I was a taxi driver with Taxis Combined in Sydney when this was recorded, I can remember seeing the filming of this song. This became my theme song when I drove. Whenever this was played on the radio 2MMM I played it loud. The song motivated me whenever I was feeling like giving it all away. Thank you Paul.
I remember my Dad playing this song and others like it when I was a kid. He was not a good person. Alcohol was his vice, and it made him into a monster. He died last year, and I listen to this song among others as a form of therapy for myself. A part of me hurts and grieves, but life moves on.
This song reminds me of Aus back in the day! The road trips, cheap living, hanging out with a beer and just laid back fun. Times have changed now! This song keeps those good 'ol days alive!
Transported back in time........The streets of Darlinghurst , Kings Cross and Centennial Park, Sydney Airport and Bondi Beach in the 80's..... Fond memories indeed ............ It looks nothing like it looked back then.... Some Great times............ One of my favorite songs from that era........ How I miss those times with sweet Christine......... 🖤🖤🖤....... Absolute Magic !!!!!
Connolly was a player in the vein of Knopfler and Gilmour. The melody is your friend. Weave around it a bit, and use great tone to sing for you. That's how you tug people's heartstrings. He was brilliant, and sadly missed.
Paul came to Vancouver by himself and I went to see him with two Aussie sisters and a friend...around 1993? It was a small venue and he held us all in the palm of his hand. This song was the only one I was familiar with. The version he gave us that night was magical. I still love it dearly.
Paul Kelly’s little brother was the general manager of John Oxley detention centre when I was an inmate as a child over 30yrs ago.They are the splitting image of each other
The passing of Michael Gudinsky today bought me here 🌹 a great loss to the Australian music industry 🇦🇺 with songs and Aussie bands like this .......he will be missed by all Aussies , bands and artists 🇦🇺
1986 was a beautiful year! In case no one has mentioned this, it's Jenny Morris that sings in the background. Haven't seen this for ages! The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi.
When we moved to the US from Oz one of the last things I did was buy a Paul Kelly CD to take with me as it is the one of the real sounds of Australia for me.
This came out not long after I arrived here, and to me it (and a lot of other music at the time) summed up Australia. What a great place it was back in the mid 80s. I couldn’t believe my luck. Songs like this take me straight back to those days….
Here's one for ya. I first saw Paul Kelly at the Royal Antler in 1983, a little while after Manila came out, and I'd purchased it. I was the only bloke in the pub who'd come to watch Paul Kelly. They were playing pool right in front of the stage and ignoring him.
Amazing song... My very first concert was Paul Kelly opening up for The Smithereens at a hall on the Notre Dame campus.... I wish I could go back and see it again. This song has a place on my Top 20 of all time...
I didn;t realise that was shot in Sydney until I saw the shot heading into Kings Cross at the end. I'm on the road in Sydney pretty much every day, and I didn't recognize any of that, it's all changed so much.
I love this song...and I love the music video. It makes me feel nostalgic when I recognise parts of Sydney, and the ol’ Taxis Combined taxis with their (original) phone number! 😎😻
A gorgeous tune. This was my 1st intro 2 his music. It was also the reason why I've stayed faithful 2 his music. Now, whenever I hear it, I have this natural impulse 2 cry... why? It is the perfect match between music & lyrics than either of those elements on their own. Like fellow 80s veteran Neil Finn (another enduring favorite), Paul Kelly is a born storyteller . He knows just how 2 paint a soundscape that beautifully depicts love, loss, & longing against a uniquely Australian sky.
Yes. I saw him here in Massachusetts's years back. Another good one,from little things big things grow. How to make Gravy. The troubadour of down under. Greetings from the US!!
The 80's is where I have so many fond memories from first love to first heartbreak and i had the best music music to carry me through it all, and what better country to do it all in other than Australia. We had the best music that is still played everywhere today.
First heard this on Radio Australia this morning, and have had the video on repeat since finding it on YT. Love it, love, it, love it. The RA announcer said Mr K is 57 today. Happy birthday, Paul.
Yes. We never had red taxis here in Melbourne in the 80s, most of them were white because they were purchased 2nd hand and white was easy to keep clean and fix (no mis-matched colours). Sydney always liked red for some reason.
I was 9 when this came out and l mainly remember seeing the film Malcom that year. The memories that the film and this music vid brings back. My late dad use to be a pump fitter who traveled all over Melbourne to service pumps and he would take me on a lot of call outs and would remember a lot of landmarks that are in these two films. Also another great film called The Big Steal (1989)
Haven't seen this for ages! The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi. Haven't seen this for ages! The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi. 1986 was a beautiful year!
In case no one has mentioned this, it's Jenny Morris that sings in the background. Haven't seen this for ages! The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi. "here I come, creeping 'round your back door". It was a different time then. Now you'd be shot.
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Thanks Paul, btw... did you ever get your Taxi Licence? :-D
Bought it best thing i did been looking at buying some albums now
Love some of your new stuff ,keep em coming mate.👍👍
Hey Paul. Have always been a fan of your music and my family listen to your amazing voice all the time. Can't wait to hear your new music. Xxx
Awesome. From across the ditch
I was a taxi driver with Taxis Combined in Sydney when this was recorded, I can remember seeing the filming of this song. This became my theme song when I drove. Whenever this was played on the radio 2MMM I played it loud. The song motivated me whenever I was feeling like giving it all away. Thank you Paul.
Can a song be considered a national treasure
Ahhh Australia !!!!! What a magical place it was back in the 70's and 80's...........
Yes
Yeah, started going down hill from 2000 onwards, should never have had the Olympics.
@@balung yeah before 2000 was the go !
Absolutely awesome times ! 70's should be in the dictionary under AWESOME !!!
I saw the best of this country
I remember my Dad playing this song and others like it when I was a kid.
He was not a good person. Alcohol was his vice, and it made him into a monster.
He died last year, and I listen to this song among others as a form of therapy for myself.
A part of me hurts and grieves, but life moves on.
That’s it bro.Gotta move forward.Kudos 2u!
are we the same person lol
chin up soldier- you can only improve for your own kids.
Great friend terrible master
i love u
i do
Paul Kelly = Australia's Bob Dylan.
1986 was a beautiful year!
1986 was a beautiful year!
Oh how I miss my country back then. It's unrecognisable now. At least Paul's tunes take us back in our minds and souls. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
I'm still having quite a few beers while listening to this video 🍺🍺🍺🇭🇲🇭🇲🇭🇲👍👍🍻🍻
This song reminds me of Aus back in the day! The road trips, cheap living, hanging out with a beer and just laid back fun. Times have changed now! This song keeps those good 'ol days alive!
I miss this era of Aussie pub pop rock.
This was the very end in my books.
Transported back in time........The streets of Darlinghurst , Kings Cross and Centennial Park, Sydney Airport and Bondi Beach in the 80's..... Fond memories indeed ............ It looks nothing like it looked back then.... Some Great times............ One of my favorite songs from that era........ How I miss those times with sweet Christine......... 🖤🖤🖤....... Absolute Magic !!!!!
you can never get sick of his songs 🥰
Steve Connolly's guitar was such a significant sound on so many of Paul's recordings from this time.
So good, and great tone. One of the only solo's i learnt and play for fun, along with to her door and i just play rhythm and sing
Connolly was a player in the vein of Knopfler and Gilmour. The melody is your friend. Weave around it a bit, and use great tone to sing for you. That's how you tug people's heartstrings. He was brilliant, and sadly missed.
Paul came to Vancouver by himself and I went to see him with two Aussie sisters and a friend...around 1993? It was a small venue and he held us all in the palm of his hand. This song was the only one I was familiar with. The version he gave us that night was magical. I still love it dearly.
Paul Kelly’s little brother was the general manager of John Oxley detention centre when I was an inmate as a child over 30yrs ago.They are the splitting image of each other
My job was a Yellow Cab Driver and this song takes me back to the 70s when l starting Driving. Great Singer Paul Kelly.
The passing of Michael Gudinsky today bought me here 🌹 a great loss to the Australian music industry 🇦🇺 with songs and Aussie bands like this .......he will be missed by all Aussies , bands and artists 🇦🇺
This is what I'll sink a few beers to🍻🍻🍻👍👍👍🇭🇲🇭🇲🇭🇲🍺🍺🍺
Pure, unadulterated Aussie rock. Thanks for all your brilliant work Paul, love it.
Ahhh, the 80s. What a great time to be alive. Still think it was the best decade for music. Great songs like this just take me back.
1986 was a beautiful year!
In case no one has mentioned this, it's Jenny Morris that sings in the background.
Haven't seen this for ages!
The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi.
Never knew it was Jenny! thank you
Where did we go wrong Oz, where the bloody hell did we go wrong....what a simpler fantastic time.
saw PK & Coloured Girls ... Perth 87 ... loved them then and just found them again ... ah the memories ... total class
Great song, and the film clip is a great 1986 time capsule. No doubt the passengers came from Paul’s own taxi-driving experiences.
Every dog will have its day. Any dog can win ......... a life lesson there people. Always believe in yourself.
It's about a stalker.
You know it's in the 80's, having a smoke in the back of the cab. Long life the good old days of the 80's, best era EVER!
Gossip was a great album. Paul Kelly was one reason I left Brisvegas for Melbourne , all those years ago
makes you wanna cry how things have changed for the worse. we will never ever get that back.
hello, how are you doing? it is nice meeting you here.
When we moved to the US from Oz one of the last things I did was buy a Paul Kelly CD to take with me as it is the one of the real sounds of Australia for me.
This came out not long after I arrived here, and to me it (and a lot of other music at the time) summed up Australia.
What a great place it was back in the mid 80s. I couldn’t believe my luck. Songs like this take me straight back to those days….
Here's one for ya. I first saw Paul Kelly at the Royal Antler in 1983, a little while after Manila came out, and I'd purchased it. I was the only bloke in the pub who'd come to watch Paul Kelly. They were playing pool right in front of the stage and ignoring him.
I absolutely love this song, it reminds me of being a teenager in Sydney in the late 80's. Great times. . .
Amazing song... My very first concert was Paul Kelly opening up for The Smithereens at a hall on the Notre Dame campus.... I wish I could go back and see it again. This song has a place on my Top 20 of all time...
Thanks so much Mr Kelly!
Some of best Australian guitar 🎸 Lead ever played “
WHAT A FANTASTIC SONG.WRITTEN BY A FANTASTIC SINGER,SONGWRITER.PAUL KELLY,A NATIONAL TREASURE.
I didn;t realise that was shot in Sydney until I saw the shot heading into Kings Cross at the end. I'm on the road in Sydney pretty much every day, and I didn't recognize any of that, it's all changed so much.
I'm new to Paul Kelly but this has to be the best Australian song.
I love this song...and I love the music video. It makes me feel nostalgic when I recognise parts of Sydney, and the ol’ Taxis Combined taxis with their (original) phone number! 😎😻
This dog is having its day 🐕🐶
A gorgeous tune. This was my 1st intro 2 his music. It was also the reason why I've stayed faithful 2 his music. Now, whenever I hear it, I have this natural impulse 2 cry... why? It is the perfect match between music & lyrics than either of those elements on their own. Like fellow 80s veteran Neil Finn (another enduring favorite), Paul Kelly is a born storyteller . He knows just how 2 paint a soundscape that beautifully depicts love, loss, & longing against a uniquely Australian sky.
paul kelly is goto one of the best aussie musicians "world wide" around and im 29 and i grew up to him and his songs are just fantastic =D
What a brilliantly made video clip. It tells a day in the lif story and Pauls's acting is subtle. and then there's the magic song.
The taxi that pulls over before its even being hailed. Classic!
I love the back vocal.
Sydney in the 80s ,great times
Before two bongs.
Paul Kelly = Australia's Bob Dylan.
Every dog will have his day.. any dog can win... thats the words of wisdom i live my life by
always unforgettable, classic 8's aussie anthem
thanks paul and co!!! xx
Great Song, Great Clip, Great Concept and Great Album. The Gossip Album was the best out of Australia in 1986 so I reckon anyway.
Damn the bull twins singing on the last two hooks is such a minute but awesome detail to the song yeah the Paul Kelly !!
What a gorgeous XE Falcon. not many on the roads these days.
I agree but I was a Commodore man myself. Mum had one of those Cortinas that looked a bit like the xe though. My Dad was a Datsun man!
That XE Falcon though!!
Mint!
Tuff.
Paul Kelly = Australia's Bob Dylan.
+renaissance guerrilla so true
I don't think he's really anywhere's anybody. He's Paul Kelly.
^ hes a great singer/songwriter in his own right.
I love them both can't really compare them! both brilliant!!
Yes. I saw him here in Massachusetts's years back. Another good one,from little things big things grow. How to make Gravy. The troubadour of down under. Greetings from the US!!
xe falcon!
1986 was a beautiful year!
1986 was a beautiful year!
What an absolute legend vb in the background.
cant wait to see you at falls festival marion bay mr kelly you are awesome!
The 80's is where I have so many fond memories from first love to first heartbreak and i had the best music music to carry me through it all, and what better country to do it all in other than Australia. We had the best music that is still played everywhere today.
First heard this on Radio Australia this morning, and have had the video on repeat since finding it on YT. Love it, love, it, love it. The RA announcer said Mr K is 57 today. Happy birthday, Paul.
We were lucky to be brought up that era .When Australia was great 😃
Paul Kelly's acting is fantastic
Revelling in another's pain, and capitalising on it. Smear.
1st thx Paul Kelly ,, for lyrics , song , vocals , post , music ,
Paul Kelly with the coloured girls was his absolute golden era
I LOVE this 💎 Auckland New Zealand 2023
My all time favourite Paul Kelly song.
Mine too but love to her door as well!
Greatest Australian songwriter of all time. Yeah, I went there.
Love your songs Mr Kelly, and brilliant musicianship from the coloured girls!
THAT Sunny Aussie 80s sound !
I came across this song in a random video and now I am completely hooked to it!
Ah the Coloured Girls era...fond memories..Jon Schofield on bass..Gossip :)
I was the KING of KING'S CROSS..
30 years AGO...
a terrific song and wonderful memories of carefree days in Sydney. Thank you very much.
Loved Paul the first time I ever heard him when I was about 9 or 10, when this came out. Still love it now. Thanks mate
:O Just realising how much my son looks very much like a young Paul Kelly... but I'm sure we have never met ;)
Paul Kelly is soooo good!
The old vacant or engaged sign on the top of the cab...such a long time ago!
2:13-2-16 william st? bless.
a terrific song and wonderful memories of carefree days in Sydney. Thank you very much.
This is to my mind and heart a perfectly crafted, written and performed song. The guitar break simply awesome. PK rules...
Haven't seen this for ages!
The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi.
And 7 digit phone numbers in Sydney !
Yes. We never had red taxis here in Melbourne in the 80s, most of them were white because they were purchased 2nd hand and white was easy to keep clean and fix (no mis-matched colours). Sydney always liked red for some reason.
@@Davez621 red attracts
I had the year before. My father painted it fire truck red. The xd falcon my first car with a fair lane badge ...
1986 was a beautiful year!
I made my first holy communion that year...
@@rahawa774 aww
I was born in 1986. I shouldn’t have been born, it was a mistake.
@@roshnimr6079 Mate, that's harsh.
I was 9 when this came out and l mainly remember seeing the film Malcom that year. The memories that the film and this music vid brings back. My late dad use to be a pump fitter who traveled all over Melbourne to service pumps and he would take me on a lot of call outs and would remember a lot of landmarks that are in these two films. Also another great film called The Big Steal (1989)
Haven't seen this for ages!
The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi.
Haven't seen this for ages!
The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi.
1986 was a beautiful year!
A great song and a great video clip. It's rare to see those two things at once.
Love song Love the video
What a great song! And he's a great man.
Good stuff mate. Got your record.🥰🇦🇺
I am very thankful l grew up in the great city of Melbourne .
Hot Paul Kelly song!! Awesome video clip with Wild Taxi ride around Sydney.
Such a lovely song.
Some places in 70's like Bondi Junction, Darlinghurst, Surry Hills, Wollahra and Paddington. So cool.
One of the best`s from LP "GOSSIP"!!
Saw Paul Kelly at Big Day Out, smoked a doob, sat in the grass and relaxed to one of our greatest musicians
Great taxi driver, he signals to pull over before she has even hailed him.
1986 was a beautiful year!
Paul Kelly compuso el mejor trabajo de la década '80, Under the sun . 5 * * * * *.
Brilliant melody
Absolutely Brilliant and Profound Music of Magician in all Ways of Music ...
In case no one has mentioned this, it's Jenny Morris that sings in the background.
Haven't seen this for ages!
The red car is a Ford XE Falcon Taxi.
"here I come, creeping 'round your back door". It was a different time then. Now you'd be shot.
I love that song now more than I did when first came out!! 😊
Absolutely Brilliant and Profound Music of Magician in all Ways of Music ...
brightly song indeed !
thanks for posting this great song
I couldn’t agree more