I was lucky enough to see them live in swansea (or was it cardiff) 70s. they were amazing.What anexperience.it was an all day concert..the who was the headline act the alex harvey band was unique.
I work in a Glasgow Museum and for the next few days there is an exhibition to commerate Wee Alex. some of the band will be there tomorrow (Saturday) and thereafter to the Clutha Vaults for drinks food and some music.....can`t wait. Wee man was a one off. God Bless him and keep him.
@Mell1888 I popped into the peoples palace during the week for a piss (yes I'm at that funny old age)and spotted the display with the sriped t-shirt leather jacket and of course the cane great to see he's not forgoten...took my wife on our first date to see the sensational alex harvey band in the early 70's and been together ever since..just love his music and still listen to it today ..and what a showman he was.
As if there were times in which it was way easier to be who you are, do and say/sing what You want and I am not talking about using the eff word, but sharp lyrics. If it wouldn't be for Tom Waits, who else is here, now?
Seriously, just try to imagine a world where an ambitiously strange rock band decides to do an angry cover of a Jacques Brel tango....and they put them on television. Holy shit, I wish I lived in that world. It's gone. Alex was a demented genius and I miss him every day.
One day I'll cut my legs off, I'll burn myself alive !!!!!! Oh the horror, the horror. It doesn't get much better than Alex Harvey singing Jaques Brel
time is passing fellow inhabitans of the star ship enterprise, you may miss your chance to journey to the sun, ive just had sex with my ex. good. well sin is two part manufactuing and one part hole sale.
This song is about Alex' National Service - something he didn't want to do and hated. It has nothing to do with his sexuality - he was married with a couple of kids. Look him up on Wikipedia, Blind Pig - you really are blind.....
This song is about Alex' National Service - something he didn't want to do and hated. It has nothing to do with his sexuality - he was married with a couple of kids. Look him up on Wikipedia, Blind Pig - you really are blind.....
Alex Harvey fans. Don'g miss Damage Manual (Geordie Walker, Jah Wobble, Martin Atkins - all original members of PiL and Killing Joke) recording together as Damage Manual using a 1974 rock magazine flexi disc interview with Alex Harvey as vocalist after his death. The last GREAT Alex Harvey recording... under the song title 'The Street Belong To You!"
Guy who found this funny - daven58100 - clearly has issues, or else is unbelievably thick. It's one of the bitterest songs ever written. Check out 'Jacky' by Scott Walker: it's another Jacques Brel song, and is equally odd (and was banned by the Beeb at the time, I seem to recall). Maybe it's a Belgian thing! Plastic Bertrand was pretty odd, too.
My only experience of Alex was a loats minute gig at the famous Eel Pie Island at the end of a tour. He was f*****g amazing !! and NO he will NEVER Rest In Peace !!!
Essentially the message alex is espousing is a time in his life namely his childhood ,of a time of his personel and traumatic excrucuating time of his abusive early years as a human being.
@MarkB1ngham hey :) It was written by Jacques Brel, who was from Belgium and written in French called Au Suivant (Next). This version is also on Youtube. I think this is brilliantissimo too ;D
@norathenoodler Thank you very much for that (slightly related, I understand the children's book and musical film title 'chitty chitty bang bang' was something to do with army whorehouses!☺)
Simply AWESOME!!!!!!!! We are really inspired by these guys, and would love any feedback at all you may have to offer, (just click on gingerarse100) Cheers guys, and KEEP ON ROCKING!! MUSICS ABOUT REAL BANDS WHO WRITE THEIR OWN MATERIAL AND PERFORM LIVE SO LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY!!!!!!!!!!
Brel's version is fantastic in it's own way but Alex Harvey's voice just adds that edge that brings it in to a whole different realm. *sigh* I love SAHB
the beST FRONTMAN EVER AND Probably the beST LIVE T,V,PERformance ever and probably the beST Cover of a bREL SONG EVer by anyone xxxlong live the king xxx
Brian (Evans), Here's a Brig'ton Billy Boy for ye! The second best singer to come out of Glasgow (you're third!), Lonnie Donegan being the best. Check out YouTube for Alex Harvey singing Next, Gang Bang, Tomorrow Belongs To Me, Faith Healer and Swamp Snake. I have them all! Shamrock, ya bas! It's my Birthday Eve and I started celebrating early!!!
'76 or '77 two 17yr olds travelled to the big city from Andover to watch this fantastic band. And what a show it was. Thanks for posting all the songs.
'76 or '77 two 17yr olds travelled to the big city from Andover to watch this fantastic band. And what a show it was. Thanks for posting all the songs.
@hexcane That's cool. I didn't intend to argue. You had stated your opinion disagreeing with Dovecote6's comment and I stated mine in support of his comment. I didn't mean anything bad by it.
@hexcane Watch the Jacques Brel version and then watch this again and I think you'll see what's rock and roll about it. It definitely fits better in the rock and roll realm than Terry Jacks' cover of another Jacques Brel song, Seasons In The Sun, and that was done with standard rock instruments including guitar, organ, drums, etc. I can think of another cabaret song that is classic rock and roll, The Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) by The Doors.
When this was first shown it was not only the first time I had heard of SAHB but also my first exposure to the art of Jacques Brel - thus a double cause for celebration!
When this was first shown it was not only the first time I had heard of SAHB but also my first exposure to the art of Jacques Brel - thus a double cause for celebration!
@pauldegroover How about just one example of a good Scot, namely Sir Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall RAF Fighter Command in 1940. But for this Scot, who knows what the world would have been. There are hundreds of great Scots.
I was a high school senior in 1974 & wasn't ready for the Tango or the brutal realities of these lyrics, although at the time I could have been drafted to Vietnam, had not President Nixon & Mr. Kissinger arranged for U.S. troop withdrawal. Now that I'm a middle aged man I still find these lyrics troubling, as they certainly are. I will always love the SAHB for being a part of my youth & my appreciation extends far beyond the rock numbers & over-the-top theatricality that first attracted me.
There will only ever be AH. Gives this the song the absolute treatment, more feeling than the original and any of the pale copies. Wish I'd got to see them perform, a guy I used to work with did and said it was something he'd never forget.
The other day my Gran said she was cousins with Alex Harvey and I was like 'Ha I bet its some amount of utter shite' then she put this on and I was like O.o Wadafuck. Just shows you how much of an arrogant fuck I am :P
This song was such wild genius at that time (even though it was a cover). People were stupifyied and baffled.??
New, young people will have very strong problems understanding this..But that is just their conditioning to presant day music (most comtemplary music is all vidio, zero content, & inability to sing live or to play real instruments....and to make an original composition. Nothing is original in presant day music.
Where were your Take That's, Jedwards, or even JLS's FFS !!!
At least you could text their names
Having said that, this does take me back - 'The wet head of my first case of ghonneria' - RIP auld Senga, Whitehill Miner's Welfare ..'98, made me not just a man, but a case that fateful week!!
i think the major difference in comparing alex to jim morrison is that morrison looked like he'd fall over if you blew on him whereas alex looks like he'd have beaten the crap out of you in a street fight! probably the difference between scotland & america.
@hypoguess I'M English an I loved Alex Harvey,David Bowie from Yorkshire LOL he's from Becknahma in Kent. I take u dont lime us as a race ....ah diddums
What's with the Jim Morrison comparison? I don't see or hear any likeness at all. I suspect the Doors fan has found this more interesting and can't cope with the disloyalty. R.I.P Alex. The band played the Wickerman Festival a couple of years ago and are still great to hear, even with the new boy.
@Salguine...our thoughts are as one. You're a gem...i have taken the liberty of setting a date for our wedding. Bafflingly i dont have a clue if you're a him or a her, but my vicar is exceedingly open minded. Meet you at the altar my love.
@truecinnamon of cousre i've heard of Jack Bruce, one of the founding members of cream. I just think Alex Harvey was more of a rock star than Jack Bruce.
@sleepingpills...your cheeky "comment" of 1 yr ago plainly means that God intends for you to continue to bombard your lugholes with MTV synthetic manufactured muzac which you claim is more "real" & hearfelt than Al & Co. But be warned, you just might be driven to pop one too many mogadon. Trust me, I'm a doctor.
An inspirational video from the old grey whistle test , As a 14 year old watching this ,it was so different from the bands of the time ,Can't imagine listening to a tango at that age but it was the attitude of this band that made it so exciting ,I stuck with them through my teens and was proved right just listen to the back catalogue ,especially anthem,Saw them live and no one could match them ,thanks for uploading audand.
I was lucky enough to see them live in swansea (or was it cardiff) 70s. they were amazing.What anexperience.it was an all day concert..the who was the headline act the alex harvey band was unique.
manuman27 1 week ago
Simply brilliant!!!
samueljakiira1 1 week ago
I work in a Glasgow Museum and for the next few days there is an exhibition to commerate Wee Alex. some of the band will be there tomorrow (Saturday) and thereafter to the Clutha Vaults for drinks food and some music.....can`t wait. Wee man was a one off. God Bless him and keep him.
Mell1888 1 month ago
@Mell1888 I popped into the peoples palace during the week for a piss (yes I'm at that funny old age)and spotted the display with the sriped t-shirt leather jacket and of course the cane great to see he's not forgoten...took my wife on our first date to see the sensational alex harvey band in the early 70's and been together ever since..just love his music and still listen to it today ..and what a showman he was.
1954kaos 2 weeks ago
Apparently he once punched a cat because it was staring at him!!! Gotta love AH!!!
CelticReject 1 month ago
@eoinluvsgrunge
The great Zal Cleminson.
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what is this fuckery.. this music is shittt
scottrocksACDC 1 month ago
@scottrocksACDC git back to yer AC/DC then ya fuckin' swine
KokoBWary 5 days ago
saw the man twice, one of my top 10, i wil always miss you alex, r,i,p
oovarvu 1 month ago
Pure Class.
Thereisonlythemoment 1 month ago
This is one very "pumped" video. =p
articlescholar 2 months ago
As if there were times in which it was way easier to be who you are, do and say/sing what You want and I am not talking about using the eff word, but sharp lyrics. If it wouldn't be for Tom Waits, who else is here, now?
youralmostthere 2 months ago
Famous British Teeth
clintonlies 2 months ago
Seriously, just try to imagine a world where an ambitiously strange rock band decides to do an angry cover of a Jacques Brel tango....and they put them on television. Holy shit, I wish I lived in that world. It's gone. Alex was a demented genius and I miss him every day.
butuh13 4 months ago 9
wes borland
calixa 4 months ago
RIP the sensational alex harvey
plisplis00 4 months ago 6
It's a Great Tango Prog-Rock.
estilonesplu 4 months ago
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estilonesplu 4 months ago
I'm literally speechless. There are not words to accurately describe how amazing this is.
mort0subite 5 months ago 3
Saw him at the Apollo Glasgow. Must have been 1975 ?? Supported by BA Robertson. It as not a concert....it was theatre. Brilliant.
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Loved this song as I moved from primary school to secondary, Harvey stands the test of time, fantastic facial gestures and powerful voice!
MsKABT 5 months ago
Loved this song as I moved from primary school to secondary, Harvey stands the test of time, fantastic facial gestures and powerful voice!
MsKABT 5 months ago
there's a whispering man about shhhhhhhh
that makes you come and see things that can only be described as
sweets when yr little
Rosiexxmyrearendxx 5 months ago
I was lucky enough to see SAHB several times, and this video still astonishes me. Art. Glorious, unsettling art.
rabmania 5 months ago
2nd listen what a band
mandstngt 5 months ago
Mucho loco, meu irmão.
Vives1000 6 months ago
Disturbing, and amazingly 40 odd years ago...
bracisland 6 months ago 5
@bracisland No it isn't. It's less than 40 years ago.
skopje59 4 months ago
@skopje59 OK 1973 almost 40 years ago then.
bracisland 4 months ago
One day I'll cut my legs off, I'll burn myself alive !!!!!! Oh the horror, the horror. It doesn't get much better than Alex Harvey singing Jaques Brel
daverigby23 6 months ago 2
van halen
masonandscott 6 months ago
the best performer ever...EVER
how i wish i could have seen him live.
syndromman 6 months ago 3
Alex looked exhausted.
johyle 6 months ago
THE GORBALS OWN....RIP
johnwaedug 7 months ago
WHAT THE FLYING F*&%$ OH THIS SHIT IS ON LIKE POPCORN NEXT!!!!!
quinn407 7 months ago
Left us far too soon RIP
joyceeslillad 7 months ago in playlist Alex Harvey
Classic Alex - never forgotten and played for ever
Dmentor56 7 months ago
Brel and alex both rock legends both.
leaflettvideo 7 months ago
MAD JOCK!
ZIGGMYSTER1 7 months ago
BRILLIANT!!!!
tgbrown4 7 months ago
alex harvey. what a guy. still we in scotland usually potrayed musically as.... the effin ..bay..effin...city...effin rollers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
don't yi jist love auld alec? god love him, r.i.p. alex harvey. x
bowierosie57 7 months ago
I love it
glaeken14 7 months ago
I much prefer this to Brel's original. Excellent version, and Alex's live performance is second to none..
mdr23 8 months ago 11
LOL! This is crazy. I love it. Very entertaining.
jdlewis60 8 months ago
Powerful stuff, sounds like a song from a German prewar Cabaret. Great memories of my adolescence!
THATNIC8 8 months ago
Alex Harvey is a fucking GOD
Mags1464 8 months ago
one day i'll cut my leg off ..i'll burn my self alive ..............poetry by our second bard.hence second degree burns
kintoreloon 8 months ago
wee malkee the scots no wat i mean.xxxxxxxxx
winniebee112 8 months ago
listen to all the philosophers let out one great laugh, birth a tragedy. and schopenhaur the misognist. to the last.
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
time is passing fellow inhabitans of the star ship enterprise, you may miss your chance to journey to the sun, ive just had sex with my ex. good. well sin is two part manufactuing and one part hole sale.
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
aphridite when athena wept, the czar, tantiana pissed.
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
accompined by a sin. a great sin, a sin to behold, a sin to confess.
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
how could they prepare my both for resuerection, the blind doctors. i hate you. what am i the worm in thee.
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
left. and no mark on my left hand.
TheBlindPig1 9 months ago
i am the first of man.
TheBlindPig1 9 months ago
@TheBlindPig1
No you're supposed to be a pig.
Make your mind up.
mrhenryleopard 5 months ago
How can it be about AH? he didn't write it
Bmc7231 9 months ago
This song is about Alex' National Service - something he didn't want to do and hated. It has nothing to do with his sexuality - he was married with a couple of kids. Look him up on Wikipedia, Blind Pig - you really are blind.....
Tyandree 9 months ago
This song is about Alex' National Service - something he didn't want to do and hated. It has nothing to do with his sexuality - he was married with a couple of kids. Look him up on Wikipedia, Blind Pig - you really are blind.....
Tyandree 9 months ago
There is nothing funny about this song or performance
Bmc7231 9 months ago
Alex Harvey fans. Don'g miss Damage Manual (Geordie Walker, Jah Wobble, Martin Atkins - all original members of PiL and Killing Joke) recording together as Damage Manual using a 1974 rock magazine flexi disc interview with Alex Harvey as vocalist after his death. The last GREAT Alex Harvey recording... under the song title 'The Street Belong To You!"
Satyagrahaha 9 months ago
22 people don't take off his legs and burn himself alive
angusyoung6661 9 months ago
Guy who found this funny - daven58100 - clearly has issues, or else is unbelievably thick. It's one of the bitterest songs ever written. Check out 'Jacky' by Scott Walker: it's another Jacques Brel song, and is equally odd (and was banned by the Beeb at the time, I seem to recall). Maybe it's a Belgian thing! Plastic Bertrand was pretty odd, too.
thespiritof57 9 months ago
fantastic
jeffwhite7a 9 months ago
Cliff Stocker eat your heart out!
bigtone1348 9 months ago
Man is impotent, for, he cannot cum inside his woman.. the pratial reealtion of his will.
TheBlindPig1 9 months ago
@TheBlindPig1 You really are a moron, BP - do your research before making such stupid statements!
Tyandree 9 months ago
@abbeyroadLfc Agreed.
daven58100 10 months ago
My only experience of Alex was a loats minute gig at the famous Eel Pie Island at the end of a tour. He was f*****g amazing !! and NO he will NEVER Rest In Peace !!!
GlasVegasLad 10 months ago
haha! I used to think this was autobiographical as Alex was old enough to do national service☺
MarkB1ngham 10 months ago
Essentially the message alex is espousing is a time in his life namely his childhood ,of a time of his personel and traumatic excrucuating time of his abusive early years as a human being.
macivor73 10 months ago
@macivor73 No it isn't lol..it is about when he was in the army...
dianmc 9 months ago
what the hell is he talking about
ogossick 10 months ago
@ogossick Idiot !!!
GlasVegasLad 10 months ago
one day i will cut my legs off......he is so pissed off and the scarey thing is....i know what he means
58everton 10 months ago
what am I seeing with the violinists faces ?
triflind 10 months ago
My God, this man was brilliant!
paddy2youse 10 months ago
I remember the first time I saw SAHB on Rock Concert in the mid '70s , what a great, unexpected experience!!
vambo13257 10 months ago
Magnificent - that is all - next!
TartanBear 10 months ago
Brilliantissimo! (is it a French song, anyone know?)
MarkB1ngham 11 months ago
@MarkB1ngham hey :) It was written by Jacques Brel, who was from Belgium and written in French called Au Suivant (Next). This version is also on Youtube. I think this is brilliantissimo too ;D
norathenoodler 11 months ago
@norathenoodler Thank you very much for that (slightly related, I understand the children's book and musical film title 'chitty chitty bang bang' was something to do with army whorehouses!☺)
MarkB1ngham 11 months ago
It's the fucking "Sensational" Alex Harvey Band.
BoabBarca 11 months ago
God damn, what a great performer!
KayPeepers 11 months ago
Met Zal outside Readig Town Hall in the 70s. Covered "Faith Healer" at the Klub Foot, Hammersmith, in 1984. Live on Alex!
RamusTongProductions 11 months ago
Some people just dont get it do they?
Go stick yer Brittany on bawbags an give the rest of us all peace.
iambeastLol 11 months ago
saw them at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park in London, I'm quessing 1974-5. Extraordinary
RSFRITH 11 months ago
i gave it a thumb down, yes!
sonordrummer1982 11 months ago
genius!
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Gingerarse100 1 year ago
Brel's version is fantastic in it's own way but Alex Harvey's voice just adds that edge that brings it in to a whole different realm. *sigh* I love SAHB
redglitterrain 1 year ago
the beST FRONTMAN EVER AND Probably the beST LIVE T,V,PERformance ever and probably the beST Cover of a bREL SONG EVer by anyone xxxlong live the king xxx
nemotheband 1 year ago
scott walker version sounds gay compared to this.absolute class alex
jallison419 1 year ago
Fucking awsome
roadsweeper69 1 year ago
That guy is beyond punk and rock - hes just fuckin mental - love it!! Legend mr harvey!!!!!
bucketmaster1 1 year ago 24
Brian (Evans), Here's a Brig'ton Billy Boy for ye! The second best singer to come out of Glasgow (you're third!), Lonnie Donegan being the best. Check out YouTube for Alex Harvey singing Next, Gang Bang, Tomorrow Belongs To Me, Faith Healer and Swamp Snake. I have them all! Shamrock, ya bas! It's my Birthday Eve and I started celebrating early!!!
cockneycockney1 1 year ago
'76 or '77 two 17yr olds travelled to the big city from Andover to watch this fantastic band. And what a show it was. Thanks for posting all the songs.
brit50ify 1 year ago
'76 or '77 two 17yr olds travelled to the big city from Andover to watch this fantastic band. And what a show it was. Thanks for posting all the songs.
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ghfjtyufghdfj 1 year ago
I pissed myself laughing when I first heard this
yuteshute 1 year ago
@yuteshute he best cover ever
trd447guinness 1 year ago
@trd447guinness Never knew Next was a cover, be nice to hear the original..
yuteshute 1 year ago
@yuteshute jeaques Brel " le suivant"
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@yuteshute the best cover ever
trd447guinness 1 year ago
@hexcane That's cool. I didn't intend to argue. You had stated your opinion disagreeing with Dovecote6's comment and I stated mine in support of his comment. I didn't mean anything bad by it.
GuaraldiGuy 1 year ago
@hexcane Watch the Jacques Brel version and then watch this again and I think you'll see what's rock and roll about it. It definitely fits better in the rock and roll realm than Terry Jacks' cover of another Jacques Brel song, Seasons In The Sun, and that was done with standard rock instruments including guitar, organ, drums, etc. I can think of another cabaret song that is classic rock and roll, The Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) by The Doors.
GuaraldiGuy 1 year ago
just possibly the best rock ever...........
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When this was first shown it was not only the first time I had heard of SAHB but also my first exposure to the art of Jacques Brel - thus a double cause for celebration!
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andrewrolandwales 1 year ago
When this was first shown it was not only the first time I had heard of SAHB but also my first exposure to the art of Jacques Brel - thus a double cause for celebration!
andrewrolandwales 1 year ago
i swear on the wet head of my first case of gonorrhea!
nice image!!!
scobiedog1 1 year ago
smaaks the dude in the green
sexyhooliganyolanda 1 year ago
Brilliant - Rock. Acting. Drama. Alex gave you the lot.
MrBazza86 1 year ago
Jacques Brel wrote it and I would love to know who translated AH`s version.
Excellent translation and a great performance by SAHB
ivancarling 1 year ago
@ivancarling The Scott Walker version is equally good. I find it hard to choose between the two.
cheekysausage 1 year ago
@ivancarling
The translation was done by Mort Shuman and Eric Blau.
FroschohneMaske2 1 year ago
the one good scot!
pauldegroover 1 year ago
@pauldegroover How about just one example of a good Scot, namely Sir Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall RAF Fighter Command in 1940. But for this Scot, who knows what the world would have been. There are hundreds of great Scots.
bairns1234 1 year ago
I was a high school senior in 1974 & wasn't ready for the Tango or the brutal realities of these lyrics, although at the time I could have been drafted to Vietnam, had not President Nixon & Mr. Kissinger arranged for U.S. troop withdrawal. Now that I'm a middle aged man I still find these lyrics troubling, as they certainly are. I will always love the SAHB for being a part of my youth & my appreciation extends far beyond the rock numbers & over-the-top theatricality that first attracted me.
bogeybast 1 year ago
There will only ever be AH. Gives this the song the absolute treatment, more feeling than the original and any of the pale copies. Wish I'd got to see them perform, a guy I used to work with did and said it was something he'd never forget.
BaneOfTheWhiteWolf 1 year ago
@BaneOfTheWhiteWolf "Morerfeeling than the original " you must be kidding ! I think you never heard Jacques Brel version.
trd447guinness 1 year ago
Perfect, West of Scotland, perfection.
A one off!
eff901 1 year ago
alex, you da man!
oovarvu 1 year ago
Brel would be verry proud
trd447guinness 1 year ago
unbelieveble awsome.
trd447guinness 1 year ago
What are all these witterings about the one and only Alex Harvey - totally unique
MrBazza86 1 year ago
1973???? 20 years later they were banning songs a lot less graphic than this! The genius of Alex
gowfyak 1 year ago
great! what a performance!
artmaniac53 1 year ago
The other day my Gran said she was cousins with Alex Harvey and I was like 'Ha I bet its some amount of utter shite' then she put this on and I was like O.o Wadafuck. Just shows you how much of an arrogant fuck I am :P
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juyuilh 1 year ago
scott walker way better, i like this version though
kimmon123 1 year ago
Pure Genius...there is much brilliant music being produced today but nothing like this. I doubt we will ever see another Alex Harvey.
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I remember watching this and was mesmerised. still love it. Bands had room to experiment in those days.
kew4612 1 year ago
I remember watching this and was memorised. still love it. Bands had room to experiment in those days.
kew4612 1 year ago
;))))
mudakoger 1 year ago
This song was such wild genius at that time (even though it was a cover). People were stupifyied and baffled.??
New, young people will have very strong problems understanding this..But that is just their conditioning to presant day music (most comtemplary music is all vidio, zero content, & inability to sing live or to play real instruments....and to make an original composition. Nothing is original in presant day music.
Kristopful 1 year ago 3
genius from scotlands best ever
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nadeeraist 1 year ago
The finest performance of death's most terrifying hymn.
cujimmy92 1 year ago
Arguably, the best ever performance by any act on OGWT.
davindo91 1 year ago
Unique. Both lyricist and performer.
wessex4eva 1 year ago
HIPPY SHIT !!!
What was wrong with the seventies ?
Where were your Take That's, Jedwards, or even JLS's FFS !!!
At least you could text their names
Having said that, this does take me back - 'The wet head of my first case of ghonneria' - RIP auld Senga, Whitehill Miner's Welfare ..'98, made me not just a man, but a case that fateful week!!
T5Classico 1 year ago
Possibly the funniest rock song ever.
daven58100 1 year ago 6
Sensational indeed. Got to love Michael Myers on lead fiddle. RIP Alex.
Widds 1 year ago
i think the major difference in comparing alex to jim morrison is that morrison looked like he'd fall over if you blew on him whereas alex looks like he'd have beaten the crap out of you in a street fight! probably the difference between scotland & america.
scobiedog1 1 year ago 3
legend
tony671 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing. Brel appears to work best in a Scottish accent! Gave me goose-pimples.
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sadamalable 1 year ago
got a best of whistle test dvd from my sister for christmas a couple of years back....
why the fuck isn't this on it? this is one of the best things ever on there!
scobiedog1 1 year ago
@hypoguess I'M English an I loved Alex Harvey,David Bowie from Yorkshire LOL he's from Becknahma in Kent. I take u dont lime us as a race ....ah diddums
Leggsy 1 year ago
god bless the internet so we can find and re-watch stuff like this, Pure class
mikeroo99 1 year ago 2
What's with the Jim Morrison comparison? I don't see or hear any likeness at all. I suspect the Doors fan has found this more interesting and can't cope with the disloyalty. R.I.P Alex. The band played the Wickerman Festival a couple of years ago and are still great to hear, even with the new boy.
HVAEUHV 1 year ago
This is a brilliant cover. Brel was Belgian BTW.
franticdiagnosis 1 year ago
Oustanding performance. looked up the original, by a French guy called Jacque Brel. Prefer this, would love to have seen them live.
chieflazyboy 1 year ago
Is there anyone out there who can download "Giddy Up A Ding Dong" by Alex Harvey? I haven't heard that song in over 30 years!!
pindowskivich 1 year ago 2
that was good
beboploo 1 year ago
This is a translation of French singer Jacques Brel, "Au Suivant". Harvey's version is pretty awsome.
jbrenard 1 year ago
@Salguine...our thoughts are as one. You're a gem...i have taken the liberty of setting a date for our wedding. Bafflingly i dont have a clue if you're a him or a her, but my vicar is exceedingly open minded. Meet you at the altar my love.
mandyoh59 1 year ago
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Scotland's first (and only) bonafide rock star!!
R.I.P Alex
w1ngedmarsup1al 1 year ago
Scotland's one and only bonafide rock star!!
R.I.P Alex
w1ngedmarsup1al 1 year ago
@w1ngedmarsup1al you never heard jack bruce then?
truecinnamon 1 year ago
@truecinnamon of cousre i've heard of Jack Bruce, one of the founding members of cream. I just think Alex Harvey was more of a rock star than Jack Bruce.
w1ngedmarsup1al 1 year ago
@sleepingpills...your cheeky "comment" of 1 yr ago plainly means that God intends for you to continue to bombard your lugholes with MTV synthetic manufactured muzac which you claim is more "real" & hearfelt than Al & Co. But be warned, you just might be driven to pop one too many mogadon. Trust me, I'm a doctor.
mandyoh59 1 year ago
Unique.
daven58100 1 year ago
One of the most charismatic 'rock' performers of all times. Great take on Brel's "Au Suivant"...must check it out as well...
Mazurka1001 1 year ago
shame alex died so young; he would've made a great actor!
scobiedog1 1 year ago
enjoy the music
think about whats behind it
your are always missed Alex
cwarchc 1 year ago
Bloody genius!! show it to today's young and see if they can find anything to compare. Prodigy maybe?
stixmix2375 1 year ago
this made my life complete as a 15 year old...rip alex
easypeezysites 1 year ago
ridiculously great performance...more, more, more!!!
robbieredlight 1 year ago
An inspirational video from the old grey whistle test , As a 14 year old watching this ,it was so different from the bands of the time ,Can't imagine listening to a tango at that age but it was the attitude of this band that made it so exciting ,I stuck with them through my teens and was proved right just listen to the back catalogue ,especially anthem,Saw them live and no one could match them ,thanks for uploading audand.
middaymoses 1 year ago
the Scottish Jim Morrison
Ianm456 1 year ago 3
@Ianm456 That's insulting to Alex Harvey.
Salguine 1 year ago 21