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...eer in pop and folk music during 60’ s and 70’s in which he sold millions of albums, Stevens quit pop music and took the name Yusuf Islam, he later left the public life in 1979 and started to have an important role in British Muslim community. In his songs Cat Stevens tells stories about love, family relationships and the changing world. His music is a mixture of pop, rock and folk music. His recent music genre is religious music. He writes words that are clear. Some of his well-known hits are “Wild world”, “Father and Son“, “The First Cut is The Deepest“, “Where Do The Children Play?”, and the album “Tea For Tiller man” which became an instant folk pop classic and went to number one in the U.S earning Gold Statues. In cat Steven’s “Where Do The Children Play?” he expresses how human beings are getting stronger to get what they want and how they change and damage the world while doing that .He talks about people building giant transportation vehicles, switching seasons with certain devices. He later expresses his feelings and fears about what human beings have done and will be doing to our world. He has concerns about rapidly growing technology and what damages it brings to our lives. For example, he states “Oh I know we have come a long way ,but tell me where do the children play?” in this stanza he talks about his concerns regarding the technological improvements and their effects on children. He is also worried about how freedom is being less important while the world is changing in his words he states “Will you make us laugh?, will you make us cry? will you tell us when to live?, Will you tell us when to die?” He has concern about people who might take other people’s freedom . During the song his tone is a littl...