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  • čas přidán 14. 10. 2012
  • A full copy of Al's angst-ridden tale of his voyage through adolescence. I first saw him do this in 1969 in the Bristol Troubador club, in Clifton. In fact, I first saw most of the folk artists I came to follow at the Troub.
    Featuring Jimmy Page on lead, and Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol, Martin Lamble, and Richard Thompson, all of Fairport Convention.

Komentáře • 145

  • @DavidNewlandz
    @DavidNewlandz Před 2 lety +17

    I, as an impressionable young singer/guitar player was smitten by this song, performed it in a folk club in London. Some babe came up to me after and enquired "Did you write that?" I responded truthfully, this song still fills my eyes with tears for the general love of it (I am a semi-dormant romantic old fart these days) the song lives on. Thanks Al.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 Před 7 měsíci +1

      MORE EXCITING THAN HEMORRHOIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ramspace
    @ramspace Před 4 lety +13

    As a lonely teenager, this song was playing on my Walkman. I drank wine and imagined what was not to be. I am surprised to be so happy now at my advanced age.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 Před 7 měsíci +1

      PEOPLE TREAT OLDER FOLKS RIGHT. IN THE OLD DAYS, THE ELDERLY WERE PREYED APON AND LOOKED PISSED OFF. TODAY, FOLKS ARE LESS CRAPPY TO OLDER FOLKS. ENJOY............

  • @retsdon
    @retsdon Před rokem +5

    I went to the same boarding school about 10 years behind him. He came back and played a gig there to us inmates, around about the time this album came out. He sang this song too. The late 60s were remarkable times.

  • @anthonyflynn9953
    @anthonyflynn9953 Před 9 lety +43

    Jimmy Page of Led Zep on lead guitar. (swear to God)A song like this couldn't work, except it does. Each verse getting better and better.Conclusion: A Masterpiece.

    • @aymenabdelhamid4645
      @aymenabdelhamid4645 Před 6 lety +6

      And John Paul Jones on bass

    • @gelubatir9794
      @gelubatir9794 Před 3 lety

      thank you, you convinced me to look out for the full album

    • @marklar5334
      @marklar5334 Před 3 lety +1

      Also, Ashley Hutchings (Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and Albion Band) on bass.

    • @marklar5334
      @marklar5334 Před 3 lety +3

      @@gelubatir9794 Best of luck finding it, if you're an American. It's much easier to find the compilation called 'Early Years.' Disc one contains tracks from Bed-sitter, Zero and Orange. But disc two is the Love Chronicles album in its entirety.

    • @RAinteractive
      @RAinteractive Před 5 měsíci

      Jimmy works well with Roy Harper as well - he's very entrenched in folk. It's how I grew to love his playing - not just a blues man.

  • @gebremenfeskidus9567
    @gebremenfeskidus9567 Před 4 lety +14

    Not only Jimmy Page, but John Paul Jones is also playing on this track.

  • @mariandixon5497
    @mariandixon5497 Před 7 lety +5

    Sheer perfection..............I fell in love with him in the 70's !

  • @philna1941
    @philna1941 Před 9 lety +15

    Best song he ever wrote, by a million miles.
    Small orange a close second.
    Thank you Al Stewart.

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK Před 9 lety

      Phil Na Is this the rock world's greatest ever track?

    • @doktoruzo
      @doktoruzo Před 7 lety +2

      My favs are The Ballad Of Mary Foster, Roads to Moscow and Beleeka Doodle Day...Masterclasses in lyric writing

    • @georgefowler3027
      @georgefowler3027 Před 6 lety

      You are correct

    • @jmmbos
      @jmmbos Před 6 lety

      The News from Spain also brilliant and I'm falling and and and .. ;-)

    • @kingrobert1st
      @kingrobert1st Před 4 lety

      Small Fruit Song you mean.

  • @Micklegard
    @Micklegard Před 4 lety +4

    One of my all-time favourite singer-songwriters, and as a singer-guitarist myself, I perform quite a few of his songs. On one occasion, more than ten years ago, I advertised at our local folk club (Southport's Bothy Folk Club) that the following week I was going to arrive an hour before our usual starting time just to sing this song. Some people did show up, probably to see whether I could actually do it. I'm pleased to say I didn't let Al down and managed it!

  • @djross95
    @djross95 Před 5 lety +8

    Truly a remarkable song. This, along with "Roads to Moscow", are just about as good as music ever gets. Thank you, Al Stewart, for these and many other classics.

  • @pigface2862
    @pigface2862 Před 4 lety +6

    One of the greatest tracks ever done.

  • @Micklegard
    @Micklegard Před 11 lety +5

    I once told people I'd be singing this song one hour before our usual folk club began. Eight people rolled up, probably to see whether I'd manage to get through the whole thing without a slip (I did).
    I saw Al in Manchester last night and someone called for this from the audience. Al just laughed.

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 Před 7 měsíci

      AS AN ENCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JIMMY SHOWS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @barbedwirekisses79
    @barbedwirekisses79 Před 9 lety +20

    Great song and my Father was a regular at the Troubadour in the 60's, My Father and my Uncle once put a gig on for Al in the 60's. My Uncle still has the handwritten letter from Al that he wrote thanking them. Thank you for posting! =D

  • @AFloridaSon
    @AFloridaSon Před 10 lety +6

    This song has came and went, in, and away from my life many times since I was a teen. First on vinyl, then cassette, CD, now through some space age, fictional, sci-fi, Star Trek, wireless computer technology. I was just some young, teen, punk when I first heard this, and I admit that as a teen male, I giggled at the line about f***ing becoming more like making love. Of course at that age I was ignorant to what he was saying. Along the way through my own "Time Passages".... WOWWW!!!...... this song has watched me grow up and mature, and now that I'm 50, his words have came fool circle and still make me giggle like a teen boy. I'm just kidding. In all honesty, it has came full circle and has such a deeper meaning. I've always loved this song, and Al Stewart for that matter, but it's almost fascinating the way that this song has, in a sense, grown with me as I grew to understand it more and more. Great story tellers, lyricists, with musical talent are far too few. I enjoy a catchy tune, and I am very eclectic when it comes to the music I listen to, but songs like this are like getting into a good book, except it's a book that gives you the opportunity to sit back, relax, close your eyes and tap your foot.... Thanks for sharing this with us, I think I'll hit replay a couple of more times, sit back, relax, and tap my foot..............

  • @djsaltyfish3619
    @djsaltyfish3619 Před 8 lety +7

    ...This is great! I hadn't heard it for nearly half a century, school days! I never knew it was Jimmy Page, but yes, you can tell...

  • @andyh3827
    @andyh3827 Před 4 lety +2

    Introduced to the musical genius of Al Stewart by an Icelandic friend in Glasgow's West End on a crazy night in 1970. This track a mesmerising masterpiece!

  • @alicelikkol5642
    @alicelikkol5642 Před 2 lety +2

    All Stewart master of the folkrock music and timeless musician

    • @AlStewart-1
      @AlStewart-1 Před 10 měsíci

      Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️

  • @lagaman11
    @lagaman11 Před 8 lety +9

    OMG! How could I have never heard this song before?!?!?! LOVE IT!!!

  • @judedonnelly4277
    @judedonnelly4277 Před 8 lety +2

    Fantastic,brings back lots of memories

  • @davidjon1294
    @davidjon1294 Před 9 lety +5

    saw him doing this at a festival in the 70`s(?). Don`t remember which one but Mungo Jerry opened then The Crazy World of Arthur Brown came from down to the stage on a crane with his head on fire and Country Joe and the Fish did the Fcuk-song. My sleeping bag was filled with feathers and had a hole in it and feathers were blowin in the wind (so we nearly had Dylan there too). We had some acid there as well and i think that is why i can`t remember where i was. Fcukin great time. Al Stewart was brilliant and he did not forget any of the words of Luv/Chron which was nearly his whole set

  • @valuecalc
    @valuecalc Před 10 lety +2

    What an epic of a song! Classic folk!

  • @chazman76
    @chazman76 Před 11 lety +3

    Al Stewart actually performed at my college back in 1968, Pink Floyd were in the main hall but I opted to listen to Al.

  • @neilmcparlin6539
    @neilmcparlin6539 Před 9 lety +10

    every song on this album is amazing..how many artists can do that these days....

  • @donbagley2322
    @donbagley2322 Před 7 lety +2

    This is so familiar to me. The way that I came into loving women was as incremental as this song is. Desire always comes first. Imagination leads the lover. It was no sense at all.

  • @visualvinyldiscs
    @visualvinyldiscs Před 2 lety +1

    Al Stewart....Legend.............

  • @Reverrance1
    @Reverrance1 Před 10 lety +2

    This song changed my life too.

  • @mwatney9775
    @mwatney9775 Před 11 lety +3

    Many thanks for this. I used to play it on my guitar. Maybe I should again. I particularly appreciate the way you switched to the picture of Mandy when her section started to play. "And every girl I ever loved has left herself inside me." So true.

  • @ogrebattle22763
    @ogrebattle22763 Před 10 lety +3

    Al Stewart is damn awesome....

  • @jondickinson5623
    @jondickinson5623 Před 4 lety +3

    Easily my favorite writer.

  • @russhouldin5774
    @russhouldin5774 Před 6 lety +1

    I, too, frequented the Troubadour but saw Al Stewart first, solo, at Colston Hall in 1970 - he'd already developed a larger fan base. He was a very accomplished performer. It was at that concert that I first learned of Mervyn Peake's extraordinary Gormenghast series when Al introduced his instrumental "Room of Roots".

    • @passer59
      @passer59  Před 4 lety

      Seem to recall I was at that gig!

  • @nywildcat
    @nywildcat Před 11 lety +1

    This song changed my LIFE!

  • @neilsquire4021
    @neilsquire4021 Před 7 lety +3

    Love this song

  • @joanmader9755
    @joanmader9755 Před 7 lety +1

    oh Al, you've always been such a Romantic

  • @msather
    @msather Před 7 lety +2

    Yes, a masterpiece!

  • @kellymelrose8527
    @kellymelrose8527 Před 8 měsíci

    i love the references about Bournemouth as im from there to

  • @fabiannunez4383
    @fabiannunez4383 Před 2 lety +1

    Excelente...!!!

  • @jeffheim8588
    @jeffheim8588 Před 6 lety +1

    This ISs Al Stewart's best song ever listen t the lyrics

  • @tonyb55
    @tonyb55 Před 7 lety +1

    Brilliant!

  • @mtytst1
    @mtytst1 Před 11 lety

    Thank you! I was there too, at the Troubador Club in Clifton Bristol, when a student at the uni., I think I saw Al Stewart at least a couple of times there. Thank you, fond memories.

  • @clillbinton10
    @clillbinton10 Před 11 lety +1

    TO ALL AL STEWART AND PETER WHITE FANS
    PHIL KENZIE The legendary sax soloist on all of Al Stewart's hits
    will be appearing at the upcoming "once in a lifetime" concert at The Royal Albert Hall on October 15th. This concert coincides with the release of Phil's CD, " A Night With The Cat" which will be available for purchase.
    A tribute to Al Stewart's artistry, it is an instrumental version of the magical lyrics of "The Year of The Cat". which will be enjoyed by all on this very special night.

  • @rickbruni640
    @rickbruni640 Před 6 lety +1

    Al Stewart at his best!

    • @jeffheim8588
      @jeffheim8588 Před 5 lety

      Yes this is the greatest song he has ever wrote

  • @puddypuss
    @puddypuss Před 11 lety +1

    it's his birthday today, september 5th. I remember in 1970 at a concert he said that he was : 'a rapidly ageing folk singer'. he was 25. later he said that : 'you wake up one day and you'e 47. time passages.....

  • @Kelly14UK
    @Kelly14UK Před 6 lety

    One of the best Scottish songs

    • @steffanhoffmann8937
      @steffanhoffmann8937 Před 2 lety

      He left when he was a baby.
      Grew up in England
      Moved to London.
      No connection.

  • @johnwebb3443
    @johnwebb3443 Před rokem

    no comment....not needed, just listen and feel it....🙂

  • @James007Bone
    @James007Bone Před 9 lety +1

    I'll be posting a full length LIVE version of this epic song... with a bevy of well-endowed beauties to accompany the music...

  • @instaurator19
    @instaurator19 Před rokem

    I ran ten thousand miles with my back to the wall! 😀

  • @utuber111963
    @utuber111963 Před 10 lety +2

    thank you for this. Such a shame the rest of the Album is missing. My vinyl copy became unplayable too many years ago

    • @passer59
      @passer59  Před 10 lety +2

      There's a CD called "To Whom it May Concern" which contains the whole album, plus the other early stuff. www.amazon.com/To-Whom-It-May-Concern/dp/B00000744H

    • @utuber111963
      @utuber111963 Před 10 lety

      Magic. Thanks very much for that link.

    • @keithleeuwen877
      @keithleeuwen877 Před 8 lety

      +utuber111963 ...mine is VG +

  • @alunbaxter5912
    @alunbaxter5912 Před 5 lety

    Saw him at St Andrews Hall in Norwich in 69 Still have my vinyl copy of Love Chronicles but no deck

  • @Garabella
    @Garabella Před 11 lety

    Thankyou to upload!! I remenber my 12yo's
    ..

  • @christophekotzmann1843

    Un tres bon moment que cette chanson.

  • @ianashleigh
    @ianashleigh Před 11 lety +6

    As a member of the Bass Players Union, listen to Ashley Hutchings' bass line :)

    • @nlm620
      @nlm620 Před 5 lety +2

      John Paul Jones plays bass on this track.

    • @Braglemaster123
      @Braglemaster123 Před 5 lety

      It’s John Paul Jones on Bass here.

  • @692ALBANNACH
    @692ALBANNACH Před 8 lety +3

    And a little jimmy page on electric giving him some support.

  • @Garabella
    @Garabella Před 7 lety +10

    14:48 The very first time I must confess
    I thought you'd be like all of the rest
    And we'd be strangers once again
    By the time we were dressed
    But when you'd smoked your cigarette
    And talked of some people that we'd met
    I found myself asking was it set,
    did you have to go yet
    And so you laughed and then kissed me
    And stayed for the whole weekend
    Although the bed was so narrow
    We had to sleep end to end
    And so the weeks passed through my brain
    In their dadaistic chain
    I found myself seeing you again, and again and again
    And all you gave you gave it free
    Asking for nothing back from me
    You gave yourself unselfishly as a part of me
    And where I thought that just plucking
    The fruits of the bed was enough
    It grew to be less like fucking
    And more like making love

    • @djross95
      @djross95 Před rokem

      Jut amazing lyrics, incredible...

    • @edforeman6401
      @edforeman6401 Před 10 měsíci

      and as it were,
      unless they used rubbers,
      he left himself inside her.

  • @Lyndanet
    @Lyndanet Před 7 měsíci

    How cute

  • @adrianvranch218
    @adrianvranch218 Před 11 lety +1

    hi passer59
    I was probably in the Troubadour that night. I saw him there once and he did Clifton in the Rain. Outside? Yep it was raining in Clifton ha ha ha

  • @Micklegard
    @Micklegard Před 11 lety

    Jimmy Page on this one, but It was Richard Thompson on all the others. Al said so when I saw his gig last night in Manchester.

  • @TheKellyleastmead
    @TheKellyleastmead Před 11 lety

    Yep; great!

  • @neilsummers78
    @neilsummers78 Před 9 měsíci

    At 14.40, you'll hear Jimmy Page

  • @ianstatham8984
    @ianstatham8984 Před 7 lety

    takes me back to the troubadour in Clifton, around 1970. Good days even though they only served orange juice and lemonade.

    • @chevauxblanc
      @chevauxblanc Před 4 lety

      Ah, Bristol Troubador club in Clifton, Al Stewart (Clifton in the rain), John Martyn, Keith Christmas, Ian Anderson, Ian Hunt and many more, wish we could go back again.

    • @passer59
      @passer59  Před 4 lety

      @@chevauxblanc ...and string Band, Diz Disley, Sun Also Rises, Ralph McTell, and many more! Good times.

  • @hestergreeni
    @hestergreeni Před 8 měsíci

    The only thing better than this is a motorsickle of the same period. In my opinion. Maybe a Honda CB175. And the wind.

  • @SamHarrisonMusic
    @SamHarrisonMusic Před 10 lety

    Amazing song! Apparently All disowned this album - bum move as I think its his best!

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 Před 7 měsíci

      TOO TWEE FOR 1976........................

  • @gbaviere
    @gbaviere Před 10 lety

    Awsome

  • @MizQue
    @MizQue Před 11 lety +7

    It takes balls to sing about not being able to get it up!

  • @roninscholar
    @roninscholar Před 7 lety +1

    ah, this song is very, very nice. how did I miss out on this guy for 48 years? Jimmy is as good as any. There is no accounting for taste, but Jimmy is truly a guitar hero and a cultural icon.
    can you really not say fuck on youtube? or are you guy all just super appropriate? cause i'm not. who gives a fuck?
    That was more of a rhetorical device than a question, so don't feel like you have to respond.

  • @trevmac8362
    @trevmac8362 Před 8 lety +5

    this is he first album in music history here the "F" word was used

    • @gdsongwriter
      @gdsongwriter Před 7 lety +2

      Interesting that. I've just checked and both the albums Love Chronicles and Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane) were released in 1969, Al's album in September and the Jefferson Airplane album in November. The single Volunteers (which had "we can be together" on the B-side) was released in October 1969. So Al just about wins!

    • @mwatney9775
      @mwatney9775 Před 7 lety +4

      More to the point, it was the first time the word was printed in the lyrics on the album cover.. And of course it was not an expletive but a valid description.

    • @robertlepper5460
      @robertlepper5460 Před 5 lety +2

      The word fucked is actually used on the 1935 blues song "Shave 'em Dry"

    • @jeffheim8588
      @jeffheim8588 Před 3 lety

      Not sure if it this is the first song with the F word, my issue is that you tube doesn't block the comments on this song. LOL

  • @mussnbn2805
    @mussnbn2805 Před 11 lety

    jimmy page played guitar in this song...and all the songs in this album....circa.early
    1969...

  • @Noodles37UK
    @Noodles37UK Před 9 lety

    Incredible amazing song including Page. Maybe also the first f word on released vinyl? He was Scottish.

    • @nevillegrundy4718
      @nevillegrundy4718 Před 9 lety +5

      Noodles37UK He still is, oddly enough.

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK Před 8 lety

      +Neville Grundy Ha bloody ha. From Noodles : )

  • @Jupitermoon1
    @Jupitermoon1 Před 4 lety +1

    year of the cat and time passages are the best! cheers! (ps: listen to nick drake also please)

    • @valteregon
      @valteregon Před 4 lety +1

      Yes yes and yes. Dont forget roy harper thau.;)

  • @jamesmills7694
    @jamesmills7694 Před 5 lety

    -cool

  • @russcohen3779
    @russcohen3779 Před 2 lety

    Wow

  • @artiste1954
    @artiste1954 Před 4 lety

    A big influence on me back in the day, I wanted to be like the girl who drove him insane. The London chick. Loved this album.
    Then he went to commercial type tunes.

    • @steffanhoffmann8937
      @steffanhoffmann8937 Před 2 lety

      Even if he did. Don't be like Dylan fans please, when he went electric 😂

    • @martinkent333
      @martinkent333 Před 7 měsíci

      I NEVER KNEW HE WAS GREAT BEFORE '77..........................

  • @gbaviere
    @gbaviere Před 4 měsíci

    I love Al Stewart. However, this son sucks. I think it does not reflect his true class act.

  • @steffanhoffmann8937
    @steffanhoffmann8937 Před 2 lety

    I know this is regarded as a standard.
    He's disowned it I think.
    I understand why.
    He's better from 1975 onwards.

  • @tobybowmer3349
    @tobybowmer3349 Před 11 lety

    I'm not sure he did, I know he played on this song but I'm uncertain whether he played on the rest, I still need to meet Al and ask him all these questions I have haha

  • @jillwebb7805
    @jillwebb7805 Před 5 lety

    He played at my college and offered to play again without using his agent...

  • @ruthbuss
    @ruthbuss Před 11 lety

    Mine too!!

  • @nathan0401_
    @nathan0401_ Před 4 lety

    18 minute song, wow

  • @tobybowmer3349
    @tobybowmer3349 Před 11 lety

    First musician in 'popular' music

  • @Micklegard
    @Micklegard Před 11 lety

    Well, he did sing "You Should Have Listened To Al".

  • @keithleeuwen877
    @keithleeuwen877 Před 8 lety +2

    PAGEY !

  • @markgardner1020
    @markgardner1020 Před 2 lety +1

    Never felt comfortable with this song. Too close to the bone. Plus the girls loved Al, which put him on a par with Cat Stevens, who I loathed

  • @beckfreak2000
    @beckfreak2000 Před 10 lety +1

    Much better than "year of the twat "

  • @jussitikkuri6991
    @jussitikkuri6991 Před rokem

    .... too much Sens amillia ✌ ... must have had been laced

  • @kresocaren2007
    @kresocaren2007 Před 3 lety +1

    Lyrics anybody?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @stjames71
    @stjames71 Před 8 lety +2

    Came here for the "F" word. Wasted 16:45 mins if my life to get it...boo!

    • @ftlpope
      @ftlpope Před 5 lety

      Yes that little word on this very record caused a bit of a to-do with my friend's mother about 45 years ago when we were 15. Good tune though - man did I envy him.

  • @sharonannen8859
    @sharonannen8859 Před 6 lety

    **
    Sadly, Al Stewart disavows this and most all his early composition.
    Hey, this is life and life only - and he puts his out there. Good for him.
    **

  • @jkovert
    @jkovert Před 11 lety +1

    Where's my gun?

  • @stjames71
    @stjames71 Před 8 lety +2

    Came here for the "F" word. Wasted 16:45 mins if my life to get it...boo!

    • @patrickmccutcheon8860
      @patrickmccutcheon8860 Před 6 lety

      St James And it wasn't even that good, he muttered it out.

    • @marshabrady7684
      @marshabrady7684 Před 6 lety

      This song, without that "fucking" clearly said, is not the same song. I need to find the real version.

    • @david203
      @david203 Před 2 lety

      @@marshabrady7684 I believe this is the real version, just as I remember it from long, long ago. It works perfectly for me.