Palace of Versailles - AL STEWART ('79 MusikLaden TV)

Al Stewart at MusikLaden -a televised music show. Filmed at the TV studios of Radio Bremen in 1979. Peter White keys, Krysia Christianne keys/voc, Adam Yurman guitar, Robin Lamble bass, Harry Stinson drums, Robert Alpert keys. LYRICS-
The wands of smoke are rising
From the walls of the Bastille
And through the streets of Paris
Runs a sense of the unreal

The Kings have all departed
There servants are nowhere
We burned out their mansions
In the name of Robespierre

And still we wait
To see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Inside the midnight councils
The lamps are burning low
On you sit and talk all through the night
But there's just no place to go

And Bonaparte is coming
With his army from the south
Marat your days are numbered
And we live hand to mouth

While we wait
To see the day begin
Our time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

The ghost of revolution
Still prowls the Paris streets
Down all the restless centuries
It wonders incomplete

It speaks inside the cheap red wine
Of cafe summer nights
Its red and amber voices
Call the cars at traffic lights

Why do you wait
To see the day begin
Your time is wasting in the wind
Wondering why
Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles

Wondering why, it echoes
Through the lonely palace of Versailles.

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[zurrillo1]

Did you know that Al Stewart was inspired by The English Composer William Byrd's The Earl of Salisbury.

[EMILIOMARENGO]

@zurrillo1 Hello, great tip pal...and thanks for directing me to the Pavane. It sheds light on his creating process. Al's a bard of our times. Cheerio...

[kentucy9999]

 I'm a "hip guy." Really. The Beatles-Sgt Pepper...Stones. Hendrix. Velvet Underground. Traffic. Doors. Cream. ..I heard the Album "Time Passages" in about 1978, maybe 79'. Listened to it 24/7 for a month.I thought it was a GREAT album. I couldn't get over it. I couldn't understand why it wasn't featured in Time Magazine or something. It was like I had a secret that no one else knew. Wonderful album....like Dr Sardonicus {Spirit} that not that many people know about. Love this song.

[kentucy9999]

@kentucy9999 ,..One more thing. This is a very "deep" album. People think about the historical aspects of it and the music which gives you that "feel" etc but this is actually kind of a melancholy album. This album is about TIME and the fact that TIME literally goes by and it is all over and you kind of look back and say, "what was that all about?" There is alot of existentialism in this album. Listen to "A man for all seasons." To tell you the truth quite depressing in some ways but I loved it.

[MsFranko64]

grazie per questo prezioso video .... grande performance del gruppo !

[ulij20]

The intro of this song reminds me of "Don't Speak" by No Doubt.

[arpionatore]

Wordless...almost.Sublyme and more.

[007Stalled]

Just got to be one of the best lead guitar licks around and when combined with the lyrics and other band backing is just sooo good!

This is somehow even better in some ways than the studio track.

Another good guitar lick is on "On Stage Before".

Those naughty French revolutionaries.

[sdingeswho]

Thanks a million, Emilio! I've been looking for a live "Palace" for quite some time --- not only is this one of Al's best songs (which is saying a lot, when you consider its "competition" :-) ), but we get to see Tim Renwick get off one of his two greatest solos, also (the other one, and the only one that can "hold a candle" to this one, being that lalapalooza of a "ride" on "Life in Dark Water").

[TheGap1967]

It's wonderful to hear Al ...

[MrThrower13]

it is a pity. it is not the original .