This and EVERY performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test was always 100% Live... Bob Harris & his programme lead the field and if you couldn't play/perform Live then no way did you get on the show. In the 70s bands played live. Period. If you like, it was the Jools Holland Show of the 70s.
Yes my friend I agree.It's so rare to hear any music live today...Even when they're on stage! With auto tune and lip syncing I believe there are "singers" today who really can't sing. Brittney Spears and Ashley Simpson and most of the singers on BTV come to mind.
@marcmgm The current generations have no clue what REAL LIVE TV is about. No Editing, no post production, nothing but pure live music. Current mainstream bands couldnt pull this off without sounding like garbage
O youth! Study and saturate yourself with the diverse talents of the 60's and 70's. Imitate it until you play the music that's coursing nobly in your own blood. We old farts beg you to do this before we lay upon the final silk, wetted by an old girl's kiss. Please. I am asking.
Just saw Al Stewart in calif. Good show small club. I had this album two years later the tape and many years latter the CD and then I tunes really like the whole recording.
@kja427 You want the Vietnamese zodiac for the Year of the Cat, which matches Chinese Year of the Rabbit, so 1975. I love this track... so much so that I once looked up that fact ha ha
This tune would've been more appropriate in 1974, NOT 1977. In the eyes of The Chinese, 1974 was the year of The Tiger; 1977 was The year of The Snake. Other than that, it's not a bad tune.
@Acuario280 - I believe that's Peter White, who's gone on to be a huge 'Smooth Jazz' artist. I know he was with the band when this recording was done.
Ah the 70's, I was a freshman in HS when this came out, what great memories. This played on every AM/FM radio station for months. My daughter just started college, man time goes so fast.......
This is a big favorite of mine...I have some Al Stewart in my collection, and this is live. On the studio version there are real strings. Here you can hear the mellotron covering the string section, still a great song! I wish radio was still as good as it was back then!
My sister had a huge crush on this man in her teens. I got force-fed this song, she played it over and over again on her record player (showing my age lol) this song is etched on my memory. Just as well its a good one and I love it lol. The Old Grey Whistle Test and "Whispering Bob Harris" - Love it.
Oh Al, weren't you just georgeous in those days! I remember seeing you when I was with Sam Mitchell backstage at a Kevin Ayres' concert in Hyde Park. The last time I saw you (and you didn't remember me at all, was at The Stables in Milton Keynes), although you were kind enough to pretend you did. Thanks for that.. Anyway, here's to The Cousins, The Troubadour, Bunjies, and London in the sixties, Irish Stew at Luke's flat and a really great kiss, even though you scared me half to death!
Oh Al, weren't you just georgeous in those days! I remember seeing you when I was with Sam Mitchell backstage at a Kevin Ayres' concert in Hyde Park. The last time I saw you (and you didn't remember me at all, was at The Stables in Milton Keynes), although you were kind enough to pretend you did. Thanks for that.. Anyway, here's to The Cousins, The Troubadour, Bunjies, and London in the sixties, Irish Stew at Luke's flat and a really great kiss, even though you scared me half to death!
Don't forget smooth jazz superstar Peter White, whose playing keyboards in this classic. Fortunately, Peter and Al have been teaming up on some concerts recently re-introducing this great music to a new generation.
one of the favourites on a pirate radio station I worked on ... half a lifetime ago ... believe it or not you couldn't hear this stuff on mainstream uk radio 30 years ago ...
same here..born in the late 60's..the 70's were awesome..please let me go back for a minute..lived outside boston my whole life and this song is summer of 77 all over again
I was just checking out random stuff from Old Grey Whistle Test. Found this and my fucking god do I love the piano in this. If I could marry a woman as beautiful as the piano part I'd die happy.
i have a cat, my daugheter went to college, the cat is now thirteen, it's not a bad cat, it's a good cat, i never really liked cats, i kind of think they are cool now, a lot more respect, for our furry friends.
this isn't just music...this is a timemachine..this brings me back in time ...i miss those day's..and the music..this is one of the best songs ever...
i just can't stop playing this song. It puts me right back to the 70's in my clubbing days when we were spoilt rotten with this type of music. Ah for those brilliant brilliant days no world worries and the trade towers were still standing what a brilliant world it was back then.. I really miss those days and so do my peers. God i would hate to be growing up now and have missed all that.
kemp3L, Guitar is a fender thinline telecaster which had a chamber(f hole) cut out to give it a slight semi acoustic feel and improved sustain.The most famous model is probably the 1972 which they hava reissued.I would guess that this is a1972 model.but do not know for certain.The guitar also had humbuckers ,a radical shift from fenders single coil tele,s at the time.
Maybe a guitarist can help me with this. Look at Al's guitar. It looks like a solid-body electric guitar. Why then does it have an f-hole (but just one)? Is this just for show?
Around 5th grade, and right up to my junior year of high-school, my father took it upon himself to educate me in the music of his college-years. Whenever he took me to school or to the library we'd pop in a cassette or CD and he would just, start talking about the music. How the groups or artists got started and just everything. I may be 21 now but whenever I pop in my cassette of 'Year of the Cat' I always think of my Dad and those days when we would nerd out over music.
i heard this when I was a kid when this was a hit on FM radio. I had just gotten a cool white digital radio alarm clock from my grandparents and I tuned in to what was happening in the 70's. This one brings me back Space 1999 was also big on tv at the time growing up in Brooklyn. Ah the 70's
@tele757 Wow! I don't know how you did it. A supreme case of irony...but you just described my exact experience with this song. I had a white digital clock radio and the local LA station would play this song over & over again. It was my fave as a kid! Yes....those were indeed the days!
"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.
This song feels like a dream, a haunting memory from the past, when to be madly in love was all the world, all of life...it has an eery quality of fond memory, with it's bittersweet tone and poetry.
Fabulous ... just watched it again! I think I can remember the night this was actually showed on the Old Grey Whistle Test - but we were so spoilt for music in those days!
Misterhorsey, You can disagree until your blue in the face and it always boils down to personal taste. You have yours and I have mine. I checked youtube for the artists you suggested. Sufjen sounds like he listens to a lot of Owl City.. As for the rest, not at all impressed... Not at all!
when i watch stuff like this from the 70's etc i realize how truly shallow and awful progs like the x factor are. the old bands etc had to work their way up to achieve rewards whereas x factor (Now Factor i call it!) encourages instant results and wealth without putting years of hard work in. no wonder the older stuff is so great. not nostalgia..just better composed.
I wish I was born then but sadly I was born in the 90's and more sad is that almost all the things suck today and especially music!That years people knew what music means!!!
Although this is indeed a great song, your frame of mind is just sad and pathetic. All that nostalgia for a time you didn't witness first hand. The seventies were tough times for a lot of people and there was a lot of very shitty music around, too. The seventies weren't the "golden age" of whatever. They just were. And there's plenty of good music around today - though not on the radio anymore. You just have to look a little harder and dig a little deeper. Start living, man!
And I'm stating MY observations. There's a bigger diversity of quality music out there today than ever before. You just have to look! Kids today have liberties, opportunities and means (technological and otherwise) at their disposal we didn't even dream of in the 60 / 70ies. Nostalgia is for old farts like me - not teenagers like him. It's not healthy...
@LucaEisenstein I think the point people are making is that this is you might agree, a fairly complex melody, with a well thought out story and well crafted lyrics. Odds are this is a 100% live performance though I'm not sure, and Stewart and his band almost flawlessly and rather effortlesly create the sound and style of the recording with their playing and his vocal. Tell us how often that would happen today, and take your time.
@17865329 The Old Grey Whistle Test is a little weird... they're either live or miming to a previously-recorded live version from the day before (the most common scenario). The studio track here would have real strings instead of a mellotron.
A previous post mentioned that crap on the radio is not worth a second listen. I'll do you one better - it's not even worth listening to this crap the first time. Music in the 70's and 80's was the last of good music. Even the 50's and 60's - the groups / artists had talent.
Ohhhh----just incredibly lovely. Makes my heart ache now just as much as it ever did on hearing this for the very first time. If anyone is reading this comment & viewing the video here for their first ever time---let me tell you,this is so gorgeous,I know. However,his wonderful musical expression did not stop here,believe me---get to hear "Roads to Moscow", "Nostradamus", "World goes to Riyadh", "Time Passages", "Place of Versailles"-----you have senses yet to dream of, I promise you.
People what your experiencing here are fine musicians, songwriters, and performers demonstrating their craft. This is more than music, this is a sensory overload, a feast for the ears, and the art of fine musicianship.....sadly 95% of today's music isn't fit to listen too. But thankfully we've got YouTube to take us back to the time when music was music!
Today there is no art in producing, engineering, and playing.
The time and skill required to to produce something great like this is not being put in. We now have people who think they can produce and engineer the whole thing by themselves. And players of this caliber are not being made anymore. Muisc is dead, basically.
This is the 5 percent from the old timers, There was a lot of dross back in the day as well. Dont be a music snob, there is good and bad music from all era's. Different strokes for different folks etc.
I love the change from acoustic guitar to electrid guitar which doesn't happen on this video, but if it did it would be at about 4:00. :-).
This is one of those "Classic 80's" songs that everyone raves about but most of the ravers have only just heard it in the past 5 years. John Martin's "May You Never" is another example of this... BUT!
It's all MEGA ZARJAZ STUFF and we love it don't we... hey..
unbelieveable. nice! Al Stewart and band sound pretty close to the original recording. I saw them in Honolulu back in the late 70s and they sounded shite. Too much Maui Wowie, or Puna Butter.
Even though it's the same pattern of "the new generation music is weird and stupid" that we've seen before, y'gotta admit that everything from late 90's on is significantly cheaper and more repetitive. Maybe in 10 years we'll have forgotten about all the rubbish, and the few gems will be remembered.
As Nick Lowe said, "they don't write 'em like that anymore.". Brilliant blend of melody, musicianship and metaphor. Maybe the artists of today will be exposed to classics like Al Stewart and put forth some modern classics of their own. One can hope.
Song like this are a totally lost art..intelligent lyrics,strong musicianship.sad to say, this would never fly in todays market of rap garbage and the whole britney Squad.
Agreed! I met Tim Renwick the guitarist who played on the original album while in England. He doesn't do sessions anymore and says he can no longer relate to popular music.
I'm with you on the "madness" part. It's important to reconnect with what matters most, and ELIMINATE that which doesn't. Good luck to you...brings back some really good high school memories for me...
I remember the 70's well. Then, the music was real, there were just we people with our "primitive" electronics. But then we also got high, no big deal, G. Ford was the president, I lived in his hometown, Grand Rapids, Mi, many good times then.
Alacebuchal, there is no passion on todays musicians. A lot of the junk today is computerized. My sister always bugs me because I only have classic rock and the reason is that there is no good mucsic coming out today. Today's music simply sucks.
yep - top notch music. I listen from Steely Dan, to Waylon and Willie to Motley Crue. This music is tops, real good.
EdwardsMusicChannel 1 week ago
Extraordinary sound for an old video. I absolutely love it. Thank you for sharing such a precious treasure
suprdblhelix7322 1 week ago
Aucario the pianist is Peter Wood
MariposaGirl1981 1 week ago
Never got to see it before youtube, ironic. could of used it back in the day.
loosinggrip67 1 week ago in playlist old grey whistle test
Al's guitar solo is great !!!
bobbyozb 2 weeks ago
This and EVERY performance on the Old Grey Whistle Test was always 100% Live... Bob Harris & his programme lead the field and if you couldn't play/perform Live then no way did you get on the show. In the 70s bands played live. Period. If you like, it was the Jools Holland Show of the 70s.
brobdj 2 weeks ago
i like the way the guitar lead switches bck and forth
48dodea 3 weeks ago
there are not many good songs that mention Peter Lorrie or Bogart (without mentioning joints)
48dodea 3 weeks ago
Yes my friend I agree.It's so rare to hear any music live today...Even when they're on stage! With auto tune and lip syncing I believe there are "singers" today who really can't sing. Brittney Spears and Ashley Simpson and most of the singers on BTV come to mind.
marcmgm 3 weeks ago
ITS LIVE IDIOTS.ALWAYS LIVE ON GREY WHISTLE
marcmgm 4 weeks ago
@marcmgm The current generations have no clue what REAL LIVE TV is about. No Editing, no post production, nothing but pure live music. Current mainstream bands couldnt pull this off without sounding like garbage
TheProgBox 3 weeks ago
O youth! Study and saturate yourself with the diverse talents of the 60's and 70's. Imitate it until you play the music that's coursing nobly in your own blood. We old farts beg you to do this before we lay upon the final silk, wetted by an old girl's kiss. Please. I am asking.
JosephHuntington 1 month ago
ahhh here it is, Brighten up my flu-ridden afternoon on the reception desk :)
deadheadcraig 1 month ago
This is a live recording
jesdebest 1 month ago
Just saw Al Stewart in calif. Good show small club. I had this album two years later the tape and many years latter the CD and then I tunes really like the whole recording.
1vettal2012 1 month ago
@kja427 You want the Vietnamese zodiac for the Year of the Cat, which matches Chinese Year of the Rabbit, so 1975. I love this track... so much so that I once looked up that fact ha ha
CL4RKYB0Y1 2 months ago
This tune would've been more appropriate in 1974, NOT 1977. In the eyes of The Chinese, 1974 was the year of The Tiger; 1977 was The year of The Snake. Other than that, it's not a bad tune.
kja427 2 months ago
I was brought up on Old Grey Whistles! love this song :)
LynnMee 2 months ago
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which is the name of playing the piano, please
Acuario280 2 months ago
which is the name of playing the piano, please
Acuario280 2 months ago
@Acuario280 - I believe that's Peter White, who's gone on to be a huge 'Smooth Jazz' artist. I know he was with the band when this recording was done.
tb35pa 2 months ago
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The 12 people who disliked this have terrible taste in music.
Blownwillyscoupe 2 months ago
I LOVE IT... THAT SIMPLE
juanvicentecabostrou 2 months ago
Ah the 70's, I was a freshman in HS when this came out, what great memories. This played on every AM/FM radio station for months. My daughter just started college, man time goes so fast.......
martha3kids 2 months ago 2
This is a big favorite of mine...I have some Al Stewart in my collection, and this is live. On the studio version there are real strings. Here you can hear the mellotron covering the string section, still a great song! I wish radio was still as good as it was back then!
jdpicher 3 months ago
I love patchouli
WednesdayAdams1968 3 months ago
"your bound to stay" the Year Of The Cat...PRICELESS & FOREVER A PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO
pkappel006 4 months ago
who is the piano player here? The keyboardist later -are they brothers?
ErkusJansone 4 months ago
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My sister had a huge crush on this man in her teens. I got force-fed this song, she played it over and over again on her record player (showing my age lol) this song is etched on my memory. Just as well its a good one and I love it lol. The Old Grey Whistle Test and "Whispering Bob Harris" - Love it.
Thereisonlythemoment 4 months ago
Eric- this is the song- isn't it cool? Loved it for soooo long.
ErkusJansone 4 months ago
Oh Al, weren't you just georgeous in those days! I remember seeing you when I was with Sam Mitchell backstage at a Kevin Ayres' concert in Hyde Park. The last time I saw you (and you didn't remember me at all, was at The Stables in Milton Keynes), although you were kind enough to pretend you did. Thanks for that.. Anyway, here's to The Cousins, The Troubadour, Bunjies, and London in the sixties, Irish Stew at Luke's flat and a really great kiss, even though you scared me half to death!
DianeRead1 4 months ago
Oh Al, weren't you just georgeous in those days! I remember seeing you when I was with Sam Mitchell backstage at a Kevin Ayres' concert in Hyde Park. The last time I saw you (and you didn't remember me at all, was at The Stables in Milton Keynes), although you were kind enough to pretend you did. Thanks for that.. Anyway, here's to The Cousins, The Troubadour, Bunjies, and London in the sixties, Irish Stew at Luke's flat and a really great kiss, even though you scared me half to death!
DianeRead1 4 months ago
Don't forget smooth jazz superstar Peter White, whose playing keyboards in this classic. Fortunately, Peter and Al have been teaming up on some concerts recently re-introducing this great music to a new generation.
tb35pa 4 months ago
I liked this song from the second I first heard it. Great to hear it again. Thanks for posting this.
algonacchick 4 months ago
Wow, this really takes me back. Happy Birthday Al!
OfficeMercenary 4 months ago
one of the favourites on a pirate radio station I worked on ... half a lifetime ago ... believe it or not you couldn't hear this stuff on mainstream uk radio 30 years ago ...
jonjuliecat 5 months ago
MY YOUTH! THIS MUSIC DRIVEN IN MY FIRST CAR - IT WAS SO GREAT.
Es war genial! Super - super
LosGigantes1899 5 months ago
great performance
caramelrocket 5 months ago
It may be a little harder to find but there is some really good music now. John Mayer, Maroon 5, etc.
92024EVR 5 months ago
it's just sublime - let it wash over you -
jonjuliecat 6 months ago
same here..born in the late 60's..the 70's were awesome..please let me go back for a minute..lived outside boston my whole life and this song is summer of 77 all over again
charlieroy911 6 months ago
timeless....al stewart=genius
tubetube1221 6 months ago
LOL - The talent pool dried up probably more than a decade ago, probably even two decades ago.
steelerdave2000 6 months ago
@steelerdave2000 NO LO CREO POR DIFICIL Q PAREZCA AUN EXISTE MUCHO TALENTO;CON TODO RESZPETO YO CREO Q TE EQUIVOCAS UN POCO.
LANDOISE 5 months ago
How come artists today, don't spend any time actually writing lyrics ? There are exceptions, but the talent-pool has dried up, musically. : (
seeburg220 6 months ago
I love this song......takes me back to high school....when I was a freshman.......I love it....! Thank you for posting this!!!!!
sweetpea3339 7 months ago
Al Stewart wrote a story of mystery and romance, put it to music and gave it to the world!
Frankiarmz 7 months ago 2
When this song/record starts...YOU AIN'T SWITCHING STATIONS
till that last note is played...!!!! Guaranteed...this song is musical manna...
A beauty that beyond even the best literatists ability to come close to capturing in a thousand words or less (in my opinion)
the list of superlatives just goes on and on...
lotusesprit1981 7 months ago
I was just checking out random stuff from Old Grey Whistle Test. Found this and my fucking god do I love the piano in this. If I could marry a woman as beautiful as the piano part I'd die happy.
Sirqle 7 months ago
i have a cat, my daugheter went to college, the cat is now thirteen, it's not a bad cat, it's a good cat, i never really liked cats, i kind of think they are cool now, a lot more respect, for our furry friends.
Eric.
gilliser 7 months ago
They don't make songs like this anymore.
Boris777Z 7 months ago 2
this isn't just music...this is a timemachine..this brings me back in time ...i miss those day's..and the music..this is one of the best songs ever...
rudyvg 7 months ago
n8tureboy,
Very well said and you obviously have a highly developed
appreciation for music.
provgrays 7 months ago
i just can't stop playing this song. It puts me right back to the 70's in my clubbing days when we were spoilt rotten with this type of music. Ah for those brilliant brilliant days no world worries and the trade towers were still standing what a brilliant world it was back then.. I really miss those days and so do my peers. God i would hate to be growing up now and have missed all that.
wacker130 7 months ago in playlist al stewart
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Real musicians playing real music. What the hell happened to the music industry?
bluesman209 7 months ago
classic masterpiece!!!!
33smokechic 7 months ago
sublime ...
jonjuliecat 7 months ago
kemp3L, Guitar is a fender thinline telecaster which had a chamber(f hole) cut out to give it a slight semi acoustic feel and improved sustain.The most famous model is probably the 1972 which they hava reissued.I would guess that this is a1972 model.but do not know for certain.The guitar also had humbuckers ,a radical shift from fenders single coil tele,s at the time.
STEVE24BUS 8 months ago
Maybe a guitarist can help me with this. Look at Al's guitar. It looks like a solid-body electric guitar. Why then does it have an f-hole (but just one)? Is this just for show?
kenp3L 8 months ago
Around 5th grade, and right up to my junior year of high-school, my father took it upon himself to educate me in the music of his college-years. Whenever he took me to school or to the library we'd pop in a cassette or CD and he would just, start talking about the music. How the groups or artists got started and just everything. I may be 21 now but whenever I pop in my cassette of 'Year of the Cat' I always think of my Dad and those days when we would nerd out over music.
Thank you Dad.
Lizbth01 8 months ago
i heard this when I was a kid when this was a hit on FM radio. I had just gotten a cool white digital radio alarm clock from my grandparents and I tuned in to what was happening in the 70's. This one brings me back Space 1999 was also big on tv at the time growing up in Brooklyn. Ah the 70's
tele757 8 months ago 12
@tele757 i was 7 when this came out! 42 now glad i found this vid, audio is real good! thanx 69 vader.
69vader 4 months ago
@tele757 Wow! I don't know how you did it. A supreme case of irony...but you just described my exact experience with this song. I had a white digital clock radio and the local LA station would play this song over & over again. It was my fave as a kid! Yes....those were indeed the days!
Declan50 3 weeks ago
I love this intro..
dockie1964 8 months ago
Dá joinha quem acha os 12 gay's
iluminus1 8 months ago
Dá joinha quem acha os 13 gay's
iluminus1 8 months ago
That's without question one of the best live performances I've seen.
reagent12 8 months ago
AN EXCELLENT LIVE PERFORMANCE...NOTHING..BUT NOTHING BEATS THIS, NOT EVEN TODAY!!!!!!!!
ursa41 9 months ago
FABULOUSLY SUNG AND PLAYED MELODY, BEAUTIFULLY HARMONIZED AND RHYTHMICALLY CORRECT - EXCELLENT LIVE PERFORMANCE - THANKS!
INFINITOCACHIRULO 9 months ago
Awesome< I use to play this record non-stop,lol
tinadumigan 9 months ago
love the solid piano piece especially but whole song is beautiful!
weestitch 9 months ago
best first line of ANY song EVER!!!
jhanke1970 9 months ago
better today than ever!
TimothyJDean 9 months ago
At least he can play his instruments and sing too! Not like the singers these days (I am sounding like my parents... ooops)
starchaser1960 9 months ago
Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.....
man, that has got to be one of the most descriptive lyrics ever written, Al rules...
jervonics2112 9 months ago
one of the best tunes ...ever....
MrArthurACarvalho 9 months ago
"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.
This song feels like a dream, a haunting memory from the past, when to be madly in love was all the world, all of life...it has an eery quality of fond memory, with it's bittersweet tone and poetry.
movalodh 9 months ago
This is simply a timeless classic,Al was so under rated in the UK
MrWatto45 10 months ago
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Thereisonlythemoment 10 months ago
Awesome LIVE!
alberzeta 10 months ago
Good art doesn't gets older. I live in Brazil.
daltonagre 11 months ago
I just love it, .... so many memories come to my mind !!! time has gone, I am still here, quite, and happy ...
Thank you m15r4m for sharing this beautiful song and this lovely video
icelisdenoguera 11 months ago
Lovely
icelisdenoguera 11 months ago
only just after all this time realised ..
its obvious freudian aspects...
suziecreamchease 11 months ago
My cat loves this song almost as much as I do!
The Beeb were way ahead of their time with Old Grey Whistle Test, perhaps
they should bring whispering Bob back in a Retro version? I'd watch it.
notrut 11 months ago
Timeless.............
chizywales 11 months ago
wow...that man is playing one of the greatest piano parts ever, and he just doesnt care...
LeonitustheFloater 11 months ago
pass the DOOB... on a rainy Day with a Fireplace on!!!
pekoe 1 year ago
EL AÑOS DE ESTHER.......
llPacciteXll 1 year ago
Sheer class - the whole band
mapior 1 year ago
a rare beauty!i love this song brings back good memories of my childhood!
33smokechic 1 year ago
I've Always Love This - Thankyou Gary...Anita..:)
anitashelby 1 year ago
Love this song thanks for the share Gary
TheReve1ation1 1 year ago
I LOVE you Al Stewart!
kittybunnyface 1 year ago
Fabulous ... just watched it again! I think I can remember the night this was actually showed on the Old Grey Whistle Test - but we were so spoilt for music in those days!
mrconveen 1 year ago
I hate this track with a passion.
ray123ification 1 year ago
@ray123ification haha. imagine if someone actually did!
sunonthewindow 1 year ago
just good stuff...nuff said!
bigbadfnmonkey 1 year ago
I just love this, and love this, and love it again! Probably one of my favourite pieces of music ever!
mrconveen 1 year ago
How did seven people miss the like button?
herbgurl82 1 year ago
You can get the audio-mp3 of this vid at grabaudionow doht cohm.
mardeyrosa 1 year ago
I remember My Mom listening to this song when I was around nine years old. This is a great song
MrTennesseeVols 1 year ago
Misterhorsey, You can disagree until your blue in the face and it always boils down to personal taste. You have yours and I have mine. I checked youtube for the artists you suggested. Sufjen sounds like he listens to a lot of Owl City.. As for the rest, not at all impressed... Not at all!
SK8N702 1 year ago
No artists anymore now, just performers.
headly66 1 year ago
Dreamy shit
oliverwolfson 1 year ago
@oliverwolfson pack a bong an daydream nout the 70's wow
pekoe 1 year ago
el problema es que ahora la música, la que esta de moda, ya no tiene melodía ...
no como esta joya que se vuleve parte de tu genética de solo escucharla !
faunoram 1 year ago
true klassik 70's magic.....!!!!!
fluffydolly 1 year ago
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Was he lisping?!? Learn to sing like a man!
jeishein 1 year ago
when i watch stuff like this from the 70's etc i realize how truly shallow and awful progs like the x factor are. the old bands etc had to work their way up to achieve rewards whereas x factor (Now Factor i call it!) encourages instant results and wealth without putting years of hard work in. no wonder the older stuff is so great. not nostalgia..just better composed.
fransam1961 1 year ago
This is music- something to have in school for the children of today!
TheElronda 1 year ago 6
una de las cintas de mi vida!!
maurici28 1 year ago
Me fascinaaaaaaa!!!!!
vivianagelfenstein 1 year ago
This song is loaded with memories for me...
XX
RockyWhyNott 1 year ago
I wish I was born then but sadly I was born in the 90's and more sad is that almost all the things suck today and especially music!That years people knew what music means!!!
thekillingjimmy 1 year ago
@thekillingjimmy
Although this is indeed a great song, your frame of mind is just sad and pathetic. All that nostalgia for a time you didn't witness first hand. The seventies were tough times for a lot of people and there was a lot of very shitty music around, too. The seventies weren't the "golden age" of whatever. They just were. And there's plenty of good music around today - though not on the radio anymore. You just have to look a little harder and dig a little deeper. Start living, man!
LucaEisenstein 1 year ago
@LucaEisenstein Chill Man!
The Kid was merely commenting on HIS observations. Nothing sad or pathetic about his "frame of mind".
Sheesh!
RockyWhyNott 1 year ago
And I'm stating MY observations. There's a bigger diversity of quality music out there today than ever before. You just have to look! Kids today have liberties, opportunities and means (technological and otherwise) at their disposal we didn't even dream of in the 60 / 70ies. Nostalgia is for old farts like me - not teenagers like him. It's not healthy...
LucaEisenstein 1 year ago
@LucaEisenstein Hmmm..."old fart" indeed. *laughing!*
~Tamara~
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RockyWhyNott 1 year ago
@LucaEisenstein I think the point people are making is that this is you might agree, a fairly complex melody, with a well thought out story and well crafted lyrics. Odds are this is a 100% live performance though I'm not sure, and Stewart and his band almost flawlessly and rather effortlesly create the sound and style of the recording with their playing and his vocal. Tell us how often that would happen today, and take your time.
17865329 5 months ago 13
Performances at the Old Whistle were live... however this might be overdub . Great cool song
hijodelsepulcro 2 months ago
@17865329 The Old Grey Whistle Test is a little weird... they're either live or miming to a previously-recorded live version from the day before (the most common scenario). The studio track here would have real strings instead of a mellotron.
Andrewsuber 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@thekillingjimmy Great comment, Kiddo! I personally LOVED music from the 90's.
~Tamara~
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RockyWhyNott 1 year ago
@RockyWhyNott That's what you like ....
thekillingjimmy 1 year ago
Me Jody Parker and Al Stewart!
relopez100 1 year ago
A previous post mentioned that crap on the radio is not worth a second listen. I'll do you one better - it's not even worth listening to this crap the first time. Music in the 70's and 80's was the last of good music. Even the 50's and 60's - the groups / artists had talent.
steelerdave2000 1 year ago
Love this song. I must say The Old Grey Whistle Test was a really good showcase for artists. I a, just discovering it now on Youtube.
zacandtaylorrule 1 year ago
this sounded great
lightingshar 1 year ago
Ohhhh----just incredibly lovely. Makes my heart ache now just as much as it ever did on hearing this for the very first time. If anyone is reading this comment & viewing the video here for their first ever time---let me tell you,this is so gorgeous,I know. However,his wonderful musical expression did not stop here,believe me---get to hear "Roads to Moscow", "Nostradamus", "World goes to Riyadh", "Time Passages", "Place of Versailles"-----you have senses yet to dream of, I promise you.
kbrowneyes 1 year ago
The music on this song is brilliant, Love it!!!
tracyhounsell 1 year ago
Craftmanship from a very tight band. Excellent thank you
tys1818 1 year ago
the oval office dark horse records george harrison~+~+~*
HaliacetusLeuco 1 year ago
Wow. This was talent. Music today simply can't compare in quality, just like women!
rd1956 1 year ago
Stood the test of time as one of the best songs ever.
gillan5 1 year ago
coldpay eat your heart out
ty3165 1 year ago
People what your experiencing here are fine musicians, songwriters, and performers demonstrating their craft. This is more than music, this is a sensory overload, a feast for the ears, and the art of fine musicianship.....sadly 95% of today's music isn't fit to listen too. But thankfully we've got YouTube to take us back to the time when music was music!
n8tureboy 1 year ago 16
@n8tureboy -perfectly said.
Today there is no art in producing, engineering, and playing.
The time and skill required to to produce something great like this is not being put in. We now have people who think they can produce and engineer the whole thing by themselves. And players of this caliber are not being made anymore. Muisc is dead, basically.
GaryNull 1 year ago
@n8tureboy
This is the 5 percent from the old timers, There was a lot of dross back in the day as well. Dont be a music snob, there is good and bad music from all era's. Different strokes for different folks etc.
oOMonkeyMagicOo 7 months ago
This is music!!!
TheElronda 1 year ago
first time ive seen this live, good musos tight band, very good song, cheers.
richtensail 1 year ago
I love the change from acoustic guitar to electrid guitar which doesn't happen on this video, but if it did it would be at about 4:00. :-).
This is one of those "Classic 80's" songs that everyone raves about but most of the ravers have only just heard it in the past 5 years. John Martin's "May You Never" is another example of this... BUT!
It's all MEGA ZARJAZ STUFF and we love it don't we... hey..
DrKincade 1 year ago
@DrKincade Of course I meant Classical 70's Songs and not 80's... D'OH!
DrKincade 1 year ago
I just heard this song and remembered how much I like it :) Great video!
BellaItalia4480 1 year ago
unbelieveable. nice! Al Stewart and band sound pretty close to the original recording. I saw them in Honolulu back in the late 70s and they sounded shite. Too much Maui Wowie, or Puna Butter.
trunkfunkowner 1 year ago
How did we ever devolve from music of this calibre to what we've got now? (Boyzone,Dizzy Rascal,Simon Cowell, et al)
BarnsleyTimelord 1 year ago 3
God, I love this song. Could listen to it for days.
Baritone45 1 year ago 2
what a timeless classic
northendnorman 1 year ago 4
Love this song! Im Gen Y and still wish todays music was like this
SuperScottyBhoy 2 years ago 15
@SuperScottyBhoy
Even though it's the same pattern of "the new generation music is weird and stupid" that we've seen before, y'gotta admit that everything from late 90's on is significantly cheaper and more repetitive. Maybe in 10 years we'll have forgotten about all the rubbish, and the few gems will be remembered.
Ratznium 9 months ago
As Nick Lowe said, "they don't write 'em like that anymore.". Brilliant blend of melody, musicianship and metaphor. Maybe the artists of today will be exposed to classics like Al Stewart and put forth some modern classics of their own. One can hope.
jimlisi1 2 years ago 4
Masterpiece!
Flawless live pefrormance and without the sound technology that we have today. This was achieved by pure excellence of musicianship.
AKAKArnott 2 years ago 28
@AKAKArnott Hell Yeah! we were lucky to grow up with true musicanship, not this processed stuff now.
nadaoferie 1 year ago 2
baby you're gonna miss your plane
greatjgatz 2 years ago
Holy Shit! Pet Shop Boys were most certainly influenced by this.
superjules 2 years ago
great stuff!
ncmike58 2 years ago
This whole album is really good. I'm going to look for the "Broadway Hotel". I like those lyrics too. Peace.
ruthieo54 2 years ago
ringrazio il mio amico enzo, che mi ha fatto conoscere questo artista!
SuperLino72 2 years ago
ok! very good
stussy36 2 years ago
Song like this are a totally lost art..intelligent lyrics,strong musicianship.sad to say, this would never fly in todays market of rap garbage and the whole britney Squad.
seany722 2 years ago 3
Agreed! I met Tim Renwick the guitarist who played on the original album while in England. He doesn't do sessions anymore and says he can no longer relate to popular music.
cbfeeling 2 years ago
Beautiful song.
raycsantus 2 years ago
This Song just changed my life after four years of madness.
Benj888 2 years ago
I'm with you on the "madness" part. It's important to reconnect with what matters most, and ELIMINATE that which doesn't. Good luck to you...brings back some really good high school memories for me...
jimlisi1 2 years ago
very detailed and descriptive poetry like a modern-day Shakespeare, Stewart paints a moving picture in his words
firetaker25 2 years ago 3
very nice
jozarj 2 years ago
Suberb
misternogreco 2 years ago
Beautiful song cricket cricket. Thanks so much!
birdnerder 2 years ago
No 1 on my list for the desert island! The PERFECT song! Just love it.
cricketpaulcricket 2 years ago 2
great memories, whatta story teller.... I close my eyes... and can see this song like it was a movie.
TrinaLOVEStheRIGS 2 years ago 2
Totally Sublime, Nuff said Thanks
browser007200 2 years ago 2
A truly beautiful song.
ColumRogers 2 years ago 2
smoking weed, drinking wine and listening to Al Stewart circa 1978
Jerseygirl608 2 years ago 6
I remember the 70's well. Then, the music was real, there were just we people with our "primitive" electronics. But then we also got high, no big deal, G. Ford was the president, I lived in his hometown, Grand Rapids, Mi, many good times then.
soco13466 2 years ago
My memories of this song bring nothing but smiles... Love this so much
NascarKitty 2 years ago
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demeleromedellin 2 years ago
Like when the world was young.
Shaunmolenbos 2 years ago
Le top !! vraiment execllent, touchant et c est du vrai ! ca nous change et ça fait vraiment du bien
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thejetshowlive 2 years ago
Alacebuchal, there is no passion on todays musicians. A lot of the junk today is computerized. My sister always bugs me because I only have classic rock and the reason is that there is no good mucsic coming out today. Today's music simply sucks.
gulfmar 2 years ago