Jimmy Nail & Mark Knopfler - Big River (Original Video Clip)

[MultiPaintpot]

bring back the old times good old 80,s 90,,,,,,,,s wish i could turn back time , make ever day count cozs one dayyou will look back and say if only i had done xxxxxxxxxx

[WHISKERYDICK]

A haunting song written and performed with class and humility by Jimmy Nail. People in the UK must never ever forget the havoc caused in our once proud and wonderful homeland by the person known as Mrs Margaret Thatcher R.I.P. Great Britain. Well done Jimmy Nail, a proud man, Anton aka Whiskerydick

[MaggieACharva]

Love this beautiful Geordie song sung by Jimmy Nail, from a proud Geordie lass too.

[murphy1980100]

love this song sung from the heart and his voice is fab . were is he is now

[dazwolvesca]

If you have any Geordie blood in you this song means allot, reminds me of my father and grandfather, and visits to Byker in Newcastle as a kid in the 70's. :)

[midgetman8888]

back then this song had meaning, today the music industry has been hijacked by commercialism, just look at the lyrics, and i wasnt even born yet when this song came out and i can see the difference time has had

[steverut47]

Love this song - and the words are so true. Fifty years ago, an old man walked his grandson to the top of a hill to show him the town below, nothing but busy factories,smoking chimneys,and noise..' I remember when all this was green fields' he told the lad. Fifty years on, the lad was with his own grandson, showing him the same landscape...but it was now fields, cleared of all trace of industry..'I remember when all this was factories, as far as the eye could see'...he said!

[murphy1980100]

@steverut47 yes but the river will rise again!! love this song so true

[CLVASHJBHWFS]

No questions are asked when the sickening fireworks go off in Southampton for yet another ship built in expensive countries like Germany, France, Finland, Netherlands, Italy, Denmark... Japan even. People's ignorance over this is sad, because it is humiliating and hurtful.

[simakki]

@CLVASHJBHWFS sadly that's the way modern economics are, the death of our core industries was a massive mistake, thx Maggie

[tolchoco1]

I´ve just discovered this song a couple of weeks ago and I can´t get it out of my head. Great music, great lyrics. A wonderful and soft voice. Please, I want my 80´s back.

[murphy1980100]

@tolchoco1 agree this song in my head as well love him

[nacre99]

now i want to put on crodilles shoes. xxxxx

[6taffy7]

what a difference from aufwedersehen pet, big, loud, brash accent and voice, then this? beautiful soft singing voice, fair play to him

[col06]

Cracking song probably sound a dick cos i wasn't brought up in those times though i have Geordie relations salt of the earth they are too

[glenn1340]

From a time when our manufacturing industry ruled the world. Now the fashion business and making reality TV is more important to us than mining and steel production. Where did it all go wrong.

[Matatyt]

@glenn1340

And don't forget GAMING

[lujas10]

@glenn1340 'cause Thatcher sold Britain, Coal first, Industry, manufacturing and so on... left whole towns and communities desolate…

[nightmarealeksinac]

@glenn1340

when capitalistic bastards claimed the entire world ... that's where all went wrong

[sizzle75]

Even Smoggies like this song, the sentiments are similar

[murphy1980100]

@sizzle75 what is a smoggie

[texmctoon]

@murphy1980100 someone from middlesborough,teeside

[Joey05ist]

Love everything about this song. Brings back great memories of growing up in the 50s and 60s on Tyneside!

[alanespana1]

MAGIC

[UkProGamerz]

absolutely sensational song by the local hero of Newcastle upon TYNE

[z55live]

Great song, love Knopfler even if he has forgotton to plug his guitar in whilst pretending to play here lol !

[222smily]

Such a beatiful song!! What 's make it more beautiful is that Mark Knopfler is involved in it!

[681murphy]

I am from London but this is awsome !!!!!!!!!!!!

[GazzaFJ27]

Born in Winchester (a soft southern twat!) don't give a shit. This is awsome!

[Englishrockchick]

I was born and bred on Tyne side, I'm 22 now and still forever a proud geordie lass!

[simakki]

I love the song, I grew up in the North East in the 1970s/80s and had to move away to find work. Jimmy Nail is a great singer and actor. I lived the cliched Geordie scenario as some might say. I'm a massive socialist due to my upbringing.

But and it's a big but, we live in a different world now from the industrial past of our forebears and we must change with the world's changing economic realities.

So I'd say move geographically and move economically, well it worked for Oz and the boys.

[geordiechrisb]

this is much better then the shit music now

[geordiechrisb]

were all proud with you jimmy

[tonyfour]

Wow, used to listen to this all the time back in the day. Forgot how great it was.

[TrevtheGeordie]

I'm a Geordie born and bred in Gateshead and have crossed the River Tyne more than 5,000 times. When I was ten I watched the launch of the ESSO Northumbria, at 253,000 tons it was then the largest moving object on Earth. Looking back I suppose we were then "Standing on the Edge of Glory".

Since then I've seen all the shipyards close and even the cranes disappear. Just nothing left standing. This song is perhaps more appropriate today than it was when it was first released.

[pykara38]

This song is a sign of today, just as much as it was back then. We were a big country and now we are not. Our capability has been passed to others and we need to rebuild this great country.

[SyndicalistTimes]

RIP jimmy and mark :(

[middley1964]

Brill song tears flowing as evry time I hear it !!! As evrywhere industry knackered

F*ckin breaks your heart

[barnsley1ful]

@middley1964 iI am the same my friend nothing for our kids. hope maggies proud of her self

[sparky29031]

never been to the north but i believe everything jimmy sings in this song is so true ive met lots of people from up there and what lovely people they are so loyal to all over the years each goverment weve had have destroyed this country bit by bit all for themselves

[slavici2010]

nice!

[ovemunk]

You dont have to be a Geordie to appreaciate this song and the emotions he puts in it. :-) Wonderfull stuff. It tells the story of many communities where Liberalis'm has reared it's ugly face and forced people out in unemployment and misery in the name of holy profit.

[drl7597]

R.I.P TRUE BRITAIN <3

[TheFatherted666]

@drl7597 you are so right mate

[TheDickyW]

A lot of people knock wor Jimmy's singing... But F me if it doesn't punch you in the heart if your a geordie. Love this song and the North East!

[MrCeej9999]

@TheDickyW

He's my dad's cousin. Legend in real life as well!

[TheMossyone]

@TheDickyW You dont have to be a Geordie mate, it punches anyone with a working past, great song, well written, well sung and to top it all, the worlds best guitarist, bloody special

[59jimmyb]

@TheMossyone great comment..totally agree.

[anglesyman]

damn, seem to have some grit in my eyes.....

[james080354]

Years since I last heard this one! Coming from that same part of the world so many years back, and remembering growing up in those hard but simple times ... brings a tear to the eyes. Those days will never return. Great song!!!

[stelarz]

awesome song about one of the best rivers in the greatest city in the world !!!!!

[bencoza]

when MTV use to be good

[Matatyt]

@bencoza

Totally agree! Will Music TV ever come back?

[222smily]

@bencoza So true mate ..and when music used to be touching!!

[dazvertigo]

love this song!!!!

[chonchonchon]

one for the hard working family men who have been screwed over. brilliant

[Ruffneck]

reminds me of when I used to work on the Tyne as a welder for Press Offshore in the early 90s. I swear down there was not a better sight than seeing the sun shining early morning on the Tyne and when the sun sets. This song brings back memories.

[681murphy]

SIMPLY STUNNING !!!!!!!!!!

[hymenopteros]

mark should do this song together with bob dylan this fall! absolutely perfect!!!!

[irsdebs]

@hymenopteros  now theres a thought

[MegaDutchdude]

back in the days when MTV was about music instead of some unknown basketballers 'crib'...

[Matatyt]

@MegaDutchdude

Totally agree

[iamabeetle]

proud to be a geordie,jimmy nail grew up watching him and tim and the rest of the lads,made me happy when life gets hard,thanks for the laughs mate

[Flagellator1974]

csodaszép

[VeterusTV]

This song and the guitar playing by the legendary Mark Knopfler is simply magnificent - even if Jimmy is a mackem :)

[123flibble321]

@VeterusTV Jimmy was born in Benton, North Tyneside not Sunderland like!

[VeterusTV]

@123flibble321 that's good to know. I'd always assumed he was a Mackem. I wonder what he's doing now - does he still have Jimmy's bar on the quayside? Did a bit of karaoke there once. Happy days.

[123flibble321]

@VeterusTV Don't know about Jimmys bar mate. I left the Toon in 2003 to work in Germany Auf Pet style hehe.. aye happy days

[simakki]

@VeterusTV omg get over that toon mackem thing plz

[dangerousandy]

What an excellent song - love it

[123321jamesy]

This is the greatest song Mark Knopfler didn't write.