Sonja Kristina is so hauntingly beautiful jammed with this band in the 70's but had no idea just how she was so vital to the band till now! Immortalized right here forever! very underrated band and singer
I’ve heard that before are you saying that Sonja was born male?or ? I know that. In the seventies cameras could do strange things but I do see that she looks different to herself with dark hair her facial expressions and dance moves are not her. So. Who is this person. Please. ?
@@AnAmericanFan Bullshit. This chick is a positive vibes loving hippie. Amy Lee is a negative angry metal chick. They sound 100% different and look 100% different too. You dont know jack about music.
I love prog rock, but I never got into curved air. My father fell back into love with them on his last years of life. Just trying to connect with him. I lost him June 11th 2021. Fuck I miss you so much. You had an impact on me like no other father I know. I'm the real lucky man!
I know a couple of classical music conductors and I’ve been trying to convince them to do this song as a full orchestral piece, but to no avail. Maybe in 100 years.
When this album was released, no invisible headphones. People you would see in stores and on sidewalks across the world really WERE talking to themselves.
The whole "Phantasmagoria" album is awesome. Even after all these years it still stands up as a great piece of work. Something I like to point out, that bass on this song is totally off the hook.
There's some yo-yo in this thread claiming that it's a man posing as Sonja on this track. That's complete rubbish. The bass player is my best and oldest friend Mike Wedgwood, who well remembers this session for German TV. I know Sonja well and she's a lovely lass with a pure voice. The line-up on the album is Sonja, Mike, Darryl Way, Frank Monkman and Florian Pilkington-Miksa. By the way, it was Flo's 69th birthday on the 3rd June. Mike also plays bass and keys on both of my daughter's beautiful albums. See "On my Own" and "Keeping on" by Isobel Thatcher. A man, indeed.
Ridiculous. I roadied for them around 74/75 when Stewart Copeland was in. One night I got into some fisty-cuffs onstage with Daryl and promptly quit. Fantastic band.
Same here. First time I saw Sonja and Curved Air at the Mayfair, Newcastle in the early 70's then the front row at Newcastle City Hall every time they visited. Still have the ticket stubs. Wonderful times.
@@ernestogasulla7763 And one could suppose you might have the Liberty Bell March as a fave tune (it is one good one, as is the Soviet/Ruski you phoo poo eng : ) ...
@@j.dragon651 course there is pal! Just don’t watch the news and stay close to those who care and there’s always Hope, I think the guy was talking about his Youth though when Life was long and The World was your oyster.
I love this early 70s 'Teacher Rock' lol the same energy you got on those Schools and Colleges kids shows of the same time.. I could definitely see Sonja Kristina making paper planes or something 😁
Sorry to all but I've never heard this CA track before. This must be the coolest song and greatest relaxed performance from Sonja ive ever seen. Absolutely brilliant. Those days will never come again. Don't forget this would have been recorded on film, way before the concept of a pop video and it stiil stands up well. God bless the 70's and may they rest in peace.
PHANTASMAGORIA titulná pieseň tretieho albumu progresivne rockovej skupiny CURVED AIR, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku päť týždňov od 13. mája 1972 a skončil na 20.m. ako v poradi tretí album skupiny v TOP 20 a posledný úspešný album. Autorom skladby bol Francis Monkman nar. 9. júna 1949 v Hampsteade v severnom Londýne, ktorý s Darrylom Wayom v roku 1968 vytvoril súbor Sisyphos, ktorýv roku 1970 premenoval na Curved Air podľa slov z názvu albumu A Rainbow In Curved Air z roku 1969 od obľubeného amerického skladateľa Terryho Rileyho nar. 24. júna 1935 v Colfaxe v Californii, priekopníka minimalistickej hudby v ktorého kompozícii In C Monkman hral počas koncertu v Londýne. Názov skladby a albumu bol prevzatý z názvu básne Phantasmagoria britského básnika Lewisa Carrolla vl.m. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), ktorý bol autorom aj románu Alenka v riši snov.Záznam bol z vystupenia skupiny v TV Show Spotlight z 22. oktobra 1972, pričom moderátor mal problém správne vysloviť názov skupiny.Na albume sa prejavili spory medzi dvomi zakladajúcimi členmi o hudobné smerovanie skupiny.Zodpovedá tomu aj členenie skladieb.Na prvej strane sú skladby Waya a na druhej Monkmana, pričom pri ich nahrávaní nespolupracovali.V zostave popri Sonji Kristine Linwood spev bol névý basový gitarista Mike Wedgwood nar. 19. mája 1950 v Derby, ktorý v rokoch 1968 -1971 hral v skupine Overlanders preslávenej cover verziou piesne Beatles Michelle, ktorý potom hral v skupine Arthur´s Mother. Po odchode z Curved Air bol členom sprievodnej skupiny Kiki Dee a neskôr v skupine Caravan. Na bicie hral pôvodný člen skupiny Florian Pilkington-Miksa, ktorý ako jediný hrá s Kristinou v súčasnosti ako jediný z pôvodnej zostavy. Dokonca bol členom aj skupiny Sisyphos v ktorej boli ešte Nick Simon klavír a Rob Martin basová v gitara, v dome ktorého pod názvom Curved Air už s Kristinou namiesto Simona skúšali reperoar skupiny v ktorom boli aj skladby pôvodnej skupiny Sisyphus.
This is the Phantasmagoria lineup: Sonja Kristina, Darryl Way, Francis Monkman (keyboards/guitar), Florian Pilkington-Miksa and Mike Wedgewood (Using a peculiarly customized Gibson EB3 bass, oddly enough).
Only in the 70s was it even possible to wear a yellow ochre shirt under a brown tanktop! My greatest fear is that 70s sartorial style will return 😱 the music and times were great but those clothes!
I still have this as a flexi disc free with New Musical Express - the A side being snippets from the Exile On Main Street Rolling Stones album.3rd track was by Fanny - yes,a girl band!
I remember hearing a track where Mick Jagger actually sang "exile on main street, strange strret to walk down," but had no idea how...must have been on that disc you have...thanks...and i was reading the NME at the time...well done for holding on to that btw!
@TheHammond1986 Да, от него. Слушай, у него там есть выпуски с Ролингами и Криденс. Там действительно выступления на этом шоу или просто трансляция каких-то клипов с других программ?
The negative picture certainly doesn't help, but I can tell you this much: The Aircut lineup didn't convene until early '73. I saw this same lineup live a few months earlier. Definitely Florian, not Jim Russell. You can tell by a) the hair, b) the orthodox grip and the older Ludwig logo. Definitely Darryl, not Eddie who had long straight hair. We never see the keyboard player's face, but the fact that the organ has tabs (so is a Hammond L or T series) means that it is not Jobson, who had a C3.
That was Florian Pilkington-Miksa founding drummer, Stewart Copeland mentioned the late Florian Pilkington-Miksa as his landlord and mentor in the 70s, Florian encouraged Stewart to drum and taught him the techniques he later made famous. Florian was drummer for Kiki Dee after Curved Air, brilliant drummer.
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Her outfit is just the cherry on the cake! Gorgeous 🥰
Sonja Kristina is so hauntingly beautiful jammed with this band in the 70's but had no idea just how she was so vital to the band till now! Immortalized right here forever! very underrated band and singer
I'm emigrating back to the 70s.
and I'm coming with you
Never left them
Always loved curved air true musicians
That'd be time-machining.
Invite me to your TARDIS.
Phantasmagoria is one the truly classic prog albums.
Is it? Haha.
@@blackmore4 What is it that you are blackmore for ? : ) )
@@TomBoy836 Punk. And free love with 70s Sonja Kristina ;)
They were light years ahead of many back then.
She is so beautiful.......glad technology has made her immortal.
She reminds me of Amy Lee of Evanescence.
Didn't think this was Sonja Kristina, looks sickly & coked out IMO, The most Kate Bush moment I've seen though.
She’s very beautiful I love her lyrics Seventies was more spiritual than the sixties I feel now that’s everything’s the opposite of the seventies💜
I’ve heard that before are you saying that Sonja was born male?or ?
I know that. In the seventies cameras could do strange things but I do see that she looks different to herself with dark hair her facial expressions and dance moves are not her. So. Who is this person. Please. ?
@@AnAmericanFan Bullshit. This chick is a positive vibes loving hippie. Amy Lee is a negative angry metal chick. They sound 100% different and look 100% different too. You dont know jack about music.
I love prog rock, but I never got into curved air. My father fell back into love with them on his last years of life. Just trying to connect with him. I lost him June 11th 2021. Fuck I miss you so much. You had an impact on me like no other father I know. I'm the real lucky man!
Sorry for your loss. 😔🙏🦋
I know a couple of classical music conductors and I’ve been trying to convince them to do this song as a full orchestral piece, but to no avail. Maybe in 100 years.
When this album was released, no invisible headphones. People you would see in stores and on sidewalks across the world really WERE talking to themselves.
The whole "Phantasmagoria" album is awesome. Even after all these years it still stands up as a great piece of work. Something I like to point out, that bass on this song is totally off the hook.
I agree, it's quite a perfect album! ❤️
agreed
How am I today years old and discovering this wonderful band?!?
Get yourself to Morecome Bay on Sept 9th...Hawkfest....they r on the line-up
I HAVE A LOT OF STUFF LIKE THIS
Still fantastic. Timeless beauty
This is so 70s and I love it!
Sounds like a song on a kids show I used to watch!
@@darganx
Wiggles
I had a piece of this song in my head for months and couldn't find it...I am SOOO happy I found it..... this is a great song to sing-a-long too
had this & backstreet love going round head for a couple of days after discovery.
Saw this great group at chatham central hall uk around this time. Brilliant...
Wonderful memories from my twenties..... Still sounds good x
All talented musicians, and she... huge talent with tremendous charm
There's some yo-yo in this thread claiming that it's a man posing as Sonja on this track. That's complete rubbish. The bass player is my best and oldest friend Mike Wedgwood, who well remembers this session for German TV. I know Sonja well and she's a lovely lass with a pure voice. The line-up on the album is Sonja, Mike, Darryl Way, Frank Monkman and Florian Pilkington-Miksa. By the way, it was Flo's 69th birthday on the 3rd June. Mike also plays bass and keys on both of my daughter's beautiful albums. See "On my Own" and "Keeping on" by Isobel Thatcher. A man, indeed.
I want to stomp their faces in for saying that about her!
@@michaelcraig9449 HEEHEE
That's no man! It's a very sexy, elegant woman
Ridiculous. I roadied for them around 74/75 when Stewart Copeland was in. One night I got into some fisty-cuffs onstage with Daryl and promptly quit. Fantastic band.
@@mickfretlessGreat story!
I saw Curved Air at Guildford Civic Hall in the 1970s and fell in love with Sonja. I still am....
Same here. First time I saw Sonja and Curved Air at the Mayfair, Newcastle in the early 70's then the front row at Newcastle City Hall every time they visited. Still have the ticket stubs. Wonderful times.
I've drank like 8 west sixth craft beers,(made right herein Kentucky) and this is now my favorite songs
Josh Johnson ha ha, after an eight pack the Soviet anthem could become your favorite song.
@@ernestogasulla7763 And one could suppose you might have the Liberty Bell March as a fave tune (it is one good one, as is the Soviet/Ruski you phoo poo eng : ) ...
Wow we should have seen more of this woman in the 70's......
I did.
After hear/seeing this clip, one wonders how on earth today's "music" can be called "music".
spot on there.
Totally agree with you. We were spoilt back then with so much talent around,
yes,it all degenerated in the '80s.
indeed,and it was real as opposed to this contrived,plastic,computerised crap of today.There are a few exceptions of course but overall,dire indeed.
A. Horne funny, I was thinking that about 1972, when this abomination was released.
A MASTERPEICE! PURE BRILLIANCE 👍👄✌🦋🌼💋💕LovE U SONJA!!
Great clip for the time! I love this album!
Great times... We were all young... There was hope...
Is there still hope?
@@j.dragon651 course there is pal! Just don’t watch the news and stay close to those who care and there’s always Hope, I think the guy was talking about his Youth though when Life was long and The World was your oyster.
BLOODY HELL I AM SO OLD !!!😳😂16 Back then g
The RUclips trap can lead one to amazing roads of ummm....unique and enjoyable videos.
Saw Curved Air in Poole a couple of years ago , A different lineup but Sonja still there sounding great !
I got to see curved air in 1972 at the Boston commons with John kay band & deep purple great show nice week
Sonja and the band are so unique, love it
Curved air second album
Odd yet wonderful arrangement of music. Half way through the song I started to like it-a lot!
Progressive Art Rock at its best!
I have most of their albums, great stuff
Amazing!! Sonja Kristina still rules!!
Bela Sonja, Beautiful voice
I love this early 70s 'Teacher Rock' lol the same energy you got on those Schools and Colleges kids shows of the same time.. I could definitely see Sonja Kristina making paper planes or something 😁
This is beyond cool! 😎👍
What a woman. Great diction.
Lucky old Stewart Copeland !
Sorry to all but I've never heard this CA track before. This must be the coolest song and greatest relaxed performance from Sonja ive ever seen. Absolutely brilliant. Those days will never come again. Don't forget this would have been recorded on film, way before the concept of a pop video and it stiil stands up well.
God bless the 70's and may they rest in peace.
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It is a lip sync of the studio version
Fantastic!
i like her ! alot
Thanks! video of immeasurable valour! I've always liked the Rocky Horror"s vibe of this tune. Too bad that the sound was disabled.
So psychedelic that my shoes melt the ceiling while my feelings wrong the ground.❤❤❤
Love this song. Got it on a flexi-disk.
Superb.
very special band. prog-rock with soul and disco slight elements
Here in 2024
Beautiful
PHANTASMAGORIA IS A STORE IN MONTREAL
PHANTASMAGORIA titulná pieseň tretieho albumu progresivne rockovej skupiny CURVED AIR, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku päť týždňov od 13. mája 1972 a skončil na 20.m. ako v poradi tretí album skupiny v TOP 20 a posledný úspešný album. Autorom skladby bol Francis Monkman nar. 9. júna 1949 v Hampsteade v severnom Londýne, ktorý s Darrylom Wayom v roku 1968 vytvoril súbor Sisyphos, ktorýv roku 1970 premenoval na Curved Air podľa slov z názvu albumu A Rainbow In Curved Air z roku 1969 od obľubeného amerického skladateľa Terryho Rileyho nar. 24. júna 1935 v Colfaxe v Californii, priekopníka minimalistickej hudby v ktorého kompozícii In C Monkman hral počas koncertu v Londýne. Názov skladby a albumu bol prevzatý z názvu básne Phantasmagoria britského básnika Lewisa Carrolla vl.m. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), ktorý bol autorom aj románu Alenka v riši snov.Záznam bol z vystupenia skupiny v TV Show Spotlight z 22. oktobra 1972, pričom moderátor mal problém správne vysloviť názov skupiny.Na albume sa prejavili spory medzi dvomi zakladajúcimi členmi o hudobné smerovanie skupiny.Zodpovedá tomu aj členenie skladieb.Na prvej strane sú skladby Waya a na druhej Monkmana, pričom pri ich nahrávaní nespolupracovali.V zostave popri Sonji Kristine Linwood spev bol névý basový gitarista Mike Wedgwood nar. 19. mája 1950 v Derby, ktorý v rokoch 1968 -1971 hral v skupine Overlanders preslávenej cover verziou piesne Beatles Michelle, ktorý potom hral v skupine Arthur´s Mother. Po odchode z Curved Air bol členom sprievodnej skupiny Kiki Dee a neskôr v skupine Caravan. Na bicie hral pôvodný člen skupiny Florian Pilkington-Miksa, ktorý ako jediný hrá s Kristinou v súčasnosti ako jediný z pôvodnej zostavy. Dokonca bol členom aj skupiny Sisyphos v ktorej boli ešte Nick Simon klavír a Rob Martin basová v gitara, v dome ktorého pod názvom Curved Air už s Kristinou namiesto Simona skúšali reperoar skupiny v ktorom boli aj skladby pôvodnej skupiny Sisyphus.
Although I was 'of the era' I have never heard this before.....
This is the Phantasmagoria lineup:
Sonja Kristina, Darryl Way, Francis Monkman (keyboards/guitar), Florian Pilkington-Miksa and Mike Wedgewood (Using a peculiarly customized Gibson EB3 bass, oddly enough).
I once read that Bon Scott sang in a prog rock band before AC/DC. I didn't know he did it in drag with a woman's voice.
hahaha :~)
Bon Scott sang with a band called kingdom Come prior to ACDC
He sang in Fraternity.
I bought this album. It might have got 5 plays. Still have it though. More of a fossil than I.
Very Good Song, i't's amazing song and band
Sonja should be with Jon Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Greg Lake and Derek Shulman as the voices of Prog Rock
When you think that she could not become even prettyier ... This video shows!!!
Only in the 70s was it even possible to wear a yellow ochre shirt under a brown tanktop!
My greatest fear is that 70s sartorial style will return 😱 the music and times were great but those clothes!
This clip is with the line-up of "Aircut": Wedgwood,Jobson etc.
omyl boli to Way, Wedgwood a Miksa.....oktober 1972
I first thought I saw Tony Curtiss in Some like it hot, but it was the skinny, excellent vocalist...
ça fais plaisir de voir un français sur la vidéo , je me sentais un peu seul ^^
I still have this as a flexi disc free with New Musical Express - the A side being snippets from the Exile On Main Street Rolling Stones album.3rd track was by Fanny - yes,a girl band!
Yes, I've got that as well. Fanny were brilliant - I think the track was Blind Alley.
I remember hearing a track where Mick Jagger actually sang "exile on main street, strange strret to walk down," but had no idea how...must have been on that disc you have...thanks...and i was reading the NME at the time...well done for holding on to that btw!
One of Fannys albums was produced by TODD RUNDGREN.
Purveying a fact in a word non corrupted and neither dates as is now called a classic . True
SONJA!!👍😽
I think Purson's Electric Landlady is also a homage to this track
Sonja is beautiful
Watch her singing Melinda More Or Less - she is lovely in that one !!
@@hifismiffy She is lovely in every way (Y)
This video reeks....of Patchouli !
one of the best smells
and Hashish!!!
Plus Old Holborn and empty red wine bottles.
Think this inspired Kate Bush , Them heavy people
Kate Bush has a completely different feel to me.
Fab!
Hand me the pills.
Sonja Kristina beautiful vocal Woman
Close your eyes and listen for best experience. Allow wonderland in.
very good.......................
It's *Sonja*.
You know she loved watching this 10 years later back in 80s.. You guys are funny lookin! You guys are fried cross- eyed.. Nothin you can do haha!
BEAUTY WOMAN
SHE DON'T NEED DREES
Good musicianship and composition like this never ages (thankfully!)
Louis Berk sure, that's why all old rock stations only play Curved Air these days. 😛
TRES COOL:!
My friend "ghoul" is following me for 6 years now! :)
exact :)
hermoso y creativo
ANIBAL LITVIN es uno de tus chistes? Por favor decime que si...
shredding that violin
this is the song spinal tap gave away during their jazz oddssey phase
@TheHammond1986
Да, от него. Слушай, у него там есть выпуски с Ролингами и Криденс. Там действительно выступления на этом шоу или просто трансляция каких-то клипов с других программ?
glad I'm not the only one who thought that...
Cool tune. I've still good the NME flexidisc
i just gave up drinking
Daryl Way on violin!!!!!!
This is possibly the weirdest thing I've ever seen and I've seen allot.
'unique'
...ich finde der Ansager ist das Highlight! :o)
Still amazing.
The negative picture certainly doesn't help, but I can tell you this much:
The Aircut lineup didn't convene until early '73. I saw this same lineup live a few months earlier.
Definitely Florian, not Jim Russell. You can tell by a) the hair, b) the orthodox grip and the older Ludwig logo.
Definitely Darryl, not Eddie who had long straight hair.
We never see the keyboard player's face, but the fact that the organ has tabs (so is a Hammond L or T series) means that it is not Jobson, who had a C3.
Thanks for the info. Love Jobson...
Is there a live performance of this anywhere?
Sounds great. Mike Wedgewood on bass I believe, is this the era of young Stu Copeland (drums) as well ?? Thanks for the awesome posting!
I think Copeland joined them in ‘76.
@@whitey7998 75
That was Florian Pilkington-Miksa founding drummer, Stewart Copeland mentioned the late Florian Pilkington-Miksa as his landlord and mentor in the 70s, Florian encouraged Stewart to drum and taught him the techniques he later made famous. Florian was drummer for Kiki Dee after Curved Air, brilliant drummer.
Sting once described Curved Air as some "Hippie" band Stu used to play with
Saw this band in 1974. Brilliant
Her vocal on this reminds me of Kate Bush.
I've suddenly developed a craving for brownies.
Ya think they'd go with a Cabernet, or Pinot ?
Viva Las Vegas !
Come and see a secret Curved Air key member gig here on the 22nd to help save Denmark st www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/156803
Is there a genre for psychedelic medieval madrigals? Because i think this it?
Far out.