I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake - Ian Anderson
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2011
- Greg Lake performs his 1975 classic "I Believe in Father Christmas" filmed live at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street, in the City of London with Jethro Tull' s Ian Anderson on flute, David Arch on keyboards, Florian Opahle on acoustic guitar and the church choir.
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Who ever sat in that church on that night truly doesn’t know how lucky they were RIP GREG LAKE
Well said
Jewish person here who loves this song and share this every year with as many ppl as I can.
I don't believe in any good . but have always loved this ❤
I meant to say god
It's not Christmas time until I've heard this song.
This is the most British of all Christmas Carols ever written!
I cry when I hear this song. I miss my dad. I miss the innocence of Christmas as a child growing up. RIP Greg Lake. Good times. Peace to all.
Your comment really got to me. Peace and Merry Christmas to you!
Same here mate. . Lovely words. . My Dad went 19.8.19. . Miss him everyday. 😢🎄
Lost my Dad this past June. My first Christmas is 57 years without him. I miss him so much, but I will carry on with his spirit and the spirit of Christmas. I know he would have wanted me to.
@@robhargis6980 stay strong mate, remember all the great times you shared with your Dad. Merry 🎄Christmas
@@robparker2497 You too, Rob! Are you British? I'm American. Love the British people and the seemingly endless talent that came out of your homeland.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull & Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer(ELP) WOW!🤯
Every year I love to hear this great man sing this song, so sad that he left us, one of the best xmas songs ever
A beautiful rendition! I was at MSG in NYC for opening night of their Works Volume 1 tour. We were just kids and didn't have a lot of money , so we had to save a month of salary to get the tickets. It was worth it! So good to hear Ian Anderson again. He nailed it for us in 1976 at Shea Stadium. Traffic on the Van wyck was stopped dead 100s of people with standing on the roofs of their cars cheering while looking at the gigantic theater screen while Ian & Tull wailed on a solo. Between the standing ovations at Shea and all the people parked on the Van wyck applauding, we were surprised Shea stadium we still standing! Good times with good people and great music to accompany all life journeys. Long may you run guys..
RIP Greg Lake, one of the best ever Christmas songs.
It's a mockery
@ljar302 What a difference actually listening to all the words can make!
(in this song or anything else)
Thanks for the link. I found it very interesting and learned some new things.
Merry Christmas!
I didn’t know he had died that is very sad, yes RIP Greg Lake & thank you for my favourite Christmas song. I feel another part of my childhood has also died knowing this now, we’re all getting older it’s inevitable, peace on Earth 😇
@@timspangler2154 whats a mockery?
He is mocking the Christmas story
I am 63 years old and this song is MY all time best Christmas song ever!! An outstanding masterpiece!!
Completely agree here! I'm only a young 54, but this song still gives me chills every Christmas 🎄
Absolutely without a doubt
Every Christmas morning for many years now I listen to the original of this song first then the duo of David Bowie and BIng Crosby singing Drummer Boy....then it's off to the holiday madness.
I love the song too, but...have you heard the lyrics? I don't know if I would call it a "Christmas" song...
This song played on the Christmas musac during the season. It took all I had not to break out in tears.
My heart's been heavy these last several days then this came up on my feed --- Hearing Greg's perfect voice and Ian playing the flute and my heart was lightened. Thank you seems so insufficient to express my gratitude.
Greg is singing with the angels and a more perfect choir I cannot imagine.
Be blessed all.
Miss Shane too.
My Dad’s favourite Christmas song. Means even more since he and Greg passed away.
For real same here Papa it's been 25 years since you left us and Christmas is bittersweet but we get signs of Christmas and the meaning of a gift, thanks for life Papa 💙jim
My Christmas is never complete until I hear this song one hundred times during the Holidays!
Merry Christmas. From the UK.
Amen
Its on my Christmas listening list, as well
101 times...
I feel the same...
Christmas is not the same since my parents passed away but this version of Greg Lake's song makes me feel better.
I get it...hang in there.
I don't know why but this makes me cry like a baby every time I hear it...damn it, Greg Lake !
It is a beautiful song and musical production. Its the 70's in a Christmas song.When life was good and people were free to live as they pleased.
Same here...
Me, too.
Always considered his voice to be strong, powerful, and "authoritative," whatever that means in this context. Definitely unique.
Me too
man, Greg Lake and Ian Anderson, wow. Doesn't get any better. So wonderful
Greg Lake and Ian Anderson and christmas. I am a child again.
Me toooooooooooooooo....
Beautifully said.
Yep - two old rockers - lovely to see
It's Real.
Wonderful feeling !!
Can you imagine going to church, and have Greg Lake AND Ian Anderson singing, live, a true masterpiece. If you scroll down to the bottom of the songs lyrics page, you will see that Serge Prokofiev is credited along side Greg Lake and Pete Sinfield, as it should be!
Oh yes please
They just happened to be in the neighborhood....
@@jjzuc 💕
I'd faint.
I think you'd find a lot more people attending that church !
Long before my dad was taken away by MND and my mother by cancer I remember Greg’s masterpiece and as a Tull fan , what a combination-bravo boys!
I f you don't feel the spirit of Christmas listening to this then I feel very sorry for you. The most beautiful Christmas song ever sung. Beautiful. RIP Greg.
How beautiful is this? RIP Greg Lake.
45 years on and still being listened to in 2020, this version is outstanding.
One of my absolute favorite Christmas songs of all time. RIP Greg Lake and thank you for this song you created! What year did he perform at St. Bride"s?
@@265jf To the best of my knowledge 2012
Credit to the late great Emmo too, for the idea for the Troika passage.
It will always be outstanding, Greg outdid himself with this number.
Greg Lakes voice and Ian's flute, omg...just the best!
RIP Greg Lake. Your resonate voice brings back wonderful memories of ELP and the great work you wrote over the hears.
Beautiful rendition os one of my All Time Top Ten Christmas tunes. I like how Ian was resisting the urge to lift his leg towards the end. I was thinking, " He's gonna do it, he's gonna do it....nope, wouldn't be right without the tights.
In the court of the Christmas King.
I thought I recognised his voice
A merry Frippmas to all and to all to all a silent night's watch.
@@MerkinMuffly ..thank you very muffly .
ha ha
Truer words never spoken.
How lovely to see my old school friend Greg ( who I sat next to in class ) singing in church the song he wrote 😀 He always showed great talent !!!!! RIP GREG
Now that's a tale ... Besties !!!!
🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐😮😯😲😳
Awww, that's so cool. And sweet.
Greg was always a good person and helped an old school friend when he most needed it even after he became "a star " !!! But he didn't want it made public knowledge !!!! Thats the sort of person he was !!!!!!❤
This is only my opinion... this is Greg's best song. My favorite Christmas Song. Greg is really missed.
i'm 59 years old and just can't stop listening to that masterpiece. Greg Lake and his beautiful voice, incredible how after many years this song is still out of reach for all the other Christmas songs: outstanding.
59 here also and listening prior to Christmas....just popped up in the noggin.
53 years old and in floods of tears, I miss my mam so much, this is the best Christmas song ever written.
Such a beautiful song, RIP Greg who we lost 4 years ago this week.
This is a timeless Christmas classic. One of the best Christmas songs ever recorded. Thank you Greg Lake and RIP!
How can a song that flatly rejects the gospel of Christ be one of the best Christ-mas songs ever pray tell?
Ohhhhhh, why is there a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. This will always be my favourite Christmas song.
Can you imagine having that song, sung to you by Greg Lake. What a fantastic feeling. Merry Christmas everyone. X
After all these years, best Xmas song ever !
In 36 years as a church music director, I've never come close to doing something this brilliant. Profound in its simplicity, and a message for the ages. RIP, Mr. Lake. You were one of the great ones.
That's a fantastic and humble tribute.
Agreed. It's a beautiful mix of a wonderful song with profound lyrics, mixed with the majesty of choral music and Ian Anderson's flute.
Ian Anderson of jethro tull is one brilliant flutest. Never seen him do this with Greg Lake always been my favourite Christmas song.
IAN ANDERSON TOOK UP FLUTE BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE WOULD NEVER BE GOOD ON GUITAR.
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@@ronniewall1481 👍
Flautist
@@theresaakins2317 👍
Only in England could you get rock superstars playing in a church. The acoustics are angelic as one would expect in the house of the lord. This is heavenly music with that church choir.
There’s nothing wrong with rock and roll as long as your foot’s on the rock and your name’s on the roll!!
For money they do whatever, also in other countries
@@kepakemapa0568 I am glad you said that.
Wish Led Zeppelin could have done a good cover of this song...Jimmy Page could have played acoustic guitar on this song...but it's the troika from prokofiev that stood out in the song itself.
Imagine the Sex Pistols doing this😁
Can't imagine Christmas without this classic song. RIP Greg ❤
This was and still is a MASTERPIECE 🇬🇧🎅 so many good memories of this song and my Christmas times with family in London.
I always loved Greg Lake singing this song, it gets you in the holiday mood. RIP Greg Lake !!!
Just last night on RUclips i saw a video of Greg Lake singing Father Christmas & I cried like a baby. I hadn't heard that song in many years & I'm 64 as of last year. In all honesty I had forgotten it.
I also found out Greg Lake died in December of 2016, what a loss.
The world loss Greg & Keith of ELP.
Both great people & talents. 🙏 RIP.
Ian Anderson makes everything better.
Can't read sheet music, can't play any instrument too well . . . but some people just got it.
@@krollpeter Maybe if you apply yourself, you'll get it too.
@peter g For my money, Ian is the most talented guy that ever graced the world of rock music!
He's a bit of a bugger to work with by all accounts but yes, he is brilliant.
@@muftydog Maybe, but like a great sports coach, he will get the best out of you!!!
Beautiful playing by Ian Anderson!!
The original recording from ELP came out in '74. I was in a very dark place both physically and emotionally. Still at 65 I weep when I hear it, as it literally saved my life.
Bless you!
I do not know you, but I am so glad you are still with us!
The original recording was released by Greg Lake as a solo single in 1975. It was added onto an ELP album a few years later that had their solo works on it.
Amazing.
@@bigmikerocks
Indeed. It was called Works! I had it. Peace.
Man, what a voice! I loved them both when I was a teenager. Now looking back I miss the talent, seems there isn't talent like that anymore.
Two rock icons making heavenly music together. This gave me chills. I love Ian's phenomenal interpretive and melodic flute improvisations. This is one Mass I wish I could have attended! RIP Greg Lake
you must be musician hahaha
Peter sinfield talking about writing this song, at this time the Vietnam war was so in his mind ... See BBC sounds, soul music, Peter sinfield
God, I have loved this song for decades and I am just hearing this version for the first time .... outstanding!!!
Me too - I’m so embarrassed. I had no idea.
That goes for me to. Followed ELP and Jethro Tull for years this is excellent
That was wonderful, my favourite Christmas song👏👏👏👏
My fave Christmas CAROL! 👍
Hands down the best Christmas song ever
This is another huge loss after the death of Keith Emerson now Greg Lake. I was listening to this song the other day and I got all choked up as I hung my ELP Christmas ornament on my Christmas tree to honor their musical legacy. This song will be on my Christmas playlist in memory of Greg and Keith. Thank you for a classic Christmas song and for the many great years you have given us with your music in ELP. Rest in Peace.
Jennifer, ditto to everything you said..I listen to this beautiful masterpiece everyday at Christmastime. Absolutely breathtaking! And added bonus to have Ian playing flute!!!
Jennifer Felan 🎅❤
I saw ELP twice. The second time it was in early December and Greg sang this song and it was amazingly beautiful, standing O.
I am on www.freakradio.org every Tue night at 7PM you might tune in I do . do my best magic there merlin
Watching this 3 years after your comment. This sing is so perfect and beautiful it almost brings a tear to my eye.
As a guy, I'm supposed to say "I choked up a little", but as much as I loved Greg, I have to admit I cried. We lost someone very, very special, my friends. I hope he has stuff in his vault, because I'd love to have that man around me to fill the rest of my life with his work and I am 66.
You said what I feel and did...
nuff said mate, hope you and yours have a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS :)
I just would like to add that for those of you who are of the younger set (I'm 66), PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don't let this wonderful song of his be all you know of him. I envy you SOOOO much as you discover the gift Mr. Greg Lake has bestowed upon and left us. Take a listen, and consider it your gift of the season. I think he would want you to,. ____ All the best for whatever the season means to you....... Bill
I wish you a hopeful christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
I heard the original single playing in a department store, of all places, on the day Greg's death was announced. I broke down in the store. I have all of the material he has recorded, and I saw ELP in 1998. I was too young to see them in the 70s.
Greg Lake's voice is still magical! Well done gents.
I watched this before and didn't realize there was a real choir singing. I thought it was the keyboard doing that. I listened with fresh ears and with the natural echo of the cavernous ceilings and tall pillars it just melds Greg's voice and the choir so majestically. Ian's flute soaring in the background. As the camera panned down past the statue of Virgin Mary I got chills down my spine as the meaning of the words unfolded. I always loved this song when it came on the radio around Christmas ....I have a great appreciation for it now. The Christmas we get we deserve.
Very hard to believe we lost both Keith & Greg in the same year. Im just gutted over this. Rest In Peace.......
Isn't that terrible.. our idols are leaving us before their time...
Yes it is. Poor Greg didn't even see 70 years old.
didn't even reach to be seventy years old.
RIP Greg. Thank you for one of the most beautiful Christmas songs ever. So sad.
Barry Cracknell the best Xmas song ever.
it really is up there
This is just a tremendous arrangement. Makes me want to go to church.
Huge fan of king Crimson and Jethro Tull from the beginning and 1st time I've heard this. 24th Dec 2020. There is light at the end of the 2020 tunnel. 😍🌹🇭🇲
Incredible, shivers down the spine time. Greg Lake, sadly no longer with us but he left some great music that will live on.
We bow our heads to Greg Lake today in the news of his passing.
breaks me apart.
CRUSHING
It was tough with Keith passing. But this is a very, very tough blow. I am in mourning.
Til i believed in the Israelite!
its so sad! but i have to say thanx for all that incredible music he and ELP did to me! i bow my head and my mind!
I must have watched this many dozens of times. Make me happy. And I visited St Bride's on Fleet St, back in the day when Reuters had our headquaters there.
Just what I needed Dec. 2020. R.I.P. Greg. Thank-you for tbe music.I hope you are happy....
RIP Greg, and thank you for leaving the world a beautiful song.
Christmas doesn't feel like Christmas until I've heard this beautiful song.
there will never be another one like you!
Blimey. So here we are in church and these two turn up and. Brilliant!
i think "BLIMEY" is one of the all time greatest words in the English language. :)
@@BrianNewberry Cor!
@@Itelkner BLESS YOUR HEART GOOD SIR! as a yank with scots mum, I've always wondered (for decades) what that first part was, and never knew how to spell it.
As an American - i never knew exactly what you (pl) were saying. (Side note - isn't it a pity we English speakers don't have a "You Plural").
I never knew if it was "KOL" or "CORE" or whatever.
LOL - even just here (before mentally connecting the two words) - when you said "COR" LOL - i thought it was some norwegian expression. So i looked up COR"0 on Google.
and it says "exclamation INFORMAL•BRITISH".
and finally - i put the two words together ("COR" + "BLIMEY") , and thought "AHHHHHHH! Now I get it!"
:-)
@@Itelkner by the way - if you enjoy AUDIO DRAMAs - i make my own based on classic TV detective shows.
If this interests you (& it's OK if it doesn't) then i humbly invite you to come visit my RUclips page. :)
@@BrianNewberry Hey there! I'm a Yank with a Scot dad (Campbell). Since discovering the Beatles as a young kid, I've been an Anglophile with an ear for Brit expressions and a love of Brit tv exports starting with Python.
If I recall 'Cor Blimey' is colloquial for 'God, blind me' - an exclamation. A more blasphemous version of "dear me!"
“I wish you a hopeful Christmas. I wish you a brave new year”. Great sentiment. Also a warming: “Hallelujah, Noel, be it heaven or hell… the Christmas you get you deserve”.
Wow, the acoustics in this church are phenomenal...
one of the best xmas songs
This fluted version is aswome, this should be No.1 at xmas, iso that beckham offspring crap,
R.I.P. Mr Lake, and thanks.
Simon Wolfe I know. And NO ONE plays the flute like the incomparable Ian Anderson!! BEAUTIFUL as always!!!
indeed Lisa D...cant stop playing this love it...
Simon Wolfe Me too, playing again right now. Just awesome in so many ways!! :-))
Came across this years ago, and listen to it every Christmas . . . always wondered if the people in the church knew they would see this or were they just pleasantly surprised ? Either way, great song . . . "they promised me peace on earth . . . " sadly, still waiting, but there's still hope. . . Merry Christmas. ENJOY !
Rip Greg. You'll live forever in your beautiful music.
Can you imagine being in church and Greg Lake just happens to show up with Ian Anderson to perform something this special? Those in attendance must have had the time of their lives.
George Garner I know, was thinking the same thing!!! Would have died to be at this church service with 2 of the greatest rock god's, in my opinion, performing, OMG
Two Titans of music playing the most wonderful and beautiful Christmas song .. it's a very human song as opposed to religious but it has that magic about it and that has been proved here by being played in a church. Every other Xmas song is a party song , to be enjoyed in a party atmosphere. This one is different, it oozes class and one could say it has become a contemporary carol. Rest In Peace Mr Lake, together with your musical companion Mr Emerson you both have given me the best years of my life and continue to do so, X
Absolutly true, when I was watching Top Of The Pops back in 1975, & this was played on it, Queen had just got to Number One at the time, it was a Christmas song that was trying to say give us peace & life, because it was the best Christmas song I've ever heard.
Hear hear! Well said!
You forgot the third Titan...Prokofiev 👍
@@mrguillemot yes,... thank you for that!
If you watch the original video you see Christ not Xmas. Hallelu jah means Jehovah or praise Jehovah. They said there would be peace on Earth who did? The clergyman or the government?. Great tune, held in a hypocritical Gothic blood guilty homosexual tolerant building. While the poor are on the streets and these clergy get rich and snuggle up to the elite peadophile system."Too much?".
The most beautiful Christmas song , And Ian Anderson playing his blissful flute and not on one leg as in days of Jethro Tull . God bless all. Xxx
The original is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most uplifting and thought provoking Christmas song ever. Thanks to Greg Lake for bringing it to us. He's now gone in body but here in spirit. Thanks be to Greg and friends in bringing this to a church not so long ago.
Well said. Merry Christmas 😊
100% agree.. 🌲
Has to be the best Christmas song ever but doesn’t seem to get the recognition it deserves.
The little drummer boy used to be my favorite xmas song until I heard this one ! It is just so great !!
A beautiful voice, thankfully recorded for eternity.
This video is a pure gem. The best version of this song I've ever heard, with the acoustics of a church, Ian Anderson's magic and the choir in the background just take an already great Christmas song to another level. Wow, what a find.
This song moves me...and I embrace my Christmas roots too as I close my eyes and remember a gentler time in my youth....Cheers All and PEACE
One of the few live versions that truly is as beautiful as the original ❤️
MERVEILLEUX Greg Lake !!!! thank you for all
2 of my favorite musicians together. Outstanding performance. R.I.P GREG LAKE
You will live on FOREVER with the music you left us.
RIP Mr Lake - you go leaving us with the finest Christmas song there ever was. Thank you
Beautiful song- one of my favorite “ rock “ Christmas songs! And Ian Anderson too- Jethro Tulls Christmas Song is one of my favorites too!
Christmas by itself means nothing. It's what you put into Christmas that makes it mean something. Presents are nice but human connection, feelings, and valuing life above all else is what matters. And to all, a merry Christmas! Thank you, Greg Lake and company!
The world was a better place and music was much more beautiful because you were here, Greg. Rest in peace.
My favourite Christmas song, bar none. Have been fortunate enough to have seen both ELP and Jethro Tull. Seems I just reminisce these days because there doesn't seem to be anymore great storytellers in music.
Christmas time already? Thankful to still be here. Thank you Greg for your guitar that brought you here.
Not only is this Greg Lake's greatest song & one of the best Christmas songs ever written, in humble opinion, is one of the most beautiful tunes written..
Not Christmas till you've heard Greg Lake. One of the great Christmas tunes.
agreed
WOW!!!! No comments. Two of the greatest song writers, musicians that ever walked the earth. May the Lord Bless them
This song is haunting yet angelic. I look forward to hearing it every holiday season but can’t help but get a bit misty-eyed upon its playing….
“All anguish, pain and sadness leave your heart
And, let your road be clear…”
My wish to all…
Merry Christmas 🙏😌
Fortunate to have grown up in Montreal. Hearing this song, and where ELP was on high rotation, brings back wonderful memories
RIP Greg Lake...
This is my favorite Christmas song.
Mine as well.
Actually two in one...
Oh I so agree, I post it every year and will keep doing so until I am no longer able to. Bless you.
Yes mine to the very first line gets you
Also my favorite Christmas song
It needs to be played more. One of THE best Christmas songs, a classic.
Personally my favourite of all time, absolutely class!!!
I do love this song, but the cynical nature of the lyrics always made it hard for me to think of it as a great Christmas song.
@@SketchesofChina I used to think that too., but as the years passed, I think that the song is more about the loss of innocence as we get older. We get more cynical, but we remember our childhood Christmases with fondness.
I remember them when I was stationed in England in the early 70's. Always loved their music. Bless them.
Beautiful!!! … the acoustic ‘s of the church , Greg’s ( bit more mature voice ) , Ian’s flute , their accompanists and the choir ….absolutely Beautiful !!!!!!
Today it is three years ago, that Greg Lake has gone. His music will last. Yesterday my school band kids (aged 11-12) performed "Lucky man".
The same age Greg was when he wrote it. Amazing.
His voice was like the one of an angel.
This song was premiered in 1975, on NBC's Midnight Special. Wolfman Jack did a Salute to ELP . I taped it with my Panasonic cassette player and it became my favorite Christmas song; I was 16 at the time. This song made me think...about the world, about what Christmas should mean to anyone with a brain and a conscience. I believe that, with the given class of world leaders that we have to live with, this song is still pretty important.
OH my goodness just found this masterpiece from the brilliant Greg Lake , takes us all back to when the world was a better place, RIP Greg 🌲
Perfect for this Christmas!
Greg's voice weaving this story, Ian Anderson tooting along.
Love the church setting, and Vibes.
Lux Aeterna Greg Lake.
It has to be one of the most powerful (Christmas) songs written, RIP Greg Lake.
I was introduced to E.L. & P. in the 70s via my elder brother and still have the LPs, they still send a shiver up my spine in a nice way when I go back. A great time to grow up and appreciate (all) that music from the era.