'Peace Train' featuring Yusuf / Cat Stevens | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

“Peace Train” – Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ timeless anthem of hope and unity – was originally released on the classic album 'Teaser and the Firecat' in 1971 and was Stevens’ first US Top 10 hit, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This Song Around The World version features more than 25 musicians from 12 countries and unites Yusuf / Cat Stevens, singing and playing a beautiful white piano in a tranquil open air setting in Istanbul, Turkey, with musicians such as five time Grammy Award winning blues/americana artist Keb’ Mo’; Grammy nominated Senegalese artist Baaba Maal; Silkroad’s Rhiannon Giddens—also a Grammy Award winner; Ghassan Birumi playing the oud in Ramallah, Palestine; musicians from the Silkroad Ensemble in Rhinebeck, New York; Pat Simmons (The Doobie Brothers) and James “Hutch” Hutchinson (bass player with Bonnie Raitt) performing in Maui, Hawaii; and bringing together conflict regions with Tushar Lall playing the harmonium in Delhi, India, and Joshua Amjad playing the Kartaal in Karachi, Pakistan.

"Everyone jump upon the Peace Train" and let's make this world a better place. Happy International Day of Peace. One Love!!! #InternationalDayofPeace #WorldPeaceDay

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[YusufCatStevens]

Thanks to all the wonderfully talented performers for contributing to this performance and for helping to spread the message of Peace. ☮

[violetxoxox]

I was crying a mere 30 seconds in, not only because it was so beautiful to see and hear this song played by so many diverse artists or because I wish so much we could have peace, but because I also remember when this song first came out and it hit me hard just how very little things have changed over the decades since. It feels as if no time has passed, and we’re older, but not at all wiser. But I still hope for better every single day. Peace. 🕊💙

[Kokum]

Peace Train, love from Canada, August 2024

[stureekie]

Folks say that this song is as relevant as when it was written - and yes, I have been hearing this for 50 years now. I disagree. It is MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER. Anybody who cannot shed a tear to this anthem is just not alive. Thank you, Yusuf, for music that transcends generations, and will for generations to come - if we don't destroy ourselves first. PEACE. ✌️

[patmullarkey]

Listened again today because .... Ukraine. The Eastern European countries, the Russians protesting the war, everyone who dares to believe in peace.

[thejonegcle]

October 2022 In the name of the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit, dear God, through Your intercession, please stop this war against Ukraine & stop Russian aggression. Amen.
(thanks for praying with me.)

[tommygun]

Yusuf ‘Cat’ Stevens still has that wonderful voice that hasn’t faltered. Hearing him sing just a few bars sends me back to when I was 13 and my big sistered was playing the record over and over on our stereo.

[bcamp]

Never more relevant that today! PROTECT THE UKRAINE! No more war please please please.

[SELondonUSA]

This version of Peace Train should be played at the beginning and end of the UN General Session main session. It might remind our representatives what the people of the world need.

[rockyv]

I can't stop listening and watching over and over.
My God how Beautiful the sound... my God!

[Megan.eco-Instinct]

If you hang around YouTube and other social media and you have found yourself asking ---- _is there really meaningful content here_ ? *YES...THIS THIS* 💜🖤🤍 ☮ ☯ 🕉

[gerrybonshor]

I jumped on the peace train 50 years ago. It hasn't left the station.

[km_zencat]

This song is needed to lift our hopes and our hearts now more than ever. ✌💜

[localboy]

As a lifelong musician for over 60 years, I have always believed and also experienced; that music is truly universal and brings people together. "Playing for a change" shows first hand that this belief is alive and well. Thanks to all of the world musicians, artists, sound and visual engineers, and everyone involved who makes this possible through the magic of the internet and their love of the music.

[jahnbon]

A tip of the hat to the people who mix these tracks, who take recordings from musicians all over the globe and blend them so seamlessly. The production manages to weave all the performances into a unified whole, where every voice and instrument is heard, and given prominence at the proper time, yet each serves the purpose of serving the song. Our song.
I believe that this exemplifies perfectly the message that Playing For Change is trying to project. Well done.

[jeanglaze]

Can I say what an awesome medium this has become. I will forever be a fan of this band of musicians and their cause!

[liannedoherty]

This is the world I want to live in! Been waiting for the "Peace Train" for 50 years. Thanks to all the musicians here and to Yusef - all love and peace!

[pedroacosta]

Que viva el gran Cat Stevens un muy buen compositor y con un gran carisma espiritual que viva la.musica Peter de Colombia gratitud y bendiciones

[Ponchiegomezsaso]

So beautiful it bought me to tears, it is a powerful song, uniting us in Peace and Love .. Thank you Yusuf and Playing for Change .. let Peace for all be our mission today and always.

[thejonegcle]

September 2022 In the name of the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit, dear God, through Your intercession, please stop this war against Ukraine & stop Russian aggression. Amen.
(thanks for praying with me.)