THE STRAWBS - THE UNION MAN *T*O*T*P*1973

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @stargirlzx
    @stargirlzx 7 месяцев назад +41

    One of the most underrated bands of all time.

    • @Bernd-m2o
      @Bernd-m2o 7 месяцев назад +4

      .......and one of the most overrated presenters.

    • @grahamdawson-lg5mq
      @grahamdawson-lg5mq 2 месяца назад +3

      People dont realize that this is a prog band . Rick Wakeman had just left. To join Yes . Underated Band.

    • @glennhfriedman4571
      @glennhfriedman4571 2 месяца назад

      rubbish !!

    • @JD-eq4dp
      @JD-eq4dp 25 дней назад

      Not really, I doubt they were rated by anyone.

  • @lorenmiller3797
    @lorenmiller3797 3 года назад +240

    And he mocks the one who says she's seventeen, and thinks he's clever, and they tolerate him Apart from that scumbag predator, Sir Jimmy Saville, this is a great video.

    • @lorenmiller3797
      @lorenmiller3797 2 года назад +18

      @Bri Y Yes, but we should continue to call him Sir in order to bring to light the fact that whoever Knighted him clearly had poor judgement. Maybe the queen and her advisors or something like that. Or maybe they knew but didn't care for all of the reasons you mention above.

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 2 года назад +25

      16 years old, they were too old for him LOL

    • @Eleventhearlofmars
      @Eleventhearlofmars 8 месяцев назад

      Why tf you calling the cnut sir? 😂

    • @paulwhite6745
      @paulwhite6745 5 месяцев назад +15

      @@lorenmiller3797 Why do you suppose none of it ever came out until after he was dead? Because if they had busted him while he was still alive, he could have named a lot of other names, others in high places who were at it too. That's why he was untouchable, he had too much dirt on too many 'pillars of the establishment'.

    • @lorenmiller3797
      @lorenmiller3797 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@paulwhite6745 I don't doubt it for a second.

  • @stephenhowe4107
    @stephenhowe4107 10 месяцев назад +58

    Jimmy Savile the perfect saint!!! Pay attention to the last 4 letters of his surname.

    • @thewomble1509
      @thewomble1509 3 месяца назад

      Then look up the links to the founders of the City of Leeds back in Tudor times I think......

    • @robertmartin7594
      @robertmartin7594 3 месяца назад

      Last 4 letters are ILLE ??

    • @JohnCampbell-sl5nx
      @JohnCampbell-sl5nx 3 месяца назад

      A paedovile 💥

    • @thewomble1509
      @thewomble1509 3 месяца назад +4

      @@robertmartin7594 No, VILE. Look how it's spelled.

    • @paulnolan1352
      @paulnolan1352 Месяц назад +1

      @@thewomble1509you can’t fix stupid.

  • @ronnieparkerscott6223
    @ronnieparkerscott6223 2 года назад +110

    On reflection, Saville tainted not just pop, but the nation and countless childhoods and memories. Just think of the ones who are hidden by obscurity, and the lives they have ruined. All the bad people spoiled my life. It could have been a happy life... but the bad people spoiled it. Saville was one of them. I wish there was a hell for them to rot in!

    • @johnbuss6926
      @johnbuss6926 Год назад +1

      Just sick how he rubs himself against those girls ..the girls faces say it all ..and the bbc are as sick for letting it happen ..😡

    • @DaveInBridport
      @DaveInBridport Год назад +10

      and his sick activities were known to many but they offset it against his charity work. So wrong

    • @malcolmspillett8172
      @malcolmspillett8172 2 месяца назад +1

      @@DaveInBridport And Thatcher gave him a knighthood!

    • @smithchris1955
      @smithchris1955 2 месяца назад

      Pity no one said anything while he was alive, we all thought he was O.K.

    • @Sundae_Times
      @Sundae_Times 2 месяца назад

      *Savile

  • @raymondbonington9355
    @raymondbonington9355 2 года назад +127

    Was in the charts the week I started work , I retire this year ,that went fast 🥵

    • @michaellavery9412
      @michaellavery9412 Год назад +6

      Happy retirement my friend

    • @raymondbonington9355
      @raymondbonington9355 Год назад +6

      @@michaellavery9412 thank you ,just need a million quid to go with the retirement lol .

    • @michaeldemarillac9992
      @michaeldemarillac9992 Год назад +3

      I loved this song, it was popular just before I started working. Then I was so disappointed joining the Navy because we didn't have unions in there, but one of the cooks was a former meat worker and union man and he bragged about how they went on strike at the drop of a hat. Oh cut my finger, right let's strike.

    • @raymondbonington9355
      @raymondbonington9355 Год назад +5

      @@michaeldemarillac9992 it is actually an anti union song ,written by Hudson ford 👍

    • @mikeymike1843
      @mikeymike1843 Год назад +2

      ​@raymondbonington9355 It might’ve been written as anti union but it wasn't perceived that way.

  • @WeazelJaguar
    @WeazelJaguar 7 месяцев назад +11

    Cool, I've been singing this for over 40years!
    And now I get a monthly check, whether I earned it or not,lol!

  • @peterhutchins9246
    @peterhutchins9246 2 года назад +94

    From an age when Top of the Pops was a really big thing in this country. An incredible song that really summed up life in the early 70s. People in the present could have no idea of the world then.

    • @peterhutchins9246
      @peterhutchins9246 Год назад +12

      @@stevenwriteswebsite The standard of music in 70s was really good. It was way way superior to the absolute rubbish stuff of the modern world.

    • @Biggusdickuss111
      @Biggusdickuss111 7 дней назад

      They did this because they were appalled by the unions, but it backfired as the unions adopted it as a rallying song 😂

  • @leehanson5732
    @leehanson5732 2 года назад +52

    That grin Saville pulls as he introduces the strawbs... vile man

    • @Sunakfilth
      @Sunakfilth 9 месяцев назад +1

      It's in the name sa vile

  • @chrisnewman7281
    @chrisnewman7281 2 года назад +51

    Back when Jimmy Savile was a protected species

    • @harryhackney6416
      @harryhackney6416 3 месяца назад +1

      Still is by the looks of it 💷 all they think of.

  • @stephenkellett7210
    @stephenkellett7210 4 года назад +62

    Fantastic, this song/lyrics sure beats the hell of todays crap!!!

  • @minecachair
    @minecachair Месяц назад +3

    Went to the Strawbs concert in Edinburgh in 1973 and fell down the steps of the aisle at the Usher Hall.My friend had somehow vanished,I was in agony and a complete stranger ended up taking me to hospital where I was found to have broken my arm in two places.Didn't know him from Adam and I wasn't in the habit of getting into strange mens' cars.All was well though.Reader,I married him! Celebrated our 50 year golden Wedding anniversary this year.This is our song although the union in our case is the that of the two of us.

  • @iambraindead1
    @iambraindead1 5 лет назад +49

    It was so obvious with Savile, and no one knew???????!!!!!!!!!! bollocks

    • @325133
      @325133 3 года назад +1

      I honestly never heard of him till he died. When someone defaced his grave I said there's no smoke without fire. Its so obvious THAT EVERYONE must have known

    • @fakerbaker1000
      @fakerbaker1000 3 года назад +7

      John lydon of the sex pistols said it in the late 70s I believe 🤔

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 2 года назад +4

      @@fakerbaker1000 He did but he cut off by the BBc

    • @Sunakfilth
      @Sunakfilth 9 месяцев назад +2

      It's all in the name.. Sa vile

  • @florencesissy9492
    @florencesissy9492 2 года назад +27

    That was brilliant from the Strawbs but freaky with hindsight seeing the presenter. 😱

  • @ThePeaceableKingdom
    @ThePeaceableKingdom 3 года назад +41

    to say that Jimmy Savile hasn't aged well is the understatement of this century or any other...
    But the band, the song!

  • @petermcgehan8346
    @petermcgehan8346 2 года назад +53

    Just as relevant today as it was then.

    • @andymatthews7617
      @andymatthews7617 2 года назад +1

      BRING BACK ARTHUR, THATCHER SHOULD BURN IN HELL.

    • @bolshevikproductions
      @bolshevikproductions 2 года назад +12

      Even more so comrade ✌️🚩🍺💪

    • @bolshevikproductions
      @bolshevikproductions 2 года назад +9

      @@andymatthews7617 well said comrade. ⭐️🚩🍺💪💪✌️

    • @janechanning984
      @janechanning984 2 года назад

      Well we had better act soon. Those extra loud planes are the government etc, arming themselves against us for when the penny finally drops and we have to take action or starve or worse. Fake Wars are invented for a purpose.

    • @ДенисКосов-й8о
      @ДенисКосов-й8о Год назад +4

      Proletarians of all countries unite!!!

  • @jcs7642
    @jcs7642 Год назад +26

    Anytime my band and I play this on stage for an "encore" people run wild - real great song with a very explicit meaning. TY

    • @tommerphy1286
      @tommerphy1286 Год назад +3

      @ UNION MAN: SINCE 1969 TO 2001 MY BROTHER (ACTIVE) TO DATE AND TIL THE DAY I DIE. EVERY TIME I HEAR IT MY BP GOES TO 1000 I LOVE IT!

    • @twombley
      @twombley 7 месяцев назад +1

      This is an anti union song!

    • @skintslots
      @skintslots 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@twombley No it isnt. Listen to the lyrics.

    • @twombley
      @twombley 5 месяцев назад

      @@skintslots I have. Have you - it's very obviously over the top sarcasm.

    • @skintslots
      @skintslots 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@twombley Not at all. It was made in 1973 and is very much a song from a working class perspective and why The Strawbs still play it in working men's clubs and festivals still today.

  • @trench124
    @trench124 3 года назад +38

    Saville: how old are you twinnies then?
    Twin 1: 16
    Saville: Thats 14 years too old for me then

    • @probablygraham
      @probablygraham 3 года назад +4

      And she's alive. Not half as much fun.

    • @glenndoran7963
      @glenndoran7963 3 года назад +1

      Haha

    • @Kailhun
      @Kailhun 3 года назад +2

      yeah. This didn't age well.

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 2 года назад +2

      16 years old, they were too old for him LOL

    • @borisbarker1016
      @borisbarker1016 27 дней назад

      I'm waiting for Elton John to pass and the boys to surface with their revelations

  • @Centurion586
    @Centurion586 Год назад +4

    My dad John Beebe was a coal miner at Treeton colliery England his number was 429 and he still listens to this

  • @johnmiddleton4879
    @johnmiddleton4879 2 месяца назад +3

    What makes this even better is that it's a truly live version 👌

  • @paulsantos914
    @paulsantos914 2 года назад +19

    The best blue collar worker song!

  • @carolzala3215
    @carolzala3215 2 года назад +5

    Such a shame. This song brings back happy memories of my youth. So did Saville prior to recent revolations. Shame on you Saville.

  • @evansmith3589
    @evansmith3589 Год назад +5

    In USA, we generally had to wait for late-night tv to see acts like Strawbs!

  • @cmc8375
    @cmc8375 2 года назад +34

    Too bloody right! I want this playing at my funeral 🤣💙✊

    • @davidwarland2680
      @davidwarland2680 Год назад

      wanka, with folk you, no wonder unemployment an jobs send overseas, proud, fukwit

    • @TillyOrifice
      @TillyOrifice 2 месяца назад

      At which point it would literally mean, "I'm not part of the union".

  • @paulnorton2885
    @paulnorton2885 Год назад +4

    A correction to some comments: the host's name is spelled Jimmy Savile (with one 'l'), and IMHO should be pronounced that way.

  • @trailingarm63
    @trailingarm63 2 года назад +16

    Fabulous song and band. I went to the college where The Strawbs were founded - St Mary's at STRAWBerry Hill. I've often wondered which union was protecting Jimmy Saville, I don't think it was affiliated to the TUC!

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 2 года назад +1

      The nonce union that is JS union

    • @showbizsam4440
      @showbizsam4440 2 года назад

      @@seansands424 That other Labour-affiliated group known as The Paedophile Information Exchange. Then it all changed in 1979 when Maggie got in and teamed up with Leon. They stood up for Savile instead. Politicians... spot the difference.

  • @Brooke-rl4hi
    @Brooke-rl4hi 2 года назад +8

    The 70s music was fantastic part of the union jive talkin all great songs

  • @andyscott6315
    @andyscott6315 2 года назад +7

    look at the drastic change of emotion in the girl on the left's face, no wonder he started talking to someone else and the camera zoomed in.

  • @cathyk6979
    @cathyk6979 15 дней назад +1

    Great song great times you wont get me im part of the union still am❤

  • @fooman65
    @fooman65 Месяц назад +10

    Savile still popping up. Makes my skin crawl.

  • @davidudall1706
    @davidudall1706 18 дней назад +1

    Nice to hear. It again after so many years

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel Год назад +10

    According to the writers this song was in support of the unions. It was released in 1973, well before the miners strike of 1981. If you are interested in the miners strike, I strongly recommend you watch the film Pride. It’s brilliant.

    • @MrPhilthefluter
      @MrPhilthefluter Год назад +2

      Don’t forget the miners strike of 1972

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Год назад

      That sounds like a barrel of fun....Not!

    • @hugoagogo9435
      @hugoagogo9435 Год назад +3

      I was led to believe this song was a piss take at the union’s. Definitely read that somewhere but it may not be correct

  • @yellowbelly06
    @yellowbelly06 3 года назад +20

    It’s 1973 and Jimmy Savile is on Top of the Pops talking to 16-year old twins.
    I wonder what future generations will make of that?

    • @michaelmarino3013
      @michaelmarino3013 2 года назад

      Just seen the doc.on jimmy.some garbage there jumbo was.i seen strawbs at the CAPITOL theater Passaic nj.hero n heroine era.fine show.

    • @eamonnmulhern2332
      @eamonnmulhern2332 2 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @margin606
      @margin606 Год назад

      Less triggered I guess

  • @lisabennett4424
    @lisabennett4424 2 года назад +3

    I can't figure out how I know this song, word for word. I'm in America. It wasn't played here, that I know of. We don't have Top of the Pops. It must have aired on something else..Good song though. My Dad was a union man until the day he died.

  • @thomasbaillie-carrigan3100
    @thomasbaillie-carrigan3100 Год назад +4

    Strawbs, so talented and British.

  • @mikeroberts1060
    @mikeroberts1060 2 года назад +6

    Love the irony of a song agains unions. The Union bosses at the time probably made it their anthem

    • @margin606
      @margin606 Год назад +2

      Was not a song against the unions

    • @johnmoore9862
      @johnmoore9862 9 часов назад

      It was an anti union lyric.

  • @gaptaxi
    @gaptaxi 2 года назад +6

    The song was very popular, but the Strawbs split up afterwards as Hudson and Ford left to form their own group, Dave Cousins at the start doesn´t look too happy either.
    Blue Weaver took over from Rick Wakeman who went to YES, but Blue Weaver later had a great career with the Bee Gees.
    Saw them live in Cardiff in 1972, fantastic, the Sutherland Brothers were the backing group and had just brought out, ``We are Sailing´´whick Rod Stewart later made a fortune out of.

  • @TheSpaniellover
    @TheSpaniellover 2 года назад +6

    I was a baby when this aired, but Savile - OMG.

  • @kimnelson9910
    @kimnelson9910 Год назад +5

    forever...hail to the union

  • @jeromevadon81
    @jeromevadon81 Год назад +15

    Considering that this song was meant to be taking the pee out of the Unions, I find it heartwarming that it turned into an Anthem for the Unions.

    • @jamespiper8736
      @jamespiper8736 Год назад +11

      The strawbs had fun with performing the record but it was written with genuine intent in solidarity with the trade union movement. The strawbs confirmed this on many occasions 👍

    • @user-jr3dx7wl6j
      @user-jr3dx7wl6j Год назад

      Wrong

    • @nbenefiel
      @nbenefiel Год назад +4

      According to the writers, this song was in support of unions. There’s nothing in it negative to unions.

    • @alvindimes4729
      @alvindimes4729 Год назад

      ​​@@nbenefielListen carefully, I think it's taking the piss out of "the working man", patronising is the word I'm looking for. It's plainly obvious it's a piss take.

    • @SafeTrucking
      @SafeTrucking 10 месяцев назад

      @@alvindimes4729 hat's what's called 'confirmation bias'.

  • @peterrear2864
    @peterrear2864 Месяц назад +2

    Hells bells i was 15 the song has aged better than i have

  • @briankelly390
    @briankelly390 2 года назад +9

    I’m working my first non union job - I’m 54 - and guess fuckin’ what - I’m going to get all the kids on the job to join a union - I’ll be the shop steward - and we can stick it to the man

  • @daweshorizon
    @daweshorizon Месяц назад +1

    Great song, great band!
    Dodgy host.
    I hope the girls he was with in this clip managed to avoid his wicked and abusive 'S' tendencies.
    Love and peace.

  • @rogerking7258
    @rogerking7258 3 месяца назад +2

    Over fifty years on and I still can't make up my mind if The Strawbs were dyed in the wool lefties or if this was a satire on the 1970s.

    • @yampk1
      @yampk1 2 месяца назад +1

      The latter I think

  • @andynicholas1728
    @andynicholas1728 Год назад +6

    Wonderful. A great band.

  • @peterhutchins9246
    @peterhutchins9246 10 месяцев назад +9

    One of the great songs of the 70s

  • @porkchop2139
    @porkchop2139 2 года назад +9

    Jimmy Saville needs to be EDITED out of all clips.

    • @jonmason1622
      @jonmason1622 2 года назад

      You edit evil like that out of history people will forget and yet more evil people will wreak their worst on yet more innocent victims.Imagine removing all trace of Auschwitz and the like.We need to be reminded such evil existed so we can recognise it and fight it

    • @elementalb3m957
      @elementalb3m957 2 года назад +4

      Not really he's an important part it would be like editing Hitler out of the 1940s

    • @craiggerrard5117
      @craiggerrard5117 Месяц назад

      @@elementalb3m957 Exactly.

  • @mylesdobinson1534
    @mylesdobinson1534 3 месяца назад +1

    Yes i started work this year as a labouer in a factory. And my father was secretary of the BLF union in Queensland that year. Now 51 years later hahaha

  • @xavierkreiss8394
    @xavierkreiss8394 Месяц назад +1

    The first few minutes with Jimmy Savile are slightly chiling

  • @gurgisjones1120
    @gurgisjones1120 4 года назад +16

    At least the lead vocals are live.

  • @genecanfield3681
    @genecanfield3681 2 года назад +5

    Missed the tune, couldn't get passed that ghoul Saville.

  • @chrismccrory4387
    @chrismccrory4387 2 года назад +1

    I posted it on a tmtch site recently me first song I learned and nothing changes at all.

  • @jonathancauldwell9822
    @jonathancauldwell9822 2 года назад +3

    That look on Savile's face when he realises her boyfriend is standing behind her is priceless. Don't understand the significance of the fruit machine symbols in the background though, no strawberries there

  • @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars
    @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Год назад +4

    I love the fact that a song written as a parody of the state of the country with unions out of control was adopted by them!

    • @garysmith4425
      @garysmith4425 Год назад +2

      They weren't out of control the establishment was.

    • @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars
      @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Год назад +5

      @Gary Smith I was a kid then. I clearly remember the power-cuts! The bin collections not being done. The disruption during the winter of discontent. The fact they were holding the public to ransom suggests they were out of control.

    • @youjontube50
      @youjontube50 Год назад +1

      As today suggests, the union’s were not out of control, just fed up with the greedy exploiting hard working average people! 😡

    • @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars
      @PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Год назад +2

      @youjontube50 Really? Were you around then?

    • @silondon9010
      @silondon9010 Год назад +1

      Royal mail new entrants on just above minimum wage, the race to the bottom has begun

  • @jvtaxi3766
    @jvtaxi3766 26 дней назад +1

    The big guy with the drum has a belter of a hair style 😂

    • @gary36104
      @gary36104 16 дней назад +1

      Not a lot you can do with it half Beatle half skin head

  • @alangreenley3257
    @alangreenley3257 3 года назад +3

    only in the 70,s never to be repeated, where,s all the protest songs now,?

  • @nigelcracknell947
    @nigelcracknell947 4 месяца назад

    On the Isle of Wight on holiday and this song came into my head ❤ miss Rick😢

  • @doncampbell9606
    @doncampbell9606 2 года назад +8

    Creepy guy Saville........

  • @stephenremington8448
    @stephenremington8448 2 года назад +6

    Shame the comments constantly mentioning someone who should just be ignored.
    I am here for the song, was that Rick Wakeman on keyboards or someone else?

    • @craiggerrard5117
      @craiggerrard5117 Месяц назад

      I think that's Blue Weaver on Keyboards. Rick had left a couple of years earlier.

  • @simonwilletts7965
    @simonwilletts7965 2 года назад +4

    A tight squeezy hug from jimmy saville🤔🤢🤢

  • @melaniesmith41
    @melaniesmith41 2 года назад +9

    I love the candles on the piano , it wouldn't surprise me if we went back to the 1970s. With the country being in the state that it's in . Worst thing to happen was the UK leaving the EU .

    • @andymatthews7617
      @andymatthews7617 2 года назад

      Dont be silly, the EU was and is run like the mafia, GOOD RIDDANCE I SAY, the main thing about Brexit was to get control of our borders, FAT CHANCE NOW, MORE TORY LIES, I WILL NEVER BELIEVE ANOTHER WORD ANY "SO CALLED" MP SAYS AGAIN, TOTAL LIARS.

  • @michelynm1507
    @michelynm1507 Месяц назад

    J'adore cette chanson qui ,une fois n'est pas coutume, était connue en France 😂 à l'époque de sa sortie 😂😂

  • @josephtreacy667
    @josephtreacy667 Месяц назад

    Takes me back to my mates Stag do at the Bell in Sydenham. 50 odd years on and sadly he is very ill. Still have the memory 😢

  • @Saltycracka74
    @Saltycracka74 Месяц назад

    What a fine-looking gentleman in the beginning. I am sure his career went places.

  • @gary36104
    @gary36104 17 дней назад +1

    One sick looking dude Jimmy Sav

  • @philwoollin6470
    @philwoollin6470 2 года назад +4

    GREAT DAYS NOW THAT 1984 HAS COME TO BE

  • @billpipe2343
    @billpipe2343 Год назад +2

    I still play this as part of my set, always goes down well

  • @christophersmalley7805
    @christophersmalley7805 Год назад +1

    This song is now 50 Years Old (Half a Century) it peaked at Number 2 in February 1973, during those years if was a lot of Strikes like Energy, television and Bins, Last it was holiday flights abroad and now it's NHS worker's and teachers

  • @infour44
    @infour44 6 месяцев назад +3

    Very creepy moments sullying a great song/band.

  • @tonysmee6821
    @tonysmee6821 3 года назад +3

    A song all about people's rights, introduced by jimmy SH!TING saVILE

  • @stickytapenrust6869
    @stickytapenrust6869 3 года назад +6

    0:15 - you could tell she felt so uncomfortable around him…

  • @carolinejayes157
    @carolinejayes157 2 месяца назад +1

    Brings back memories.love the tinkles on the piano.!

    • @markmiwurdz2248
      @markmiwurdz2248 9 дней назад

      @Sundae_Times. I think you will find that Rick Wakeman had left The Strawbs by the time they released this record. The man on keyboards in this video is Blue Weaver. Stay safe and well

  • @seemorebeer2848
    @seemorebeer2848 3 года назад +2

    * Part of the union correct title actually!

  • @eddiek0507
    @eddiek0507 Год назад

    Hi Ali,
    What an amazing DNA history,
    You have done an excellent job with this song, it's really good. Get well soon...🙂👍🏻👍🏻

  • @njd2342
    @njd2342 2 года назад +4

    Was that Arthur Scargill introducing the Strawbs?

  • @caz4777
    @caz4777 4 месяца назад +1

    Notice how Jimmy Saville asks the lady on the right if the man standing behind is her husband, then it's hands off.

  • @MrHistorian123
    @MrHistorian123 11 месяцев назад +1

    This song was a mickey take written by John Ford (acoustic guitar, but normally bass) and Richard Hudson (drums) - Strawbs (not The Strawbs) were not left wing at all. And it's completely unlike their other stuff, which was complex and brilliant.

    • @duncanbirss8923
      @duncanbirss8923 5 месяцев назад

      Yeah they were tory tosspots apparently

    • @MrHistorian123
      @MrHistorian123 5 месяцев назад

      @@duncanbirss8923 Sadly, they were. But they still made brilliant music.

  • @yoyopg123
    @yoyopg123 2 года назад +2

    This shows that a good tune can completely make up for an utterly vapid message. Also See John Lennon’s “imagine “

    • @stephengoldstraw102
      @stephengoldstraw102 2 года назад +1

      In fact the lyrics are anti-union and meant to be satirical, but you can't tell and they sound pro-union - so maybe not as vapid as you think!

    • @teastrainer3604
      @teastrainer3604 Год назад

      @@stephengoldstraw102 They lyrics were PRO-union, sir.

  • @peterboczan2116
    @peterboczan2116 2 года назад +5

    Jimmy Saville was seen in a completely different light in 1973.

    • @peterhutchins9246
      @peterhutchins9246 2 года назад +2

      Quite right, you have to understand history in the time it actually happened. This is a great song by the way, and captured the spirit of an age in the early 70s.

    • @peterboczan2116
      @peterboczan2116 2 года назад

      @@peterhutchins9246 Absolutely!

    • @kavkaz1758
      @kavkaz1758 2 года назад

      I honestly don't know why. He's creepy, ugly and grotesque af and I don't care what decade it was. As a child in the late 80s, I felt there was something repugnant about him. I wish to see the people who facilitated him brought to account without brushing it off as, "things were different back then." Survivors of abuse don't say, oh it wasn't too traumatic because it was 1973. You can see how uncomfortable the young woman on the right is with his leering an invasion of her personal space. She's not fine with it, "because it's 1973". If you can't see how uncomfortable she is, you need some lessons on basic human interaction.

    • @peterboczan2116
      @peterboczan2116 2 года назад +2

      @@kavkaz1758 Thank you for that response. It's the song I like, not Saville!

    • @kavkaz1758
      @kavkaz1758 2 года назад +1

      @@peterboczan2116 Oh yes, sorry I didn't mean to have a go at you. I love the song too :) Thanks for uploading.

  • @MirlitronOne
    @MirlitronOne 3 месяца назад +1

    My father loathed this song - my mother couldn't make him understand that it was a parody.

  • @jiminycrint
    @jiminycrint 2 года назад +4

    The creep at work in front of 18 million people on live TV…

  • @Sundae_Times
    @Sundae_Times 2 месяца назад

    Rick Wakeman, piano-keyboard genius, great raconteur and all-round good guy 👏

  • @mikeuk4130
    @mikeuk4130 6 месяцев назад +1

    “Union Man” was by the Cate Brothers, Earl and Ernie, and their band.

  • @andymoore9977
    @andymoore9977 День назад

    Hugely talented bunch of folk musicians "selling" out for a modest pay out!

  • @David-eb2hf
    @David-eb2hf Месяц назад

    Even not a Abba fan something makes me wish we could go back even with the hardship the division the near nuclear war but we had politicians and leaders who knew death and destruction so they really wanted peace no so now

  • @deborahmagana5039
    @deborahmagana5039 5 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic performance.

  • @teamblitz1990
    @teamblitz1990 2 года назад +3

    See jimmy saville shake with fear when he finds that her bf is standing behind her.

  • @TallSilentGuy
    @TallSilentGuy Месяц назад

    Savile: How old are you, twinnies?
    Twins: Sixteen.
    Savile: Too old for my liking! Let's move on.

  • @Digibeatle09
    @Digibeatle09 3 месяца назад +1

    Even a little ol' Right winger like me can enjoy this song - thanks for posting ! Pity about the introduction by a "certain presenter" - back in the early 1970s, I can genuinely say Saville came across - to a television viewer like me - as just a bit of a "harmless eccentric" - how wrong one can be !!!!

  • @rumpraisin
    @rumpraisin 2 года назад +3

    Jimmy Saville perhaps in enforced union with the birds.

  • @jonnydavison9222
    @jonnydavison9222 2 года назад +11

    The clip at the beginning makes me wonder how the BBC "didn't know" about Jimmy Saville 🤢

    • @jeromevadon81
      @jeromevadon81 Год назад +3

      Back in the Seventies I was at a party chatting to a nurse from Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Needless to say, saville got mentioned and she told us then that his roving hands were infamous even then, but that he just brought in too much money. What the Hopital did at the time was quite funny. They had a list of all the Saville Groupies and whenever he was there, they were all picked to form a protective barrier between Saville and the normal nurses. Money talks!

    • @GlenFair
      @GlenFair Год назад +3

      Yeah I heard some stories about him in the early 1980s, I was still at school but my aunt knew people that worked at the hospital. As a teenager I didn't believe it, thought she was talking crap. Even my mum thought she was lying. Guess we were all wrong...

    • @skycloud4802
      @skycloud4802 Год назад +2

      They did know. And they covered it up.

  • @paulsevers7740
    @paulsevers7740 2 месяца назад

    great LIVE performance - couple of deviations from the recorded lyrics!

  • @screwmaster404
    @screwmaster404 14 лет назад +7

    The days when fashion mattered ;-)

    • @pauldunneska
      @pauldunneska 3 года назад +1

      The 70s the decade that fashion forgot.

  • @peterhutchins9246
    @peterhutchins9246 7 месяцев назад

    OMG talk about a song capturing the spirit of an age. Forget the crap about The Strawbs being Thatcherites, they lived off this for the rest of their lives.

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 2 года назад +2

    Makin' uh foal ov isself and
    th guy behine um cossin im ot,
    HAHAHAHA, tawkin abot Dat Jimmy.

  • @Chicken_Wing91
    @Chicken_Wing91 Год назад +1

    I don’t even like the union but i do like this song lol

  • @JonWade
    @JonWade 2 года назад +3

    Seeing Savile close up with those young women, all suddenly seems so obvious. The guy behind didn't seem to appreciate the way he was grabbing ... I am not a fan of cancel culture, but if somebody could delete him from all videos ....

  • @garybrockwell2031
    @garybrockwell2031 24 дня назад

    Ooppss to old for you JIMMY
    🆘 OL' MAN 🇬🇧🥇💪👍❤️

  • @danityvanityinsanity
    @danityvanityinsanity 2 года назад +2

    He was always a creep. No wonder he was so perfect in the role he played in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

    • @marywhite4857
      @marywhite4857 Год назад +1

      He wasn't in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

  • @StanleypeterDickinson
    @StanleypeterDickinson 2 месяца назад

    I was born this way. When will there be a 'Harvest' for the Cosmos Barclay James ?

  • @jw5663
    @jw5663 3 года назад +14

    Great fucking song!