John Paul Young - Soldier Of Fortune (1983)

[NCfairlane331]

My Home where the Emu's run

[CanberraUser]

Is there more than one version of this song because I seem to remember the version playing on the radio back then sounded a little different to the one that is 'out there' (and not because of the mushiness of the AM band signal)

[vashislandgirl]

Wheres the love it button?!!!

[DiamondSkyLucy]

Love the pinnacles!



[auridas220]

is it just me or the lips are out of sinc

[DKashman]

A exellent song clip is ok but it has nothing to do with the song it is just images of our great country and John insome very average 80's gear. I have this plus the extende mix on CD the album was called the War Years as in (Warner Music).

[RefugeeInExile]

I cant believe how hard it was to find this song, i had to order an lp single from Germany then transfer it on to cd, thats how much i like this song though

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

After almost a year i have found this song on a cd here in Oz :)

[AlexDhuna]

This song was a hit in some European countries.

[grn007]

LUV IT LUV IT

[grn007]

NZOZ rocks

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

126,052 Views so far and i think im about half of em lol

LOVE this old song yes even with the dodgey clip

THANKS for all your hard yards with the great tracks nzoz

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

Absolutely GENIUS track and I for one LOVE the video. There is NOTHING to laugh about with 80s video's. They were imaginative and artistic unlike ANYTHING since!

[gregtross]

From 'Pasedena' to this in '83 was, what 11 years and he finished off his commercial success with what many judge to be his best............an '80's song but a fine testament.

[clubseiko]

Poppa

received your email  top stuff and many thanks

[TheAce787]

i hear this song on Aussie (DAB) its a classic!

[Sethlapod]

I have been trying to find out who sang this song for ages. It was played heaps back in 83/84' ....... Was it originally by J.P.Y as Manhattan Transfer comes up when searching for lyrics ...... Anyway thanks heaps for the post!

[arbym01]

@Sethlapod Yes, he was original singer...went by the name of Paul Young then. I had the original song on my old computer that crashed! It was 10 times better than this version of the song. It used to be my favourite song back then. I should have it burned on a CD somewhere and I've never posted here before so don't know how to do it, but since I also cannot find the original (slow) version of this on Youtube, I'll try to upload it if I can ever find it again. People should hear it the way it was

[clubseiko]

anyone know how i can get an mp3 of this

great song 

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

@clubseiko add me as a friend or send me a message and i will send youa copy of it no probs It took me ages to find it cheers poppa

[clubseiko]

@POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV

just found you thanks buddy really appreciate your trouble



[momzyaehr]

john paul young gosssssssssssh you rock! keep up thegood work man.... your the best.....

[trablita]

if yr stolen or yr identity is syolen u will always find away.even if u have to give up yr family to find the truth

[jacgw1]

On ya JPY..... It's a gooden

[sirptales]

perfect synkron!!!

[cousiwa09]

yeah what a fantastic track...sadly passed by very underrated...

[harryshand]

This is pretty good, never heard it before. It was probably a bit too in your face Aussie for UK TV.

[custard51]

Love is in the air was huge when i was at school and i just put it in my own set, so much great music comes from down under!

thanks JPY and Australia!!

[sarsha290806]

Flukin Great clip. so many memories attached. tah for posting!

[crypticqueen]

don't judge a video clip from so long ago....just take it as it is, a great australian song!!!!!! enjoy & stop bloody complaining.............

[ASkywalker1]

@crypticqueen...couldn't agree more.

[bwbasicwoman]

Also, what is up with the pastoral aerial footage of Sydney at the end? Not that Sydney isn't beautiful, but it goes against the whole "primitive" nature of the rest of the video. And what's with the fishing on the pier footage? Talk about a mish mash of video! It kind of reminds me of Tommy Leonetti's My City of Sydney at the end.

[bwbasicwoman]

This song should have been a huge hit, in the US even. It sounds like something Chris De Burgh would have done. JPY looks a lot like Cliff Richard though in this video, with his "geezer yuppie" outfit. Love the synths and glocks though.

[snifferenator]

I think the budget for the clip was almost $100, but the track is excellent. The bit about fishing was what John Paul Young would always rather be doing by his own admission. I reckon you are the only person to admit knowing who Tommy Leonetti was.......

[nzoz1983]

My City Of Sydney...

[verbusen]

I was kind of expecting more a song about war, I must have missed it. Thanks for posting though, its all good when you can listen to it!

[ColdWarWarriors]

Congrats to JPY for being inducted into the ARIA Hall of fame. Long overdue.

[ColdWarWarriors]

Great track, to bad we don't get music like this nowadays.

[JG300Ascout]

Does anybody have a link to Manhattan Transfer's cover of this tune, which I prefer? Can't seem to find it.

[steverob66]

bring back those magical 80's....love the music

[83survivor]

It was the 80s. What did you expect? Style over substance.

[josatinho]

TOO BAD THAT HE CEASED HIS CAREER

[Nevawake]

$5 music video, Real bad video for a good song. Must of thought to get some old home movies to make this lol

[nzoz1983]

i agree... very good song but what a naff video. I can almost compare this video to many Aussie television commercials coming out at the same time this song was a hit. Take the music away, replace JPY with Peter Brock and presto, you've got an early 80's Bridgestone ad!

[XXXXShelts]

Actually NZOZ try Uniroyal Computer Cat!!! Still love the song though

[gav240z]

@nzoz1983 just look up the original Holden VL commercial and voila.

[nzoz1983]

@gav240z yep, that too!

[gav240z]

@gav240z /watch?v=onJJSg5H1EA

[trablita]

god hes even got the same t shirt from childrens ho,me. free all of us 4 peace4fucks sake

[diuga1]

Is paul Young (EVERYTIME YOU GO AWAY), and John Paul Young, the same singer?

[diuga1]

Just kiddin´.

[Barsopen1970]

yes both the same mate, sometimes he's been known to also play pope john paul II as well, but he killed off that character a short while ago

[diuga1]

Hahaha

[antonichoz]

I LOVE this song .. had it on a compliation album in '83 with a coloured cartoon style beach scene on the fron of it .. also on it was "Just got lucky" ..

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

Yep thats a good Album Its called ~1983 Summer Breaks

Im looking for a good Record or cd copy of this song if you can help

I have looked all over the web for the song on cd and cant find it

[Barsopen1970]

have you recieved one yet ?

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

NO Boo Hoo still looking Can you help ? Please :-)

[Barsopen1970]

yes i can .. i'll just start lining it up : )

and then i'll message you

[sunsets1972]

Actually all his songs were great , A+.... 5 *****stars for this one as well.

[mignonhenne]

he had about 4 crap songs that were massive then 7 brilliant songs that did little? wtf? lol

this is better than anything in australia that year.i knew it and didn't know the artist until last year.

[83survivor]

The 80s were great! Great time for music. You might laugh at the fashion or the music video productions from that decade, but 80s music was the shit and still is.

[RSCII]

Took the words right out of my mouth.. We're both the same age and I agree - the prior generations had far superior music in every single way. I can't even stand anything even remotely recent. There was true originality and creativity back then.

[allanxxx99]

I grew up in the 80's and during the time I thought we stole ideas and fashion from other era's (60's with the beatles and 70's with punk and disco) but now I'm older I realize that we truly did have our own sound...Sometimes I wonder if the new gen thinks the same...

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

Ive been trying to get this song on cd for ages its driving me nuts anybody got any ideas?

I do have it on cassett but that is 15 years old now and fading fast

[80sWOW]

Hi,

I have the CD if you want to buy a copy?

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

yes please name your price ill add you as a friend so i can contact you without thousands of people seeing the details

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

dont know if you will get this as it says your account is suspended if you do please start a new account and add me as a friend cheers

[aaronryanmusic]

Thanks for posting this video. I've got this song on an LP "Summer Breaks". I was interested in the story associated with the album "One Foot In Front" you mentioned but couldn't find any mention of it in the link you posted.

[nzoz1983]

Oh dear, they must have removed the story.... I can barely remember it now, but the details were quite gritty.

[aaronryanmusic]

Now I'm really intrigued! I know you can barely remember it but can you give a general idea of what it was about?

[nzoz1983]

Apparently, he did not think the album was promoted very well and he began sueing those who were meant to take care of his career.

The details were written in a long paragraph in wikipedia, but it seems to have been deleted since....

[aaronryanmusic]

Thanks nzoz,

It appears that there are a number of albums that just don't get the promotion they deserve. Tim Finn is one artist who seemed to lose on this front when he had good albums. Thanks for telling me the story!

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

Hi nzoz1983 can you tell me where you get your vids from im going crazy trying to get a copy of this song CHEERS POPPA

[nzoz1983]

Hi Poppav,

I actually got this clip straight off an episode of Countdown (which was re-played on rage a few years back). I merged the video with an MP3 that I found by chance... I do have other ways of getting hold of videos...

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

Thanks for the reply i have a heap of your clips saved as favorites they take me back to when life was easy and we didnt seem to have a lot of woes we do as adults im gunna add you as a friend if thats ok so i can send you messages with out the eyes reading them CHEERS

[hunkydaboyz]

chick dancer is a cutey

[nzoz1983]

Tell her. She posted a comment on here about a month ago.

BakkiBoo is her account.

[hunkydaboyz]

i will

[BakkiBoo]

No Need! Im here!! Hello!! And wow thank you! HAha! Im flattered! But ALAS, Im no longer a young spring Chickie Cutie Dancer anymore though! haha and if I bent that way ever again I'd BREAK the BACK! HAHAHAA!

No ...Im fat grumpy old Monster Mum Extraordinaire! LOL Hahahahaa

-But thank you for the compliment! ;)

[hunkydaboyz]

yes i think back in those days , we all looked a bit different , so tell me was JPY actually there when you were dancing ?? how old were u then , and how did u get the gig ??

[BakkiBoo]

I think if this was on Countdown Nov 83 [as I read previous comment], I would've been 19/20yrs old @the time when filmed. Cant remember too much but I DO remember it was raining & COLD. Had to wear skimpy costumes & were freezing cos it was made in a big ol COLD Warehouse in Ultimo, Sydney! JPY WAS there & I remember seeing him crackin up @ 1stage when they were filming. He lost concentration for a moment but ended up they kept it in the clip!

Remembered thinking he was very nice man! Very Pro!

[BakkiBoo]

I think I got the gig from just being involved in Dance/Drama & performing at the time. I had worked in Sydney as a dancer in clubs as well as in Theatre Productions & had done a bit of hiphop/jazz/funk dancing as well. I honestly cant remember how I got contacted & through what agency or what. I guess becos I was involved in so much at the time! - Oh to be 20 again!! haha!

Funnily I ended up being in 3 film clips: 1x Dancing in JPY clip, 1x Miming in ScottCarne clip, & 1x my Band's clip! :)

[swampguts]

Thank you for sharing your incredible experience with the rest of us. Oh yes and we have all lost our figures , that is something our daughters now have, and they are welcome to it.

[BakkiBoo]

More than welcome! Yes I still look at this & cringe. And yet in same respect I look & think to myelf, SEEEEEEE!?! I WAS a young Hot Spritely leg-flashing flitting thinner thing back then prancing about with heaps of energy!! Hahaha! Where did that energy go? And if you find out, can I have some pls!!? Haha ;)

[swampguts]

Our children steal it from us and then their children steal it from them, where have all the flowers gone. You will be apart of my music history and i will remember this clip for always Thanks

[DisposableName]

It was a big hit in Zimbabwe in 1986 and 1987.

We used it in a ZAF-ZARD recruitment campaign.

But the video was never shown here.

If it was seen here we would have laughed too.

Sydney Capital in the last part looks nice.

I would like to be in Australia.

[BakkiBoo]

OH..

MY...

GOD!!! PMLMAO!!

Cant believe THIS is on here!! I cringe & agree twas a shocking vid! I remembr being kinda disappointd when it came out. Expectd a lot better! On the day when we saw the laser effect, they assured us it was the latest thing & would look amazing! So at the time we were all kinda impressed! Amazing how it totally dates the clip!

I Cringe!! I Cringe!  We look like a right pair of Twats!! Hahaha!..AND WHAT r we wearing!!??

Oh dear the things U do when ur young! LMAO

[asmoody]

Oh yeah, a mix of Umpa Loompas and Mad Max. If I were him I'd find the director and smack him with an Emu leg after I roasted it for dinner. Percussion bit was OK, but frankly I was expecting to see grenade launchers not oversised runnign turkeys.

[hunkydaboyz]

well well , you're the cute chick in the video , well done , what u doing now

[DJPashn]

wicked song. Should do a remix of it

[Iveyrose66]

Even John Paul Young is laughing at the fact there is emus in his video clip

[nzoz1983]

I think the video could have been better. There's just no need to have some of the images that appear in this video. Even the laser lights behind JPY being shaped like the map of Australia kinda sucks. This song should have been a bigger hit. It had a lot going for it. The video is not what I'd expect.

[sunamist]

funny clip, considering the title, however, it was made during the early 80's, so not as well thought out for marketing purposes, as music and clips today.

:)

[gothecats29]

I agree - such a great song - such a bad clip!

[tech9803]

Probably the only music video in history to feature running emus...

[rimian]

Yes and they are running because they are trying not to get run over. Funny!

[ajaxfanta]

I am still in my musical time warp and jpy still rocks!

[lynjef7]

Aaahhh this is so great I have not heard this song in sooooo long - way cool stuff.

cheers for sharing

[swampguts]

Just mabey this will happen for the 30th anniversary of Love is in the air, next May. Mabey he will just go fishing to celebrate the anniversary

[swampguts]

Greta would love to see them on your site. At least we have nzoz , so it does not matter that JPY has never released a DVD. Thank you Kim

[nzoz1983]

actually, it would very nice if JPY did release a DVD with ALL his videos.

[swampguts]

Hi nzoz, thank you for the great JPY posts. Do you have any more from the Soldier of fortune album Ta Kim

[nzoz1983]

actually, I do... LA Sunset and War Games.

[cuearm]

Hey. I'd forgotton how great this song was. Thanks so much for letting me hear it again....and again....and again. Well done

[mooneepondskid]

Maybe I'll just arrange my aussie music cd's so they spell NZOZ...and if people ask me I'll tell them you are the king of aussie music on Youtube.

[nzoz1983]

ha ha, thanx. that's quite a compliment! :)

[mooneepondskid]

You know NZOZ,I might have to start building a shrine to you in my loungeroom. This is such an underated song that virtually never gets radio airplay nowadays.

If only I was a radio programmer...lol.

[nzoz1983]

ha ha, cheers... Agh.. you don't have to make a shrine to me! Just save these videos as .flv files onto your computer just so if my accounts are suspended, people can just upload them again.

[Bluemilkrun]

pretty cool.

[RYANGIRDLER]

JPY hosted Countdown on November 6, 1983. This video was shown on that episode along with "Change in Mood" by Kids in the Kitchen