All Kinds Of Roses

Album: Roadsinger (2009)
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  • Yusuf told The Sun May 1, 2009 about this song with a universal message: "It's almost a Leonard Cohenish simplicity, which I liked. It wrote itself, just arrived at my fingertips, playing itself as I was writing. Very soon afterwards, I got a lovely rose plant from my daughter."

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  • Arsenio from San Antonio, TxActually, his real name is Steven Demetre Georgiou, but he did go by "Cat".
  • Blitzkrieg from Hyderabad, IndiaHis real name was "Cat Stevens", later after he changed his religion he changed his name to "Yusuf". I like "the first cut is the deepest" song which has been covered by many artists later.
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