This is one of the best live performances on UA-cam. Love this version so much more than the fairly dry studio recording. Brilliant. Adele Bertei is so cute and has a fun history. In her solo you can hear a little of how the song was originally written for Michael Jackson, who apparently just ignored it.
Michael actually said he liked the drums when Dolby approached him after not hearing back for a few weeks (this was likely in 1983, when Thrilled was the absolute hottest shit). Michael said he liked the drums. Then Dolby recorded it for the better.
Love this sooo much... one of my all time favourite songs from the 80s. It was just so different to my ears at the time. I mean what? Trombone solo? I really appreciate that this is actually performed live (except for the bass I guess).
The keyboard player looks like the actor Matt Smith! Didn't realise Dolby played all the keyboards on Def Leppard albums Pyromania and Hysteria. He also produced The King of Rock n' Roll by Prefab Sprout, very talented 👍
@@richardpennington5445I think the Def Leppard stuff is completely overlooked because he was in dispute with his record company and was credited as Booker T Boffin. I remember getting Pyromania and wondering who that was! I love the stuff he did with Foreigner and Prefab Sprout though yeah.
Matthew Seligman wasn't present unfortunately. And the bass on the album version is also sequenced. This sounds like the original part, so I got no problems with it. If it works, it works.
Thomas Dolby, John Mellencamp, and Einstürzende Neubauten on the same show. The 80s was a wild time to be alive.
How far we've fallen
Totally! They need to put the whole show on UA-cam!
Just saw Thomas Dolby perform this song live last week. He is simply a genius.
So lucky!!
Totally Tubular Festival! Mines was LA
So funky and what a fantastic voice the lady has got. Awesome
Such a great, complex song when done live!! Incredible!!!
❤ I love the woman 🎉she's amazing and so 80s ❤
Adele Bertei
She's a brilliant singer!@@btaylo24
Holy Moly! And Thomas just celebrated his 64th b'day this Oct. Rock on you crazy Diamond!
A brilliant music video and a great follow-up to the smash hit "She Blinded Me With Science." Dang, I miss the 80's!
A great, underrated song.
This is one of the best live performances on UA-cam. Love this version so much more than the fairly dry studio recording. Brilliant. Adele Bertei is so cute and has a fun history. In her solo you can hear a little of how the song was originally written for Michael Jackson, who apparently just ignored it.
Michael actually said he liked the drums when Dolby approached him after not hearing back for a few weeks (this was likely in 1983, when Thrilled was the absolute hottest shit). Michael said he liked the drums. Then Dolby recorded it for the better.
It's the only song that gives me goosebumps for the entirety of it's duration.
Bloody hell!... 40 years ago? What happened to yesterday?
I always thought the chorus was Dolby’s voice manipulated. Didn’t realize it was
Adele Bertei
Album cover credits.
Thanks, I was wondering who the female vocalist was.
I always assumed it was Dolby as well. But that definitely IS him doing the short female part in Radio Silence!
What a song !
Amazing and energetic live performance
Love this sooo much... one of my all time favourite songs from the 80s. It was just so different to my ears at the time. I mean what? Trombone solo? I really appreciate that this is actually performed live (except for the bass I guess).
it is a synth bass line, so it was sequenced for this gig. can be played on real basses of course.
I've watched this twice, in search of the bass player😏 I was reading the comments in hope that I was wrong but nope.........no live bass!
40 years young this year this song. FANTASTIC!
Love Thomas Dolby, so talented❤
The keyboard player looks like the actor Matt Smith! Didn't realise Dolby played all the keyboards on Def Leppard albums Pyromania and Hysteria. He also produced The King of Rock n' Roll by Prefab Sprout, very talented 👍
Wait... what?? Oh wow! I never knew that! Thanks for sharing!!!!
He also wrote and played keyboards for Foreigner, notably on Waiting For a Girl Like You.
He produced the whole of Prefab Sprout’s album ‘Steve McQueen’ which is one of the great albums of the 1980’s in my opinion. Superb TD production.
@@richardpennington5445I think the Def Leppard stuff is completely overlooked because he was in dispute with his record company and was credited as Booker T Boffin. I remember getting Pyromania and wondering who that was! I love the stuff he did with Foreigner and Prefab Sprout though yeah.
@@richardpennington5445 Funny you say that... I saw Dolby live in Brighton UK last week... his support act??? Martin McAloon from Prefab Sprout
This sounds sick with a 1000w of bass.
I always assumed that the higher pitched vocal on the recorded version was just Dolby pitched up. Didn't know it was a duet with this lady.
I think it was a different female singer on the album version.
@@wesdoobner7521 Had to look it up but this seems to be Adele Bertei, same as on the album
@@LudvigC I knew it was Adele live, wasn't sure about the album.
Album credits.
Just love the dancing as well ❤🎉😊
Love this. Fantastic performance
Pete Thoms (of Landscape) on trombone
I was about to ask that. Thanks, Dave!
Love his tone
Ty ❤
WLIR Steamer of the Week 2-Jan-84
Good funk playing
this is gold...! thank you for posting
JAMS so hard!! LIVE trombone...
Difficult..changes, quirks...great job band!!
Love it...Rhythm is so Weather Report
Great beats touched my emotions so very deeply
Back then already.
that was groovalicious!
killer performance!
Awesome. I always thought the high vocal part was Dolby transposed up an octave.
Would've sounded too artificial in 1984. And it's on the album credits that she's singing.
Two octaves.
That's probably really had to do live but he did a great job
They're all very capable musicians and hopefully tech savvy lol
😍😍😍😃🔥🔥🔥🔥
Bring on the mushy peas.. That trombone sounds like my dad after a curry... Lol..
Awesome performance. Dolby is sadly overlooked these days. Props to Adele Bertei.
❤😊
I think the guitarist on the right with the mustache and Hawaiian shirt played rhythm guitar for Be Bop Delux near the end of their career.
✨🤗✨👍✨
Great sound designer and producer too - i.e "Steve Mc Queen" from Prefab sprout
レコードの音を再現してるのが凄い
TIGHT
Little did Dolby know that he made a song that perfectly describes the world in 2024!
So so so true!!!
Please explain how?
Hilarious that he did a little moon walk at 3:41, because he had offered this song to michael jackson, who rejected it.
RIP Matthew Seligman who performed the gymnastics of the bass guitar on this track - not sure if he was in this video??
That's him playing acoustic guitar
@@peterjames6620 thanks
I was hoping to see the bass player ripping that mad backbeat. It must have been pre-recorded or part of the synth machine.
To me, this is the type of 80s song that sounds messy and strange, although I am a 70/80s lover
So is this Thom Yorke's debut TV appearance?
He wish.
I don't see a bass player. Could it be coming from the Fairlight Page R? (A Sequencer)
Who is the girl singing??
Adele Bertei
Name of the female backup singer? In the studio,Thomas did that voice.
Adele Bertei
@@admi908 Thank you!
Is that Alan Wilder on the vocoder?
I love Adele Bertei ♥
Amazingly clear voice! It sparkles with energy. A joy to hear.
They certainly don't make em like this anyMORE COWBELL!
Do you by any chance have the performance Neubauten played?
Where is the bass line coming from? Is it just an electronic loop? I don't see a bass player.
It’s a Fairlight CMI preset so likely from a tape being played - such as the effects, and drums
Like a funky cop
I can hear funky bass but no bass guitarist?
Would have been so much better with a live Bass player.
That girl's super cute.
Wacky and brilliant.
Disappointed, couldn't " wrangle in that bass line Thomas?
Ive tried for year to learn it
It was programmed from the Fairlight CMI so likely very hard to do live
@@jaybowden2658 he's had bassists play it, I can play it.
@@MobiusBandwidth but does playing it on actual bass sound the same as the studio recording?
Matthew Seligman wasn't present unfortunately. And the bass on the album version is also sequenced. This sounds like the original part, so I got no problems with it. If it works, it works.
This is the song Michael Jackson rejected.
Gta VICE CITY record