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  • We really did have it all didn't we. I was 15 when this record came out.and loved it. Still sounds fresh and so relevant. What a brilliant lead voice. Finally got my own copy of the 45 a couple of years ago - and play it when I need inspiration - excuse the pun.

  • Had the pleasure watching TRM sing this brilliant song at The Amersham Rock and Roll club on a few occasions over the last couple of years. He's a true gent and I will be there when he's next performing.

  • Its the ultimate pop record - magnificent singer *(TRM) magnificent lyrics - just a piece of pop history that should be played more

  • Someone else who went to the Raith Ballroom and the Raith Showband were fab. We used to run a bus from Penicuik once a month. Great times.

  • coulda been today, but its yester from time the ultimate time I guess the 60s

    always from time but today as well, so hauntingly beautiful a song, thanks as always for post

  • it should be on the national curriculum that this song is played at the start of every school day , its the most important the young can ever learn

  • Been after this song for thirty years. If anyone has this original version i'm bazspencer97@yahoo.com.

    Pleas send before i expire.

  • Brings back memories of the Raith ballroom in Kirkcaldy, 17 years old and everything still to come.

  • Any chance of 'My World' by the Inspirations? BRILL!!

  • brilliant song...this is what its all about

  • We used to come home from a club at about 1am and we would be singing this song at the top of our voices, maybe we really believed the lyrical content....however..this song is so good its makes my soul just ache to go back to this wonderful innocent period...when classics like this were coming from every speaker in town.

  • would be a no 1 now if re-released

  • brilliant version of little anthony and the imperials record from '67,teddy randazzo did a lot of songs for l a a t i.its on youtube,have a listen.

  • Great song. A bit like Dont walk away Renee. Check my channel for some covers of sixties stuff.

  • fantastic song heard it years ago x

  • OMG i have heard this brilliant record so much lately & am gobsmacked to see they are WHITE!

    Fantastic recording and i love it

  • incredible music - capital gold often play it and whether am out cycling /running or coming back from the pub makes me want to sing!!

  • Terry Rice-Milton really got into his singing....... Great song

  • Dont think i will ever get over this generation, what a joy, what memoreys,sweet dreams are made of this.

  • ALL THAT MATTERS IS NOW LIFE IS SO SHORT

  • fantastic song- loved it for a long time but never actually seen it performed! thanks so much for posting

  • yesterday has just departed

    and tomorrow hasn't started

    all what really matters is right now

    and you should live a lifetime in each minute

    take the sweetness from within it

    yesterday has gone without a sound.

  • "It's too late to live when you're dead!"

  • Finally I hv managed to watch this video. The 60's were the greatest with all the wonderful pop tunes.

  • Is that Gordon Haskell singing ?

    I knew he was in this band

    Loved his brief time with King Crimson.

  • @PhilK116 No, this is the original line up from Stamford, Lincs. The later version with Gordon was, I think based in Leamington Spa but was a case of the management keeping the name when the original band members wanted to do something different. The singer is Terry Rice-Milton (or Terry Bull to his mum!) who had a great voice. I'm friends with the bass player Laughton James (Jim Laughton) and guitarist Wyndham George (Jeff Hart) sporting the wonderful afro!

  • Now THIS is POP at its ZENITH

    For YEEEEEEEARS a personal fave ...

    Sheer perfection 1968 style

  • Absolutely spot on, just love it

  • ah when music was music wonderfull a classic

  • the guitarist looks like the wolfman on a bad hair day

  • michael palin on keyboards?

  • The most important song EVER. Forget silly love songs. This is about what life is really about. Get on with your life now. Make your future happen. Teddy Randazzoh who wrote this said "It's to late to live when you are dead" Teddy Randazzo, singer/songwriter who wrote more than 600 songs, died on Nov. 21 2003 Cause of death was not released. He was 68. I so wish I had met him. magic. talent or what!

  • DLT is as immortal as these songs. Great!!!!

  • Oh the memories. Am I old, or isn't music as good these days. Great vocals, Terry.

  • Anyone tell me where I can download the mp3 for this fantastic oldie ??

  • Is that DLT introducing?

  • Brilliant song, brilliant singer, powerful and gets you "right there"!! Glad to see you are still going strong Terry....you have so many fans out there....

  • School Days..great song...!

  • Terry Rice-Milton certainly looks older now--but he still seems to have the same energy and stage presence he had back in '68.

  • two and half minutes of sheer bliss (as my wife might say)

  • aaahhhh!!!! the memories

  • Thanks - great memories of one of my early 45 purchases (Still got!!) - Paul Bowden (Isle of Man - ex loiner)

  • Great record one of my absolute favourites from the 60's, and what a singer Terry RM is. Sounds just as great after all these years. I think the song was either written by or produced by Jimmy Duncan who was the brother of the great Lesley Duncan.

  • Great record one of my absolute favourites from the 60's, and what a singer Terry RM is. Sounds just as great after all these years.

  • I am just blown away. I have not heard this since the 60s yet I can sing along with it like it was just yesterday. Excuse the pun. Great vocals.

  • You have to keep coming back to remind yourself how good it is - just awesome and TRM singing it with Amen Corner shows the voice is still brilliant!!!

  • Its in the wind this song such a long time ago

    from them times

    so beautiful a song

    so brilliant

    so shining

    a signature from time

    peerless music

    from time to today

    always uplifting, thanks for posting

  • awesome??? totally agree with the eloise link. powerfull stuff well orchestrated & huge vocally!!

  • Hi guys....Here I am again, still come back to this video often, not sure whether its to get the past to the present....such good times

  • brill love this song reminds me of my older brothers they were always playing it

  • I have had this song ringing in my brain since 1968 and now I have found it again,Fantastic !!!!! I was 10 when it came out and it sounds even better now,Thanks

  • music was just transparently better...yesterday sure has gone...but ironically, i rather live there.

  • one of my favourite songs too. born 1956 still remember it well. and the guys, i know why i got gay. they were sexy in the 60s when being sexy wasn´t such a great thing like today. great sex appeal. love to all of you from berlin, helmut.

  • classic song from classic group wowee

  • What a brilliant song,only 12 at the time,can't get outta me head brilliant brilliant brilliant

  • I was only 8 at the time...but I love this record. I hear it often on Radio2 and when I do I just have to stop what I'm doing and listen! It must be love!! :)

  • wow .. how we could do with something so big time uplifting dramatic camp masculine and totally fabulous now !!!!!!

  • A wonderful wonderful piece of musical heritage.

  • # 4 in the charts its a fact, shoulda been # 1 but time says different, just a rollercoaster ride from them times, brill post John

  • One of the greatest 60s songs EVER!! Thanks for the post -will go off to work with a smile on my face, and this great song in my head

  • PERFECT pop song ever I love it

  • I am always listening to this song, great song, great singer, great memories. Terry you still sound fantastic....bless ya.....thanks for everything.....

  • can i tell you there will not never be one like this again has long as any of us live thanks lamdelz

  • Absolutely a classic!!!!

  • Trouble is most of the sound is that of an orchestra, with brass to the forefront. A popular sound in '68 pop music (e.g. Love Affair, Marmalade). Still, it was a nice song. I used to like the B-side 'Dream' written by guitarist Wyndham George I think his name was. Yes Terry Rice-M you do indeed have a powerful voice and did this song real justice. Good to know you're alive and kicking.

  • @blossomsquirrel

    As a lover of symphonic rock, I think that the orchestral / brass sound adds greater depth

    to this record. Eloise by Paul and Barry Ryan is another example of the use of heavy orchestration.

    Both classics in my opinion.

    Terry Rice-Milton is certainly one of the most underrated vocalists in the history of popular music.

  • TRUELY MAGICAL SONG !!!!!!! Brings back many memories if ONLY groups of today were as TALENTED as this. BRING BACK THE 60S  YEAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • meant to say exudes the era without 60s artifice. Sorry.

  • Have been playing this over and over. Am a bit young to remember the 60s (was 7 when this was out), but love the era. Didn't really know this. For me, this song sums up the 60s. I know it  should be the Rolling Stones or the Beatles etc, but the energy and performance is fantastic - it exudes the era with 60s artifice.. Terry Rice Milton is magnetic. No flash stuff but powerful and soulful. What a voice! This song leaves me in a great mood everytime I hear it. Outstanding in every way!

  • Superb song and great video,i also love My World, great vocals on both records.

  • What a fantastic song with great vocals!

  • I love 60s music, that one in particular, Ahh memories, wonder what she's doing now.

  • Never took to it...but here am I listening to it.

  • Records just dont get any better than this!!

  • Wow. I had forgotten all about this hit until Almond/Proby brought it back. But the original, i now hear, is not the lesser one, or outdated in any way. There's also a lot of soul in this one.

    You were (are?) an excellent singer Terry, as can also be heard in My World. And Yesterday is still an immensely appealing song.

    Boo to the Love Affair! Strangle the Tremeloes and the Marmalade! 

  • This version sounds heaps better than mine.  I think I have studio version, but these guys are brilliant live.

  • Why # 4...? This is a real # 1 Hit!

  • an absolute classic from a forgotten era,very memorable song, GREAT

  • @h6425 An absolute classic from a NEVER FORGOTTEN era. GREAT !!!!!

  • Same Old song

    Same Old Quality A perfect snapshot of the 60s and 60s music. John

  • What a great Group and song. Imagine how it would sound if it was remastered . Terry has a fantastic voice, I wonder why didn't we hear more from this group over the years. Can anyone help with naming the guys playing in this particular clip. I thought there was another Terry in the group.

  • Terry,

    I absolutely LOVE this song!....... you pull this off so well..... and can feel every word of what you sing..... wish i had been of an age to have enjoyed you at the time you made this song....I would have had your music on allllllllllll the time!.....Fannnnnnntastic Terry!

  • @terry11821 Sorry Fritz, Cupid's were in Hamburg 28th August '68 for Beat Club! The other date was for a different show altogether. Can you help us trace the original footage of Beat Club please? Many thanks,Terry.

  • @terry11821 I remember when I lived in Broad St and you did a public appearance on the market, I was only 5. I used to work with Jim and Geoff in Owl Records and am still in regular touch with Jim: he doesn't change!

  • @daleuno Hi, Terry R-M here! Lovely to hear from you and sharethe 'Market' moment with us, and to know that you are still in touch with Jim, me too! We are doing our best to arrange a Cupid's Reunion gig in Stamford soon

    ps The Leamington Spa lot were well after Gordon, we were all based in the London area up to the time I left. Roger Gray ( Drummer) was actually the last of the original Cupid's and he played with the Leamington Boys for a while.

    pps MANY THANKS FOR ALL COMPLIMENTARY POSTINGS!

  • @terry11821 ---Hi --Due to the wonderful You Tube Ive found one of my all time favourite tracks. --My name is Ed Im from Kettering and i have clear memories of seeing Cupids Inspiration many times during the late sixties and early seventies. I also remember your dynamic live version of Yesterday Has Gone & i seem to remember you doing a blistering version of River Deep Mountain High ?? --and If Im not mistaken you had a tall lanky bass player with big hair ??? --lol Very best wishes from Ed

  • Fritz, you put some real classics up, brings back very old memories , form a very young age, thank you.

  • Perfect

  • @LVEMEDO Still here -still listening - just running out of superlatives

  • @jamesrachael James you are a star Just Enjoy AS I KNOW YOU DO This 3 mins of Perfection WOW a zillion thumbs up to you & Terry

  • @jamesrachael GOOD ON YOU JAMES I just love it WOW just BRILLAINT

  • @james rachel GOOD ON YOU JAMES I just love it WOW just BRILLAINT

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  • @toukes101 Awesome comment

  • I'd confidently say that music has regressed since 1968. The Cupid Inspiration and their excellent lead singer, Terry Rice-Milton seemed to have attained the pinnacle of sound and creative self expression. I enjoyed this number and it doesn't leave me. I keep coming back over to this and it feels alive, true and full of emotion, the way good music ought to be.

  • Well, i appear to be about 40 years behind everyone else, but i am glad to finally catch you all up! The song is brilliant, the video great fun, and, in my opinion, i think the song should be re-released.

  • Groovy, man, so groovy!

  • What a classic

  • @postyj YES IT IS SIMPLY BRILLIANT TY

  • My uncle Roger played drums in this great song,Thanks for the video. My mom would of loved to see this clip and was very proud of her brothers music achievements. What a great voice TRM has.All the best to you Uncle Roger "if you see this" and the great people in midland England.

  • My lord!! I remember hearing this song on the radio and being trully gobsmacked - I honestly thought Terry that you were black - your voice is soo soulful :). I absolutely adore it and still hear it regularly played on the radio and it still sounds fab! One of the best songs of the sixties in my opinion! Brill!

  • Terry what a great song,its on a par with My World,im always playing a cassette i bought of all the hits,only this morning Bryan Matthew played never trust in tomorrow by another group, nowhere near as good as your version.Thanks for all the great songs,great memories

  • I was 16 then.......... just an amazing time to be a teenager.......... sadly no longer a teenager.Doh!! but the memories are still as fresh as it was then... It's the kinda of music that made Carnaby St. famous Mike

  • This song is still brilliant after all these years and the lyrics are inspired and oh so true.

  • Once again, I feel bound to respond to those of you who take the time to comment. I can only speak for myself of course but I am sure that the other Cupids feel the same as I do and would not mind me thanking you on their behalf. We are hopeful of organizing a reunion 'gig' or am I just 'living in the past'... 'givin in to what I feel inside'. Sorry, can't help myself...now that's another song completely!

  • @terry11821 HelloTerry, what fabulous news, yes please, do let us know if you manage to organise reunion gig... let us all go back to 'living in the past' and what we all feel inside! I really think you should re-release this song right now as it is the inspiration that we have always needed, especally these days... lots of love

  • @terry11821 How wonderful it would be to actually see the band responsible for this piece of wonderful music history, to 60s was a truly inspiring time for many people, and the chance to see you guys perform would be magic. Looking at all the comments here it would seem I am certainly not in the minority, "if not now when? if not you who"? come on Terry make us all happy do the gig, please!

  • The late 60s, possible perfection in a no mark band, PERFECTION all the others chasing the wind, just some thoughts

  • Love this song - reminds me of the Rollerena in Kirkstall Leeds - what a voice - SINGS LIKE A BLACK MAN!

  • Always loved this one though I was about born when it came out. The Koobas foolishly turned the song down. Silly boys, nice trousers though.

    Just listening to the Cupid's Inspiration LP - great stuff. 'Sweet Music' indeed.

  • Great song, takes me back to those times that have gone but never forgotten...

  • Hi Terry & the Band. Loved the song for many years but never seen any footage...till now. Great performance. Yes, such a big voice / big sound in keeping the movement circa 1968 (Puckett; Amen; Love Affair et al.). Well done and cheers.

  • i always keep it in my favourites ....i wasnt even born till '74

  • Fantastic voice fantastic song remember it well

  • Any one think the guy here looks like a young Robin Gibb ??

  • WOW love it

  • "What's the good of living in the past?"

  • oldies beat newis all da time 

  • Great song -i remember it well.

  • JUST SHEER JOY wow IT GETS TOO ME EVERYTIME JUST PERFECT

  • luv it - luv it - luv it !

    Don't know how I missed it before but I can't stop playng it now !

  • Fantastic on EVERY level

  • Such an inspirational song, I haven't heard it for years, and I just started singing it in the kitchen lol....Great to find it on here...power up people this song really lifts the vibes xxx

  • WHAT A SUPERB VOICE

  • this song is absolutley brilliant, wish they still made them like this today. excellent voice.

  • total brill x

  • Hi tenrecords,lvemedo, procamp9000,Sandy4111,Meeeeeee­e8eeeeee and all you other 'discerning contributors' over the years. Cannot thank you enough for 'bigging up' Cupid's and yours truly as you do, if you enjoy the performance half as much as we enjoyed making it then we enjoyed it twice as much as ....I don't know where I'm going with this but it is too late to stop now. Wivlotsanlotsaluv, Terry R-M.

  • @terry11821 Hello Terry - You are an inspiration yourself! Please let us know about your 'gigs', it would be wonderful to know when and where we can see you. All the very best and lots of luv.

  • Fantastic band,this is a song I defy anyone to tire of,uplifting in every sense of the word.Try and get the album 'Yesterday has Gone' 1969. its excellent still playing it strong sfter 41 years. SUPERB!!!!

  • JUST SHEER MAGIC one in a million

  • I love this song!!! And the awesum hair

  • Thank you for coming to see us Terry, nice surprise. I was looking through an old JACKIE Comic from the 1960's and there you were, talking to the magazine about swimming trunks....I had to smile....anyway keep up the great singing as always, and dont forget you have many fans...

  • PERFECT

  • WHAT NEW CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THIS GEM that we haven,t all said before LIGHT BULB ON lol JE,TAIME

  • @LVEMEDO Right as always,ive been on hols for 2 weeks - got to have a transfusion of little bit od magic !

  • Hello you lovely people. Terry Rice-Milton here, yes, still going strong, stronger than ever in fact, after reading all that has been said about Cupid's Inspiration's performance of what, even 40 or so years on,is still a fantastic song.

    I just had to reply to all the great messages and to thank you for the wonderful compliments over the years. I am absolutely 'blown away' by it all!

    Yea that's me 'Living A Lifetime In Each Minute'. Lotsanlotsaluv to you all!

  • @terry11821 Hi Terry, my father in law is Derek Needham your old basist. Kx

  • @Pumplekin1 Hello Pumplekin tell Del that Bernie and I would love to hear from him. If he goes on line to Ancestor Gateway Forum, Stamford, Cupid's Inspiration Page2 and makes a posting ,saying he wants to get in touch. It will happen.

  • @terry11821

    Rember seeing you at the butlins 60s festivals many years ago are you still gigging

  • @terry11821 Hi Fritz. Thank you for your kind comments and also for posting the video in the first place. I remember how well we were looked after in hamburg. Dave Lee Travis came to meet us at the AirportAll the very best to you too!

    Hi Rockincolin. Nice to hear from you. I am still doing the odd gig or two. In fact may just be doing even more in the not too distant!

  • @terry11821 PERFECT TERRY LOVE IT

  • @terry11821 Thanks for this particular song,it was an integral part of my growing up not to mention the influence the lyrics had on everyone that heard it, it ranks along all the other classic songs we have been fortunate enough to enjoy over the years. You created a piece of pop history with this stunning song, your vocals are superb the song is sublime, thanks again.

  • @terry11821 I love 'Yesterday Has Gone'- what a timeless piece of music, (and for the record, I weren't even born when it come out!) I especially love the line: "It's too late to live when you are dead"- (NEVER a truer word spoken!) If there's one thing this song's taught me, it's to live for the here and now. Much obliged! Peace and love! Be lucky! :)

  • @terry11821 Terry great to hear from you I still have the 45 here in New Zealand since I bought in 68 nothing to play it on mind you but cannot let go of it as it is amazing

  • @terry11821 My hero - after 50 years of listening to any music i think you made yhe ultimate pop record - its just a combination of voice,lyrics and backing all coming together in an awesome record

  • @jamesrachael I AGREE JAMES

  • @terry11821 This one takes me way back to the 60s. I always liked the song and have been hearing it a lot on the radio lately.

  • @terry11821 Ha Terry that line you sing " time is wastin and well soon be old." how true was that eh my friend......This was one of the best songs of the 60s.......good to see you are alive and kicking and "Thanks" for a great iconic tune

  • @terry11821 Great memories of a great period. Thanks.

  • @terry11821 brialliant terry .....fantastic voice........you should have been much bigger.......my world one of the best songs not to make it

  • @terry11821 when this song came out i was working as a painter in a girls school in maida vale.......the girls had this record playing all the time.....they had great taste....

  • IF YOU EVER GET TIRED OF THIS SONG THEN YOUR TIRED OF LIFE simply GREAT

  • Britain's tribute to the sound of Motown. And a good one at that. Very Four Tops cum Detroit Spinners sounding but a great song nevertheless.

  • just heard Terry R M is a fan of The Paris 1940s and he's coming to our next gig He's left a comment on our site. Praise from TRM is praise indeed!

  • so true

  • WELL HERE WE ARE AGAIN into listen to the best two & a half min,s OF SHEER BLISS IF ALL MUSIC WHERE LIKE THIS we would be in PERFECT HARMONY

  • @LVEMEDO Just brilliant, we should invent new words to describe it !

  • @jamesrachael I,M WITH YOU JAMES HMMMMMM HOW ABOUT BRILLIANT FANTASTIC AWESOME a little bit of MUSIC BLISS who cares WE LOVE IT

  • One of the best songs from a generally non descript year for music.

  • true and magic voices. brillant!

  • I was 10 years old when this song came out & I love it today as much as I ever did. I'm well chuffed to see it on here! Thank you so much for poting this.

  • a great song , must admit remember first listening to it and thinking it was a black guy , i remember this song used to remind me of the westerns that were around at the time with lee van cleef

  • THE ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE to listen too JUST SHEER MAGIC

  • @LVEMEDO you got it spot on. MAGIC. its the only word to decribe this brillilent song. luv it.

  • this must be the first time ive heard this for at least forty years -does anyone else think he really sounds like Chris Farlowe -and also remember a very similar song from the same time titled The River Is Wide by another lo9st band called The Forum?

  • great words,wont fall on todays computer generation,but what he says is true,your time is yours,if your work steals it for money,then thats a crime

  • totally addicted to this just simply OUT OF THIS WORLD TWO & A HALF MINUTES OF SHEER BLISS

  • @LVEMEDO What a surprise to find you here xxx

  • @jamesrachael no suprise JAMES i,m addicted as we all are JUST A BRILLIANT SONG performed by TERRY & THE GUY,S it drags you back time after time I,M PROUD TO BE A BRIT

  • YESTERDAY HAS GONE but with THIS SONG IT,S NEVER GONE JUST totally BRILLIANT

  • @LVEMEDO It should be compulsory listening on how to make an awesome record

  • @jamesrachael WE ARE ADDICTED JAMES let,s start a meeting place for this one song WOW ONE SONG AMAZING