Can't compete with countries that pay there staff $1.23 an day? Let us just be thankful we live in a country which has human rights, free speech and work regulations, and unions, and oh and lots of other democratic choices which our forefathers. More liberty, more equality. Not even 100 years near yet when there was universal suffrage in the United Kingdom. Pits closed because it was cheaper to import coal. Who would cut a few democratic rights and regulations to bring the price of things down?
Get over it you lazy fucking northern cunts. Sort your own problems out you unhealthy fat idle thick coal digging scum. That accent! for fucks sake. Cunts.
@raynarks Exactly and it was fucking years ago. Move on! The north east is mostly on benefits now so get off your arses. What good does it do to hark on about the past for fucks sake.
@northkent61 if i can find just one way to find you my friend , i will be knocking on your door. and you def dont want that, but i will find you!!!!!!!!!!!!
In these days of capitalism gone even more crazy we should all be marching forget paying back the banks, our government supports the filth and makes sure the banks get their money back. Always at the expense of those who can leased afford it, the working class, please stand up and be counted.
This video moved me; I hope with all my heart that we never have to march like these brave desperate men had to. However, I fear that we will see these days again.
A beautiful proud and passionate song with a video which admirably resounds.
Great song, great singer. Geordies are great folk. But it was tough all over for ordinary working folk in those days--North, MIdlands, South, England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales. It still is tough for lots of people--though the rich get richer!
Im a Gateshead lad myself but my girlfriend is a jarra lassie, lucky enough ive been able to find work but shes still trying, a few weeks ago we watched another march to london, not a lot has changed since '36, it disgusting that nothing has changed but nobody cares about you if you live north of the midlands, your 2nd class.
first time ever still to this day sum sunderland and newcastle fans stood n walked together as jarrow was a split town when it come to footy oh yes pricey was a red n white ..
we are all being fucked now -not just the geordieboys. all bar the rich who are getting richer that is. brilliant song, time to act on the public school system me thinks.ill write to my m.p.that should do it.
my dad's a geordie from hebburn, his mother watched the men set off from jarrow in 1936, 75 years later not much has changed, southern rich twats, 'where all in this together' bollocks from cameron and osborne
Brilliant and evocative. 2011 and things are getting worse but at least we will never go hungry or cold( i hope ). But the same again, the working class have no voice and we have to listen to bullshit like "we are all in it together" from millionaires in government. Nick Clegg, hold your head in shame.
Reportedly , when the men on the Jarrow march , passed by the gates of some public school, some of the pupils ( scum) at the gates, laughed and jeered at them !
Why ay 2 all in newcastle!!! May hav spelt it wrong ! But i know wat i mean, My grt Gma was from NEWCASTLE!!!! Lovely people, lovely place, lovely accent. Love the Jordies.!
I love this song. I was 10 in 1974 and this song was one of my favourites. Nothing like this ever gets near the charts nowadays, it is too near the bone for the politicians and is catchy too.
I was listening to this song and as it went on I thought, ' this is one of those songs which Simon Cowell would probably describe to a contestant as ' hard to sing '. Great perofrmance from Alan.
My grandmother organised food for the Jarrow Crusade & I remember her saying how cruel the so called lib/con government was then.. we got the same thing back, with Clegg & Cameron both sons of millionaires tell the working people of today to tighten their belts. The sooner they are gone the better.. only difference now thatcher got rid of our industry, so if we marched the only thing thats on offer is Mcdonalds or aldi, it aint got the same feel has it.. but the Jarrow song & the video brill
In the 1930s these workers marched 300 miles (really, 300 miles!!!) to protest to the government of the day about their job situation, mostly shipbuilding, in what is now Tyne and Wear. Sadly, it had little effect. However, we need to remember these moments in history. The people can change their own world when they get together....
So relevent now. If you can march in London against what this appalling government is doing, then go, do it. All I can do, from 600 miles away is write lots of emails, sign e-petitions and march locally.
Respect the people who made that epic journey and for the right reasons, they were English men and Geordies doing the only thing they could in the circumstances and God knows I wish we had their bottle now. No scum students tossing poles around and bought in thugs, just hard men doing a hard thing for their people
why dont we arrange a march to protest about the filthy fat lazy bastards who are dragging this country to its knees. if i had a flamethrower i would incinerate every last one of them. and there parents.and there kids.and there pets.
i know, it was a grim time and those workers were brave, my family were all miners and steelworkers, i have worked all my life, went to uni got leukaemia am now not entitled to any benefits cos am married, go to wotherspoons and see all the jakeys in there drinking all day,
Superb video, lots of interesting footage. I remember hearing this song when I was young and decided to look it up. I didn't know what the song was about until I googled it just now. Also, check out the other Alan Price songs.. I was surprised how many I knew.
@ForViewingOnly My sentiments too exactly! Song reminds me of when I was at junior school, no real idea at all what it was about but just looked it up too & enlightened! - tremendous footage from a very good cause .. And so relevant now!
vat as gone up today diesel went up last week . and that millytwat says it is the wrong time to put up taxs . what the fuck dose he know . it is cos of his fucking new labour that we are in this mess . and if labour dont help the working man who will ? in my book labour are scum . and i will never ever vote for labour . i might not even vote any more whats the piont .
I really think you should get a life mate, you are obviously one of these people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. People about what this song is about stick together, irrespective what corners of the UK they come from, our grandads fought for work whereas I take it you don't need to fight. So I suggest you keep your opinions to yourself as no one wants to know them.
The song came out after the wonderful O Lucky Man! film by Lindsay Anderson with the fab Alan Price soundtrack...makes this Kiwi nostalgic for England in the 70s...and I never got to the UK til 1999....but I did get to see A P .... i love and orchestration of this song...it got quite a lot of arirplay in 1974, but was even then on the long side for a single
Thank you 03kve for that info. I am going to read up about the march next year. Can you recommend a book that is the most authoritative on the subject? As a 1930's baby the years before the war are of interest to me. I am so pleased to be alive and not suffering the hardships of those days. We don't know how lucky we are!!
hi it brings a tear to me aswell . when you think these lads made labour and all LABOUR IS JUST FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS ansd us white working class have no one standing up for us thats why it is working class jobs going all the time while middel class pen pushing twats keeps theres FUCK ALL MPs
@yorkshiretractors It's just as bad in Oz mate. I don't think we've had a decent left wing leader since Goff Whitlam!! Incidentally my family were friends with Manny Shinwell who lead the Jarrow March
He also spend some times with Bob Dylan when he did his tour of uk in the 60s ,he had just left the Animals. He also did some stuff with G. Flame, Dont know what Alan is doing now.
Great song but a sad reflection of how ordinary people had to survive in those bygone days. Worries me greatly that this lot of pampered millionaires now running the country could lead us back to an era of sustained severe hardship for those least able to deal with it.
Nice judgements to work your entire life for most folk means being a consumer in debt- turning up to work every day to repetitively repeat the same old tasks over and over for the best years of your life- it seems the system has thoroughly robbed many of imagination.
This is a refresher for sure! Price's musical versatility resounds and is largely overlooked unfortunately. I am reminded of 'O, Lucky Man' by this song and slide show. Thank you for the post!
Pre 1980s the term GEORDIE was used to describe the inhabitants of the whole of the north-east of England from North Northumberland to deepest County Durham before the Mag Media Mafia hijacked the word to sUIT their own ends.FTM
Do i detect a little bit of an inferiority complex here.Dont blame you i would too if the City i lived in was only known throughout the whole of the UK as being near to Newcastle.
Wonderful song,legendary singer and an excellent compilation video to boot.
A real talent from my childhood.Happy memories of me and me old man reading sundaypapers listening to the radio.He sadly passed away 2 years ago so thanks to the guy who put it on here and the amazing video you put together with it.Thanks for the happy memories.
I was born in Newcastle to Geordie and Scouse parents, lived in Liverpool til i was 6, moved back to Newcastle until i was 30, and now live in Jarrow. I'm confused. But Walker in Newcastle East End and Jarrow are both great places.
Alan Price was born in the city of Sunderland (Fatfield) and in the 1930s Jarrow was part of County Durham.The south bank of the Tyne was all County Durham before this Tyne and Wear nonsense which benefitted Newcastle at Sunderlands expense.
@sunderlandgent When Alan Price was born there was no City of Sunderland, Fatfield is a suburb of Washington and always will be to the people who live there
what a song! alan price has always been a 1st class musician, If I had to be english I'd be a geordie! a great race of people, toon army all the way! all the best from your friends in scotland.
I am proud to say that my grandfather was one of the noble 200 marchers on that march. His name is in the book held in Jarrow town hall, and his name is Walter E. Bray. F.T.M. FOREVER!!
My grandparents grew up when the Jarrow Crusade was on and most of the town was on the dole. However, Whitehaven in Cumbria where I live now had chronic unemployment in the thirties due to a collapse in demand for coal and iron.
My grandad joined that march when it came through the Black Country. These blokes walked from County Durham to London in shiny black leather shoes. Rain and shine....Men apart.
follow the geordie boys all the way to scunthorpe , coventry and cardiff next season . lmao lets see how big a club you really are back to 11000 gates like last time you were in the second tier . theres only one united and were off to rome lol
@Ryanjo9 That didn't happen then eh? 43,000 average and we sold out pretty much every away end. Nice to see those who are obsessed with putting down NUFC were proven wrong.
when did our forfathers ever let smackheads , benefit scroungers .child rapists and the rest of the lowlife shit that we have to deal with nowadays live in there streets.
consecutive goverments have allowed this country to become a cesspitt.
proud men who walked for jobs then.
now shite so fat they cant walk to the toilet.
what the hell has become of this once great country.
Exactly mate. My Grandparents were from Jarrow. My granddad worked in the ship yards. My Nan told me of the poverty. She told me how they sold almost every thing they had so they could move to London so Granddad could work.
Now the feckless just bang out kids and expect the tax payers to feed, house and clothe them.
Respect mate. Life on benefits is too cushy, we've bred a generation with no pride or honour. They should get nothing unless they can prove they are unfit for work.
Nan was one of 13 kids so it must have been tough.
While we're working our nuts off, for the lazy bastards to fall out of bed at dinner time, got to the pub and smoke dope all afternoon. Then they moan that it's tough on the dole. Fuck em. God help those who can't help themselves.
@Kokoots typical brainwashed comment,and yes i work 6 days a week,pay my rates,mortage.so i suggest to you that you have a look at the bigger picture.fingers crossed you wake up and seek the truth my friend.
@Kokoots And when they are fit for work they'll get fck all as well, you Daily Mail reading wanker. Still, easier to moan about them than the people that brought this country to its knees through their greed because a twat like you wouldn't have the guts to stand up to them.
@Gaudd Blah, blah, blah. Shut it socialist prick. Daily Mirror reading Knob. You want to say somithing, say something constructive. Instead you come on and be abusive. As for greedy bastards that brought this country to it's knees.
How about Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Prescott?
@Kokoots Socialist? Hardly and I've never bought the Mirror in my life. As for Blair, Brown and Prescott - capitalist scum.
The fact is you are an ill-informed, thick ignoramus, the type of muppet who pollutes messageboards, comments sections of online newspapers and no doubt your local Richard Littlejohn Appreciation Society with your halfwit right-wing theories.
Its always amusing to see idiots posting crap who then howl about others being non-constructive. Go dry your eyes.
@Gaudd I'm glad I keep you amuused. And as for my right wing theories, probably came from my Grand parents, who were Geordies by the way, and moved to London just after this march.
If my comments are so ill informed, how come it's the higest rated comment? Now crawl back under your duvet and don't bother me any more. Run along. Fucking communist.
@Kokoots - Hey, The Sun is the nation's biggest selling "newspaper" and its aimed at muppets with a reading age of 9 who prefer bigotry to reality. I think your comments fit in nicely with that trend.
BTW I'm sure Geordies breathed a huge sigh of relief when your grandparents moved. Geordieland must have been bad enough with the depression, high unemployment, massive poverty without them threatening to stay and eventually produce you. Lucky break there, Geordies.
I bought this as a single record when it was released in the late 1970s (approx) and loved it. It was only later, when I read Wal Hannington's "Unemployed Struggles" that I really appreciated what the song was about - the hunger marches, mass unemployment and the crimes of capitalism. Still a great song 30 years on.
My great grandad was a hunger marcher from Jarrow. He found work here at the steelworks, and became my great grandad. He marched when the steelworks shut down in 1972. Just so proud of him!!.
follow the geordie boys,, now 2009 geordies get through anything,, go on alan price geordies were free geordies are all ower the world,,,, geordies forever, hezzy, toon. bee-hive.......
Was back Tyneside 3 years ago and travelling along the banks of the Tyne the first thing I noticed was the lack of noise. Having served an apprenticeship in one the shipyards on the river one always was aware of the activity through noise of the caulkers hammers. How things have changed and in some ways not for the better.
seventy years have passed,a world war later and the BASTARDS are still doing it to us,yes us brothers......they make sure that they never suffer.......AEU BLUE CARD still militant,still ready to fight
I have been a "pro" musician for nearly fifty years so I like to think that my opinion may count for something! I can say, without fear of contradiction that AP is a musical genius. His musical ability is plain to see however his amazingly clever use of words in his lyrics is trly magnificent
My grandad came down in the march, i hope to visit the land of my fathers soon.
buelligan1964 2 weeks ago
Can't compete with countries that pay there staff $1.23 an day? Let us just be thankful we live in a country which has human rights, free speech and work regulations, and unions, and oh and lots of other democratic choices which our forefathers. More liberty, more equality. Not even 100 years near yet when there was universal suffrage in the United Kingdom. Pits closed because it was cheaper to import coal. Who would cut a few democratic rights and regulations to bring the price of things down?
psweep 1 month ago
When Thatcher dies they should play this at her funeral.
lewisner 1 month ago 3
The Jarroow Crusade lives on.
davidbennett60 1 month ago 3
As he says nothing changes. Great song, aalways makes me cry.
bagb74 1 month ago
northken61 - do you just like creating discord and upsetting other people- if so why???
km1955yt 2 months ago 2
@km1955yt am i not allowed an opinion then?
northkent61 1 month ago
@km1955yt I think that northken61 is nothing more than an attention-seeking numpty from the wrong end of Kensington.
MaxwellTurn 3 days ago
Get over it you lazy fucking northern cunts. Sort your own problems out you unhealthy fat idle thick coal digging scum. That accent! for fucks sake. Cunts.
northkent61 2 months ago
@northkent61 No coal has been dug up north since Thatcher was in charge. Idiot.
ADZ01982 1 month ago
@ADZ01982 Good old maggie. Ex coal diggers then.
northkent61 1 month ago
@northkent61 this song is about the Jarrow marches, you this twat.
raynarks 1 month ago
@raynarks Exactly and it was fucking years ago. Move on! The north east is mostly on benefits now so get off your arses. What good does it do to hark on about the past for fucks sake.
northkent61 1 month ago
@northkent61 if i can find just one way to find you my friend , i will be knocking on your door. and you def dont want that, but i will find you!!!!!!!!!!!!
margatelad 1 month ago
@margatelad Im quaking in my upper class boots!
northkent61 1 month ago
@northkent61 Those who do not acknowledge the mistakes recorded in histories are doomed to repeat them.
MaxwellTurn 4 days ago
A song for our time, as well as 1936.
Horsemarine100 2 months ago
In these days of capitalism gone even more crazy we should all be marching forget paying back the banks, our government supports the filth and makes sure the banks get their money back. Always at the expense of those who can leased afford it, the working class, please stand up and be counted.
CaptainPete1955 2 months ago 3
This video moved me; I hope with all my heart that we never have to march like these brave desperate men had to. However, I fear that we will see these days again.
A beautiful proud and passionate song with a video which admirably resounds.
nickgall100 2 months ago
Great song, great singer. Geordies are great folk. But it was tough all over for ordinary working folk in those days--North, MIdlands, South, England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales. It still is tough for lots of people--though the rich get richer!
Fingalful 2 months ago
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backnorth 2 months ago
yorkshiretractor, learn to spell.
backnorth 2 months ago
Im a Gateshead lad myself but my girlfriend is a jarra lassie, lucky enough ive been able to find work but shes still trying, a few weeks ago we watched another march to london, not a lot has changed since '36, it disgusting that nothing has changed but nobody cares about you if you live north of the midlands, your 2nd class.
chewy251093 2 months ago 5
first time ever still to this day sum sunderland and newcastle fans stood n walked together as jarrow was a split town when it come to footy oh yes pricey was a red n white ..
rokerlad49 2 months ago
A GREAT NOSTALGIC VIDEO.....Peace,Love and Wisdom.....
REDRICKY2010 3 months ago 2
we are all being fucked now -not just the geordieboys. all bar the rich who are getting richer that is. brilliant song, time to act on the public school system me thinks.ill write to my m.p.that should do it.
viago2 3 months ago
One of the most emotional songs ever written - but nowt ever changes
spalf73 3 months ago 2
my dad's a geordie from hebburn, his mother watched the men set off from jarrow in 1936, 75 years later not much has changed, southern rich twats, 'where all in this together' bollocks from cameron and osborne
Blackie Wallsend lad
MsDad1960 3 months ago 4
Brilliant and evocative. 2011 and things are getting worse but at least we will never go hungry or cold( i hope ). But the same again, the working class have no voice and we have to listen to bullshit like "we are all in it together" from millionaires in government. Nick Clegg, hold your head in shame.
RedditchBhoy 4 months ago 10
this is is verstion for my friend
My name is Rosin Davis
I'm a dog walker in very big house
even though he strong and very big he's still my loverly hound
so me dad rosin take out take to the park and have a kick about
and if messes around bring him home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pony5122 4 months ago
Reportedly , when the men on the Jarrow march , passed by the gates of some public school, some of the pupils ( scum) at the gates, laughed and jeered at them !
AnAutumnsDay 4 months ago
Priceless...thanx lads!
geoffhummerstone 5 months ago
Jarrow is in south tyneside and he was born in Washington, i remember buying' the Jarrow song' in 1974 as a kid!.
TheTmny876able 5 months ago
Cry for the Future
DaveMMIX 5 months ago
im a big newcastle utd fan..love this song!
billjm1966 6 months ago
Alan Price was always one of my heroes. :)
chrispypancake 6 months ago
this song is better than the stars n stripes n everything russia has called commie - this is the best of the best 4ever
geemailMossman 6 months ago 2
Why ay 2 all in newcastle!!! May hav spelt it wrong ! But i know wat i mean, My grt Gma was from NEWCASTLE!!!! Lovely people, lovely place, lovely accent. Love the Jordies.!
julestheangel 6 months ago
I love this song. I was 10 in 1974 and this song was one of my favourites. Nothing like this ever gets near the charts nowadays, it is too near the bone for the politicians and is catchy too.
allanscot1 6 months ago
I was listening to this song and as it went on I thought, ' this is one of those songs which Simon Cowell would probably describe to a contestant as ' hard to sing '. Great perofrmance from Alan.
Jolliffesguy 7 months ago
No change = the same now With CAMERON AND CLEGG
stephen2971 8 months ago
Howay the lads !!
113jm 8 months ago
these are the people who put the great into Britain, god bless you all
kopynd1 8 months ago
My grandmother organised food for the Jarrow Crusade & I remember her saying how cruel the so called lib/con government was then.. we got the same thing back, with Clegg & Cameron both sons of millionaires tell the working people of today to tighten their belts. The sooner they are gone the better.. only difference now thatcher got rid of our industry, so if we marched the only thing thats on offer is Mcdonalds or aldi, it aint got the same feel has it.. but the Jarrow song & the video brill
midnightcallerable 8 months ago
long live geordie mcintyre
dawson1967 8 months ago
I love this song. It was always on the radio when I first started boarding school back in Summer 74.
kerensasdad 9 months ago
jarra jarra jarra jarra, sod the rest of the country. as he says we fill your heart with joy
TheNastymick 10 months ago
Great song and video with some real histeric clips
What a musician Alan Price is. !!!
When all the fish and coal has gone
When all the cranes and ships are gone
When all the public sector moneys gone
What are the Geordie Lads to do. ????????????
See my related video jordiewiseman 'Geardie Lads'
JORDIEWISEMAN 10 months ago
In the 1930s these workers marched 300 miles (really, 300 miles!!!) to protest to the government of the day about their job situation, mostly shipbuilding, in what is now Tyne and Wear. Sadly, it had little effect. However, we need to remember these moments in history. The people can change their own world when they get together....
TeenyR1 10 months ago 3
Could have been made this week. Cameron is destroying our industries - what little is left.
TheMimifur 10 months ago 3
Shades of Thatcher's Britain. God forbid we ever return to those days
54musiclover 10 months ago 4
this was a song for the people well done alan
nabby1874 11 months ago
So relevent now. If you can march in London against what this appalling government is doing, then go, do it. All I can do, from 600 miles away is write lots of emails, sign e-petitions and march locally.
TheMimifur 11 months ago 2
The picture of Alan in the bowtie and suit jacket, looks like my hubbie when we got married!
jlsr1000 11 months ago
Respect the people who made that epic journey and for the right reasons, they were English men and Geordies doing the only thing they could in the circumstances and God knows I wish we had their bottle now. No scum students tossing poles around and bought in thugs, just hard men doing a hard thing for their people
sgexpat 11 months ago 3
why dont we arrange a march to protest about the filthy fat lazy bastards who are dragging this country to its knees. if i had a flamethrower i would incinerate every last one of them. and there parents.and there kids.and there pets.
nazareth4372 1 year ago
@nazareth4372 dont blame all the families, ive had a job all my life and my kids are all working..but step kid..now thats something else
davythehibee 10 months ago
Thta is a great song.
Back to living on scraps ans working at the rich mans table now that we have Cameron and Osborne in power.
backnorth 1 year ago
i know, it was a grim time and those workers were brave, my family were all miners and steelworkers, i have worked all my life, went to uni got leukaemia am now not entitled to any benefits cos am married, go to wotherspoons and see all the jakeys in there drinking all day,
shonakeir 1 year ago
Superb video, lots of interesting footage. I remember hearing this song when I was young and decided to look it up. I didn't know what the song was about until I googled it just now. Also, check out the other Alan Price songs.. I was surprised how many I knew.
ForViewingOnly 1 year ago
@ForViewingOnly My sentiments too exactly! Song reminds me of when I was at junior school, no real idea at all what it was about but just looked it up too & enlightened! - tremendous footage from a very good cause .. And so relevant now!
wmrxb15 11 months ago
vat as gone up today diesel went up last week . and that millytwat says it is the wrong time to put up taxs . what the fuck dose he know . it is cos of his fucking new labour that we are in this mess . and if labour dont help the working man who will ? in my book labour are scum . and i will never ever vote for labour . i might not even vote any more whats the piont .
yorkshiretractors 1 year ago
I really think you should get a life mate, you are obviously one of these people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. People about what this song is about stick together, irrespective what corners of the UK they come from, our grandads fought for work whereas I take it you don't need to fight. So I suggest you keep your opinions to yourself as no one wants to know them.
Davyallnighter 1 year ago
The song came out after the wonderful O Lucky Man! film by Lindsay Anderson with the fab Alan Price soundtrack...makes this Kiwi nostalgic for England in the 70s...and I never got to the UK til 1999....but I did get to see A P .... i love and orchestration of this song...it got quite a lot of arirplay in 1974, but was even then on the long side for a single
Timwgtn 1 year ago 2
Anyone see 'Our Friends in the North'?
rubysson57 1 year ago
Love this. The Geordie vernacular.
My name is Geordie McIntyre and the bairns dont even have a fire...
rubysson57 1 year ago
Thank you 03kve for that info. I am going to read up about the march next year. Can you recommend a book that is the most authoritative on the subject? As a 1930's baby the years before the war are of interest to me. I am so pleased to be alive and not suffering the hardships of those days. We don't know how lucky we are!!
fred01235 1 year ago
We never had life so good. we should never moan!
rmcemb 1 year ago
Usury versus Productivity.
ukcelticpride 1 year ago
good song, still looks the same up there as in the film
noveron 1 year ago
Vot da hellt is dis?
Oldlionel 1 year ago
hi it brings a tear to me aswell . when you think these lads made labour and all LABOUR IS JUST FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS ansd us white working class have no one standing up for us thats why it is working class jobs going all the time while middel class pen pushing twats keeps theres FUCK ALL MPs
yorkshiretractors 1 year ago 13
@yorkshiretractors It's just as bad in Oz mate. I don't think we've had a decent left wing leader since Goff Whitlam!! Incidentally my family were friends with Manny Shinwell who lead the Jarrow March
sunsetgundog 1 year ago
Here's to Walter E. Bray and all who marched with him.
Pitsku 1 year ago
He also spend some times with Bob Dylan when he did his tour of uk in the 60s ,he had just left the Animals. He also did some stuff with G. Flame, Dont know what Alan is doing now.
scottiehypnosis01 1 year ago
WONDERFUL video! Brings back great childhood memories! My dad's name is Geordie Mc...and we used to substitute his name for the Geordie McIntyre bit!
GREAT STUFF!!
scotsburd63 1 year ago
Alan always did great dark songs, like Who Cares, Trimdon Grange Explosion, Fools Gold and No John No [and many more]
asorls1 1 year ago
Still a cracker after all these years..
yewtoobb 1 year ago
Gosh, I'd forgotten this song, great stuff !
chrisobee1 1 year ago
Great song but a sad reflection of how ordinary people had to survive in those bygone days. Worries me greatly that this lot of pampered millionaires now running the country could lead us back to an era of sustained severe hardship for those least able to deal with it.
54musiclover 1 year ago
Brilliant song!
nickheald 1 year ago
does anybody know where ti get sheet music for this, seens its like every other geordie thing it aint reached modernt internet yet
BongoExpress 1 year ago
Nice judgements to work your entire life for most folk means being a consumer in debt- turning up to work every day to repetitively repeat the same old tasks over and over for the best years of your life- it seems the system has thoroughly robbed many of imagination.
ehpl 1 year ago
This is a refresher for sure! Price's musical versatility resounds and is largely overlooked unfortunately. I am reminded of 'O, Lucky Man' by this song and slide show. Thank you for the post!
jwalsh671 1 year ago
I love this song. It's a shame though. It should not have had to happen.
Christen180 1 year ago
I just love it
7667jenny 1 year ago
@7667jenny
Geordie to me means someone who is from Tyneside and South Northumberland.
Glenn1967ful 1 year ago
When was this actual recording made? Anyone know!
7667jenny 1 year ago
@7667jenny this song was released in 1974...
tonlitt 1 year ago 4
@7667jenny yep he made records of all these songs
scottiehypnosis01 1 year ago
Pre 1980s the term GEORDIE was used to describe the inhabitants of the whole of the north-east of England from North Northumberland to deepest County Durham before the Mag Media Mafia hijacked the word to sUIT their own ends.FTM
sunderlandgent 1 year ago
Do i detect a little bit of an inferiority complex here.Dont blame you i would too if the City i lived in was only known throughout the whole of the UK as being near to Newcastle.
oradag 1 year ago
Ma mate Lofty Mc Lofty is in the second row wae the grey bunnet on
GONGADIN2 1 year ago
this song is from my favorite alan price album,beetween today and yesterday.back in the 70s,great album,great music.
chrisjmarr 1 year ago
Watch him in oh lucky man!.
TheTmny876able 1 year ago
Great song about a shameful period -listen to Alan hull / Lindisfarne 'Marshall Rileys Army' same message -but darker
mickb55 1 year ago
Wonderful song,legendary singer and an excellent compilation video to boot.
A real talent from my childhood.Happy memories of me and me old man reading sundaypapers listening to the radio.He sadly passed away 2 years ago so thanks to the guy who put it on here and the amazing video you put together with it.Thanks for the happy memories.
cthulubloke 1 year ago
why cant i find this on itunes
minidib 2 years ago
I was born in Newcastle to Geordie and Scouse parents, lived in Liverpool til i was 6, moved back to Newcastle until i was 30, and now live in Jarrow. I'm confused. But Walker in Newcastle East End and Jarrow are both great places.
DW01 2 years ago
Alan Price was born in the city of Sunderland (Fatfield) and in the 1930s Jarrow was part of County Durham.The south bank of the Tyne was all County Durham before this Tyne and Wear nonsense which benefitted Newcastle at Sunderlands expense.
sunderlandgent 2 years ago
@sunderlandgent When Alan Price was born there was no City of Sunderland, Fatfield is a suburb of Washington and always will be to the people who live there
TheWacoKid1963 1 year ago
I like Geordie lasses. Enuf said !
rocker53zero 2 years ago 4
amazing footage, superb music, makes me (the song) sweeetly nostalgic of my 20's.
charritedehaut 2 years ago
This is first class. Thank you for sharing this with a world that needs to hear it, and thank you for your excellent visuals. Simply wonderful.
LadyofLumley 2 years ago 2
what a song! alan price has always been a 1st class musician, If I had to be english I'd be a geordie! a great race of people, toon army all the way! all the best from your friends in scotland.
mudfries 2 years ago
Excellent video and song. Thanks for posting.
buildsbest 2 years ago
My grandparents where from jarrow
Kokoots 2 years ago
fab man and song
desgarrett 2 years ago
My name is Jimmy Mcintyre....my grandad Andy took part in the Jarrow march as part of the Scottish minersw group
Jim
captainsoul1953 2 years ago
working class hero man....
jaredcanyom 2 years ago 2
Really good
TorrieWilson4 2 years ago
Alan Price was born in the Fatfield area of Sunderland.(Old County Durham).
sunderlandgent 2 years ago
*wistful sigh* I miss Tyneside!
uktransplantedyank 2 years ago
me too.............its always a pleasure to meet a fellow Geordie here in Lancaster.....
verity617 2 years ago
I can't say that I'm a Geordie, but I lived amongst them for a year...best year of my life! Now I'm stuck in Birmingham for a while. :(
uktransplantedyank 2 years ago
This is just brilliant. It brought a tear to my eye. Great artist and a very handsome man too!
suepixie100 2 years ago
I am proud to say that my grandfather was one of the noble 200 marchers on that march. His name is in the book held in Jarrow town hall, and his name is Walter E. Bray. F.T.M. FOREVER!!
03kve 2 years ago 30
You must be very proud, I know I would be.
verity617 2 years ago
@03kve My dad was 5 or 6 when he witnessed the Men start off !! God rest all their souls. He was from Byker.
RikochetNZ 9 months ago 2
I'm from Sunderland and I wonder what the marchers would think now....no coal mines, no shipyards, no railways, no industry,nothing.
lewisner 2 years ago 2
Its sad how its ended up, ur right...more than sad.
70sLOVE70s 2 years ago
My grandparents grew up when the Jarrow Crusade was on and most of the town was on the dole. However, Whitehaven in Cumbria where I live now had chronic unemployment in the thirties due to a collapse in demand for coal and iron.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
I get told a lot that I sound like I am from Whitehaven! I am South Shields born and bred and very proud of it too........
verity617 2 years ago
im from gateshead! nd im proud of it 2! i meet mackems that call emselfs geordies! how dare they!! lol
geordiebby 2 years ago
My grandad joined that march when it came through the Black Country. These blokes walked from County Durham to London in shiny black leather shoes. Rain and shine....Men apart.
maggiethefox 2 years ago 3
From Jarrow to be exact x
xCarlaEm 2 years ago
ah yes, the days when you had to get up half an hour before you went to bed to go down pit
manmuscle1400 2 years ago
However, Nazareth, I don't think we would want to go back to the thirties, but I know what you mean.
Glenn1967ful 2 years ago
follow the geordie boys all the way to scunthorpe , coventry and cardiff next season . lmao lets see how big a club you really are back to 11000 gates like last time you were in the second tier . theres only one united and were off to rome lol
Ryanjo9 2 years ago
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oradag 2 years ago
@Ryanjo9 That didn't happen then eh? 43,000 average and we sold out pretty much every away end. Nice to see those who are obsessed with putting down NUFC were proven wrong.
Geordiegent 1 year ago
i work all over the world...
i am proud to be a jarra lad....
i always love that feeling when am on my way back home......
jaksa1969 2 years ago 3
I went to Jarrow recently. Proud to be British?
YES
UGSB12 2 years ago 3
Your lucky, we gan to see Newcastle try and not play football. Life's a bitch.
grindergaz 2 years ago
when did our forfathers ever let smackheads , benefit scroungers .child rapists and the rest of the lowlife shit that we have to deal with nowadays live in there streets.
consecutive goverments have allowed this country to become a cesspitt.
proud men who walked for jobs then.
now shite so fat they cant walk to the toilet.
what the hell has become of this once great country.
nazareth4372 2 years ago 4
Exactly mate. My Grandparents were from Jarrow. My granddad worked in the ship yards. My Nan told me of the poverty. She told me how they sold almost every thing they had so they could move to London so Granddad could work.
Now the feckless just bang out kids and expect the tax payers to feed, house and clothe them.
Kokoots 2 years ago 4
cheers bro. i got made redundant in 1988.
got on the bus and went down london to get a job.got my arm smashed badly and could have claimed benefits forever.
got a job for far less money and have worked since.
my blood boils when i see these fat fucking dole wallers with 6 kids supping outside the clubs.
if i had a flamethrower i would incinerate the fucking lot of them. and there kids.
peace and love to you my brother.
nazareth4372 2 years ago 2
Respect mate. Life on benefits is too cushy, we've bred a generation with no pride or honour. They should get nothing unless they can prove they are unfit for work.
Nan was one of 13 kids so it must have been tough.
While we're working our nuts off, for the lazy bastards to fall out of bed at dinner time, got to the pub and smoke dope all afternoon. Then they moan that it's tough on the dole. Fuck em. God help those who can't help themselves.
Kokoots 2 years ago 18
@Kokoots typical brainwashed comment,and yes i work 6 days a week,pay my rates,mortage.so i suggest to you that you have a look at the bigger picture.fingers crossed you wake up and seek the truth my friend.
watballs2020 1 year ago
@Kokoots And when they are fit for work they'll get fck all as well, you Daily Mail reading wanker. Still, easier to moan about them than the people that brought this country to its knees through their greed because a twat like you wouldn't have the guts to stand up to them.
Gaudd 1 year ago 3
@Gaudd Blah, blah, blah. Shut it socialist prick. Daily Mirror reading Knob. You want to say somithing, say something constructive. Instead you come on and be abusive. As for greedy bastards that brought this country to it's knees.
How about Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Prescott?
Kokoots 1 year ago
@Kokoots Socialist? Hardly and I've never bought the Mirror in my life. As for Blair, Brown and Prescott - capitalist scum.
The fact is you are an ill-informed, thick ignoramus, the type of muppet who pollutes messageboards, comments sections of online newspapers and no doubt your local Richard Littlejohn Appreciation Society with your halfwit right-wing theories.
Its always amusing to see idiots posting crap who then howl about others being non-constructive. Go dry your eyes.
Gaudd 1 year ago 4
@Gaudd I'm glad I keep you amuused. And as for my right wing theories, probably came from my Grand parents, who were Geordies by the way, and moved to London just after this march.
If my comments are so ill informed, how come it's the higest rated comment? Now crawl back under your duvet and don't bother me any more. Run along. Fucking communist.
Kokoots 1 year ago
@Kokoots - Hey, The Sun is the nation's biggest selling "newspaper" and its aimed at muppets with a reading age of 9 who prefer bigotry to reality. I think your comments fit in nicely with that trend.
BTW I'm sure Geordies breathed a huge sigh of relief when your grandparents moved. Geordieland must have been bad enough with the depression, high unemployment, massive poverty without them threatening to stay and eventually produce you. Lucky break there, Geordies.
Gaudd 1 year ago 21
@Gaudd Oh, you're so fucking funny. Now fuck off because you're boring me.
Kokoots 1 year ago
@Gaudd " The Sun is the nation's biggest selling "newspaper"", probably read by more paedophiles than any other paper.
JohnAndrewHall1 1 year ago
Couldn't agree with you more! We have been brought to our knees by liberalism.
God knows what the brave lads who fought for this country during the war would make of it all!
mikec227 2 years ago 3
Move to Israel if your upset, Mr Nazareth, dead easy? Only a flight away.
grindergaz 2 years ago
I bought this as a single record when it was released in the late 1970s (approx) and loved it. It was only later, when I read Wal Hannington's "Unemployed Struggles" that I really appreciated what the song was about - the hunger marches, mass unemployment and the crimes of capitalism. Still a great song 30 years on.
Carrignafoy 2 years ago
And now we have a so called Labour government which plans to sell the Royal Mail off.
lewisner 2 years ago
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LolRandomAccount 2 years ago
It was not a hunger march,it was a march for jobs. FACT! As my grandfather was a marcher of the noble 200 and his name was Walter E. Bray.
03kve 2 years ago
I agree too - is this country repeating this again? big worry.
KillieRab 2 years ago
great song
Rangersfan57 2 years ago 4
My great grandad was a hunger marcher from Jarrow. He found work here at the steelworks, and became my great grandad. He marched when the steelworks shut down in 1972. Just so proud of him!!.
UGSB12 2 years ago 2
Well said barbaricsol! I am a Geordie and not saying sorry!! But for my sins my dog is a Mackem.....although she denies it now!!!
verity617 2 years ago
Great song - Alan Price is a legend as a member of The Animals and as a solo musician.
Rock74 2 years ago
i,m a mackem (sorry) but yes the north east both geordies and mackems have never laid down we got up got a job any job and got on with it
barbaricsol 2 years ago 3
follow the geordie boys,, now 2009 geordies get through anything,, go on alan price geordies were free geordies are all ower the world,,,, geordies forever, hezzy, toon. bee-hive.......
plooooty 2 years ago
great, sometimes played pre-match at newcastle
JJJ560 2 years ago
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Carla2oo8 2 years ago
history repeating itself and still we DON'T learn
field231055 2 years ago
Bloody Brilliant!!! Respect!!
tabhw 3 years ago
These people were worthy of our highest praise.
terrychristmas 3 years ago
"We learn from history that we've learned nothing from history."
George Bernard Shaw
terryballard 3 years ago
Well, Shaw certainly learned nothing from history.
nicmart 3 years ago
Was back Tyneside 3 years ago and travelling along the banks of the Tyne the first thing I noticed was the lack of noise. Having served an apprenticeship in one the shipyards on the river one always was aware of the activity through noise of the caulkers hammers. How things have changed and in some ways not for the better.
canzoet 3 years ago 3
I wonder when the British puplic will wake up,overcome with greed,self interest and arrogance,true path to disaster[but who cares]
jenks1937 3 years ago
seventy years have passed,a world war later and the BASTARDS are still doing it to us,yes us brothers......they make sure that they never suffer.......AEU BLUE CARD still militant,still ready to fight
junior731657 3 years ago 2
here we go again !!!!
theoldpole 3 years ago
November 2008 - nothing has changed, millions again facing scrap-heap - another great job by the Government! Brilliant AP stuff though!
braveycolin 3 years ago
Saw him tonight as a guest of the Manfreds....Worth going just to see him ( for the third time }
BillyButlin123 3 years ago
I have been a "pro" musician for nearly fifty years so I like to think that my opinion may count for something! I can say, without fear of contradiction that AP is a musical genius. His musical ability is plain to see however his amazingly clever use of words in his lyrics is trly magnificent
BIONICBLUESMAN 3 years ago
This song always reminds me of Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart's weekend morning show on Radio 1 in the 1970s.
mutinyonthekitkat 3 years ago
Lol, saw this in History
Mr Walker, Lmao!
sweepmagik 3 years ago
mr walker! hedworthfield comp by any chance
Carla2oo8 2 years ago
Nope lol
I think it's a pretty common name :P
If yours is a crazy scottish teacher like mine, then I'm scared! =D
sweepmagik 2 years ago
No, he wasnt Scottish and he was a lovely teacher actually
LolRandomAccount 2 years ago