This song was written, produced and composed in 1978. Banned in South Africa.Peter Gabriel performed it everywhere in the world except South Africa.finally got the chance to sing in South Africa. A dream come true. Long live Bantubonke Stephen Biko.Amandla........
@@cowkeksdontbnosy2262 racism is natural. All races are racist, accept for one. Because only one race has been convinced it was evil. I wonder why there was and is such an effort to push this belief in just this one particular race.
You don't say?? South Africa has become possibly the worst place in the world to live. But, that was the purpose of all the propaganda that was pushed through Peter, Bono and the rest.
@@Titchify The darkness grows stronger and the few that carry the light and salt will soon be removed and hidden living among each other and the world will be dark and the preservation will be over.
This has been my grieving anthem for many years. In the lat '60's and early '70's, as a young white South African involved in the student movement as Steve was midwifing the birth of the Black Consciousness Movement, I came to know him personally. When he was assassinated in jail in '77, by which time I was in Canada and hadn't been in touch with him for 5 years, I was devastated. I still wonder whether the country of my birth, which I still love so much, would have progressed differently if he was still physically alive. Thank you, Peter Gabriel, for giving this to me and so many others. I am so glad you at last had the chance to bring it to South African soil. Amandla!
Peter Grabriel did more in exposing the story than any media. It hit Chicago (my home) like a tsunami. Joseph Campbell was right, artists are more perceptive and cognizant than most others. Peace to you.
@@interminglings1721Yes indeed artists and the arts! Mind you, the "Cry Freedom" movie also helped. Though it focussed on the story of Donald Woods the rebel editor, and didn't thoroughly portray Steve, it was something a lot more 'unpolitical' types and non-South-Africans could relate to.
And look how things have turned out.... But then again the people involved in the revolution knew who it would end up in SA.... Same here with the civil rights movement. They are going to turn this country into SA... AND IGNORANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU GUYS ARE HELPING!!! WAKE UP
This song made me aware of the big injustice that was suffered by the black people in South Africa. I was 14. It made me join Amnesty International and to participate in protests against apartheid. It made me a political person. To see Peter Gabriel perfom it in Johannesburg on this video made the hairs raise on my neck: Touching and very powerful. Sadly, although apartheid is long gone, we are still a long way from equal rights. The struggle countinues...
We love you Steve Biko this world would be a better place if all people would be like you Steve Biko we will always remember you as we remember Madiba Mandela thank you Steven Biko Africa and the rest of the world will always love you the world is still watching you are a hero Steve Biko 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Will always be my favorite Peter Gabriel song - to everyone willing to put their lives on the line to combat social injustice - the angels are awaiting the likes of you.
RIP Stephen Biko I am an American but the murder of Stephen Biko touched me and softened my heart Biko is a Saint and he should be taught about to all young people
Thankyou to Peter Gabriel, Steven Van Zandt, Jerry Dammers, Simple Minds, who all gave this young Yorkshireman a musical education. Biko, Sun City, Free Nelson Mandela, Mandela Day - they opened my eyes and made me aware
On 29 November 2003, an event called the 46664 Concert was held at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town. It was hosted by Mandela and its goal was to raise awareness of the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. What a mysterious world we live in to be able to follow a song for 37 years from the the end of one injustice of racist brutality to the unspeakable horror of a pandemic. I still have hope for the better angels of our nature.
Mr Gabriel, I’ve always loved your music! Listen to it to this day.!!! You’ve gotten me through tough times in the U.S. military on deployments . Godspeed 😅
And make sure to mention in this song also the brutality and inhumanity of the Palestinian terror organization Hamas, who uses its own people cowardly as a shield and kills Israeli people, women, even babies, from pure hate and ideology.
2021 n they still flowing today still brutal abuse going on . Cowards hiding behind uniforms.love to you all from robin hood country Nottingham england.
✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 For Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Hector Piterson, all who Died During Apartheid............ For Steve Biko, AMALDA!!!!!!
Finally, played where it should had, in the first place! Well done Peter! Long live Biko! Our everlasting love from Greece (... from where, was, Mr. Mandela's lawyer, who tried so hard, for many years, to save him, from the claws of Apartheid!)
@RED PILL PORTAL And the assholes of the Apartheid, who persecuted, and imprisoned him, were the "good guys".... Heah?!... is this what you're trying to tell us here, wise guy?!... heah?!
@@jamesmullan8590 Yes, yes. We do not exist to the media until we blow something up something crazy they have created, you know why? The majority of us are loners who stay their self's or their Obo families.
But not like before. Now, just watching with little interest and no action. The politics of South Africa and other African nations is hard for some to understand.
Ironically, those surviving South African policemen involved in the brutal murder of Steve Biko, watched this concert as free men. - Never arrested. Never charged. Never held accountable for their crimes
🍃Sensacional!!! A música tem múltiplos poderes... unificar idéias, tem o poder de mobilização, de homenagear a história, pessoas, enfim de transmitir magníficas emoções. Belo exemplo. Adorei.🍃⚘😊👍🇧🇷
I cant believe I haven’t ever heard this song, I actually heard it at the end of an old 1986 tv Show Miami Vise. I have played literally 50 times and still replaying it because it has touched that much. I was a young man when this song was played in 1986 but I am a older man who still loves Music. This Song has Touched my Soul, I remember the Fall of the Apartheid in South Africa, America has went through it, I don’t believe it’s here anymore for the most part, but I believe Hatred for our Fellow Human being will continue as long as the World exists.
Auf jeden Fall eine der gängisten. Und der Wichtigsten!!!! Aber schade das es solch eine Hymne geben muss. Besser wäre Steven Biko wäre am leben geblieben.
In the mid 80's I was studying at UMIST. Me and mates used to go to the Bowling Green in Manchester, behind the MRI. Most Friday nights the house solo muscian (Steve Lee?, he was blind) played this on his guiter. It never failed to bring the house down.
You’ve got EVERY right to feel for this song, we are ALL humans. I Was a 17 year old, know-nothing when I heard this in ‘78, and it got me doing ‘my homework’ and I saw how the real world worked behind the scenes. I know you meant well, but it’s okay to be white and have feelings, I mean, we’re human also. 😃. EVERYONE please STOP bringing race unnecessarily into conversation, you’re only doing the bidding of the devil. (Or as we like to call them, the 1 percent!)
I often wonder if people around the world, besides South Africa, would know who Mr Biko was if not for Mr Gabriel's song. Everything was FREE MANDELLA in the U.S.OF A. Read the book and watch the movie 'Cry Freedom'.
Always liked this song by Peter Gabriel. Biko was tortured and killed by Security Police on September 11, 1977. Notorious Gideon Nieuwoudt was the one who carried out the orders for Biko to be beaten badly and take that long ride to Pretoria to die knowing that it was called "The White City" at that time. Hospitals in Pretoria refused to treat or heal blacks.
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Who else learned of apartheid due to this song? Thank you Peter Gabriel and thank you Steven Biko, RIP.
Peter Gabriel, a giant for human rights!
We need more like him nowadays!
❤He`s the human most of us missing in our own lives. My deepest respect to him. ❤
This song was written, produced and composed in 1978. Banned in South Africa.Peter Gabriel performed it everywhere in the world except South Africa.finally got the chance to sing in South Africa. A dream come true. Long live Bantubonke Stephen Biko.Amandla........
Ntokozo Sithole RESPECT to Stephan Biko....freedom activist
Nto? We ARE HERE. PROMISE. 😞😥😞😣 SHAME ON :THEM. LOOK UP MATRIX. OR MANDELA EFFECT. Strap in, and this comment proly b thrown. Monitered wat eve. TRUE.
And how have things turned out in SA???
Possibly one of the worst places to live in the world.
Congrats👍
@@cowkeksdontbnosy2262 racism is natural. All races are racist, accept for one. Because only one race has been convinced it was evil.
I wonder why there was and is such an effort to push this belief in just this one particular race.
Wow !!
Did not know this until I chose this version 🙏🏿💯🕯️
Simply one of the greatest songs ever written. Changed the world for the better.
You don't say?? South Africa has become possibly the worst place in the world to live. But, that was the purpose of all the propaganda that was pushed through Peter, Bono and the rest.
„You can blow out a candle, but you can‘t blow out a fire!“
Let‘s hope he is right!!!!
@@avoiceinthewilderness5766 I agree. Those that sing the praises have either moved, or never lived in this country, to start with.
@@Titchify The darkness grows stronger and the few that carry the light and salt will soon be removed and hidden living among each other and the world will be dark and the preservation will be over.
This has been my grieving anthem for many years. In the lat '60's and early '70's, as a young white South African involved in the student movement as Steve was midwifing the birth of the Black Consciousness Movement, I came to know him personally. When he was assassinated in jail in '77, by which time I was in Canada and hadn't been in touch with him for 5 years, I was devastated.
I still wonder whether the country of my birth, which I still love so much, would have progressed differently if he was still physically alive.
Thank you, Peter Gabriel, for giving this to me and so many others. I am so glad you at last had the chance to bring it to South African soil.
Amandla!
Peter Grabriel did more in exposing the story than any media. It hit Chicago (my home) like a tsunami. Joseph Campbell was right, artists are more perceptive and cognizant than most others. Peace to you.
@@interminglings1721Yes indeed artists and the arts!
Mind you, the "Cry Freedom" movie also helped. Though it focussed on the story of Donald Woods the rebel editor, and didn't thoroughly portray Steve, it was something a lot more 'unpolitical' types and non-South-Africans could relate to.
Thank you.
And look how things have turned out....
But then again the people involved in the revolution knew who it would end up in SA....
Same here with the civil rights movement. They are going to turn this country into SA... AND IGNORANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU GUYS ARE HELPING!!! WAKE UP
As long as people listen to this song, Stephen's name and story will never be forgotten.
47 years ago today 😢 Steven Biko will never ever be forgotten ❤
This song made me aware of the big injustice that was suffered by the black people in South Africa. I was 14. It made me join Amnesty International and to participate in protests against apartheid. It made me a political person. To see Peter Gabriel perfom it in Johannesburg on this video made the hairs raise on my neck: Touching and very powerful. Sadly, although apartheid is long gone, we are still a long way from equal rights. The struggle countinues...
I really don't think the struggles will every cease as long as neither side wants to forgive the other.
Wow was für ein toller Song Peter du bist der Beste Musiker und Künstler und Sänger der Welt dafür liebe ich dich ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You can blow out a candle but you can‘t blow out a Fire, once the flame begin to catch the wind will blow it higher!“
Al oir este tema estan facinante que cada eslabon te lleva al corazon mas duro de cualquier dictador .
We love you Steve Biko this world would be a better place if all people would be like you Steve Biko we will always remember you as we remember Madiba Mandela thank you Steven Biko Africa and the rest of the world will always love you the world is still watching you are a hero Steve Biko 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Will always be my favorite Peter Gabriel song - to everyone willing to put their lives on the line to combat social injustice - the angels are awaiting the likes of you.
I can't help but look at that choir, such proud people! Peter and Madiba make me proud to be a human being.
RESPECT to Stephen Biko and Patrice Lumumba as well.
Peter Gabriel is an icon,a legend and a force to be reckoned.Every song he touches becomes a gem.If we were able, I would wish him eternal life.
I agree with you
That is without a doubt one of the most beautiful posts I've ever read. Much respect.
One of the reasons Peter Gabriel is one of my favorite artists.
I've seen and heard this so many times but this song always gives me goosebumps.
On every level, this is impossibly powerful.
RIP Stephen Biko
I am an American but the murder of Stephen Biko touched me and softened my heart
Biko is a Saint and he should be taught about to all young people
❤
God Bless Steven Biko and Peter Gabriel
Good Peter
Thankyou to Peter Gabriel, Steven Van Zandt, Jerry Dammers, Simple Minds, who all gave this young Yorkshireman a musical education. Biko, Sun City, Free Nelson Mandela, Mandela Day - they opened my eyes and made me aware
On 29 November 2003, an event called the 46664 Concert was held at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town. It was hosted by Mandela and its goal was to raise awareness of the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. What a mysterious world we live in to be able to follow a song for 37 years from the the end of one injustice of racist brutality to the unspeakable horror of a pandemic. I still have hope for the better angels of our nature.
Because
Mr Gabriel, I’ve always loved your music! Listen to it to this day.!!! You’ve gotten me through tough times in the U.S. military on deployments . Godspeed 😅
Great song. Mr. Gabriel, please make such a song for the Palestines, who suffers Israel Apartheid and even Genocide.
And make sure to mention in this song also the brutality and inhumanity of the Palestinian terror organization Hamas, who uses its own people cowardly as a shield and kills Israeli people, women, even babies, from pure hate and ideology.
Best version ever!
This choir is chilling.
Amazing.
March 6, 2021 marks the 1st time I have heard this song. Life-changing !
Thank you Peter Gabriel and RIH Steven Biko 🙏🏿✊🏿 ❤🌹
Beautiful! A very moving song. Peter Gabriel sings it with his heart and soul
And the tears still flow.
😪 yes
2021 n they still flowing today still brutal abuse going on . Cowards hiding behind uniforms.love to you all from robin hood country Nottingham england.
nothing more to say
✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 For Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Hector Piterson, all who Died During Apartheid............ For Steve Biko, AMALDA!!!!!!
This song can be heard in the 1980s television series "Miami Vice", (episode: 'Evan').
Finally, played where it should had, in the first place! Well done Peter! Long live Biko! Our everlasting love from Greece (... from where, was, Mr. Mandela's lawyer, who tried so hard, for many years, to save him, from the claws of Apartheid!)
@RED PILL PORTAL And the assholes of the Apartheid, who persecuted, and imprisoned him, were the "good guys".... Heah?!... is this what you're trying to tell us here, wise guy?!... heah?!
STEPHEN BANTU BIKO !!
You will be missed for ever
my brother.
„Business as usual in Policeroom 619“...
Hard to accept but reality all over the world!
THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE ARE STILL WATCHING.
well I hope they see the murder of white farmers.and there familys!
I don't wanna talk about them
@@jamesmullan8590 Yes, yes. We do not exist to the media until we blow something up something crazy they have created, you know why? The majority of us are loners who stay their self's or their Obo families.
live love and bug all brothers and sisters.
But not like before. Now, just watching with little interest and no action. The politics of South Africa and other African nations is hard for some to understand.
Fantastic to display the wonderful work of Peter Gabriel! God bless Biko and Peter and everyone from Patrick
You can blow out a candle but you cant blow out a fire..once the winds began to catch the wind will blow it higher.
The significance is unprecedented. Love this forever wow
No words are strong enough Stephan Biko
un grand moment d'émotion
DAMN! THIS... was a long time coming! With this, the song has finally come full circle. 💝
omg. What a moving moment. Even PG is quite moved unusually. Singing this fantastic song there is something he remembers for sure...
Perfeito .
Homem de coragem Peter Gabriel todo o meu respeito !!!
Ironically, those surviving South African policemen involved in the brutal murder of Steve Biko, watched this concert as free men. - Never arrested. Never charged. Never held accountable for their crimes
🍃Sensacional!!! A música tem múltiplos poderes... unificar idéias, tem o poder de mobilização, de homenagear a história, pessoas, enfim de transmitir magníficas emoções. Belo exemplo. Adorei.🍃⚘😊👍🇧🇷
A la mémoire de Steven BIKO ! le grand homme de l'afrique du sud ! Ne jamais l'oublier !
ont ne s'en lasse pas ..ENORME...
I cant believe I haven’t ever heard this song, I actually heard it at the end of an old 1986 tv Show Miami Vise. I have played literally 50 times and still replaying it because it has touched that much. I was a young man when this song was played in 1986 but I am a older man who still loves Music. This Song has Touched my Soul, I remember the Fall of the Apartheid in South Africa, America has went through it, I don’t believe it’s here anymore for the most part, but I believe Hatred for our Fellow Human being will continue as long as the World exists.
not seen the film love 2 see it , i m NAIROBI born
Die beste Hymne des 20.Jahrhunderts. Und gesungen vom beste Interpreten.
Auf jeden Fall eine der gängisten. Und der Wichtigsten!!!! Aber schade das es solch eine Hymne geben muss. Besser wäre Steven Biko wäre am leben geblieben.
absolutely beautiful .thank you for this😢 l cry
COOL...
VERY CO!!!!
RIP STEVE BIKO
SDS
FONTANA SOUTHERN BRASIL
Stunning song never heard this before
Goosebumps.... great song
This song is an emotional one big time!
Beautiful song! Thank you so much for sharing and God bless all from Patrick
In the mid 80's I was studying at UMIST. Me and mates used to go to the Bowling Green in Manchester, behind the MRI. Most Friday nights the house solo muscian (Steve Lee?, he was blind) played this on his guiter. It never failed to bring the house down.
Wunderbarer Song für die Menschenrechte ❤❤❤❤💞
Absolutely ❤️🙏🇺🇸
Wow, this is absolutely astonishing.
Hopefully I get a chance to see this man in concert.
Peter is,always very good in concert. But, this was a once in a lifetime special moment for him and the audience.
It is beyond words have seen him six times dating back to 1984. Masterful.
This song made me Biko aware back in the day. Shame on the World for all the injustices still in it! Shame on us!
Shame on us? Who? Sir or mam.
@@reagan513 pardon?
I was look for this song. didn't know who sing it but now 👍 up.
Me 2
Im a middle ages white guy I have no right to feel the way I do about this song. But this song kills me each and everytime I listen to it.
You’ve got EVERY right to feel for this song, we are ALL humans. I Was a 17 year old, know-nothing when I heard this in ‘78, and it got me doing ‘my homework’ and I saw how the real world worked behind the scenes. I know you meant well, but it’s okay to be white and have feelings, I mean, we’re human also. 😃. EVERYONE please STOP bringing race unnecessarily into conversation, you’re only doing the bidding of the devil. (Or as we like to call them, the 1 percent!)
I often wonder if people around the world, besides South Africa, would know who Mr Biko was if not for Mr Gabriel's song. Everything was FREE MANDELLA in the U.S.OF A. Read the book and watch the movie 'Cry Freedom'.
With only ONE COLOUR; DEAD... R.I.P. Steven Biko - Feb.2021
Yihla Moja means "Come spirit" in Xhosa (a South African language).
I always wonder what that means
i read about his story in a book.. 😊🤟 then i went there to check it out for myself 😲❤️
Soldier of Lord GOD has fallen.!1 innocent soul, dead may never die till get justice then will RIP.!!
e' un dichiarazione commovente per tutti i prigionieri politici che hanno sacrificato la loro vita per un ideale
Este tema con unas gaitas te hace llorar.
Always liked this song by Peter Gabriel. Biko was tortured and killed by Security Police on September 11, 1977. Notorious Gideon Nieuwoudt was the one who carried out the orders for Biko to be beaten badly and take that long ride to Pretoria to die knowing that it was called "The White City" at that time. Hospitals in Pretoria refused to treat or heal blacks.
Wow 😣😔😢
Actually September 12, to be precise. ( September 11 was the 911 attack on the Twin Towers)
@@antoinettehalberstadt7530 True and Biko was 30 years old when he died.
beautiful and enigmatic :)
Even better than the Concert for Nelson Mandela in England.
the world ! would tkan so much is a great man human petter Gabriel vehter hot or col
Un grande della musica rock
How many times can one song break your heart?
A Giant under the Sun. Me too. Rael.
🍖🧀🍔🍟🥨🍳
superbe ! merveilleux !
they need to watch out for EVERYONE
Yes, the eyes of the world are watching now.
Legend!!!
september 2019 business as usual in all xinjiang
تحياتي الخالصة لكل اخواننا من ادم وحواء
thank u for this concert i didnt see yet before, would love to watch the entire concert
everyone send this to twitter , would it be fitting if this song crashed twitter .
great........
I feel at home here thanks to PG
i read about this man.. in abook 🤟
September TWELFTH, (12) actually, Peter
Free Palestine!!! The eyes of the world, are.., still, watching! And, we, had enough of it!
No more walls!!!
I wonder what Steven Biko would think of South Africa now.?
Disappointed for sure.
Had thet not murdered him, I wonder if South Africa would be better now.
BLM!🙋🏽♂️
Bantu Stephen Biko was murdered, not killed. If one is going to protest, say the truth, Mr. Peter Gabriel.
It's murdered and killed are the same thing
Wow.
Never forgett. God bless you all.
The children who don't have the ability to reason, like Biko does, and mine for Colbult Red
I THINK YOU WILL FIND IT TOOK PLACE IN CAPE TOWN AT THE GREEN POINT STADIUM .
Yees
Fucking Beautiful, not a racist thought or action; just human loving human.
Is that Uoussour Ndour at 5:25?
Qui connaissait S Biko hors des frontieres d'A Sud en 80? Par contre un public plutôt blanc !
C'est devenu en hymne
expired in my arms
How long was the song banned in South Africa and was this in fact his first performance of Biko there?
There only one peter
It could be now