I'm 56 and as every week passes, every month passes and every year passes, it feels the enormity of this song is being realised too soon. It won't be long in my 80s that I will realise I have no more heroes (alive) anymore.
RIP. Jet Black, Dave Greenfield. Whatever happened to all the heroes, all the Shakespearoes, they watched their Rome burn. No more heroes anymore, no more heroes anymore, no more heroes anymore 😔
Bought it immediately when came to stores in Belgrade, Serbia, I think a half or a year later then in UK and was listening over and over trying to understand words ...I was 12 and so into this album in then Yugoslavia, which was weird mix of communism and capitalism...and we could get almost all main records of punk and other rock bands. If I could not find what interested me, every Thursday at 10pm there was great radio show with guy that was traveling to London often bringing all new editions of main and off stream music. I had some radio/casette recorder and was religiously listening that radio show called Vibracije (Vibrations) recording all I loved until late at night, in spite going to school in the morning . It was cool as radio guy never messed up a song with words or commercials , knowing there were many like me recording ...I loved those Thursdays ...it was like travelling to another world.
Met him great bloke . loved Norfolk . it was his influence that they did the album cover in Hunstanton. He passed away with covid in kings Lynn hospital. sadly missed
"I wanna be number one. How's that? Short and simple enough for you? It's gonna be a long, hard road. But who knows? Could kick ass... Could be dangerous. Could totally suck. Whaddaya say, bro? Join me. Let's see how far we can take this." Even if i never heard this song before, I'd still have so much to thank it for. Thank you Stranglers, for inspiring the most assinine, off the walls, cockamamey video game franchises ever.
There's a war memorial in the park in Mansfield Woodhouse, at the corner gate. In 1976 or 1977 someone used a marker pen to write "no more heroes" inside a cast wreath at the base. It was the best thing about it but the last time I looked, in the 90s, it had gone.
This era of The Stranglers, are sorely missed. Nobody has those barely suppressed anger, rage, spite, contemptuously intoned vocals that Hugh Cornwell had. Dave Greenfield was such a lovely chap. People have the wrong Dave when they think, David Grohl is the nicest man in rock. Yet, now Dave Greenfield gets to Rest In Peace after 45 years of a job bloody well done.
@@serenan920 I think, I speak for us all, that we have today a guy like Dave Grohl in the music. And that is nothin', that change the achivments of Dave Greenfield, right...?
*R.I.P Dave Greenfield, you were probably the best keyboard player in the whole world and we will ALWAYS remember you. You'll always be a rock n roll legend and one of my biggest music idols of all time. 😢 I still haven't revealed myself as an 11 year long Stranglers fan on CZcams, but now the time is just right, out the closet I come! 😀 I'm extremely proud 2 be a lover of one of the best bands of all time and a truly incredibly talented musician which is you!! 😇 Good luck, Dave...GOOD FUCKING LUCK, HERO!! 😆🎸✌*
the perfect song to listen to whilst fighting to be the #1 assassin, avenging your dead friend, getting sucked into a game console, and fighting aliens
@@avacherry3618 Well... It reminds me always on the early 80's. Drivin' in full filled car, to a concert, or to a demonstration, or to an act of civil resistance, against a stupid big project, like takin' down some hundred acres of forrest for another air strip, for a already big airport. Those were the days and stranglers in the car stereo. Better days will never come. It was a good balance between freedom and response. We had the grace of early birth...
1st record I ever bought. Virtually wore that single out. The song is just as exciting today as it was in 1977. Just a perfect song without a second of wasted time. All chiller no filler! And make no mistake about it, The Stranglers were very much part of the punk scene, and this ranks up there with God Save The Queen, New Rose and Ever Fallen In Love as a genuine punk anthem.
What's really disconcerting is the sheer number of under-40s who haven't even heard of The Stranglers/'Heroes' (despite the best efforts of some of us).....
I am so glad I have found some of the best rockers in history thanks to a video game about a lightsaber-wielding anime nerd assassin. No More Heroes! Let's punk!
Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice pick That made his ears burn Whatever happened to Dear old Lenin? The great Elmyra And Sancho Panza? Whatever happened to the heroes? Whatever happened to the heroes? Whatever happened to All of the heroes? All the Shakespearoes? They watched their Rome burn Whatever happened to the heroes? Whatever happened to the heroes? No more heroes any more No more heroes any more Whatever happened to All of the heroes? All the Shakespearoes? They watched their Rome burn Whatever happened to the heroes? Whatever happened to the heroes? No more heroes any more No more heroes any more No more heroes any more No more heroes any more
As a kid of 11in Catholic Ireland started to rebel against the oppression ... at Liverpool for a football match late 1977 bought STRANGLERS "No More Heroes" in HMV .... the rest they say is history 😎👍 .....
One of the many things i love with the stranglers,Im always left naturally high as a kite after a stranglers session,They really do it for me,the lengthy solos are amazing as is their timing,brilliant band.
A great punk song that still sounds fkng amazing after so many decades down the line!! I enjoyed the interview with them on Bbc6music today! I do wish Liz Kershaw wouldn't gab so much, and that more time was given to hearing the tracks! R.I.P Dave Greenfield. Great musician.
57years here,totally on same page. Was just listening to Secret Affairs My World then to here. Boy were we lucky to have lived through this era,now,there ain't nowt to smile about
Couldn't agree more, Terence. I'm still in my mid 20s, but I've lived through so many "Once-in-a-lifetime events" and I'm just exhausted. Would love to have some normalcy and comfort for once.
When people would say that punks couldn't play their instruments, I just used to say " go and listen to The Stranglers and then try to tell me they can't play." Lyrically brilliant, musically talented and practically perfect, they were like the evil geniuses of punk, but The Stranglers wouldn't have been The Stranglers without Dave Greenfield's superlative keyboard skills. RIP Dave you were a king of the keyboard.
Don't you think, We all need to capture the moment and enjoy Our Life and our responsibility to lift a person up who you might think is feeling down? It must be incredibly hard but we always have to learn going forward. Talk, music, dance is always my philosophy x
00:08 is an Icelandic newspaper article. Headline reads: The Stranglers live as long as they have something to say (probably meant to mean: as long as they have some message to deliver). Article is all but unreadable at this resolution.
I woke this morning with this classic track going round in my head. Wow, how wonderful. It is amazing songs, and music we remember /recall from our past /childhood that still resonates. 😎.
My beautiful late brother's tune, he loved the Strangler's,he passed 7 year's ago this may, in a tradgic accident,seem's like 7 day's ago...always in our heart's "our John" aka Billy Bantam. 💙💙🖤🖤
The ONLY time in my like ive heard a song for the first time and thought WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT.... October 2nd 1977 6pm. Number 20 in the radio one top 20 countdown.....
still shocked to this day... Rest In Power Dave "Genius" Greenfield. you were the Ray Manzarek of your own generation. I grew up on the Stranglers ; ok, I might be 19 but... hell, it proves you made the band sound so different from the rest... AND THAT THE MUSIC NEVER GOT OLD! thank you for that!
Yeah R.I.P DAVE GREENFIELD and what a brilliant keyboard player...!! Yup I saw the STRANGLER'S back in 1979 and what an awesome gig and they're still one of my favourite PUNK band even tho later they transcended PUNK ROCK I still love um...!!!🍺😊👍🏴🏴☮️☯️🅰️🏴🏴
Gli Stranglers erano la mia band preferita, assieme ai Clash, ai tempi dell'esperienza punk-rock settantasettesca e del movimento "post-punk", che confluì in quel ricco filone artistico-musicale denominato come "New Wave"... Dopo la "bufera punk" del 1977, gli Stranglers, come i Clash, seppero evolversi sia a livello musicale ed artistico, che sul versante politico, a differenza di altre formazioni punk-rock che conobbero una parentesi effimera ancorata alla corrente musicale "punk"...
What ever happened to all the heroes? Watch this. My sons have been grown up on proper music so hopefully it will live on! No More Heroes Anymore! Fu~K I Miss the old days.
Dave Greenfield was a unique kind of genius. The kind you need to use a keyboard as a lead instrument for punk. That's not something you see everyday. You'll be truly missed Dave.
The band ordered Greek food to their hotel but gave the wrong room, so the food never arrived. While they waited they wrote this song. "Whatever happened to the gyros?"
Perhaps it's telling that the song lists Sancho Panza among its heroes: not really a man of action, and certainly not the man whose name is in the title of the book, but a man of loyalty and common-sense wisdom, a symbol of practicality over idealism. Sancho is the sort of person any of us could aspire to be. Is Sancho really a hero? One might argue not, but people like him make the world better, in small ways, every day.
I'm 56 and as every week passes, every month passes and every year passes, it feels the enormity of this song is being realised too soon. It won't be long in my 80s that I will realise I have no more heroes (alive) anymore.
I believe brother! I'm here and I agree!!
55 and feel your pain
@youie66
Same age, similar thoughts..
Don't be sad. Memories are the best thing. So many brillant groups in the 80s. I am so glad to have been born when i was born 😊😉
All our heroes are zeroes and have their place booked on the Ark to paedo island
One of the greatest drummers ever.
R.I.P Jet Black, a hero forever more 🖤
The best drummer for the Stranglers, perhaps.
❤️🔥🤐
@@geoffw1209eerrrr he was the drummer for The Stranglers for the majority of their career. What are you on about, you clueless cretin?
RIP. Jet Black, Dave Greenfield. Whatever happened to all the heroes, all the Shakespearoes, they watched their Rome burn. No more heroes anymore, no more heroes anymore, no more heroes anymore 😔
Bought it immediately when came to stores in Belgrade, Serbia, I think a half or a year later then in UK and was listening over and over trying to understand words ...I was 12 and so into this album in then Yugoslavia, which was weird mix of communism and capitalism...and we could get almost all main records of punk and other rock bands. If I could not find what interested me, every Thursday at 10pm there was great radio show with guy that was traveling to London often bringing all new editions of main and off stream music. I had some radio/casette recorder and was religiously listening that radio show called Vibracije (Vibrations) recording all I loved until late at night, in spite going to school in the morning . It was cool as radio guy never messed up a song with words or commercials , knowing there were many like me recording ...I loved those Thursdays ...it was like travelling to another world.
I am so happy that you are addicted to music and happy! - welcome to the Club :)
@@tonebender7897 thank you . I am 57 in May 58 and still love listening the music from my young days. Now with much more powerful speakers . 🐲
Thank you for sharing this with us. Music brings people together 🙂
@@isabelleweiler5603 🌹
one of the greatest keyboard solos i ever heard.... R.I.P Dave Greenfield
So right!
Totally inspired me 😔🤘🎧
Met him great bloke . loved Norfolk . it was his influence that they did the album cover in Hunstanton. He passed away with covid in kings Lynn hospital. sadly missed
"I wanna be number one. How's that? Short and simple enough for you? It's gonna be a long, hard road. But who knows? Could kick ass... Could be dangerous. Could totally suck. Whaddaya say, bro? Join me. Let's see how far we can take this."
Even if i never heard this song before, I'd still have so much to thank it for. Thank you Stranglers, for inspiring the most assinine, off the walls, cockamamey video game franchises ever.
Introduced to the Stranglers at 16yr Old, Now 62yr & still listening to them, Playing it Loud & Proud!! What a Band, Dave & Jet RIP
You was a little too late then kid I was 14 and I'm a little bit younger than you in a nice way
@@SAHB very similiar to me.
The Stranglers, one of the best bands ever Peaches, great sound, walk on by brilliant, going for a walk in the Tree's. Hugh Cornwell Nosferatu.
There's a war memorial in the park in Mansfield Woodhouse, at the corner gate. In 1976 or 1977 someone used a marker pen to write "no more heroes" inside a cast wreath at the base. It was the best thing about it but the last time I looked, in the 90s, it had gone.
The sound of my youth R.I.P Dave Greenfield . jeffinblack
This era of The Stranglers, are sorely missed. Nobody has those barely suppressed anger, rage, spite, contemptuously intoned vocals that Hugh Cornwell had.
Dave Greenfield was such a lovely chap. People have the wrong Dave when they think, David Grohl is the nicest man in rock. Yet, now Dave Greenfield gets to Rest In Peace after 45 years of a job bloody well done.
Perfect description of Hugh's voice and lyrics.
Same here But never nice and sleazy hey But they did bring on a stripper and I was only 15 years old what joy in 1977
Dave Grohl is very good. But, nowhere near this apex
Surpressed rage !!!! I love it !!!! My first band , ......... wow!!!
@@serenan920 I think, I speak for us all, that we have today a guy like Dave Grohl in the music. And that is nothin', that change the achivments of Dave Greenfield, right...?
Rhyming heroes with Shakesperoes! Brilliant!
A classic by the Stranglers, that will remain relevant for decades. Especially that opening section with the guitars.👏👏👍👍🌹🌹
actually it's JJ's bass guitar!
J'ai découvert les stranglers en 1981 en concert au Bataclan et depuis je les suis.
"They watched their Rome burn."
Indeed.
Me too! 62 and still loving this track! It has been my ringtone for ages!
Mate I'm 64 and it only seems like yesterday when I bought the album when it was released in Australia.
*R.I.P Dave Greenfield, you were probably the best keyboard player in the whole world and we will ALWAYS remember you. You'll always be a rock n roll legend and one of my biggest music idols of all time. 😢 I still haven't revealed myself as an 11 year long Stranglers fan on CZcams, but now the time is just right, out the closet I come! 😀 I'm extremely proud 2 be a lover of one of the best bands of all time and a truly incredibly talented musician which is you!! 😇 Good luck, Dave...GOOD FUCKING LUCK, HERO!! 😆🎸✌*
Yeah r I p
Yes a phenomenal player..amazing melodic solos which just fit perfectly.. RIP Dave ❤️
He was class.
RIP Dave😭you'll be sadly missed 😢
🖤Love the Stranglers
Great tribute !!!
saw these about 5 times in my days.... fantastic band xx
Best of Punk Revolution! Will be forever in my heart. RIP Dave Greenfield
The sheer pace and ferocity of this track makes this one of the most exciting songs I’ve ever listened to.
the perfect song to listen to whilst fighting to be the #1 assassin, avenging your dead friend, getting sucked into a game console, and fighting aliens
Great character Travis Touchdown :)
Travis, it's kill or be killed!
@Kiko Jikoo nah man. it's called a reference.
I played short stop on a really good team.we won like 5 championships in a row...we where hated...the name of the team was the Stranglers..
Or while riding a boat down the Thames to save your new DI.
The stranglers... a very successful band and still ostracized and underrated.. but we stand by your side my old friends!
Bye Dave. No heroics; just beautiful sleep.
Stranglers classic one of the best punk songs ever
That's a gross way to refer to death.
96 tears.
Those instruments are flicking unheard of these days. Those instruments are brilliant x
Dave Greenfield, marvelous and unique artist on keyboards. R I P Dave Greenfield.
I loved the transition of sound from Heroes to B&W , it sounded " icey " very cold but .....lovely ,hey ho that's me !!
One of the greatest songs ever written!
Banger!
Been listening to the stranglers since I was 13 I am now 53. And still listening to them daily. Still sounds amazing
They were light years ahead of any other band at the time. Thank god I was able to see them several times. I will be listening to them until can’t.
I envy you!
I'm have tickets to their show in Adelaide, Australia.
I am in my 50's, I only discovered these guys about four years ago, got hooked instantly. Sure wish I knew about them in the 80's in my teen years.
Must know golden brown? Epic song
Me too .. 54 .. I grew up on a strict diet of punk/ new wave .. I am not sure how these guys slipped through the cracks for me .
@@avacherry3618 Well... It reminds me always on the early 80's. Drivin' in full filled car, to a concert, or to a demonstration, or to an act of civil resistance, against a stupid big project, like takin' down some hundred acres of forrest for another air strip, for a already big airport. Those were the days and stranglers in the car stereo. Better days will never come. It was a good balance between freedom and response. We had the grace of early birth...
1st record I ever bought. Virtually wore that single out. The song is just as exciting today as it was in 1977. Just a perfect song without a second of wasted time. All chiller no filler! And make no mistake about it, The Stranglers were very much part of the punk scene, and this ranks up there with God Save The Queen, New Rose and Ever Fallen In Love as a genuine punk anthem.
What's really disconcerting is the sheer number of under-40s who haven't even heard of The Stranglers/'Heroes' (despite the best efforts of some of us).....
Been a massive fan since I first heard this at school in '77. Still my favourite Stranglers song
I am so glad I have found some of the best rockers in history thanks to a video game about a lightsaber-wielding anime nerd assassin.
No More Heroes! Let's punk!
Whatever happened to
Leon Trotsky?
He got an ice pick
That made his ears burn
Whatever happened to
Dear old Lenin?
The great Elmyra
And Sancho Panza?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to
All of the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more
Whatever happened to
All of the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their Rome burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more
Leon Trotsky and Lenin got what they deserved 🤣
@@theloanranger3122 Well I think Trotsky would have been a lesser evil compared to Stalin had he came to power.
@@theloanranger3122 Lenin references to a comedian
It's dear old Lenny, not lenin
Great music, shit commie lyrics
Classic '77 tune . Favourite Stranglers record. The first band I followed in the Punk Revolution. R.I.P. Dave Greenfield brilliant keyboardist.
As a kid of 11in Catholic Ireland started to rebel against the oppression ... at Liverpool for a football match late 1977 bought STRANGLERS "No More Heroes" in HMV .... the rest they say is history 😎👍 .....
Brilliant keyboard. When Dave Greenfield auditioned for the band, Hugh asked him if he’d heard of the Doors and he said no. 😂
One of the many things i love with the stranglers,Im always left naturally high as a kite after a stranglers session,They really do it for me,the lengthy solos are amazing as is their timing,brilliant band.
'lengthy solos' Surely an anathema to Punk.
@@iainstirling1475 punk is great.
They are so unique
A great punk song that still sounds fkng amazing after so many decades down the line!! I enjoyed the interview with them on Bbc6music today! I do wish Liz Kershaw wouldn't gab so much, and that more time was given to hearing the tracks! R.I.P Dave Greenfield. Great musician.
The Only Band that Mattered. ❤
57years here,totally on same page.
Was just listening to Secret Affairs My World then to here.
Boy were we lucky to have lived through this era,now,there ain't nowt to smile about
Thanks for the wonderful tunes, Dave.
Dave you are an eternal hero now. R. I. P.
The coolest masterpiece ever.
and TANK.
Rest in peace Dave Greenfield
Makes me remember 40 years ago... RIP Dave Greenfield. Be strong, "men in black"!
These days it's not heroes we need, just a bit of normality. This song is a kaleidoscopic masterpiece.
Couldn't agree more, Terence. I'm still in my mid 20s, but I've lived through so many "Once-in-a-lifetime events" and I'm just exhausted. Would love to have some normalcy and comfort for once.
Never gets old .great song 👍👍🎸
The opening. The keyboard. Simply amazing.
R.I.P jet black you will always be a Hero to me the sound of a generation the music that help shape my youth.
Grew up listening to the Stranglers, always my band
one of best songs ever..
what a keyboard solo!!
We could do with a few Matts in Ireland now. I'm reminded of the title of a song by the Stranglers : "No more heroes anymore."
When people would say that punks couldn't play their instruments, I just used to say " go and listen to The Stranglers and then try to tell me they can't play."
Lyrically brilliant, musically talented and practically perfect, they were like the evil geniuses of punk, but The Stranglers wouldn't have been The Stranglers without Dave Greenfield's superlative keyboard skills. RIP Dave you were a king of the keyboard.
Like that, the evil geniuses of punk.
They certainly were. The real deal; no wearing designer punk gear
Don't you think, We all need to capture the moment and enjoy Our Life and our responsibility to lift a person up who you might think is feeling down? It must be incredibly hard but we always have to learn going forward. Talk, music, dance is always my philosophy x
Rest in power, Dave.
00:08 is an Icelandic newspaper article. Headline reads: The Stranglers live as long as they have something to say (probably meant to mean: as long as they have some message to deliver). Article is all but unreadable at this resolution.
Tussen takk!
what a song definatley in the top five punk songs
First heard this when it was first released. Love at the first time of hearing it. And love it just as much today. My heroes, the Stranglers
I woke this morning with this classic track going round in my head. Wow, how wonderful. It is amazing songs, and music we remember /recall from our past /childhood that still resonates. 😎.
Damn that keyboard sound is analog heaven
Best intro ever, no contest. And what a song.
Only time in my whole life I heard a song for the first time and thought what the hell was that..
F§OKING BASS does me 🇫🇷 - every time - what a band in all it s forms 🇬🇧 xx
Tell me about it! Love a good song where the bass player gets his chance.
My beautiful late brother's tune, he loved the Strangler's,he passed 7 year's ago this may, in a tradgic accident,seem's like 7 day's ago...always in our heart's "our John" aka Billy Bantam. 💙💙🖤🖤
The ONLY time in my like ive heard a song for the first time and thought WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT.... October 2nd 1977 6pm. Number 20 in the radio one top 20 countdown.....
still shocked to this day... Rest In Power Dave "Genius" Greenfield.
you were the Ray Manzarek of your own generation.
I grew up on the Stranglers ; ok, I might be 19 but... hell, it proves you made the band sound so different from the rest... AND THAT THE MUSIC NEVER GOT OLD!
thank you for that!
And to think when Hugh Cornwell said to him 'You sound like the Doors keyboard player' he said , "Who are they?". Love it RIP Sir.
Just brilliant 👏
MOE~
11 when i heard this . And my adventure into music began .
Rip Dave Greenfield ! Legend! Toby Hounsham is fantastic and is killing it out there, he is also a massive Dave Greenfield fan ❤️
One of the best songs of all time
Yeah R.I.P DAVE GREENFIELD and what a brilliant keyboard player...!! Yup I saw the STRANGLER'S back in 1979 and what an awesome gig and they're still one of my favourite PUNK band even tho later they transcended PUNK ROCK I still love um...!!!🍺😊👍🏴🏴☮️☯️🅰️🏴🏴
Fabulous..thank you for the memories
What a respectful song. But I have to agree that great men and women have enriched our lives including the Stranglers.
Why has such a classically fantastic tune only got this many views?
Masterpiece
Gli Stranglers erano la mia band preferita, assieme ai Clash, ai tempi dell'esperienza punk-rock settantasettesca e del movimento "post-punk", che confluì in quel ricco filone artistico-musicale denominato come "New Wave"... Dopo la "bufera punk" del 1977, gli Stranglers, come i Clash, seppero evolversi sia a livello musicale ed artistico, che sul versante politico, a differenza di altre formazioni punk-rock che conobbero una parentesi effimera ancorata alla corrente musicale "punk"...
Night Jet, thanks for everything 🖤♥️🖤 x
R.I.P Jet, fly high dude
What ever happened to all the heroes? Watch this.
My sons have been grown up on proper music so hopefully it will live on!
No More Heroes Anymore!
Fu~K I Miss the old days.
“Fuckhead!”
- Travis Touchdown
Dave Greenfield was a unique kind of genius. The kind you need to use a keyboard as a lead instrument for punk. That's not something you see everyday. You'll be truly missed Dave.
I was 11 in 1977,loved this then still love it now👍👍
Classic 🇬🇧
Rest Easy Dave
Wow, not heard this for ages. Fantastic.
Grandioso Dave
In memory of Dave Greenfield (passing on May 3 - 2020 from complications of Covid19)
Brilliant drummer jet black
Dave Greenfield we love you there will never be an equal you will always be the best
Saw them at the oden Birmingham back when , brilliant..
The band ordered Greek food to their hotel but gave the wrong room, so the food never arrived. While they waited they wrote this song.
"Whatever happened to the gyros?"
"No more gyros anymore."
Travis, it's kill or be killed
We SO NEED A HERO NOW
I absolutely love this tune!
R.I.P. Dave Greenfield, the keyboard wizard.
no more covid anymore!
One of my greatest bands they had a massive influence on me simply awesome 👌
and one less after today... RIP Jet Black💔
To The Stranglers,
Deepest condolences on the loss of Jet Black.
Love you all! ❤
Perhaps it's telling that the song lists Sancho Panza among its heroes: not really a man of action, and certainly not the man whose name is in the title of the book, but a man of loyalty and common-sense wisdom, a symbol of practicality over idealism. Sancho is the sort of person any of us could aspire to be.
Is Sancho really a hero? One might argue not, but people like him make the world better, in small ways, every day.
But what happens to Sancho Panza at the end of the novel?