago. Losing my father (to ALS/MND, terrible disease) was devastating to our whole family, but Yusuf's music has helped me to cry. My dream was for my mother and I to hear the beautiful music live, something I thought impossible. Yet, the dream came true and Saturday night I held my mother's hand as we heard 'Morning has broken' and so many other wonderful songs in Stockholm. Never miss an opportunity to do something with the people you love and never give up on your dreams. Even the darkest night has a sparkling star you can reach for. In love of my father and in appreciattion of my mother, Michael (Denmark)
Uauuu!!! What a amazing set list! Always fantastic!
Please, Yusuf, consider the possibility of doing a tour next year in Brasil!!
Please, we love you, and do not forget that you've lived here a few years!
All the best for you and your family!!
Hugs!!!!
Carlos Fiorelli
Sorocaba-SP-Brasil
I'm an English woman in Stockholm who last night had the chance to see a man who's music has mean't so very much over the years of my life. Cat Steves has given me (and others I have and do love) beautiful music to say so many things with. I would like to say a huge 'Thank You' for giving me so much. Your words, your heart, even so much of your spiritual feelings and thoughts over the years, all through your very beautiful music. Your voice and heart are as strong as ever in 2011. You made us all feel like we were sharing an evening with a great friend.. not going to a concert. I will always love you, as one of the most important persons and musical influences of my life. Only now at almost 60 have I just started to play guitar.. and yours was the first music book I bought, and the first song I asked my teacher to teach me. I send you much love and peace. Only one thing.. don't wear yourself out on this tour and take good care of yourself, because we are getting older!
Big hugs...FANTASTIC CONCERT!
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