Le Roux "Nobody Said It Was Easy"

[LF4L]

WTF is this?? Gimme some ZZ Top or Skynyrd instead of Le Roux, please!!

[ILoveCurves88]

I know, wasn't it? amazing music...

[Sonic08Boom]

a year ago i was searching for LA roux and then it appeared this shit

[DaveWollenberg]

Le Roux hit #18 in Billboard, 4-17-82. Tony Haselden went on to become a country songwriter. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

[Doobie1975]

@DaveWollenberg Did this song ever crack the AC and Rock charts?

[DaveWollenberg]

@Doobie1975 Nope, it hit neither of these charts.

[Doobie1975]

Great song, what a shame these guys didn't make it huge

[mudrakovich]

I know this guy; it's Tony Haselden, he went on to become an established country music hit writer; MAMA KNOWS for Shenandoah and I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU for Doug Stone

[mudrakovich]

I know this guy; it's Tony Haselden, he went on to become an established country music hit writer; MAMA KNOWS for Shenandoah adn I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU for Doug Stone

[bigdctherock]

Hard to pick which is a better song from these guys. This, "Get It Right the First Time" or "Carrie's Gone." All are classic!

[flowride68]

Not a huge fan of Le Roux, but I've always liked this song and Addicted. LOL, the General Zod on lead vocals comment was pretty funny! Dude has a great voice, though.

[richghostwolf]

I needed to hear this so badly...thank you, whomever you are, for posting this.

Because indeed...nobody said it was easy.

[FALCON21301]

Listening to this song again almost made me forget how old us "80's kids" are getting!

But i'm still ready to go cruzin all night long with the t tops off!

[VINGgirl1]

i just thought of this song after so many years. Thanks for posting....bring back good memories.

[BKMillMan]

My senior class song.

[DeepSouthWrestling1]

General Zod, lead vocals!!!

[rollomaughfling]

@DeepSouthWrestling1 The sad part is, he wears the Zod outfit in all their videos from this time. Including the trimmed beard-wig.

[ccg91]

Awesome song

[earlymtv]

these dudes are all probably in their 60's now..

[bucky468]

@British1500 That's La Roux, Tweedledum! And BTW classic rock is king here so GTFO if you don't like it. We don't like your music or generation. Everything from today just sucks. I don't care if it's La Roux, Justin Bieber, Lady CaCa, Gay's Anatomy or that Twilight bullshit....it all sucks!!!

Long live the old school! Long live the classics!!!

[proud6070]

hi Scoob,

do you have Kiki Dee's Stay Close to You? Thanks

[rockectman]

They should sue this La Roux gal or guy whatever it is, for name infringement!

[bucky468]

@rockectman I so agree w/you there. Does Louisiana's Le Roux even know about that shemale La Roux?

[gundamrob]

Great song.

[ccg91]

Beautiful harmony, great song

[odog65]

ok did that say MTV 2 wtf when was that. that's defiantely a sick joke if I ever saw one MTV hasn't put any good music on TV in 10 years.

[bensimpson93]

Bobby Campo is my musice teacher. Great mustache

[stratbnder]

Yeah, Great Band seasoned musicians. Jeff Pollard (Lead Vox and Guitars) left and joined the ministry to escape the rock and roll demons. Can't argue with

his reasoning but he was an amazing artist and missed by many. Tony Haselden (singing lead and playing the strat on this song, went to Nashville and penned a whole bunch of hits. Leon Medica one of the most precise Bass players around still plays with Le Roux and Tab Benoit.

[JeffreyJosephEast]

@stratbnder I've been blessed to write with Tony Haselden throughout the last year. He's an extremely gifted musician, and simply one of the best writers this town (Nashville) has ever known. I was born in 1983, and I wish I had been around a few years sooner so I could have really dug into this stuff when it was new. Simply great, great music.

[tpmh37]

The guys in the 80's had awesome voices! The music and lyrics were so smart back then. I really miss the 80's.

[vampirebiten69]

Growing up in the Deep South These guys were the best of the best. We loved them then, we love them now. New Orleans Ladies Rock the world.

[retroforever]

Very rare video and a great song!!

[mammatusofmystery]

3 people cant see the lights....

[Ledeceptacon]

A gay song by a gay band full of gay christians.

[coach777777]

Great group.

[ROBERTVANJOVI]

LAST SAFE PLACE del 82'!!

Fantastico!!

[dawnpatrol82]

have this LP too

[13MindsEye]

Awesome song. Ah, nostalgia, you bring both pleasure and pain.

Always an '80s child I will be!!

[999manman]

So sad that music like this would not get one second of airplay if it were released today.

[rollomaughfling]

@999manman That's really not sad at all.

[999manman]

@rollomaughfling Uh...okay!

[mammatusofmystery]

SO great to hear this again!!!! Thanks Scoob!!!!

[takemeback2]

Way to go scoob, it's great to hear this again.

[bogart0611]

I met Le Roux bassist Leon Medica in 1984 when he came to Okinawa, Japan as part of the USO's "First Airborne Rock and Roll Division" rock show for the troops, featuring Medica; David Jenkins, Cory Lerios and John Pierce from Pablo Cruise; Rich Williams, Phil Ehart and John Elephante of Kansas; Rick Nielsen, Bun E. Carlos and Robin Zander from Cheap Trick; and Patrick Simmons from the Doobie Brothers. All great gentlemen, all great musicians.

[rushmore40]

For Laurann

[DilbertW01]

Thank you to whomever post this. This is one of my all time favorite songs of the 80's. I was not sure if a video was made to it or not. Classic!!!! I was also thrilled that they included this song on their best of album released a few years ago.

[09rockmusic]

amazing time and place for me...the 80s

[sdeisme]

would really like to see the video or any upload of take a ride on a riverboat. My first concert was the kinks and leroux

[troy92850]

My first concert was Pure Prairie League and Le Roux. Great memories of this band. Those first two albums were really great.

[bucky468]

@sdeisme Louisiana's LeRoux recently released its entire discography on iTunes. Walmart used to have "Bayou Degradable: Best of LA's Le Roux" hits collection available but for some odd reason had it removed. Might wannna check out iTunes.

[gravano2]

Great tune , went out and got the record the next day , how I miss talent , vocals , guitar solos , bands in general

[CryssLuvsMuzik]

I first heard this song on Kasey Kasem's Top 40 radio show, Sunday nights.

[wilx218x]

"Addicted" was a real cool song, but after listening to this one, and Lifeline, it makes it clear why this band dissappeared after 1982. This songs just sound to cheesy. You want 80's soundtrack? Motley Crue, Def Leppard, G&R, AC/DC, Rush, Ozzy, Dokken, Cinderella, Ratt, Poison, Whitesnake, ok get the picture?

[dorn2100]

@wilx218x ...Ahhh..no..I don't get the picture wilx218x....Le Roux was a POP band with a great song that many people loved in '82. You compare them to a A..Established Rock bands who sold out to crass commercialism in the 80's and lost respect with their orignal fan base in the '70s and B. a bunch of Hair/Makeup/Metal bands with arguably little to no talent. If you don't like Le Roux that's ok, but don't diss them...just grab your wig, makeup kit and Guitar Hero game & relive your 80's glory.

[bucky468]

@dorn2100 Correction - LeRoux was a country-rock/southern rock band who deserved better than what they got. They're also far more talented than that bitch who has the nerve & audacity to call herself La Roux. Oh hell they're far better than any of today's crap that's out there now. Rock is rock so you

& wilx218x stop quibbling & long live the classics!

[bucky468]

@dorn2100 Le Roux is pure AOR that is sadly lost on even today's classic rock stations (at leaast here in Ohio.) If you wanna see real pop shit then go no further than MTV or VH1 when they play Bieber, Lady CaCa or LA Roux. You & wilx218x need to stop arguing about what's real rock & help us classic rockers take back what's rightfully ours. Fans of LA Roux are taking over this thread. That should never happen. Let's run those snot nosed punks out of here.

[JLJshads]

Wow....I had forgotten about this band and song. I saw them open for Foreigner, Ozzy, and Loverboy at The Cotton Bowl, sometime in the mid eighties.

[DaveWollenberg]

Tim Haselden went on to become a country songwriter.

[PhilGillis]

Tony . not Tim

[MrMUSIC1981]

Wow,great song! I knew I had this song on a cassette tape,I went digging through them and found it,it's on a K-TEL tape called AFTER HOURS,I got alot of K-TEL tapes,they put alot of different songs on them,all good songs.

[rubyncharm]

shite

[tekalynn]

I've been looking for this song for YEARS!

[EasilyWowed]

Heard them first when I moved to Toronto (1982). Buffalo, NY. had a powerhouse of an FM Station then called "ROCK 102" and they played this song. I had the 45 rpm. 27-28 years later - here it is (the video). WOW!

[dorn2100]

@EasilyWowed Same here..have lived in T.O. my whole life but listened to "Rock 102" starting in the mid 70's because they had a wider playlist than the Toronto stations. This is another example of that. Great song.

[Sonic08Boom]

i was searching for LA roux and then it appeared this shit

[bucky468]

@Sonic08Boom Well you're wrong quiz kid about this being shit. Now when you're talking La Roux...now that's what I call REAL SHIT! If you don't like this then GTFO & go find your own brand of shit. Don't spoil our brand of what is REAL good music...understand????

Besides BTW your La Roux & Lady CaCa (the shemales of the modern pop era) will be gone a decade from now just like the Spice Girls.

[vyre43]

AGH MY EYES, HALP!

Woops, Le Roux. I was thinking La Roux had changed since I last saw her.

[bucky468]

@vyre43 Then go find your La Roux & leave us alone. We don't like your crap either. This thread is for classic rock & AOR fans so how'd you get here anyhow? Don't even bother to answer that...I already know.

[vyre43]

@bucky468 o.O

Take a chill pill, buddy. Stop your trolling.

[bucky468]

@vyre43 Oh almost forgot. You're one of THEM & NOT us. We classic rock fans aren't trolling btw.

[vyre43]

@bucky468 dude... it was just a joke and it was over a year ago now. Sorry if I offended you or anything. Sheesh though, stop taking everything so personally. Who cares what some random said about a band you're a fan of on youtube? It's not like I said this band was bad or anything, if I gave them a chance I'd probably end up liking them, but honestly, the effort to care is too much. So please go away.

[FALCON21301]

Man am I getting old..... Sure do miss crusin' to this song!!!

[PAPI67]

80s 4 ever!!

[DilbertW01]

This was definitely a classic song from 1982. I remember it fondly. I was extremely happy when it was put out on CD. I wish they would be their Last Safe Place album on CD instead of just a greatest hits CD.

[batnash2000]

Thanks! Scoob for the upload. I have this song on a 45. It is truly one of the Great songs of the early 80's.

[darkmarkrammstein]

lmfao i was looking 4 something else but this is funny

[JPYL]

The Scientist? coldplay?

[tomytamura]

great song - one of my favorite song in the 80's.

[RandyF1978]

I saw this band back in the early 80's. They were so awesome, better than the headliner, whoever that was. Could someone please post "Bridge of Silence" from these guys as well? Thanks.

[berlinpambuan]

great! never thought I'd see this video. I have this record(45 single) back in the Philippines.I felt so nostalgic suddenly it brings a lot of memories from my college days in manila. thanks for posting the video. Hows "Le roux nowadays?

grateful,

berlin pambuan

[MrBounanaz]

LOLZ LE ROUXXXX!!!

[tew8197]

Man...there was some EXCELLENT rock back in the early 80's, huh?

[tsfanoh10]

Oh, how I miss music of the 80s, especially the first half of the decade. What a great time to be a teenager and really into radio.

[CameronShaft]

@tsfanoh10 Couldn't agree more!

[gravano2]

Great tune , brings back memories , I still play this album , reminds me of toto

[BCK]

Always thought this was just a bit 'Toto-ish' but w/o the plagiarism.

[MaineMan1272]

Great, forgotten pop song. Never, ever thought I would see this video again. Thanks for posting it.

[mohansen]

Thanks for the posting this! I got to visit Studio in the Country when this album was being recorded, but I don't think I've ever seen this video. With the blowing hair, the dramatic lighting and Tony Haselden singing lead, this is truly a classic. Thanks again!

[RitzyTrailer]

...I'm sitting here, with my mouth agape! I didn't know anyone remembered (or even heard of) this song either! I saw the title, and I thought: "No! It couldn't be..." !!!

Thanks for posting this. Wow!

[journeylive]

yeah same here.  I love this song by LeRoux, totally cool. "Looking for the Lights" Indeed! LEROUX ROCKS! 1982.

[riverrats00]

some classic 80's porno hair in this band. Throw in a couple of Ron Jeremy 'staches and you have the makings of an adult film cast here

[castertunes1967]

gotta love this classic staple from 1982--only other one I know by these guys is "New Orleans Lady," magical

[toetagnk]

good song, but in my opinion Le Roux is nothing without fergie :(

[Marissa7656]

Fergie?

[guitarvol]

Wow. I love this song. Haven't heard it since the mid 80s. Saw these guys open for Kansas in Mufreesboro Tn. I believe in 1979. Kansas was on their Monolith tour. Have liked this band ever since. Thanks for posting

[tways040204]

i didnt know anyone else even knew this song existed...I may have heard it last around 84 or 85 and had long forgotten everything but the chorus and I found it by accident. Thanks 4 posting.

[Mp25DIII]

Wow! Never knew the band that sang "New Orleans Lady" sang this classic! NO Lady is played once an hour in the Big EZ, but you never hear this one--who do I complain to???

[davevanlangen]

This is a song i enjoyed in the 80's. I have looked for it for many years, thank you youtube for bringing it back to me.

[Doobie1975]

It seems to be that the best songs are the highly underrated ones you never hear on the radio.

[madpugkatz]

Does anyone have the song by Leroux,"You know how those boys are", from the Last safe place LP? I can't find it anywhere!

[drumsport]

Last Safe Place is available on CD. Go to LeRoux's official website. You can purchase all of their music on CD.  Fabulous, tight group!

[cubdukat]

That's good to know. I've gone through several vinyl copies of "Last Safe Place" over the years, and the only song I bought it for was this one.

Wasn't this the beginning of the end for their original lineup?

[frisbee64]

A #18 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts in May 1982.

[relix101]

I saw them in concert twice in the 70's. once was at Louisiana College In Pineville, La. They were great!

[dbookin]

I havent heard this song in years

Thanks

[kscott24]

HALLELUJAH! I've waited over 26 years to hear this song; reminds me of having a crush on a beautiful female cheerleader (freshman) while attending Jardine Junior High in Wichita, KS. We went to different high schools but then, she and I graduated in the same class of 1991 from Wichita State University; haven't seen each other since. Hope she's doing wonderful out there. To Mike, please get in touch with me; would love to hear from you soon.

[mek2138]

I agree with timmmahhhh. I have been trying to find this song for so long and haven't heard it since the early 8o's on the radio. I have never forgotten the melody. Thanks a million for the post!

[Doobie1975]

This band should've gotten much greater recognition than what they've gotten.

[thespeez]

You're right! To make matters worse, these guys had it really rough before they had their first and only hit. I don't know what happened to them afterwards. I was a high school junior when this song became a hit. I liked it then, still do and miss hearing it; very inspirational.

[timmmahhhh]

I have been looking for this song for YEARS! Great great song. Wish I had heard it more since 1982, haven't heard it since then, but it has been in my head on and off since then. Thank you so much for posting this!!!

[corpsvalue]

I was able to find the single on the Lost 45's CD volume 2. Absolutely great song!

[talos41]

I love this band... I am from Dallas and I remember the first time I heard addicted on Q102... Great music and I still have my albums..

[59TV]

saw these guys at FSU in 1982, good band

[dragonlord179]

damn!!!! how can i never heard to talk about this artists i am really ignorant ....really great ...i love that an i love the 80's the best songs ever nobody can say the opposite

[whitjonw]

I remebered snipets from this song, and tried and tried to find it... finally(!) I found it and bought the CD off of Amazon..They only had one used copy, and it was 29.00! But I bought it and love it! Senior year...YEAH!

[oneslickjackrabbit]

I still have a copy of the album this was on somewhere. I'm suprised I didnt not wear it out. They had a great song titled "Long Distance Lover" on there. Damn. Brings back memories.

[tarkan525201]

hard to find album!.

[djtommytune]

This was a great song. Acutally their only top 40 hit.  New Orleans Lady is a fan favorite, but never cracked the charts. Amazing trivia. The Tuneman

[KurtmanJP]

I prefer "Addicted" "Carrie's Gone" and "Get It Right The First Time".

[drproctor13]

Brings back great memories from my senior year in high School in 1982. A great and underrated song. Thank you for posting this one.

[Kelski1998]

I had this song on a K Tel compelation After Hours great forgotten song of the 80's. Don't remember WBBM FM 96 in Chicago or WLS 94.7 ever playing this though

[poormansroad]

Never gets old, wish it was on c.d.

[cindyjosef]

i never thought they made a video but here it is - - - i still listen to this song after more than 2 decades. thanks!!!

[gonzox707]

Wow...takes me back to 82' great year for pop...Gone Forever...shame...Eddie Ganz

[canada647]

I never thought in a million years, I'd ever hear this song again.

Reminds me of WBEN-FM (Rock 102) Buffalo, NY., that was in my humble opinion, the best Top 40 FM station along the Great Lakes region.

I believe these lads were from Louisiana (New Orleans?). I had the 45.

[mbrowning333]

nice song!

[ts1073]

It was music of before for 25 years, but loved it.

I watched the video for the first time.

[eightiespopboy]

Thanks for posting this great tune! I've been looking for it for awhile. :)