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  • who wrote this song pete townsend?

  • I was a kid in the sixties and 70's Music Bikes and nice cars, i miss them day's, nooooo RESPONsabiliTy !

  • AH! BLESS YOUR SOUL FOR POSTING THIS! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! MUCH LOVE :)

  • Just a fabulous song....!!!!

  • How come some people think Bad Finger did this song?

  • im gonna blast my way thru here, bloody oath.

  • the best part at 2.54 gives me goosebumps.

  • Classic late 1960s Prog Rock-Psychedelic music with a twist - it changes rhythm & melody halfway through and comes out the other side...really cool! It was a hip hippie anthem signifying the end of the Sixties and the dawn of the Seventies.

  • I'm SO violent. I never met ONE violent anti-war protester and never met one soldier that got spit on!

  • we listened to this song on a compilation album all summer long on one of those tiny portable record players, it was gold.

  • As an 11 year old, I heard this song playing for the first time when I returned to the US on our way back East and we were in Seattle. I was on one of the upper floors of a hotel overlooking the city and Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountain Range across it on one of those occasional spectacularly clear beautiful blue sky days. It was inspiring. I've never forgotten that feeling.

  • oh yeah there is something in the air 2012, but it is ok, the following years filled with peace and luv.

  • Another great KSHE Klassic. This one was played on KSHE 95 years ago.

    A great piece. Thanks for the post.

  • Beautiful. Everything old is new again.

  • There was alot more brutality and abuse by the government back then. There wasnt any video phones and all the social networks and if the media or press wasnt present, alot of things went down.And that provoked alot of protesters to get a little agressive too.But there was an awful lot of peaceful demonstrations too.. Against the war and for civil rights

  • I love it!

  • the occupy movement isnt a movement. its a bunch of publicity hounds trying to outdo the other for face time on the news. we had a point, goals, and a focus in the 60's, and we actually got things done. we also didnt commit violent acts-that was abhorrent and completely against what we stood for. so please dont equate the occupy airheads with 60's protests. there is no comparison. occupy is a reality tv show, the 60's protests were reality.

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  • @HSECMAN You must have been super high if you claim there where no violent protesters in the 1960s. IM SORRY but that's bullshit. The Anti-Vietnam protesters were violent. YOU can Youtube them and look for yourselves. Yes Vietnam was wrong the wrong place to be but do not try to rewrite history. YES I also understand police/national guard were deadly/brutal towards Anti-Vietnam war protesters.

  • @musicfan088 I meant to say "There were some violent Anti-war protesters". I correct my error.

  • @HSECMAN thank you very much for clarifying the difference between hope and money

  • @HSECMAN The Occupy movement got hijacked before it even got off the ground. Don't think for one second that these CIA agent provocateurs are the real deal. It had cointelpro written all over it.

  • NOW!

  • R.I.P.Jimmy McCullough...

  • what a great song this u tube is great I love the song from when we were kids ,It went by so fast BG

  • #1 in the UK the week I was born - July 6th, 1969 :)

  • @TaishaJason me too and we share the same name

  • 'We are the ones we have been waiting for' makes perfect sense to me, it's quite simply a call to stop looking for someone else to fix the problems. If you're another bitter 60's child who thinks there is no qualified social movement happening today, but at the same time is more worried about your retirement than what happens in the rest of society, go crawl in a hole.

  • @johnharden66 Who`s bitter. And why were they waiting for themselves? Too many walking around with their nose glued to an Iphone.

  • COOL TUNE.ROCK ON!!!!!!

  • Quite possibly the worst rock song ever. Second to that other nonsense band Angel and that horrible song The Light Tower.

  • @TheThreeSpheres Quite possibly the greatest rock song, I agree.

  • @TheThreeSpheres Well, I like it, but maybe ya hadda be there. Absolute staple on early rock FM.

  • At 47 years old, this is one of my top ten favorite songs. Throw in that worthless, time wasting and extremely meaningless occupy CRAP and I'm gonna have to start listening to the Bee Gee's. Figure out what your cause is and let the world know. "I don't have a job and I don't want a job, but gimmee, Gimmee, GIMMEE!!!"

  • Occupy movement needs to adopt protest music of the 60s. That music helped bring people together in numbers to protests and rallies back then. You just cant go around beating a drum with a message that is all over the place.

  • EXPOSE HOMELESSNESS - BY THE HOMELESS FOR THE HOMELESS - running your video on our Google blog! Always an inspiration this song!

  • Kingpin big ern!!!!.lol

  • Today's revolution is as much of a conscience awakening movement as any movement before it. MY generation revolutioned us right into today's issues. Be honest with yourselves about that at least 'baby boomers'. Only those who lack cultural awareness could assume the music of Woody Guthrie's era, (my grandparents generation), through today music is meant only for the era in which they are written in. Music is timeless ~~ as are it's messages.

  • @84heroes1 What complete bullshit. Are you so self absorbed that the idea that 1% possess most of the nation's wealth & use their wealth to corrupt our system of gov't & diminish the effect your vote... is beyond your faculties? Are you so insular in your thinking that you disconnect from the people you work with, live next to or interact with on a daily basis? Simple idea; confrontation with the financial industry by showing up at their place of business with a simple set of demands.

  • Song from "The Strawberry Statement" movie about student protests and unrest at Columbia University.

  • Right in the middle of hippidom this came out, wow!!

  • SPETTACOLO. WONDERFUL...WUNDERBAR... ASBSOLUTELY FANTASTIC

  • I can feel it. Can you? Its there !! Free your Mind brothers and sisters.

  • The occupy movement may be the new revolution movement.!

  • Yup!

  • i think the whole world is ganna wake up soon

  • Listen:... Call out the instigators Because there's something in the air We've got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right Lock up the streets and houses Hand out the arms and ammo We're going to blast our way through here We've got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right And you know that it's right We have got to get it together Now!!!!
  • Im Only 22 And I Love This Type Of Music 50s 60s 70s 80s

    Timeless Classics

  • An absolutely brilliant song. RIP Jimmy and Speedy. You gave us something special.

  • dedicated to Scott Olsen, an Iraq Veteran who was critically injured by the brutality of oakland cops

  • WOW...Long time no hear...too long...straight to favs! Thank you!

  • I love this song! They play like they mean it! It gives me a Last Gasp of the 60' feeling. This came out well after the heyday of the youth revolt they sing about here. Maybe Thunderclap Newman looked around and saw nothing like a revolution was taking place and wrote it. The piano solo adds nothing to this song in my opinion.

  • @heliot58 I think it came out right in the middle of the youth revolt. I first heard it in the movie " The Strawberry Statement" . Right in the middle of it all.

  • @goodthing52 I've heard about it but i've never seen the movie you mentioned, I think these guys had some association with the Who prior to this. I really first heard this on FM in my small town in early, mid-70's. I always felt it was a song kind of looking back at the 60's. But it looks like it was out way sooner than i thought. Thanks for info!

  • @heliot58 The Strawberry Statement was about  student unrest and protests at Columbia University in the 60s. Peace.

  • The revolution is coming my friends.

  • My god this song is so fucking good.

  • best song

    ever

  • One of the most beautiful calls for revolution ever recorded.

  • We have got to get it together- NOW. Heavy.

  • Theme song for "Occupy Wall Street" and for the "occupiers" everywhere!

    From "Occupy Boston."

  • @thehistorywatcher Im going up to Liberty Square in early November.And will stay as long as I can.

  • Its beginning to look like 60s down on Wall St. Only its high tech now.

  • i thought (( Thunderclap )...was one Biggest ( ( icebreaker )) ....like somfthing in the air !!

  • What are these guys doing now?

  • #OCCUPYWALLSTREET

  • In recent years it's been conservatives now & again bring up the Th. Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure." Back around '68 I doubt they referenced it all that much! It's swinging around maybe nearer these days to how it was when this song came out. - Govt. is far from the only monkey-poor angel set on our shoulders.

    Those protesters near Wall St aren't drawing blood...

  • someone throw that skinny white kid a tee shirt...my god ughh.

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  • oh wow..takes me bak...still goin,still rollin,still popular...LOL...fantastic!!

  • oh wow..takes me bak...still goin,still rollin,still popular...LOL...fantastic!!

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  • I assume that this was before the age of synthesizers, so what is that synthesizer-sound coming from?

  • @gvt2u Robert Moog introduced the first commercially available modern synthesizer in 1964."

    Wikipedia.. ( so who knows if it's accurate )

    wow. I fiqured maybe '68-ish.

  • @gvt2u The MOOG synthesizer WAS here before this song was made. My father had the MOOG album that was put out on LP in the early to mid-sixties. It was a genius thing to do. The album is really a demonstration of the many sounds that the synthesizer could create. If you can find a copy of the album, it is truly worth listening to. Very surreal sounds, for sure.

  • BEAUTIFUL

  • We'll never get it together.

  • The late Jimmy McCullough on guitar here. He's the guy standing next to the piano player. Jimmy went on to be in Paul McCartney And Wings in the mid 70's.

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  • I never hear this song on the radio anymore,even on the oldie stations.One night the D.J. on a new oldies station was taking requests.I asked him to play this song and he had never heard of it!Lame.

  • From the movie, "The Strawberry Statement." We had so much hope then.

  • @Tigermoon1950 The Magic Christian actually starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr

  • Loved it when it came out in '69 - still love it!

  • Powerful sound...but lyrics are crap.

  • @Baskerville22 Lyrics are a call to do something about this messed world we live in. Which we tried to do back then. Generation today rather tweet and play games on iphone.

  • @0neuponatime "We have got to get it together...now" Hardly a political manifesto. Pop songs don't express - much less argue for - policies or practical measures. They are as useless as grafitti. Any drooling idiot can whine that they want a better world, but the mark of a serious adult is to offer reasoned alternatives...and the political course required to get there. Chanting "make love, not war" and parrotting, "Revolution, Now !!" is infantile and deluded.

  • @Baskerville22 What you call infantile and deluded had alot to do with ending Vietnam war. Reasoned alternatives are offered but when a government doesnt listen to the poeple , what is the alternative? Through hundreds of years , what you call drooling idiots have overthrown oppressive governments and dictators.Case in point, Egypt recently. No alternative right now but Mubarak had to go.So stop with your intellectual bullshit.

  • @Baskerville22 whats really infantile is someone who doesnt get it assuming this or any song was intended to be a manifesto in the 1st place. they were ideas,points of view,common ground.opinions expressed musiclly by artists,not politicians or leaders of some front.you might be better off reading newspapers as lyrical prose is obviously lost on you

  • This melody has stood the test of time. I still love it. The lyrics are relevent today also.

  • almost famous loved the movie, in love with the song

  • One of my favorite songs...

  • Great Pete . . .! !

  • fabulous,,,,stop the teaparty

  • Great song,and very nice accompanying video! :>)

  • This came out when flower power was everywhere, a real classic hit.

  • somebody is playing this song in London today.

  • wow very popular in southafr.too

  • we have got to get it together, NOW!!

  • @hellololokitty - Great call: So what are you doing about it to make that happen?? Its what you do right now that makes the difference :O)

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  • Without doubt - one of the all-time (if not THE all-time) one-hit-wonder greats!!

  • Big Ern!!!!

    

  • AND YOU KNOW THAT IT"S RIGHT!!!!

  • thanhk's..wilbyilby.....great song !!!!

  • The Magic Christian

  • una cancion que marca  epoca ¡¡¡ desde hace 40 años ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

  • The riff that runs through this, then lifts to sky high at about 3mins in is one of the best things ever made in music.

  • It has been over 40 years since this song was popular and still no revolution. If it doesn't start soon I'm going to be too old to participate.

  • @asimov13647 You know... it's never too late to form a wheelchair brigade!

    KEEP ON ROLLING! *-*

  • @asimov13647 It's on.

  • @asimov13647 Im getting old too . But Im going to try

  • @asimov13647 It happened. You missed it. You were supposed to do real "significant" things like demonstrating on your college campus. Because that as we all know/knew, was the place to make big changes in the world. Don't you see how much we impacted the world with our demonstrations? LOL!

  • @beentheredonethatb4 Impact? How about civil rights. And helping to end a war. And more freedom for women in the workplace. And ending a bogus draft. Go ahead and laugh. What impact have you had.

  • @goodthing52 I was part of that "revolution". It was easy for us to protest on college campuses. Our parents were footing the bill and we had no real responsibilities. The revolution never came. Our campus demonstrations did not bring about those changes. We protested a lot of things, but it didn't end the things you mentioned.

  • @beentheredonethatb4 I disagree with you. Campus protests werent the only ones in town.And by the way , what do think ended segregation, the war, the draft etc . I would say the people spoke , some were killed and injured.

  • @goodthing52 Also  my parents didnt foot any bills for me. And I had responsibilities and one was speaking up for what I thought was right. And I have no regrets.

  • I was responding to the original poster. There was no revolution. We protested and made some changes, but our big notion of revolution never materialized. Power to the people. Nope. Still government control. They give/gave us what they wanted to shut us up.

  • @asimov13647 If you think that, you're already too old.

  • one of the top 10 classic songs from the sixties

  • Because the REVOLUTION"S here! And you know it's right! And you know that it's right! We have GOT to get it together, we have GOT to get it together, NOW!

  • ALMOST FAMOUS soundtrack

  • This video was on a DVD I had called Psychedelic High.....it's a DVD of mostly Beat Club performances in England. Digitally remastered. I highly recommend it.

  • beach boys ish

  • they're playing it again ... TURN IT UP!!!

  • GREAT STUFF !! THIS MUSIC LIVES ON UNLIKE THE CRAP TODAY

  • :)

  • Me thinks we still haven't got it together yet and the time is still right for revolution

  • @ydoesithavetobeme Sadly , we cant have a revolution on the internet. It has to be in the streets.

  • I can't stop listening to this song!

  • That piano solo is horrible.

  • Almost Famous

  • @MrRafaeldecarvalho the movie kingpin too

  • i always liked the orchestration on this. nice strings, horns, etc. its odd these guys only had this one noted release. but their other releases sounded the same. the other thing is that this song came out with a lot of other revolution themed songs and it got lost in the background. good song!

  • clapton wrote the walk-down solo

  • @rodhorn54 Did Claptrap write the walk down solo from Dear Prudence as well?

  • This was produced by Pete Townshend

  • The Magic Christian!!!

  • Kingpin!

  • As of may 27,2011 Thunderclap Newman would be monitored with warrant less wire taps. The lyrics from something in the air could possibly make the band get looked at as domestic terrorists.

  • @xxdonaldqxxx Years ago, FBI had files on John Lennon and Grace Slick says there was a file on her. And many others. Big Brother I guess. Less and less freedom it seems.

  • God bless Jack and Jimmy McCulloch!

  • SPAIN!

  • fantastic

    

  • kingpin soundtrack

  • @MrRafaeldecarvalho The Strawberry Statement soundtrack, the Magic Christian soundtrack.

  • @MrRafaeldecarvalho Almost Famous Soundtrack

  • thats the tiniest lead guitar player ive seen. i take it back-we had a lead guitarist who was shorter than that guy. he a had a huge gibson, bigger than the thunderclap is playing, i think the guitar was bigger than he was. but he could whip on that axe!

  • @HSECMAN That is Jimmy McCullogh [spell check,anyone] later of Wings.

  • @HSECMAN Jimmy McCulloch as someone else said. Boy wonder guitarist. Probably 15 when this was filmed.

  • that was cool-but which one's thunderclap?

    thats an old jethro tull/pink floyd joke so simma down.

    empire? grow up pseudo philosophers

  • @HSECMAN thunderclap newman is the one sitting down with the hat on

  • @evan9997715 LOL dude that was a joke but thanks for the info.

  • that was cool-but which one's thunderclap?

    thats an old jethro tull/pink floyd joke so simma down

  • almost famous ahh good times

  • Década de 60, heim....

  • Powerful without being angry, an anthem for an era. Getting it together is nowhere near as hard as keeping it together.

  • @scootwhoman So true.

  • the60's...the marches..the protests...THE Generation...and ''the song''

  • @stewgotz1 How true is what you said.....how very, very true

  • Man these guys play their heart out...loved this from way back when....song was in the movie Strawberry Statement with a lot of good Crosby, stills and nash stuff...was a great flick that really caught the mood of the sixties

  • i would love to play piano like this...gonna give it my all. great song and brings back such great summertime memories!!!!!

  • Great song. Memories from many years agoi. Thanks for posting.

  • Here's some irony: Old daddy, Fred Koch began his fortune that he passed on to his sons, by getting a contract with comrade Stalin in 1929.