Def Leppards drummer was involved in a car accident in 1984 which resulted in him losing his left arm and uses a specially adapted drum kit to play anything part of his drum kit that he needs his left arm for,
@wessexdruid7598 I don't know of any bands where it matters whether the idiot at the back has an odd or even number of limbs. As for DL being good, meh!
'Video Killed The Radio Star' was the first video played on MTV. The first proper "video" is hard to say - Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' is a good contender.
'Stuck In The Middle With You', sung by Gerry Rafferty was the song playing when Michael Madsen's character sliced the cop's ear off in 'Reservoir Dogs. Rafferty also sang 'Baker Street' - which most people should recognise by the brilliant sax opening.
Also, Billy said that the sax player wanted to clain credit for the sax tune but Billy (Gerry's best friend) said that he heard Gerry playing it years before on electric guitar. Gerry was a perfectionist. Lots of great talent comes from Scotland. Good call. Madsen's sister was the lady in Electric Dreams - Love of my life! Rabbit holes everywhere 🙂
Trinidad was a British colony for 69 years ending in 1958 when Billy would have been 7-8 years old. Consequently like India it would have absorbed a significant amount of British culture, and most Trinidadians spoke a local dialect of English.
As a Brit I was genuinely surprised when I found out The Foundations were a British group especially as Build Me Up Buttercup is one of my guilty pleasure favourites, I'd always assumed they were American like the Four Tops
So...way back in the day I used to DJ techo and house nights with my mate. One night, in a club I can't remember the name of, he was playing tunes and I was farting around with the lights and the owner came up and asked us to play a tune next, handing us a 12" record. He started it and Mark Morrison jumped onto the wee stage, pretend to sing, dance about for 3 mins to stunned punters full of Ecstacy and immediately, on ending, dance right out the door with his posse...😬 Bizarre. One love from Scotland. 💙
I think in many cases British artists sing in a hind of mid-Atlantic accent that ca be taken for American. And a lot of these songs were used in big American movies, making them feel American by association.
"When people first heard these songs no-one knew they were British" should have read "When some Americans etc". Most people outside the USA didn't have any problem realising where all these songs came from. Britain. Although as @dscott has said Katrina is Canadian and the Bee Gees (Brothers Gibb) moved to Australia when young.
His point on the accent etc, and styles and so on, is true though. On first listen you and if you didn’t know you would assume most of these were American
You like older music because that’s when it was proper music. Where you had to actually have talent unlike today with auto tune and same old generic crap
I'm seventy eight now and I'm so lucky to have lived through the Swinging Sixties in London. We ruled the world with the best music and fashions. The sixties and seventies had the best music.
The thing about the history of music and films and basically all mass consumed arts is that the not so great stuff gets forgotten over time and we remember and continue playing mostly only the great stuff, so we tend to overestimate the hit rate of decades past compared to today's.
I think you are about 10 or 12 years younger than me. But we all seem to get to a stage in life when we say "wasn't the music from the 60s to 80s great?"
I like music from 40s 50s 60s 70s and some music from 80s to current and most genres there are many songs and singers and bands I cannot stand so I understand what you mean when you can't explain how a song makes you actually feel when it's one you don't like❤
You really should take a dive into the Ren rabbit hole ,his use of beats mixed with the use of words will show you a 21st century Bard,no track is the same but unique mixed with stunning visuals.
I blame Jagger for singing in a US accent. But Blues would have sounded weird in a Cockney accent!. On the other hand the Beatles taught us we could use our own voices.Think of the very English Ray Davis of the Kinks. His themes and stories are so culturally English. Maybe now we live in a global corporate world,we get A I generated drivel with a homogenised accent!
Many singers/bands sing with a transatlantic accent, I suppose it makes the song commercially viable in most English speaking countries? There are of course those who sing with a more English dialect, like The Jam or Billy Bragg. You can also hear it a little more with ballads or British Folk music, although we don't hear Folk too often on the media these days?
for me, music and scents are our time machines :D In our four countries of the uk we don't half put out some great music from brilliant singers, musicians, producers and writers. And video killed the radio star wasn't the first video, it was the first video shown on MTV when it launched. i think the first ever actual video is credited to bohemian rhapsody... not 100% though.,
@@Frahamen but that was over a decade after the song in this video, the song here was Roxanne, their biggest international hit with a very strong reggae sound (as The Police had generally), so what are you talking about 😂
The drummer was American. Stuart Copeland - born in Virginia. Fleetwood Mac were British/American- as were Foreigner. Fleetwood Mac's drummer Mick Fleetwood was also in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film'Total Recall'...... 'Get your ass to Mars.........'
The reason you love old music opposed to new music is simple. It used to be a band, they all played instruments, they needed eachother, it had soul. Today, its single artists, controlled from above, no soul. Just manufactured junk.
I never even realised those were were Brits. I knew Katrina was Canadian and Bee Gees were naturalised Aussies. Same as ONJ and The Young Bros (Ac/Dc). I thought jamiroquai was Kiwi too. I dig what you're saying about Ch00ns from about 2011 onwards but thought that's just coz I'm Ye Olde Farte (born 1961)
Dusty Springfield sang in a trio with my great aunt. She's my second cousin's godmother... so "yes way"! There was always shit music, its just the shit music doesn't get played years later... but since the 00s, its been slim pickings. The 90s was the absolute peak with genres coming on that didn't exist previously
you're right about good music finishing in the late 80's. I'm a dedicated Metalhead, But I'll listen to any genre of music up until then..., Even the Metal bands I follow passionately ( with a few exceptions ) have forgotten how to write good songs. Metallica being the worst oiffenders.
Music wise something happend around 2005 were the music just went bad in my opinion. I sometimes still find music way for my time where I think "hmm this is actually pretty good".... newer music not so much. I have thought it was me getting older but I have heard from alot of teens they wish they were around in the 60ties, 70ties, 80ties and 90ties music wise. I think the problem is music is now made from a formula. No experiments.... and the fact the radios now is soooo split you don't get diversity in the songs so it all sound the same.
The pop and rock music was just better in 1963 to 1979. No argument. However, I agree about connotations. There is some I can't listen to because if these - applies to 'classical' music as well.
The best year for music for me was the rave/dance scene, 89/95 then the early 2000s whenci was a bit of a goth. Evanescence, greenday, my chemical romance and all that. There was some good stuff in the later 90s as well. All these songs well most are classics
Yes, of course Brits knew they were Brits! 😂 The Bee Gees are Brits too. Born on the Isle of Man, moved to Manchester and them emigrated to Australia in the late 50s. They were back in the UK in the late 60s.
I'm first bro... Cmon that deserves a pin.
🤣 shy bairns get nowt 👌🏻
Britain definitely punches above its weight with its contribution to music, for such a small country.
The Clash, the Stones and The Beatles made a real difference, the rest have been forgotten.
@Ffinity B.S, anyone who listens to music regularly will inevitably be playing quite a bit of British music. It's unavoidable.
@@matthewjamison I said made a difference. Learn to read.
@@Ffinity You said the rest have been forgotten. Which is b.s or your music library is very slim.
@@Ffinity everyone can read what you said just fine, maybe you want to do a dirty delete because that comment is just embarrassing
also small correction...
"Video killed the Radio Star" was the 1st song to be played on MTV...
the first music video seems to be Little lost child released 1894, please correct if wrong
Def Leppards drummer was involved in a car accident in 1984 which resulted in him losing his left arm and uses a specially adapted drum kit to play anything part of his drum kit that he needs his left arm for,
Fascinating. If only it was relevant!
@@Ffinity Do you know of any other good bands with one-armed drummers?
@wessexdruid7598 I don't know of any bands where it matters whether the idiot at the back has an odd or even number of limbs. As for DL being good, meh!
The Bee Gees were originally from the Isle of Man
@robertpetre9378 yes so whilst the IOM is not part of the UK it's citizens are still British
Born somewhere, raised somewhere else, then another place. Phil Wang was born in Stoke on Trent but grew up in Malaysia. He's not a Stokie!
'Video Killed The Radio Star' was the first video played on MTV. The first proper "video" is hard to say - Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' is a good contender.
The older music is MUSIC!
'Stuck In The Middle With You', sung by Gerry Rafferty was the song playing when Michael Madsen's character sliced the cop's ear off in 'Reservoir Dogs.
Rafferty also sang 'Baker Street' - which most people should recognise by the brilliant sax opening.
Also, Billy said that the sax player wanted to clain credit for the sax tune but Billy (Gerry's best friend) said that he heard Gerry playing it years before on electric guitar. Gerry was a perfectionist. Lots of great talent comes from Scotland. Good call. Madsen's sister was the lady in Electric Dreams - Love of my life! Rabbit holes everywhere 🙂
Katrina, Katrina and the waves, was from Topeka, Kansas, however the band was formed in the UK.
Billy Ocean was from Trinidad.
Trinidad was a British colony for 69 years ending in 1958 when Billy would have been 7-8 years old.
Consequently like India it would have absorbed a significant amount of British culture, and most Trinidadians spoke a local dialect of English.
Moved to UK when he was 10 and lived in UK ever since.
Which was British when he was born in 1950.
As a Brit I was genuinely surprised when I found out The Foundations were a British group especially as Build Me Up Buttercup is one of my guilty pleasure favourites, I'd always assumed they were American like the Four Tops
I was fortunate enough to know Clem Curtis, the lead singer of The Foundations, great guy!
UB40 are from Birmingham.
The same place as Ozzy Osbourne.
Used to listen to them rehearsing above the Dewhurst butchers in Moseley😂
I let you off with seal, but come on matey…. The bee gees??? How did you not know that?
There are Americans who still don't know that they are white!
Some absolute classics in there. Enjoyed that Connor.
Definitely react to more videos from this channel, there’s some really good ones 👍
So...way back in the day I used to DJ techo and house nights with my mate. One night, in a club I can't remember the name of, he was playing tunes and I was farting around with the lights and the owner came up and asked us to play a tune next, handing us a 12" record. He started it and Mark Morrison jumped onto the wee stage, pretend to sing, dance about for 3 mins to stunned punters full of Ecstacy and immediately, on ending, dance right out the door with his posse...😬 Bizarre. One love from Scotland. 💙
I think in many cases British artists sing in a hind of mid-Atlantic accent that ca be taken for American. And a lot of these songs were used in big American movies, making them feel American by association.
"When people first heard these songs no-one knew they were British" should have read "When some Americans etc". Most people outside the USA didn't have any problem realising where all these songs came from. Britain. Although as @dscott has said Katrina is Canadian and the Bee Gees (Brothers Gibb) moved to Australia when young.
His point on the accent etc, and styles and so on, is true though. On first listen you and if you didn’t know you would assume most of these were American
Katrina is American
Bee Gees born Isle of Man, moved to Manchester then to Australia and then back to UK.
I think the Buggles weren't the first music video but was the first video to be played on MTV.
You like older music because that’s when it was proper music. Where you had to actually have talent unlike today with auto tune and same old generic crap
I'm British but had no idea Billy Ocean was British. Definitely thought he was American.
He was born in Trinidad in 1950 moved to Romford Essex London when he was 10 before Trinidad and Tobago became independent from the UK in 62.
I'm seventy eight now and I'm so lucky to have lived through the Swinging Sixties in London. We ruled the world with the best music and fashions. The sixties and seventies had the best music.
Liverpool singers have a Liverpool accent. Pink Floyd have southern English accents.
The sample at 9:22 is from My Woman by Lew Stone featuring Al Bowlly from 1932, you can hear it within the first couple of seconds
I was surprised not to see Magic by Pilot.
i just realized ive watched your videos for years. keep it up
The thing about the history of music and films and basically all mass consumed arts is that the not so great stuff gets forgotten over time and we remember and continue playing mostly only the great stuff, so we tend to overestimate the hit rate of decades past compared to today's.
I think you are about 10 or 12 years younger than me. But we all seem to get to a stage in life when we say "wasn't the music from the 60s to 80s great?"
The 90's was the absolute pinnacle still. IYKYK
Yaaaay so happy you reacted to this :D
For some reason I knew you'd be shocked by Jay Sean and UB40 being British 😂
I like music from 40s 50s 60s 70s and some music from 80s to current and most genres there are many songs and singers and bands I cannot stand so I understand what you mean when you can't explain how a song makes you actually feel when it's one you don't like❤
I was born in 93’ but all the music I listen to is from 60s-80s
Music now days is pants….
You really should take a dive into the Ren rabbit hole ,his use of beats mixed with the use of words will show you a 21st century Bard,no track is the same but unique mixed with stunning visuals.
Totally agree 1965-1985
We all have our own taste Connor. ❤
Genuinely never knew The Foundations were British
as a brits with (independent music taste ) ... i apologise for some garb & the tosh in this video (real music for real people)
I blame Jagger for singing in a US accent. But Blues would have sounded weird in a Cockney accent!. On the other hand the Beatles taught us we could use our own voices.Think of the very English Ray Davis of the Kinks. His themes and stories are so culturally English.
Maybe now we live in a global corporate world,we get A I generated drivel with a homogenised accent!
Yeah, but the Kinks did a country album too - Muswell Hillbillies. Good album, listen to the extended version because it has a few extra tracks.
no shade...
but the correct title of the original video would be: "everyone knew they were British.. except Americans.." ;)...
Many singers/bands sing with a transatlantic accent, I suppose it makes the song commercially viable in most English speaking countries? There are of course those who sing with a more English dialect, like The Jam or Billy Bragg. You can also hear it a little more with ballads or British Folk music, although we don't hear Folk too often on the media these days?
Video killed the radio star by the buggles was the very first video ever played on MTV when it first aired
for me, music and scents are our time machines :D In our four countries of the uk we don't half put out some great music from brilliant singers, musicians, producers and writers. And video killed the radio star wasn't the first video, it was the first video shown on MTV when it launched. i think the first ever actual video is credited to bohemian rhapsody... not 100% though.,
7:31 that's Radio Ga Ga
'Radio Ga Ga' was a Queen single, from 1984. That's the Buggles 'Video Killed The Video Star', released in 1979.
7:36 first song on MTV
WHAT The guy who made a song "Englishman in New York" was British???? I literally don't know anyone who thinks The Police where Americans.
@@Frahamen but that was over a decade after the song in this video, the song here was Roxanne, their biggest international hit with a very strong reggae sound (as The Police had generally), so what are you talking about 😂
The drummer was American. Stuart Copeland - born in Virginia.
Fleetwood Mac were British/American- as were Foreigner.
Fleetwood Mac's drummer Mick Fleetwood was also in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film'Total Recall'......
'Get your ass to Mars.........'
The reason you love old music opposed to new music is simple. It used to be a band, they all played instruments, they needed eachother, it had soul. Today, its single artists, controlled from above, no soul. Just manufactured junk.
You need to listen the madchester sound WAKE UP!
Never heard anything with Macklemore before Hind's Hall. I'd let him get away with anything.
They were produced in Britain
... maybe the muzic spekes to yoo ... Good Riff. Very Good Riff. Thank You
I never even realised those were were Brits.
I knew Katrina was Canadian and Bee Gees were naturalised Aussies. Same as ONJ and The Young Bros (Ac/Dc).
I thought jamiroquai was Kiwi too.
I dig what you're saying about Ch00ns from about 2011 onwards but thought that's just coz I'm Ye Olde Farte (born 1961)
Katrina is from Kansas; her Dad was in the USAF at RAF Lakenheath.
Dusty Springfield sang in a trio with my great aunt. She's my second cousin's godmother... so "yes way"!
There was always shit music, its just the shit music doesn't get played years later... but since the 00s, its been slim pickings. The 90s was the absolute peak with genres coming on that didn't exist previously
We did.
Macalmore never heard of him
Pretty sure someone knew they were British, even if it was just their Mums.
It i all good the music I grew up with .You just grew up more.
you're right about good music finishing in the late 80's. I'm a dedicated Metalhead, But I'll listen to any genre of music up until then..., Even the Metal bands I follow passionately ( with a few exceptions ) have forgotten how to write good songs. Metallica being the worst oiffenders.
It kicked off MTV.
Music wise something happend around 2005 were the music just went bad in my opinion. I sometimes still find music way for my time where I think "hmm this is actually pretty good".... newer music not so much. I have thought it was me getting older but I have heard from alot of teens they wish they were around in the 60ties, 70ties, 80ties and 90ties music wise. I think the problem is music is now made from a formula. No experiments.... and the fact the radios now is soooo split you don't get diversity in the songs so it all sound the same.
You ask which songs are American???? Yet the title of the video is "No one knew they were British" oh my days 🙄🙄🙄🙄
The pop and rock music was just better in 1963 to 1979. No argument. However, I agree about connotations. There is some I can't listen to because if these - applies to 'classical' music as well.
Ah, Amy Winehouse. If only she had gone to rehab. The poor old lass might be with us still.
Bee Gees were all born on the Isle of Man.
So you're a Bananarama fan.
Maybe the the title should be changed to “No one in the US” as the rest of us were aware.
Did you do laundry today?
The best year for music for me was the rave/dance scene, 89/95 then the early 2000s whenci was a bit of a goth. Evanescence, greenday, my chemical romance and all that. There was some good stuff in the later 90s as well. All these songs well most are classics
The eras you single out did produce lots of great music, but there was much bad stuff too, just like any era. You just don’t get to hear it.
" NO ONE knew" !!?? WE DID !!
Katrina ( and the waves) is American.
The BEE GEES are Australian.
I think just Katrina is, the waves are british 😂. Bee Gees are british Australian but far more British really
Yes, of course Brits knew they were Brits! 😂
The Bee Gees are Brits too. Born on the Isle of Man, moved to Manchester and them emigrated to Australia in the late 50s. They were back in the UK in the late 60s.
2008 to 2016 feels like one of the worst eras of music personally.
Nearly everything after 2000 was shit, everything after 2016 was super shit
Almost all English..
Sure... even the Welsh and Scottish and West Indian ones
@ I said almost.
You want to be boned bro😂
Music since about 2010 has been crap to be honest..(lots of the music above wasnt played much outside of uk..4:18 like this..and this 5:04 etc
I agree i can't stand Macklemore or their thrift shop song.just annoying.
None they are all British......well I'll caveat that.....Katrina is Canadian I think......ps reliably now informed Katrina is American born
Stewart Copeland was born in Virginia, so technically a US citizen .
@andersjohansson4734 true but I think we can regard The Police as a UK band
AMERICAN
@@enemde3025 I've never heard an American speak with a Geordie accent. I'm saying you're effing wrong as politely as I can.
@@gio-oz8gf
Wye Aye Marra
Didn't know they were British? Mate, I didn't even know some of these "stars" existed!
My dad used to babysit for Errol Brown
Cool.