Islamic singer-songwriter and benefactor Yusuf Islam wrote a manifesto for Britain's new King Charles III. "Even as king, you are still a servant of God," is the first point, but he also exhorts the monarch to help the poor and advises him to be wary of negative people. Yusuf's album King Of A Land is the manifesto to his audience to do good and serve God. He packs this into a collection of appealing
… songs. With the vaudeville ambience of the title track, he evokes the atmosphere of British 1960s psychedelia and also targets a young audience. But there is additionally rock in, for example, Pagan Run. He still has the carried and cracked voice with which he once achieved great success as Cat Stevens. Before his conversion, he sang about doubt, fragility and earthly love in songs like Wild World and Father And Son. As he instructs Charles, the reborn Stevens is a servant of God without any sense of doubt, and he testifies to that on King Of A Land. (MR)more
