Massively underrated song. My sis was called Linda and she struggled with alcohol and this became my song when I thought about her. Such a wonderful song x
Filmed partly aboard the 09 10 from Glasgow Central to Gourock train, with the station sequences shot at Paisley Gilmour Steet. We locked off a carriage of a regular service so the crew didn't have the expense of hiring a complete train. ScotRail public relations kept access fees deliberately low, so lots of film crews came to Scotland to film their railway scenes - and we got our trains on their screens - win/win. One of the props was the half bottle of whiskey, glimpsed briefly. The director suggested it wouldn't look the part if it was full. I got the job of draining it half empty! The perks of the job. A great morning away from the office, and good to work with them. Now Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train" video was another story altogether......
@@thegreathadoken6808 Some scenes for the original video for "Downtown Train" were filmed on the Cathcart Circle in Glasgow by a two-piece camera crew from London, with views on the Clyde Bridge. Rod Stewart was not in Glasgow for those shots. However as I look now, that video has disappeared and has been replaced on RUclips by a newer, more authentic version, filmed in New York, closer to the character of the song. The original video has disappeared completely.
Interesting. I love these slice of life clips in pop videos as it is the depictions and stories of ordinary lives that make up our individual and collective experience and memory years later. It is an effective video which perfectly complements the song's lyrics. Looking for Linda is one of the best told stories in a three minute pop song I have heard not dissimilar to Always the last to know by Del Amitri. It's no coincidence that both will have developed their craft against the backdrop of the Scottish storytelling tradition.
I lived in Renfrew. Gilmour Street was my local station. The railway used to be fair game for slagging off - but the staff were all great. Glasgow Central to Gilmour Street takes 11 minutes! Bob Lennox - the video was great, Scotrail were great, the music was great, the location was great, Linda - she was something else!
There are still great music out there, you just have to search for it, walk the of London , there are some great music artists that play on the streets.
@scottpeacock5492 Not like the 80s, I was 20 in 2000 and always loved the older music.Today all the crap music sounds the same with rap artists from the black community which are forgotten in a months time. Many of the youngsters have turned to older music for inspiration because you can not only dance to it but it was made with love and talent...
always loved this song..so original...and clever....but for some reason it never got the recognition it deserved.....but I'll never stop listening...never stop listening...to Linda....
Just heard this 80s song again and reminded how amazing it is. Still astounded by the magnificent strong confident vocals. Love this and the bbc live TOTP version. Never stop looking for Linda.......xxxxx
Excellent song based on a true life encounter as Pat Kane once said in an interview '"I met her on a train just over a year ago and she dumped her whole life on me in 15 minutes; she was by turns mournful, flirty, defiant, defiantly suicidal. She was running away from Leeds and her kids, her trucker husband, and her boyfriend, and she kept saying: 'You've got to help me.' ''She jumped off at Paisley Gilmour Street and I was left thinking both: 'Hmm, useful life experience for a song' and 'Should I have helped her?' In this way you see that serious art is the pornography of human despair: shaping attractive forms out of the fact of mere survival. If 'Linda' were to turn up now, I could hardly refuse her a cut of the royalties . . .
Quite possibly the greatest song ever made. I met my ‘Linda’ 22 years a go and we’re still together. I like to think this song is a reminder that we all have our ‘Linda’. Whether we’ve found her or yet to find her. Absolute perfection. Thank you for this amazing song.
Ah, memories. I used to play this in my Yorkshire bedsit wearing a tea dress and a biker's jacket, waiting for my own Hue-and-Cry-alike to arrive, the year I started doing session vocals myself. He never did arrive, for the record.
Was on a summer hol in the late 90s and met a lovely girl called Linda. Couldn’t help myself but took off singing this song with all the sincerity I had. Great ice breaker. Oh the memories 👌
How good were they ?? Was he compared to much to Marti Pellow back in the day and got overshadowed? They should have been massive . Pat Kane is an awesome vocalist
If you ever happen to come down to York Station and see a woman in a yellow t-shirt reading, "Took intercity and left her remorse", that's me and I'd beyond happy to meet you.
@@natureclips5849 I remember the very first year at secondary, there was a cutie in the next class. I knew of her but nothing more than that, kinda remember her name being Rebecca but could be wrong. At assembly on the first day of my second year, the head announced that ‘Rebecca’ had passed away over the summer holidays from Leukaemia. I just remember everyone from her class and others in the year starting to cry. I remembered her a few months back and wondered how and where she might of been now.
I’d never heard this before until I was in a shop somewhere recently. It was playing in the background. The bit that caught me is the uplifting hook that goes “Left her remorse...Iiiiiiiiiiim looking out for Linda”. Absolutely love the melody. I had to get the SoundHound out and that’s how I found the song in 2018! Better now than never! Great track....
I’ve just seen your comment @Thomas Price No, i think it might have been somewhere like Poundland or something. I’ve discovered some absolutely random songs from the 80’s on their ‘playlists’
@Adrian Fox I’m glad it’s still finding air time on the radio! I can’t believe their level of success wasn’t huge and this song only made number 15 on the UK chart and had a limited run. It’s part of my easy listening 80’s playlist.
This always makes me cry. It smacks true of me and my partner. We were in a relationship 30 years ago and found each other again in 2019. She was always the love of my life but we both turned to alcohol abuse as a direct result of abusive marriages which ripped us both apart as a result of our respective spouses who tried to destroy us both but who only succeeded in us finding each other again after 29 years apart.... She's the best thing that ever happened to me in my entire life!!!!!.......
Never heard this song before and I thought I've heard everything from the 80's ! This is a good song and a really talented singer. Nice 80's sound! I know. I'm a singer myself. Been in the business since 1965.
Just looking up the term 'hue & cry...' Our world would be wise to shout out at the top of its voice this old world term...? Great tune fa real love the video, why its my teenage era? 🤍💯
Just pushed play on this in 2022 after not having heard it since 2003. Still brilliant?.....Without question! Some things are just timeless. (Oh, how I wish I were around for its initial release 1989)
Love you guys! Saw you last night at the Atkinson and I'm blown away by how good you still are. You're my new music love, can't stop listening to your music 😊❤
Who said 80's music was crap? Literally no one. No one said that. 80's music is immensely better than today's music. That's what literally everyone says.
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Massively underrated song. My sis was called Linda and she struggled with alcohol and this became my song when I thought about her. Such a wonderful song x
God bless you and your sister Linda 👍♥️♥️✝️
❤❤❤Thinking of you xx
Hey.We know. Bless.
Hope your sister found a way out or to be happy. God bless
Awe, *BLESS* ...👍🔥👍
Filmed partly aboard the 09 10 from Glasgow Central to Gourock train, with the station sequences shot at Paisley Gilmour Steet. We locked off a carriage of a regular service so the crew didn't have the expense of hiring a complete train. ScotRail public relations kept access fees deliberately low, so lots of film crews came to Scotland to film their railway scenes - and we got our trains on their screens - win/win. One of the props was the half bottle of whiskey, glimpsed briefly. The director suggested it wouldn't look the part if it was full. I got the job of draining it half empty! The perks of the job. A great morning away from the office, and good to work with them. Now Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train" video was another story altogether......
Good post, thanks for sharing. Care to tell the Rod Stewart story?
@@thegreathadoken6808 Some scenes for the original video for "Downtown Train" were filmed on the Cathcart Circle in Glasgow by a two-piece camera crew from London, with views on the Clyde Bridge. Rod Stewart was not in Glasgow for those shots. However as I look now, that video has disappeared and has been replaced on RUclips by a newer, more authentic version, filmed in New York, closer to the character of the song. The original video has disappeared completely.
Interesting. I love these slice of life clips in pop videos as it is the depictions and stories of ordinary lives that make up our individual and collective experience and memory years later. It is an effective video which perfectly complements the song's lyrics. Looking for Linda is one of the best told stories in a three minute pop song I have heard not dissimilar to Always the last to know by Del Amitri. It's no coincidence that both will have developed their craft against the backdrop of the Scottish storytelling tradition.
I lived in Renfrew. Gilmour Street was my local station. The railway used to be fair game for slagging off - but the staff were all great. Glasgow Central to Gilmour Street takes 11 minutes! Bob Lennox - the video was great, Scotrail were great, the music was great, the location was great, Linda - she was something else!
Who is the girl??
Never stop listening to this song still in 2024 ❤
Me too
Learn it on guitar , so satisfying
Me too. My dear grandmother was called linda. R I P gran. Never stop looking.❤😊
In a world of shite and pain, I cannot tell you how happy this song automatically makes me. Smiling from ear to ear. Great band.
What are you talking about, lifes what you make it, you obviously are wasting yours, get you shit together and you will have a great life.
The Linda in the video actually looks like a Linda
Aye, ❤️ all their TUNES (that heard anyway)
@@natureclips5849 More like a munter more like
Oooh nice 😊 xx
where did it all go wrong... the music of the 80s was awesome👏...not like the rubbish of today... 🌹🌹
You're absolutely right 💯. Music today is pure shite. 😢. Miss that decade so much
But is it just people of our age who think that? It is total shite by the way.
There are still great music out there, you just have to search for it, walk the of London , there are some great music artists that play on the streets.
@scottpeacock5492 Not like the 80s, I was 20 in 2000 and always loved the older music.Today all the crap music sounds the same with rap artists from the black community which are forgotten in a months time. Many of the youngsters have turned to older music for inspiration because you can not only dance to it but it was made with love and talent...
Absolutely, couldn't agree more
My mum was called Linda who passed 2018,, it’s a great remembrance song for me, and of course I’ll never stop looking for my mum Linda 👍 🙏
So sorry to hear that. My dad passed away on May 21st 2022. I miss him every day. He was a good age at 83 years old.😢😊
Met and fell in love with a lady called Linda 24yrs ago and still madly still in love, bought her the record.
I think he is one of the most underrated singers. Very talented and the band was brilliant. Beautiful jazz chord progressions
Loved them
Underrated.
I'm playing it again bcos I never get tired of listening to it. I totally concur with all the other comments that I've read.
Beautiful song. 1989. Growing up as a school kid, Beautiful times.
Classic track! The Eighties was THE era for top music. Such happy memories. Probably the last time I was truly happy & carefree.
Total agree....
always loved this song..so original...and clever....but for some reason it never got the recognition it deserved.....but I'll never stop listening...never stop listening...to Linda....
😅😅😅
you'd get into such big trouble in 2022 for making eye contact with Linda, great song and full of 1980's joy, well done fellas
@@eightiesmusic1984 It's called humour numbnuts but that's a negative quality in the 21st century 🙄
Brilliant track. I miss hearing songs like this.
Stunning, the maturity of their songwriting at their age was just unbelievable
Quite, Quite 👌💯
They got better as well, Next Move, was really good...
They'd embrass, so called today's whatever they are!
Agree
I will decide when I go or don't go....song is lost on so many ...
Left at the top of their game.Stunning.
yes............you are right !!!!
Met my husband and he bought me this 25yrs later we still dance to this.❤❤❤
one of most underrated voices and groups. should be huge. class voice. the remote album 🔥
such an 80s tune and so underrated.
memories i was 23 wish I could go back miss them days the world is so crap now
Yes back then I could never imagine things being any different, after all why would you expect people to make the future worse for everyone!
Hahaha ,you ain't wrong about that!
Thatcher was putting in place the world we live in today at the time this song was released.
With you on that brother the millennials don't realise what they have missed and are now complete garbage now
I hear ya!
Classic Hue & Cry, still iconic in Jan 23. Love it!
and Jan 24
Lost count of the people who sing this song to me when they hear my name.
Timeless classic song, love it 💖
Everybody is looking out for linda. And what a great late 80s classic this was.
That literally never happened Linda cmon.
I find that weird...
I thought Spandau Ballet's song would have been more appropriate...
@@euanfox9734 c'mon noo euan it actually did happen!!
@@charleysays2753 and what Spandau Ballet song would it have been?
One of the most naturally gifted and beautiful voices ever.
😉 Absolutely
Eddie he's still got it. Check out near the end of this : ruclips.net/video/zvojhiaNQeo/видео.html
Just heard this 80s song again and reminded how amazing it is. Still astounded by the magnificent strong confident vocals. Love this and the bbc live TOTP version. Never stop looking for Linda.......xxxxx
1081 people (including myself) are still looking for Linda...
Back in the day when less than perfect teeth, fierce eyebrows and duck lips weren't all the rage.
Duck lips omg they look horrific lol
Do these girls not have mirrors in their houses, I work with a really pretty girl and she comes in with clown lips and all I think is what a waste.
You got it right, duck lips, omg have you seen them lately????
Classic 80s.put it straight on my songs with a story playlist ❤😊
One of the best voices around.
true
Hue and Cry..Great lyrics can't belive they never carried on. Violently great tune..and of course Labour of Love
They played carlisle last week....my brother saw them Said they were great....I'm searching to go see them myself...
@@bigtam462 ..They’re on tour with Paul Young & T’Pau this year.
@@christophebonhoefferofbelg9846 brill .thanks il check that out...
💯👏👏 brilliant album, still sounds great.
They're still working now. Playing Halifax Square Chapel in September 2023.
Excellent song based on a true life encounter as Pat Kane once said in an interview
'"I met her on a train just over a
year ago and she dumped her whole life on me in 15 minutes;
she was by turns mournful, flirty, defiant, defiantly suicidal. She was running
away from Leeds and her kids, her trucker husband, and her boyfriend,
and she kept saying: 'You've got to help me.'
''She jumped off at Paisley Gilmour Street and I was left thinking
both: 'Hmm, useful life experience for a song' and 'Should I have helped
her?' In this way you see that serious art is the pornography of human
despair: shaping attractive forms out of the fact of mere survival. If
'Linda' were to turn up now, I could hardly refuse her a cut of the
royalties . . .
She had actually run away from Paisley to Leeds and was on her way Back ...
Absolutely amazing to hear that story. Neck hair's bristling and goosepimpling at time of listening to it for about the 30th time this month
Sometimes real life can be as bizzare as fiction.
Quite possibly the greatest song ever made.
I met my ‘Linda’ 22 years a go and we’re still together.
I like to think this song is a reminder that we all have our ‘Linda’. Whether we’ve found her or yet to find her.
Absolute perfection. Thank you for this amazing song.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Saw Hue and Cry last night in Derby, still got a great and unique voice
Ah, memories. I used to play this in my Yorkshire bedsit wearing a tea dress and a biker's jacket, waiting for my own Hue-and-Cry-alike to arrive, the year I started doing session vocals myself. He never did arrive, for the record.
Thank you, guys, by the way.🙏❤️🙏
fancied pat myself
Was on a summer hol in the late 90s and met a lovely girl called Linda. Couldn’t help myself but took off singing this song with all the sincerity I had. Great ice breaker. Oh the memories 👌
Who did you do vocals for?
When I first heard this on the radio back in the day I thought for a split second it was Level 42!
Me too!
then you heard the vocal .. and thought wow
Always thought Mark King should have been involved. Just to tweak the bottom end with real bass and real drums. Still wonderful in this form. But...
Me too, being a huge Level 42 fan. However, this song made me discover Hue & Cry. Pat and Greg Kane.
How good were they ?? Was he compared to much to Marti Pellow back in the day and got overshadowed? They should have been massive . Pat Kane is an awesome vocalist
Wow, this one aged well. Great Song.
Cracking Tale ❤
This beauty is still on my playlist. I don't care what people think, I'm still a 80s kid at heart.
Not heard this for 31 years!! Brings back memories.
What a great voice, 80s music was on a different level to the garbage served up since 2000.
I'd love for Linda to come forward and receive her royalties 💞
Great group sang some fantastic songs in the 80's. Loved these and level 42, had a similar sound and jazz feel to the songs.
What a fantastic tune😅, so fantastic that I play it repeatedly. Yes it is a very underrated song. Didn't get the accolade it most thoroughly deserved.
Fantastic tune by one of the best songwriting duos of our time. The voice is superbly tone-true.
Only 12k views ? That's criminal
Nearly 40,000 now :-)
feel proud to belong to the small group of good taste for music, the rest is commercial garbage
No class or taste Pete 😧
Over 300k know.
Timeless this song is sublime
anyone else think this is the greatest song of all time? no? okay cool i'll leave now
but i'm right
A great song from in my opinion an underrated band and still sounding good today
an album so full of gorgeous, soulful songs that have aged beautifully. A great era for Scottish bands, the 80:s.
Legend has it he’s still looking to this very day
Should be in the millions views,real music,I'm still looking for Linda😷
If you ever happen to come down to York Station and see a woman in a yellow t-shirt reading, "Took intercity and left her remorse", that's me and I'd beyond happy to meet you.
Amazing voice... loved this back in the days. I was also looking for ‘a’ Linda
I had a Belinda in my class who sat next to me in English she had Leukaemia unfortunately
@@natureclips5849 I remember the very first year at secondary, there was a cutie in the next class. I knew of her but nothing more than that, kinda remember her name being Rebecca but could be wrong. At assembly on the first day of my second year, the head announced that ‘Rebecca’ had passed away over the summer holidays from Leukaemia. I just remember everyone from her class and others in the year starting to cry. I remembered her a few months back and wondered how and where she might of been now.
Awesome tune. Playing on repeat
I think deep down it was Linda who was really looking for someone. Hope you found them in the end Linda, love x.
😅✨
I’d never heard this before until I was in a shop somewhere recently. It was playing in the background. The bit that caught me is the uplifting hook that goes “Left her remorse...Iiiiiiiiiiim looking out for Linda”. Absolutely love the melody. I had to get the SoundHound out and that’s how I found the song in 2018! Better now than never!
Great track....
Amaan Storm was it the coop? We play this all the time. “Looking out for Lindaaaaaah!”
Probably 1 of the most unlikely hooks in Pop music...what a twist to do it...
I must have missed it back in the day too. Just heard it in 2020 on Smooth radio. What a corker!
I’ve just seen your comment @Thomas Price
No, i think it might have been somewhere like Poundland or something. I’ve discovered some absolutely random songs from the 80’s on their ‘playlists’
@Adrian Fox I’m glad it’s still finding air time on the radio!
I can’t believe their level of success wasn’t huge and this song only made number 15 on the UK chart and had a limited run. It’s part of my easy listening 80’s playlist.
I married a Linda....always fancied her then we hooked up....married....love linda!!!
😳😳
@@Ohsollll lol that ejmo off you Linda. this is good song off hue and cry one of the best there done good from back in late 80s good singing
@@sebastianwelcome2080 hehehe ..
Linda is good name 😄
Im here for linda, and shes still sounding as good as ever.
one of the Greatest songs written imo, lyrics are amazing 😉💖
😂 I've literally had this sang to me since I was a child. ❤
A proper trip down memory lane listening to this fantastic tune !
Love this band...what a voice
I absolutely love this song! I think about it all the time
what a song, still love it after all these years. Linda really did find me... it didn't last long but hope where ever you are Linda you're ok.
Still beautiful after all these years.
Hear this all the time at work, never get tired of listening to this😁
The lyrics to this are absolutely superb, one of my favourite tunes
Agree 100%. Labour Of Love is amazing as well.
Wish I cud back to these days class
Saw them live last nite in Merseyside still great.
🎉Brilliant!
Lindas....once met never forgotten
I had a Linda in class but she passed 😢
I'm still looking for mine. 1987, Manchester to London..and yes she was called Linda. Hope you found peace darling..god you deserved it😚😚😚
This song reminds me of my mum Linda this song was the year my dad left her and this song made me cry xx
This always makes me cry.
It smacks true of me and my partner.
We were in a relationship 30 years ago and found each other again in 2019.
She was always the love of my life but we both turned to alcohol abuse as a direct result of abusive marriages which ripped us both apart as a result of our respective spouses who tried to destroy us both but who only succeeded in us finding each other again after 29 years apart.... She's the best thing that ever happened to me in my entire life!!!!!.......
This was my ear worm this morning, beautiful song and lovey to read what it’s meant to others. (Ps my cousin is called Linda!)
This is such a beautiful sweet song!
Still sounds good today♡☺
If you only wrote one song in your life. Job done.
Never heard this song before and I thought I've heard everything from the 80's ! This is a good song and a really talented singer. Nice 80's sound! I know. I'm a singer myself. Been in the business since 1965.
Just looking up the term 'hue & cry...' Our world would be wise to shout out at the top of its voice this old world term...? Great tune fa real love the video, why its my teenage era? 🤍💯
Just pushed play on this in 2022 after not having heard it since 2003. Still brilliant?.....Without question! Some things are just timeless. (Oh, how I wish I were around for its initial release 1989)
I am still worshipping this song and in times of shite and pain, I cannot tell you how happy this song automatically makes me. I miss you guys.
So good . That voice is timeless
I,ve always loved this song 60 next week and still love it.
Belated Happy birthday Greetings to you.. Excellent choice in music too..
You say it as if 60 year olds shouldnt be listening to music. We are all timeless individuals and music is timeless too
Awesome song and superb vocals. Great jazzy progressions. Of it's time for sure but the quality is timeless.
Such a clever song - each time the bridge into the chorus has a little bit more
Totally and utterly underestimated these two brothers. Astonishing songs. Astonishing music and that voice ❤
September 2023 and still loving this song! 😀
Love you guys! Saw you last night at the Atkinson and I'm blown away by how good you still are. You're my new music love, can't stop listening to your music 😊❤
One of my favourites. Timeless
Brilliant song 👍♥️🇬🇧
Love there music always and there voices.
Saw them at the Grand in clapham with my brother. Absolutely brilliant and I got goosebumps when I hear this song
Love this song
Nicola McCafferty I
another great turn by the boys,,great vocals from pat kane.
One of my favourite songs as I come from paisley and this song really resonates with few of my friends 😢💕🏴
She's a sweet girl ... i'm looking out for Linda
In the rain :o) it's poetry gorgeous music
Superb
I am glad you show your music on here, it keeps it alive and easy to watch again 30 years later.. :)
And ive never stopped looking for you Linda... Salford, Manchester England.16:00hr 1984...💔...still waiting hun!
Never stop looking for Linda... looking out for Lindddaaa :) Great chooon.
Who said 80's music was crap? They obviously never listened to these guys ...
Tim Bix in my opinion the end of the 80s was when pop music, for the most part, lost its magic and creativity.
Tim Bix I agree Tim x
Excalty Tim👌
No clue on class I guess ,
Some fantastic music was made in 80 and 90's ,
Stuff today is well..
Embrassing , 😂say the least.
Tim Bix 80s music is out this world mate fuck the haters my friend it class
Who said 80's music was crap? Literally no one. No one said that. 80's music is immensely better than today's music. That's what literally everyone says.
This brings back loads of memories from the 80s/ early 90s I always fancied the singer 😊 even though I was just a kid 😂 😁
my mums called linda, my cousin looks like one of the guys from hue & cry and we all come from paisley. coincidence?!?!
So you found Linda?
All I could do is cry (and hue) of course x
yes im here.....................
had her all my life :)
Well....who knows?
So sorry Pat & Kane but for decades I thought this was a Level 42 song
It's brilliant and working my way through your works.
Thankyou
Listening to this makes me want to go looking for Linda & will never stop loving this *TUNE* ..❤