Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years (The Prince's Trust Rock Gala 1989)
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- @officialmatm performing The Living Years at The Prince's Trust Rock Gala charity event held at the NEC in Birmingham on the 19th of July, 1989.
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This is The Greatest song ever written past or present, period
My Dad cried when this came out . He was only 13 when his Father died. I was lucky to have my Champion untill he passed at 96.
I was not that lucky.
If this song doesn't make you shed tears I feel sorry for you 😢❤
Makes me cry every time. Wasn't there that morning when my father passed away. Miss him SO 😢.
Same here. This song hits hard since my dad passed. I miss him so much.
God hears your pain. You can leave every hurt, every pain at the feet of the cross that His son Jesus died on . For free.. just for you and me. I have very difficult childhood myself, my father still alive, and stepfather passed but he was saved.
13 years without my dad today. I was only 19 when he died, one year after graduation. I told him daily I loved him , sometimes it felt like that wasn’t enough. See ya on the other side, pops.
I never knew my real dad ..now i have the most wonderful heavenly father who will never leave me or abandon me Thanks be to God ! 🙏
Honest question: is there ANYONE who can hear this song without tears welling up in their eyes and/or getting goosebumps???
The entire band, Paul on vocals, and the kids as backing singers just takes it to a whole new level of anthem 🥰
Definitely 💯 not me ❤❤❤
Nope
Nop
Definitely not.
Me dá arrepio de quando escuto essa música me dá saudade de meu pai que partiu ha dêz anos essa música me faz chorar toda vez que ouso😪😪
Real music. Real emotion. It hits me everytime. Father and sons.
I can't help but wonder how many parents have passed away where their children have regrets of not having reconciled before their passing. So sad to think of that.
I tear up every time I hear this . My Dad told he was sorry for not being a better Dad on the day he died, I said don't worry I always loved you anyway.
No son is ever a perfect son , as well as no dad is ever a perfect dad, but the love is unrivalled, and never diminishes, shout out to all the sons listenening to this in 2022, 29 years since I lost my dad.
Xx
:’(
My Dad never told me. 🙄 😮❤
@@gerrymcglynn7390my dad doesn't tell me.i know he does and I'm sure your dad's the same
@@gerrymcglynn7390 Some Dads let the Mums handle that sort of stuff. Doesn't mean they don't love you. They just can't express it.
Carrack has to be the most underrated singer ever, voice is magic.
Couldn't agree more..
By whom???
Lol ok how about “unheralded”? Obscure? There a lot of people who know the voice and not the singer.
This song hits home, my Father passed away before got to him tell I loved him. He died on my Son’s birthday. This song really hurts every time I hear it.
Magic? He's a one hit wonder.
One of the most PERFECT songs ever written !!!!!!
Agreed! Impactful lyrics!
so true 🤝
I agree
..so, SO TRUE.
Yes, nothing could have been better… lyrics, music, arrangements and vocal performance… It’s a masterpiece!
My dad and I were never as close as my brother and sister were to him. But as I grew older and became a dad myself we became closer. I took my parents out for lunch at the end of October 2023. He told me he was proud of me. I told him I loved him. 2 weeks later the big man passed away. Love you forever Dad. Thank you for everything you did for me. You are missed everyday x
It was my dad’s heavenly birthday 2 days ago.😢 this song means so much to me. I started to get close to him after my mum passed, he was a lost soul following losing her. He was a wonderful, kind, generous man. he was also clever and hard working. The world is a poorer place without him. He got to see his first grandchild which was special. We were back to 4 generations alive together for a while. RIP dad, hope you and mum are still all square after each round 💙
I'm missing you dad.......it's lonely without you! It was your birthday yesterday......Your grand daughter is thriving, wish you could be there to see her graduate!
I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away......didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
If it doesn't touch your heart I don't know what will
This song says it all takes a lot of listening,I was not there back in 72 when my father died he died in hospital which was a 5 minute drive away from my home and I’m 80 years old now and it’s something I’ve regretted ever since,love you dad
Played this at my dad's funeral so true ...beautiful song ..
My dad dropped down dead. I was distraught. There were, after the fact, so many things I wanted to tell him. Like you're the best and thank you.
Lost my dad 2 years ago we had great relationship but this song makes me cry everttime 😢x
Beautiful song, it makes me cry every time I hear it.
Because of this song, I did. In his living years. God Bless!
Good for you ! My Dad and I didn't. He passed away when I just turned 16. It's like this song was written for me. He NEVER spoke of what he saw in WWII A WWII infantryman, 4 amphibious landings , a purple heart, bronze star , his division saw more active days in combat than any other which took me 30 years to find this all out after his death. I believe all this hardened him to the point that he could not not show his emotions to me. I surely wish he had. Its been 51 years since he died and I have never gotten over it and never will. This song does help me every time I listen to it though.
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Mike and the angels caused a few tears for me 😢 how i miss my Dad after over 50 years later ❤
Dedicated this song to my dad , who passed before my 2 child was born . Always and forever in my heart.xx
This is a great song to express one's grief after losing someone close to you. I miss my Dad every day.
Superb, very meaningful, goosepump and tear rolled up everytime I heard.
I can’t listen to this anymore because I bawl my eyes out 😢
This is one of my favourite songs. 😍
I miss you Daddy. This song echoes the struggles my father and I had with each other. He died on February 23, 2015 without me telling him how much I loved him. I’m so sorry!! I miss you so much!! Your son Ralph
Loving this in Dec. 2023!
Timeless message that will never end! It is priceless!
Thank you Paul!
😊You are one of the best singers ever!!! ❤❤❤
This song made me appreciate my dad so much more when I was 11...At 37, I lost the most wonderful dad ever. After 9 years I still tear up when I hear this.
RIP, Dad.
Paul Carrack what a voice , this song gets me every time.
I believe his name is Paul Young.
@@fritzcat6198
Wrong.
@@fritzcat6198 Two different guys who both sang lead for M and the M.
My father could have cared less about me. It was all about my twin sister, my other two sisters and my brother. I tried so many times to tell him I loved him, and was proud of him, but always got brushed off. He barely ever told me he loved me . The morning he passed away, I told him I loved him, and kissed him goodbye.
Thanks for listening to my comment about my father. I have had a chance to read some of your comments too, and found I like a lot of your comments also.
So so beautiful. So much sincere feeling ❤
I just love this song. My dad died when he recorded this song 1989
Such a sad, beautiful song. Paul Carrack is a year younger than me, and he can still sing better than 99% of today's artists.
I was 19 when this song came out and fought with my old man every day, I'm 49 now and he has terminal cancer, can't listen to this song without tearing up, don't let the sun go down on an argument people, bury the hatchet before it's too late, I'm gonna miss him like crazy when he goes.
Don't wait until next week to do thism from someone who lost his dad in 1996 when I was 21: Tell him you love him, that you're you're thankful for everything he has done for you, that you understand how tough it was for him in raising you, that you will always be thinking of him, that will be okay financially after he goes (whether it's true or not doesn't matter, but it will make him be able to let go better), and tell him that you look forward to seeing him in heaven along with your other deceased ancestors. Also, visualize yourself in the future and think of all other things you didn't say to him. Say it to him now. You are doing all of this not for him BUT FOR YOUR OWN PEACE OF MIND. . And a big hug to you, brother.
I always liked this song from when it was released in 1989, but in 2007, it took on extra meaning after Sunday 30/12/2007, my dad was seriously I'll in hospital, we had a phone call from the hospital (whipps cross London) to say he had taken a turn for the worse, and I went to the hospital, but hadn't even got on the bus when I was phoned to say he had died - I returned home
And the words in the third verse now take on the extra special meaning, and consider the link between the events of that day and lyrics
☆ "I wasnt there that morning when my father passed away, I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say" ☆
It all adds up to Make this song more poignant for me, brings a lump to my throat and my eyes moist, it's got extra special meaning
It is to late to say you are sorry when you a leaning over a casket.
Great post.
@@Waitukubuli Absolutely beautiful what you wrote, life is so short. It will end and then we Wonder how time just flew by so quick........
When I try to think of the greatest songs of all time, this one is always high up on my list... Absolutely stunning song. Heartbreaking, beautiful, melancholy, hopeful. A true classic.
Same. Super sad but so optimistic at the same time
Totally agree ...never knew my dad just that i was named after him....now I know my heavenly Father and that's all that matters - thanks you Jesus ! Amen
This song gets me everytime . Very relevant.
Saw him play this at the Royal Albert Hall last week and we were all in tears again then.
REST IN PEACE DAD
😥😥😥😥🙏🙏🙏
Great emotional song about relationships and regrets. My parents both died 10 years ago,so I feel this song.We got along mostly,but there are always things you wish were different .
The most uniquely moving song ever. It's all about the need for and the power of forgiveness. We must never hold on to grudges. We lost our eldest granddaughter at the age of 20. What a loss, family have never recovered. Do what you need to do in the living years
The beauty of those sweet kids doing background. I wonder often if they understood the meaning behind the lyrics they sang. Beautiful song.
This song had new meaning to me, when I stood next to my dad's coffin at sixteen, wishing I had told him how much I loved him and how proud I was of him and I forgive him. I have carried that regret since. I cry as I'm writing this. This song, means so much
According to the hundreds (or thousands?) of Near Death Experience stories on CZcams where people temporarily died and went to heaven and returned... you will be reunited and you will have the opportunity to say what you wish you had.
I'm sure a lot of people have been in that position, Bless you.
Even if you never said it you feel it now
When I prayed at my Dad’s grave I asked him to forgive me.
I blamed him for my shortcomings and failings.
When he died (unexpectedly) I had just entered rehab for alcoholism.
GOD put me right where I needed to be and I have not drank or drugged since. (March 15, 2000)
Love you Dad.
❤️✊🙏✝️
Let's not forget the great MIKE RUTHERFORD, the Mike in Mike + Mechanics, and the lifelong bass and lead guitarist of GENESIS who WROTE this song. (For those that don't know, he's the tall bearded guy behind Carrack.)
I cannot hear this without crying… my relationship with my father or lack thereof.. then my failure to be a good father myself… so much regret..
I hear you
Awareness is half of it. It’s never too late…..
This song makes me think of someone who wasn't my father, but was very nice to me when I was 11, 12, 13, 14 years old in the early 1980s, who, alas, passed away in September 2020
Who could sound better than Genesis?
Mike & the Mechanics maybe with this song and line-up ....it says so much and always brings a tear, brilliant!
One of the most beautiful songs ever with lyrics which are oh so true. Still touches my soul 30 years after my father died.
Lost my dad in 1992. Can't hear this song without crying!
I was at a Paul Carrack gig about 3 months after my dad died after a long battle with Parkinsons, when he sang this I was in bits.
for me the same lost my dad in 2014@69...still miss him
Goosebumps. My 5 year old sat with me in silence Mesmerized by this performance.
One of my very favorite songs and hope my children will play it at MY funeral !
One of the best rock songs ever written. No debate.
You are correct.
Laura so true your comment 🤝
Even better than “Silent Running”? “Take the children and yourself and hide out in the cellar”
Do you know who wrote it? The tall bearded guy playing guitar behind Paul Carrack. MIKE RUTHERFORD. As in MIKE + Mechanics. As in, original GENESIS bass and lead guitarist for 55 years.
This song just hits home for me
Great passion from Paul Carrack whose father died when he was just 11 years old. In an interview Paul said his father was a "great guy".
"Death is not the opposite of Life.
Death is the opposite of Birth."
--Eckhart Tolle
Excellent that he gave all those children an opportunity to gain experience at singing in front of a huge audience.
A wonderful song of forgiveness. I pray to God in the name of his son Jesus and my savior to please teach me the forgiveness I need to forgive my father.
The last verse has a special poingancy for me now.........3:58............My dad passed away peacefully on 10 April 2023. That verse of this song will resonate with me forever......
I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say
RIP Mr. Albert Wayne Siegel!!!
Mum and dad came out to NZ from Uk 1979. Dads health wasnt good so we paid for a trip for them. Our first son was born in October that year, Dad died the following month back in the UK. We managed to get a photo album over before he passed. Dad and myself never really got on in my youth but he was always there for me. When I sugggested I wanted to come to NZ at the age of 19 he mortgaged the house to get me here. Mum lived on till.2003 and saw both the kids grow in many more visits here. Dont ever let your parents slip out of your lives regardless.
🙏 amen
Love your comments, I left UK when I was 19, emigrated to Australia,, mum came out to visit a couple of times,, but could never get dad on a plane,, he passed 30yrs ago,, I got there for funeral, but not in time to say goodbye to him,,, this song always brings tears to my eyes,,,,
Just like many I break down in tears at the end of this song, my Dad had a stroke that got him into a three days coma before he passed, ....so I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say either.
This song always bring back his memory to me.
pure voice. Take notes generation of singers today
My Dad died due to covid last april 2020 and I wasn't there. It broke my heart till now. I don't think I'll ever get over it in my lifetime.
Can't help but admire Carrack's focus on his vocal, and it shows: he sounds fantastic.
I just love this song. My husband recently passed away and every time I hear this song I miss him and think of him.
It is such a ♥ Heartache .. The Song's Title is Nostalgic and gives permission to interpret the meaningful lyrics of loss and regrets to apply them our own Relationships..which are precious and fleeting...
One of the most beautiful and powerful song... Still listening now
THIS SONG CHOKES ME UP SING IT LOUD!
wow i never knew this song until today Friday September 1 2023 ❤❤❤❤❤🙏✌️☀️💪😇🕊
One of the most powerful songs ever, this was only a few months before Alan Murphy died bless him. 👌😢
LOVE THIS SONG, it reminds me SO much of my Dad, whom I loved so dearly. When I had the news that my Dad had passed, and whilst on my way to see him, to say my final goodbye, ironically this song played on the radio during my drive there. It remains a very important song in my life. Thank you so much.xx
I wasn't there ..... I'm sorry dad!! Miss you💖
Omg what a performance!! Listening this in 2021 ☝️✅
2023 here.
August 2023 for me……I listen to this song weekly…..it’s a blessing for the soul…
Paul Carrack shows off his amazing voice on this timeless classic! Great song.
Daughter and me now estranged. This hits home.
My absent father died and refused to give me answers I had about my heritage. I hate him for that. I was a soldier for 23 years and ensured even through my absences in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and some others. My two daughters will have the answers regarding everything about me and my past. I saw my father when he was alive about 4 times I recall. That's unforgivable for whatever reasons he had. This song gives me hope, sadness, love and forgiveness.
My father wasn't present in my life I know how you feel all the hate anger and resentment was eating me up, when I was able to forgive him I became free of all that. I needed to learn how to forgive so that I to could receive forgiveness.
Let it go brother!...heal up and be good to yourself!!
One of the greatest songs ever written and sang very beautiful 😍
I wonder if those kids up there singing know today just how lucky they were...
they know now I'm sure.
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It should be a memory of a lifetime to sing and share stage with Mike & The Mechanics doing this song!!
Every generation gets to sing with Paul
Not sure if you guys gives a shit but if you guys are stoned like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all the latest movies on instaflixxer. I've been watching with my brother recently :)
This song remembers my dad years ago he passed away rest in peace
I lost my Father 3 months ago He was my best Buddy
It’s amazing that when you’re young you hear these songs but don’t really understand or take in the lyrics. I’m 41 now and have vivid memories of hearing this song and Don Henley’s “the end of the innocence” riding down the highway with my parents while growing up in Virginia. The songs really bring back memories and take on a whole new meaning as you get older.
Unbelievably beautiful voice. The lyrics can't help but touch your heart. Leaves me speechless.
This was my sisters funeral song she passed at 35 years old .Thank you for this great song has a lot of memories in our family
Bless you ❤❤❤
Paul has such a soulful voice. You really sense he means what he is singing.
@ Mmsiphonevinyls1027: He certainly does. Paul lost his own father at the age of 11 in an accident at work.
But Mike Rutherford wrote the song after talking with Paul.
Paul Carrack and Richard Page ( Mr Mister) we're one of the finest vocalists they deserved to even be more bigger stars... Absolutely luv both of them their live performances are better than the ones on the album and very few artists can boast that kind of ability to sing live with such passion...
I hated my father - he passed when I was very young - I wish I could sit down and talk to him now because I understand the burden that he carried - he knew that he was going to die but just kept going for family
My dad died the night before I was going to see him the next morning this song is a tough one but its the truth.
Guys, what happened to music? Songs like this that you can relate to, actually feel emotion from music. The lead singer is amazing!!
Good question...I've been wondering what happened to music .....for years!
Rap
Rap, that's wath happened to music.
Paul Carrack from Sheffield, fabulous singer, great concerts if you get to see him 👌
I think you are missing the C in front.....RAP
@@imanoldurham5395
I CAN'T Believe 16 people really don't like this! To Bad really. Maybe one day, They will like this song before it's to late!
Best Wishes....
💯💓💪👪🎸😁👍
Im from a generation that dad's didn't said they loved you...but they did ❤❤
one of the best male singers in pop music with one of the most beautiful songs.
Fantastic version with the children accompanying...
The orchestra with the children singing along this song...chills...just chills...
This song talks to me 🥲❤️❤️❤️
Maybe the greatest vocalist of our generation, pure magic
This song hits hard! miss you dad😢
wish i could tell my dad how much i loved him, like the song goes, 30 years now think of him every day, people you need to tell your loved ones, before its to late.
This song hits so close to home.
My dad was never able to say that he loved me and me the same. But he did tell all of us around his bed that he loved us which was lovely. He said to me, his only child just before he passed away” you are a good kid”- the best words ever. This song makes me tearful every time I hear it. Loved this man but it took me a lot of my younger years to realise it.💔
I love this music absolutely beautiful