This is one of my favorite songs Al Stewart is truly rare breed. His songs are complex yet beautiful and a joy to listen with a dash of history. Nobody does that today....
Nobody did it then . I saw him live in New York 1974 I think . When he sang Roads to Moscow they brought a big screen down and showed images of Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union , it was like a little history lesson with music . He sings a song about Joseph Stalin too and Warren Harding an obscure president of the US .
Recommendations: Check out songs, Time Passages (as well as the whole Time Passages album), Running Man, Delia's Gone, Roads to Moscow, Song On The Radio, Midnight Rocks, Lord Grenville, Merlin's Time, Nostradamus, On The Border, Year Of The Cat, Mida's Shadow, Last Days Of The Century, Ghostly Horses On The Plain, The Night That The Band Got The Wine.
Pamela Swanson For more of his historical song/stories check out Helen and Cassandra, Laughing Into 1939, Somewhere in England 1915, Gethsemane Again and Nostradamus
I spent most of 1988 in Luxembourg, in Central Europe, and first heard this song on the radio there - it was o the strength of this song that I bought the album, Last Days of the Century, before coming home to the States. This song, Where Are They Now? and Antarctica remain my favorite songs from the album. My mother's great uncle is buried in France, in Thiaucourt, where he died in 1918 while serving in the US Cavalry. At my sister's request, I contacted the US military in Luxembourg who helped me research exactly where he was buried, which turned out to be 99 kilometers from where I was staying in Luxembourg. I never made it to his grave in 1988, but I would like to go there the next time we visit Europe, and lay a yellow rose on his grave to show my respect. My great grandmother, his older sister, would have liked that.
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I saw al in key west in 1979 It was the best concert i ever have been at.He talked of his life in england and the way the war effected everyone then in1944
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Great song, and your visualization is perfect. It's just what I used to envision every time I heard it way back when it was first released. 1988 or so? I was just getting my commercial pilot's license - Great memories and fun times!
Our great grand children will never know. What sacrifices were made on their behalf. They won't even come to our graves..We/re forgotten.A blip in time...maybe that's the way of things
Maybe 3 generations.. Nobody puts flowers there for us anymore.....Our grave s .just wither.I see this every day..They never knew us.our wants and needs our loves and hopes......were a place on the ground to which they have no connection.
My father-in-law was in Korea. My wife’s uncle was in a Korean POW Camp for three years. Why? Why were we there? Who will remember Korea? Same with Vietnam and all the micro-wars since. Real people were killed and maimed. We can’t allow our posterity to forget. And now it looks like we’re heading into war with Iran. 1914 all over again.
@@kellywhite1285 The elite Satanists create wars as a huge sacrifice to Satan. War is legalized murder and horrific. The Satanists and the Politicians and Media band together to take people to slaughter. Indeed those who fought in wars were courageous young men and many were scared stiff. Once in the trenches they soon became believers in God because they knew they might not be alive for long.
I didn't pay much attention 2 the lyrics til I had to listen to a live version (Al w/ his oft-time partner-in-rhythm&rhyme Dave Nachmanoff) bcs this one isn't mobile-accessible (not on my fone, anyway). In that one, AS gives a little intro-spiel, abt how he was inspired 2 write the song by the sight, when just a boy, of old war-widows from WWI, walking the Channel beaches, gazing off to where their beloveds had given their lives so long ago. Even more heartbreakingly beautiful now.
Your comment brought me chills. "Field full of ghosts". What you say is so true. Thanks to Jonnoms for producing a sterling video. Thanks to Al for composing a one-of-a-kind gem.
Our Airport was named after him for 40 years...Now he just fades away into the ages.pretty much forgotten.......just like everybody else after a hundred years. The Great War? What is that? 2 pages in a history book..maybe.It ain't right
You know a song about Lafayette would be a great idea, but Al is a "Limey" as you say, and they don't like to recall that the French helped win our revolution.
I'm wonderin we beat the livin shit out of each other for 200 yeaRS.ALL OF A SUDDEN..........WE wern't right with the Germans...How the fuck.does that work?. I can understad why you Europia folk are sick of this shit.it ain't workin out for any of us. You folks ain't doin real well on the long term investment............I think you folks had a belly full.......The New world should learn.I'm just a dumbass.......We don't need this shit... we look to you..the old farts ......we just don't want our world blowed up every 50 or 60 years.......you guys get fresh houses evey time.if you live? were not right with that. straighten yer ass up.........quit bein so damn ornry.all the shit runs thru you folks.then we take sides.........I don't think it''s fair.Yer older yer smarter...I rest my case and we think we got it bad. I'd..whatever it may be move back to the homeland` what ever it may be..we care about you folks................your important..we got our problems too. ....yippee I ah cowpaddie..we love our kin across the pond...where ever you may be
This is one of my favorite songs Al Stewart is truly rare breed. His songs are complex yet beautiful and a joy to listen with a dash of history. Nobody does that today....
I share your praise of him. Only one other consistently does the dash of history within a song, that I am aware of. Mark Knopfler.
Nobody did it then . I saw him live in New York 1974 I think . When he sang Roads to Moscow they brought a big screen down and showed images of Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union , it was like a little history lesson with music . He sings a song about Joseph Stalin too and Warren Harding an obscure president of the US .
The past present and future album is Epic !
One of my favourite song. When I feel sad and remember my long lost love who left me without saying goodbye, I listen to this song and broadway hotel.
Al Stewart is a history teacher... luv it
The link to two of the most war brilliant movies ever made is sublime...
Last Days is the best Al Stewart album. Every one a gem.
His is a rare talent. His songs are catchy, meaningful, poetic. This song is just as haunting as "Broadway Hotel."
I am a new fan of this man's music.
Recommendations: Check out songs, Time Passages (as well as the whole Time Passages album), Running Man, Delia's Gone, Roads to Moscow, Song On The Radio, Midnight Rocks, Lord Grenville, Merlin's Time, Nostradamus, On The Border, Year Of The Cat, Mida's Shadow, Last Days Of The Century, Ghostly Horses On The Plain, The Night That The Band Got The Wine.
There is a huge treasure trove awaiting you!
Pamela Swanson For more of his historical song/stories check out Helen and Cassandra, Laughing Into 1939, Somewhere in England 1915, Gethsemane Again and Nostradamus
+Pamela Swanson Pamela, I hope by now you have discovered this great man and artist. I remember discovering his music..
Best album "Rhymes in the room"
Al, you are simply the BEST!!!! thank you for this great music and more.
I'm glad Al Stewart didn't sell out to commercialism. Rather, he puts out very interesting and unique songs.
I love Al and his songs!
And still playing live...
Flat out the greatest songwriter of all time, living or dead.
Now and Then, I still get back to Al.
I spent most of 1988 in Luxembourg, in Central Europe, and first heard this song on the radio there - it was o the strength of this song that I bought the album, Last Days of the Century, before coming home to the States. This song, Where Are They Now? and Antarctica remain my favorite songs from the album.
My mother's great uncle is buried in France, in Thiaucourt, where he died in 1918 while serving in the US Cavalry. At my sister's request, I contacted the US military in Luxembourg who helped me research exactly where he was buried, which turned out to be 99 kilometers from where I was staying in Luxembourg.
I never made it to his grave in 1988, but I would like to go there the next time we visit Europe, and lay a yellow rose on his grave to show my respect. My great grandmother, his older sister, would have liked that.
I pray you made/make it.
Cori MacNaughton AA
Al writes a screenplay in under 3 minutes. Love this song, love Al more. What a talent.
Well said..
“Leaving her regrets like vapour trails of Jets, High above the fields of France”
What lyrics!
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️
I saw al in key west in 1979 It was the best concert i ever have been at.He talked of his life in england and the way the war effected everyone then in1944
Great melody. Remember when songs used to have those? If so, you can probably see your fortieth birthday clearly in the rearview mirror.
Al Stewart is of a rare breed of artist going out into extinction. Dark days ahead.
I am afraid to agree that it surely looks that way. Yes, the days ahead for much of music today look like they will be quite dark.
Saw him Saturday in San Francisco with The Empty Pockets, an actual band backing him up! Fantastic! May he live forever!
But his music will live on with people like us as we continue to listen & pass on to anyone who will hear this unique artist!!
I get dejavu listen to this song. It's one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Indeed!
A very sad marvellous song by a very Great Poet! Higher Music and Lyrics! Something everybody should know to admire such a great Artist!!!
Hello I really do appreciate you for being a big fan thank you for your wonderful comments on my post it really means a lot to me.I sincerely hope you never stop listening to my music…..❤️❤️❤️❤
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@@francescomoretta656 lovely do you have google chat???
Masterpiece
Wonderful turn that I only learned about a few years back.
Great video interpretation of a great song. Al writes lyrics and music like no other. Thank you for this.
I gotta believe this is one of my favorite songs Al did.
Oh, I remember this song! I love this song. So happy there are no dislikes here. I am like # 52!
I am an old fan, super
Al Steward does a lovely job weaving history into many of his songs.
800….love this!!!!❤
Nice video, lovely song from Al and great film used with it.
Great song, and your visualization is perfect. It's just what I used to envision every time I heard it way back when it was first released. 1988 or so? I was just getting my commercial pilot's license - Great memories and fun times!
fantastic...a delicate tale of world war I aviation.
Molto bella...💟👍
God bless you for uploading this song.
fantastic
i seen him in cleveland,and told him at the signing table that he was a great poet.
A lot of Al's songs have a field full of ghosts...singing their refrains. He is one of a kind.
I'm a die - hard Rush fan. And if there's a Rush version in a soloist, this is Mr. AL STEWART. What a pitty he's not well known in Mexico.
Magnifique… peu connue en France
Our great grand children will never know. What sacrifices were made on their behalf. They won't even come to our graves..We/re forgotten.A blip in time...maybe that's the way of things
Maybe 3 generations.. Nobody puts flowers there for us anymore.....Our grave s .just wither.I see this every day..They never knew us.our wants and needs our loves and hopes......were a place on the ground to which they have no connection.
My father-in-law was in Korea. My wife’s uncle was in a Korean POW Camp for three years. Why? Why were we there? Who will remember Korea? Same with Vietnam and all the micro-wars since. Real people were killed and maimed. We can’t allow our posterity to forget. And now it looks like we’re heading into war with Iran. 1914 all over again.
@@kellywhite1285 The elite Satanists create wars as a huge sacrifice to Satan. War is legalized murder and horrific. The Satanists and the Politicians and Media band together to take people to slaughter. Indeed those who fought in wars were courageous young men and many were scared stiff. Once in the trenches they soon became believers in God because they knew they might not be alive for long.
Beautiful
I love his stuff
From a Great album " LAST DAYS OF THE CENTURY".
Excellent.
One of the best.
1917, no enemy was seen, high above the fields of France. What a description of WWI.
great video too
The production and sound are very Last Days of the Century
Roads to Moscow On the border. I wish I found music like that these days
Today's women lack this level of beauty
I didn't pay much attention 2 the lyrics til I had to listen to a live version (Al w/ his oft-time partner-in-rhythm&rhyme Dave Nachmanoff) bcs this one isn't mobile-accessible (not on my fone, anyway).
In that one, AS gives a little intro-spiel, abt how he was inspired 2 write the song by the sight, when just a boy, of old war-widows from WWI, walking the Channel beaches, gazing off to where their beloveds had given their lives so long ago.
Even more heartbreakingly beautiful now.
agreed, adfumbler.
jonnoms,Thanks for a Great video!!!
101 to zero vote?! I guess congrats are in order, Uploader!... And Artist. p.s. the actress resembles my late mother - Pretty cool!
Your comment brought me chills. "Field full of ghosts". What you say is so true. Thanks to Jonnoms for producing a sterling video. Thanks to Al for composing a one-of-a-kind gem.
For my brother D>W> Cassard
......................................I will find you
I have reason.......cassard went down in 18.....Our Legion Post is named after him
I play this tune on his anni.......thanks Al
Our Airport was named after him for 40 years...Now he just fades away into the ages.pretty much forgotten.......just like everybody else after a hundred years. The Great War? What is that? 2 pages in a history book..maybe.It ain't right
An entire generation was burned on it... We didn't learn shit
Now how fuckkin stupid is that?
my favourites would be the Palace of Verseilles .
You know a song about Lafayette would be a great idea, but Al is a "Limey" as you say, and they don't like to recall that the French helped win our revolution.
Not in Bournemouth by any chance? Were you one of the ones imortalized in Love Chronicles?
Everybody forgets the Great War......Be in a trench see how you feel
Young kids butchered by the thousands for nothing more than 100 feet of dirt. Cannon fodder worst than WW2. plus gas
I'm wonderin we beat the livin shit out of each other for 200 yeaRS.ALL OF A SUDDEN..........WE wern't right with the Germans...How the fuck.does that work?. I can understad why you Europia folk are sick of this shit.it ain't workin out for any of us. You folks ain't doin real well on the long term investment............I think you folks had a belly full.......The New world should learn.I'm just a dumbass.......We don't need this shit... we look to you..the old farts ......we just don't want our world blowed up every 50 or 60 years.......you guys get fresh houses evey time.if you live? were not right with that. straighten yer ass up.........quit bein so damn ornry.all the shit runs thru you folks.then we take sides.........I don't think it''s fair.Yer older yer smarter...I rest my case and we think we got it bad. I'd..whatever it may be move back to the homeland` what ever it may be..we care about you folks................your important..we got our problems too. ....yippee I ah cowpaddie..we love our kin across the pond...where ever you may be
The Great War only ended in 1991
Til now I only knew Stewart's "On the Border" and "Year of the Cat"..... PS: Is it David Niven at the beginning of the film scenes?
Yes, David Niven and Kim Hunter, in 'A Matter of Life and Death.'
Ah, so I was right. Thanks for the prompt answer - very kind.
So hauntingly beautiful and evocative...
"Last Days of the Century" is one of my faves of Al's,,,every track is magical and haunting...
Is there a UFO on the last image. Before the planes.
Holographic archons terraforming :D
Think its JETMAN.
Ever instrumental in their own demise and redemption...how many times have they been "liberated"??...lol
please check out the song End of days..
Temota (Y)
Who is the woman?
The actress is Kim Hunter, playing 'June'.
What a ear worm !!!