Sympathy-Rare Bird #3. *Top Of The Pops-70s*

[thelegendofcarsley]

Viv Savage on keyboards!

[tigsavage]

Faithless used it too.

[schlosser26]

Mysterious melody.

[RasMajnouni]

there was a 4:20 version on the LP (well maybe it was 3:26) but darn if it didn't sound like coitus interuptus when "finishing"

[fufufoofoo]

This ain't a pop song, it's a timeless diamond

[Raindropser3]

@fufufoofoo

EXXXACTLY:-)



[TheMusbeat]

My favorite song !!!

[TheMusbeat]

GREAT sympathy for sympathy !!! Me favorite song !

[gdr72]

Quanti ricordi d'infanzia, meraviglioso!

[KIPAT85]

Formidable mélodie !

[anriko100]

divine music!

[mbrsvn]

marillion 

[KIPAT85]

@mbrsvn Formidable mélodie !

[starchaser77]

Thameside Radio always used to sign off with this.

[sthenes]

Παντα το ακουω

[icarosilva16]

sweet memories of my far childhood,thanks a lot 4 posting !!!

[milodrags]

нет слов для восхищенья-великие твои рейр бёрд творенья!

[PhillipNicewaner]

Hey! I didn't know Top of the Pops had some good music on it.

[jftetzloff]

This song is...just amazingly bad. It's like a soft version of Spinal Tap.

[paulgad]

This is the second worse song I have ever heard. The drummer looks like he tapped into some good drugs

[Raindropser3]

@paulgad

Mmmmh...and what is the first...???

Rainy.

[paulgad]

@Raindropser3 The first is that guy who spams people telling them that he promised he would spread his Dead uncles music around, and plays some god awful song, then tries to hit you up for 4.99 for the rest of his dead uncles crappy music. Some of this old hippy crap, is pretentious, and depressing.

[paulgad]

@Raindropser3 Oh yeah, and the only things worse than the lyrics, is the he/she lead singers hairdo. .......Half the world has all the food, andhalf the world starves..........Is this guy for real. I thought they were gonna stop and say this was some hippy gag. Like weird al yankovich.

[mobyboy]

funny. I always thought that in the third chors there is a black singer that sings, suprised its the same singer.. makes him so versitle vocally

[TKTRV]

gOOGLE

DON'T PANIC says John Joseph O'Brien :-)

DOCTOR WHO AND THE SCOLE GHOSTS FOUND A STASH OF LOVE :-)

[geov15]

i just heard this song in an episode of a greek tv series and can't believe that it actually exists...the lyrics, the music,the meaning, everything is so incredible... so many thanks for the upload!

[MrGARYXXXXX]

Просто класс!!!

[NorwegianTurboBrains]

No, I dont like to know the name of their hairdresser. Thank you.

[MrSmokeydog]

Interesting tune. Never heard it before. Good

message they were conveying at the time.

It's too bad the world has yet to follow the

wisdom of their lyrics. And damn do I miss chicks in "HOTPANTS".

[Sierra0209]

quel beau souvenir des merveilleuses annees 70 mon adolescence merci

[TR5T]

OK where are they, Dave is still in LA....I guess. Ever since Paul bought it I've tried to find them.

UFO is quite easy, they still tour.

Let's meet at the new Marquee

[TR5T]

Has anyone seen Stevie ,Mark or Fred?? Tell them I'm in Daytona.

[Raindropser1]

Oky, doky-I´ll tell them ;-)

Rainy.

[Bluevelvetglove]

I will tell them, too.

Ron.

[martinjp1958]

Very good vocal performance. Even better than I remembered. Not heard this for at least 30 odd years.

[TheDacy]

specific voice...

[Pacifica815]

Boy, this so brings back memories....listening to Rare Bird on the roof of my family's catering hall in Chicago over looking Reese Park!!

[Grigos13]

What an increadible song

[TheTrebulator]

The singer steve used to go to my school. Great footballer.

[xcraig1961]

slit your wrist fucking pish

[anitashelby]

What a Great Song & Vid!!! 5*s Thank You Gary & bluevelvetglove....Anita...

[blondiebabs]

great song xxx

[garyco762]

! ***** ! ~ great song ~

[marcelnz]

what happened to steve rowland and the family dogg doing this song??

[drwinkle101]

What a depressing song, with it's thumping funeral drumbeat

[DissyDissy]

your an ass but what of it

[uHuRu1976]

amazing share!

[Dimagg1973]

They choose perfect name.

They are rare musically very interesting band.

[fhedblues2]

my god.... thats gr8

[richpat]

Fantastic I have never seen this...

thanks

[Glamking1]

The first time i saw this in colour and i only have the performance in b&w in a TOTP episode from 29th Jan 1970 timecoded.

[AlejandraRafa]

beautiful! I knew the song by Marillion but had never listened to the original version

[koorosh124]

And SYMPATHY is what we need my friend!!! SO EXPRESSING

[ku8igurl]

BEAUTIFUL! BRAVO! i luvthis song ;'(

[Ic1cle]

Wow, great vocalist. To be honest, I had never even heard of this group before (I must have missed TOTP that week :-) but this is a very nice clip.

Thank you for taking the trouble to upload it.

I just wish the Pan's People bit at the end had lasted a bit longer !

[javadoladi]

Excellent!!! awesome!

[AntiKoloEmo]

FUCKING BRILIAND VOICE

[josexara]

excellent

[gartennelke]

Thanks for the clip, I went on holiday with the organist to the South of France in a knackered Morris Marina I later bought, happy days!

[SLUMBERS2]

great post great share garyco way to go AUSTRALIA i love this stuff thanks to garyco for introducing it to me 5big*****

[hektikal]

Don't laugh, but i always thought there was a second singer in the band..

at around 1:11 i really thought it was someone else!!

thanks to these clips i'm confused ;)

lol

[adeefeinstein]

Me too - for AT LEAST thirty years!!! It's the same guy!!! Ha! Great vocals.

[aktowfik]

I will never laugh for that. I used to think that a duo sings this song, one more manly and tougher than the other. I used to think that for 40 years, since I never saw the clip before !

[seb2639]

a1 i cant believe no-ones covered this song recently?

[Bluevelvetglove]

No, dear Seb.- I googled and looked at wikipedia-but with no result.

I think, this is one of the songs,

that can´t be topped ;-)

Ron.

[ge01415]

There's a cover from Marilion! Check it out here in youtube! ;-)

[FlyingJunk]

@Bluevelvetglove I heard two covers of this song, by Family Dogg and Capability Brown, but they are both from the 70's.

[68guns]

Marillion covered it a few years back

[gibderfenson]

@seb2639 marilion?

[THACH03]

@seb2639 Marillion covered this song

[bluesbrother37]

Classic!

[byrd5d]

A harrowing commentary upon our civilisation,

becoming more relevant by the day.

take the rag away from your face now ant the time for your tears b.d.

[elieattie]

youve ben watching the 70s themed nights on arte too?