Blondie - Picture This (Live New Years Eve 1979)

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  • Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
  • Original transmission recording 31st December 1979..
    My favourite Blondie track.
    Yes 30 years ago !!!
    Real music, original songs with class performers !!!

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  • @iggyreilly2463
    @iggyreilly2463 10 років тому +76

    "Picture this: a sky full of thunder...picture this: my telephone number..." Classic stuff, sung by the most beautiful chanteuse in rock history.

    • @NuisanceMan
      @NuisanceMan 6 років тому +3

      Call me anytime.

    • @koksuklik117
      @koksuklik117 7 місяців тому

      Don't call me Shirley@@NuisanceMan

  • @monoscopes
    @monoscopes 5 років тому +29

    What a singer. She's flawless and this is not an easy song to sing.

  • @mrbojangles977
    @mrbojangles977 7 років тому +69

    One of the greatestest love song's ever written and never even mentions the word love ...

    • @mrbojangles977
      @mrbojangles977 7 років тому +10

      And how did this beautiful lady know in 1979 that we would get a pocket computer...

    • @sukie584
      @sukie584 6 років тому +3

      there were pocket pc's in the '70s. I think Hewlett Packard was the 1st.. it was a more advanced calculator by today's standard but considered a computer!

    • @user-rc1fi5gz6g
      @user-rc1fi5gz6g 7 місяців тому

      She didn't write the song

    • @mrbojangles977
      @mrbojangles977 7 місяців тому +1

      @user-rc1fi5gz6g written by Chris Stein Debbie Harry and Jimmy Destri .
      According to Jimmy Destri the lyrics were written by Debbie Harry

    • @user-rc1fi5gz6g
      @user-rc1fi5gz6g 7 місяців тому

      @@mrbojangles977 Then why wallet and wife? Surely it would be purse, it's clearly a song written my a man and sung by a woman, lots of songs are

  • @ahwien
    @ahwien 4 місяці тому +4

    love Parallel Lines, Frank does a great job here, Clem always

  • @mailboxthepatenters2586
    @mailboxthepatenters2586 5 років тому +52

    I love how she goes from tender to raw. Powerful!

    • @gaynor1721
      @gaynor1721 3 роки тому +2

      That's why she's a punk rocker.

  • @Micky1964
    @Micky1964 12 років тому +38

    "All I want is a photo in my wallet
    A small remembrance of something more solid"
    Oh God, Debbie...

    • @user-rc1fi5gz6g
      @user-rc1fi5gz6g 7 місяців тому

      She didn't write this song, photo of my wife and wallet are clues

  • @mjtaylor26
    @mjtaylor26 4 місяці тому +3

    Now that is a brilliant performance, and it is genuinely live here. particularly, the climatic section towards the end, she demonstrates very strong and impressive vocals and similar to the studio version in vocal strength.

  • @user-jp8dz5bs5r
    @user-jp8dz5bs5r 3 роки тому +19

    This live performance show how amazing her voice is and how she doesn’t a computer to enhance her voice.

    • @sambda
      @sambda 8 місяців тому

      She does now!

  • @califmike2003
    @califmike2003 3 роки тому +9

    Wow Cleme Burke the drummer is simply amazing.

    • @jasonchace494
      @jasonchace494 Рік тому +1

      I'm wearing a t shirt of him right now

  • @jmcdsoze
    @jmcdsoze 6 років тому +21

    I could look at that woman all day long. Simply beautiful.

  • @jwaynes71
    @jwaynes71 5 років тому +11

    What a magical time, 1979 college sophomore listening to Blondie and the sounds of that great era.

  • @TomandBoo
    @TomandBoo 12 років тому +28

    One of my favourite tracks from Blondie, there are so many to choose from!

  • @grantharrismusic
    @grantharrismusic 4 роки тому +15

    One of the best guitar solos in a pop song ever recorded.

    • @guyinsf
      @guyinsf 3 роки тому +2

      I agree!

    • @dutchy777
      @dutchy777 5 місяців тому

      oh come on! yes a good solo but the best ever??? NOOOO way Jose

    • @grantharrismusic
      @grantharrismusic 5 місяців тому

      @@dutchy777please don’t misquote me. I said one of the best and in a pop song. Work on your cognitive and reasoning skills. They’re severely lacking.

    • @dutchy777
      @dutchy777 5 місяців тому

      yrs I know, but it still isn;t even close@@grantharrismusic

    • @grantharrismusic
      @grantharrismusic 5 місяців тому

      @@dutchy777 ok. So you know that you are mis-quoting me to make your point you don't care. I was clearly mistaken. It's not your cognitive and reasoning skills that you need to work on - it's your common courtesy.

  • @farhanuharyanto9674
    @farhanuharyanto9674 4 роки тому +9

    Watching this on 31 December 2019. It was forty years ago today.

  • @alastairmcintyre4752
    @alastairmcintyre4752 10 років тому +13

    Electric atmosphere - one of the best gigs I ever went to , pity it was 35 years ago !! Watching Glastonbury is bringing it all back ( but not the years - PITY)

  • @robertcaffrey6097
    @robertcaffrey6097 3 роки тому +11

    Debbies voice sounds great here much more life and character than the studio version. I just love her velvet smooth honey tone.

  • @mikelocascio8695
    @mikelocascio8695 8 років тому +20

    Oh Debbie, you were and are the best, great singing and stage presence.

  • @simondavis7110
    @simondavis7110 Рік тому +2

    My favourite Blondie song of all time. Clem quite restrained on the drums for once!

  • @guyinsf
    @guyinsf 3 роки тому +4

    I love that even at their peak they always chose to play more intimate smaller amphitheaters instead of larger venues.

  • @geronimo3966
    @geronimo3966 4 роки тому +2

    20-20 vision a total portrait ....one of the best songs and Debbie ` s great!!! A extraordinary person! To my state about.

  • @pastoreric8283
    @pastoreric8283 5 років тому +6

    Amazing song...a balance of subtly and directness...only Blondie could capture this.

  • @kennethj1956
    @kennethj1956 13 років тому +3

    I wish I was at this concert......New Years Eve1979 ...watch the performance of "Pretty Baby" at this concert.... Blew me away!

  • @garynolan4901
    @garynolan4901 2 роки тому +2

    Now that is awesome.!! The great Debbie Harry.!!!🥰🤗😋

  • @VeteransTodayNetworkMedia
    @VeteransTodayNetworkMedia 5 років тому +1

    I fell in love with Debbie when she sang this song to me back in 1979 whilst I was in my bedroom listening with headphones. So she was on my turntable but she was there. I felt her! I heard her! She was singing to me, right? Awe Debbie!

    • @Richard-jy1jn
      @Richard-jy1jn 4 роки тому

      I think the only person she ever sang intimately to was me. I remember it like it was yesterday. She was watching me shower and then told me I gave her , her finest hour. Oh my. I was a fool to let her go . But at the time I was from a different planet and my peoples told me I had to go back to my home galaxy. Damn! Damn peoples!

  • @ChesterPiniton
    @ChesterPiniton 12 років тому +5

    The first band I ever really got into...once you're in, you can't get out! Bloody brilliant :)

  • @mrbojangles977
    @mrbojangles977 4 роки тому +2

    Happy 75th birthday beautiful girl ..01/07/2020 xxx

  • @gordonm7038
    @gordonm7038 7 років тому +15

    Great drumming.

  • @martinpalomo2658
    @martinpalomo2658 Рік тому +1

    THE REAL MAJESTY!!! She's simply the best!

  • @booishoois309
    @booishoois309 5 років тому +5

    This is awesome. Blondie had some really good songs.

  • @Criticalthinker0515
    @Criticalthinker0515 5 місяців тому

    Wishing I was there that night does it seem they realized how lucky they were watching this live this band was really talented and Debbie Harry is very special and very rare.

  • @citizen1163
    @citizen1163 2 роки тому +3

    It was raw & touched the masses
    Still does

  • @bobupen6476
    @bobupen6476 Рік тому

    Debbie got me through many a difficult teenage night in the late 70s.

  • @jerryturner3997
    @jerryturner3997 Рік тому +2

    Pitcher this, 👀 20/20 👀....

  • @mrbojangles977
    @mrbojangles977 7 років тому +9

    How can a band mention get a pocket computer in 1979 when in them days nobody had a computer and the computers that did exist were the size of a detached house....pure genius.

    • @davidzof
      @davidzof 7 років тому +4

      She's probably referring to her Hewlett Packard HP-65

    • @Chuckychazza
      @Chuckychazza 5 років тому

      @@davidzof loved the RPN calculators- still use it

    • @mrbojangles977
      @mrbojangles977 5 років тому

      @Mary kai Thanks Mary.........Makes sense your explanation.

  • @indigowarrior8
    @indigowarrior8 11 років тому +9

    i miss these days of individuality

  • @gfrkiss
    @gfrkiss 8 років тому +4

    I remember watching this at the time....great stuff...

  • @timwright4263
    @timwright4263 4 роки тому +3

    Instantly hypnotised. Fuck. I dissolved into nothing.

  • @craiggarland8859
    @craiggarland8859 10 років тому +1

    My girl likes blondie so much I wanted to see her.

  • @gordonm7038
    @gordonm7038 6 років тому +8

    Amazing drumming by Clam Burke!

  • @Aliendear
    @Aliendear 11 років тому +3

    Someone from the future? "you get a pocket computer... and do what you used to do"? I have theorised, a restoration of our future. Other than that, she is a gifted prophetess. I think someone from the future may have visited her.

  • @harryknackers7892
    @harryknackers7892 2 роки тому

    I've pictued it many times, Dear Deborah - dreaming is free.

  • @Broatch6
    @Broatch6 6 років тому +4

    Picture Her....D-ivine E-xciting B-onkers B-eautifil I-conoclastic E-xquisite

  • @Ferdasyn80
    @Ferdasyn80 6 років тому +4

    Amazing piece ....

  • @radge138
    @radge138 3 роки тому +1

    Feck Glasgow Apollo...I was at this with the Grew!

  • @jonathanmedmans5495
    @jonathanmedmans5495 Рік тому

    The only love song in the world where the word love is not mentioned once!

  • @Steve1959Nfadin
    @Steve1959Nfadin 7 років тому

    Picture this . April 1 - Blondie & Cyndi Lauper live in the Hunter Valley -can't wait.

  • @marlenemcdowell1843
    @marlenemcdowell1843 10 років тому +3

    simply beautiful

  • @lovewalruss
    @lovewalruss 9 років тому +7

    Brilliant

  • @Broatch6
    @Broatch6 6 років тому +7

    Picture Her....D-ivine E-xciting B-onkers E-xquisite R-aunchy O-hhh!!! A-mazing H-eavenly

  • @StephanJK
    @StephanJK 14 років тому +1

    Blondie at its peak!

  • @MaryAnneRosato
    @MaryAnneRosato 10 років тому +18

    I will give you my finest hour...

    • @mrbojangles977
      @mrbojangles977 7 років тому +4

      Awsome lyric ...Debbie Harry has written so many amazing lyrics

    • @Broatch6
      @Broatch6 7 років тому +2

      and all I want is 20:20 vision...a total portrait and no omission

    • @Dunster9
      @Dunster9 24 дні тому

      Yes please.

  • @AthelstanEngland
    @AthelstanEngland 4 роки тому +1

    Perfection...

  • @treatmentbound
    @treatmentbound 9 років тому +5

    Please give me your finest hour!

  • @mrbojangles977
    @mrbojangles977 4 роки тому +3

    I,ve had a non contact love affair since 1977........

  • @polo-kf6yh
    @polo-kf6yh Рік тому

    Omg she is so interesting and beautiful.

  • @Neil2022
    @Neil2022 6 років тому

    Way ahead of its time.Fucking awesome.

  • @merseymain
    @merseymain 13 років тому +1

    Outstanding

  • @fatbelly27
    @fatbelly27 4 роки тому +1

    40 years ago!

  • @Alexander_2525
    @Alexander_2525 4 роки тому

    Das ist unglaublich genial!!!

  • @togspeedy7224
    @togspeedy7224 5 років тому +1

    Excellent

  • @debbiehall4585
    @debbiehall4585 12 років тому

    they havent played Brum for 2years..we're the best audience EVER

  • @rudycolas3733
    @rudycolas3733 2 роки тому

    Good song , very nice good Rock .

  • @Yehohanan67
    @Yehohanan67 Рік тому

    Today is December 20, 2022 and she predicted that there are pocket computers in the 2020 vision. Debbie is a prophetess.

  • @taubs3
    @taubs3 11 років тому +7

    No Auto-Tune.

  • @carlosalbertoschiffinischi3976
    @carlosalbertoschiffinischi3976 4 роки тому

    A cantora Debbie Harry a Diva da música Pop Rock Internacional a melhor cantora de todos os tempos

  • @user-mn4jf7mn6m
    @user-mn4jf7mn6m Рік тому

    ❤picture this 1979 picture Glastonbury next century your some lady❤

  • @jimbob8836
    @jimbob8836 8 років тому

    The year I was born 😄

  • @Broatch6
    @Broatch6 7 років тому +5

    her finest hour : all I want is 20:20 vision

  • @marytresham9164
    @marytresham9164 Рік тому

    Yep

  • @creusamariacantoiacantoia4756
    @creusamariacantoiacantoia4756 Рік тому +1

    Está encantado.

  • @merseymained
    @merseymained 13 років тому

    @gussie5555- mine too(favourite). FANTASTIC performance.

  • @g.1260
    @g.1260 Рік тому

    I want HER!

  • @rudycolas3733
    @rudycolas3733 2 роки тому

    Debbie good singer .

  • @PaulR387
    @PaulR387 11 років тому

    Proper singer

  • @l.f.1414
    @l.f.1414 Рік тому

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  • @jasheton
    @jasheton 3 роки тому +3

    I get dizzy looking at her…

  • @dansommo3473
    @dansommo3473 8 років тому

    Great..

  • @WESSERPARAQUAT
    @WESSERPARAQUAT 6 років тому +5

    no auto tune required there then :P

  • @stevendavis1877
    @stevendavis1877 10 років тому +2

    way cool

  • @Neil100
    @Neil100 9 років тому

    LIKED.

  • @aggisdemetri
    @aggisdemetri Рік тому

    Get a pocket computer and do what you used to do yeah ! 40 years later we got that computer

  • @kotifly
    @kotifly 11 років тому

    В средневековье её бы посчитали ведьмой..но, как её можно не любить???)

  • @otf1mtuci
    @otf1mtuci 6 років тому

    Goddess

  • @lop00pollop00pol
    @lop00pollop00pol 11 років тому

    I will give you my finest hour.............

  • @flyingmerkel6
    @flyingmerkel6 9 років тому +4

    I was 18 and dumb as a public school rock. What happened?

  • @TomTom-OMG
    @TomTom-OMG Рік тому

    How could singers from this era hear themselves when singing live?

  • @farhanuharyanto9674
    @farhanuharyanto9674 5 років тому +2

    New Year Eve 2019. It was forty years ago today. What did the Band mean by "20-20 vision"? Is it the vision of year 2020? Also, the mentoned "Pocket Computer". Did they refer to a device that can do computation (e.g. calculator but what the computation device had something to do with Picture?). Or, did they refer this to pocket computer as per what we know today?

    • @aplant9980
      @aplant9980 5 років тому +4

      farhanu haryanto 2020 vision is an optometry term! Your eyes are rated by number for near/farsightedness and 2020 is the optimal score. She's wanting perfect sight so she can see this person in the most detail.

  • @MrMarsari
    @MrMarsari 12 років тому

    mine also!

  • @kevinwilliams-id8er
    @kevinwilliams-id8er 11 років тому +3

    look at debbie...how could any man be bent

  • @tobiassouthcott2578
    @tobiassouthcott2578 6 років тому

    not enough studio recordings most ly live

  • @cynthiacorcoran9389
    @cynthiacorcoran9389 5 років тому +2

    Do you have same caption on picture this Blondie it's not seventy nine.

  • @carlinhos3515
    @carlinhos3515 6 років тому

    Crimes temporais, yeah...!

  • @tylerdurden1221
    @tylerdurden1221 5 років тому +1

    Have a pocket computer try to do what you used to do....prolific

  • @Rantomon
    @Rantomon 11 років тому

    I think most of the credit for such inventions lies with the Japanese. Many songs appear prophetic with hindsight.. Who knows what that's all about....

  • @debbiehall4585
    @debbiehall4585 11 років тому

    oh but they are in 2013
    got my tickets

  • @Broatch6
    @Broatch6 5 років тому +1

    B eautiful
    L uscious
    O MG
    N othing better
    D ivine
    I ncredible
    E xquisite
    Picture This

  • @jonathandyment1444
    @jonathandyment1444 Місяць тому

    Where is the rest of this video?

  • @ProfessorTime
    @ProfessorTime 5 років тому +3

    Great song. Horrible coverage. 95% of the coverage is a close-up of Deborah Harry.
    There's 4 more people in the band, and I would have liked to have seen them too.

    • @racketman2u
      @racketman2u 5 років тому +6

      I've seen them, and believe me, they are no competition to Debbie, visually.

  • @catestout3888
    @catestout3888 Рік тому

    They were great before she got addicted to heroine, blew up her band mates, and got into the occult. She slowly cracked up and by 1982 it was all over.

    • @MrGenexxx
      @MrGenexxx Рік тому +1

      Nice summary of the band's history. Should be Blondie's wikipedia page.

    • @brando7266
      @brando7266 Рік тому +1

      U forget getting into the hof, most great bands have ugly breakups, ps- still touring, so much for her being a drug addict,

  • @alfasteve12
    @alfasteve12 11 років тому +75

    This song displays her great vocal range, and she nailed all the notes in this fine version.

    • @TheThetingler
      @TheThetingler 3 роки тому +12

      Why does no one recognise what a brilliant singer she is totally live no auto tune no gimmicks no back up singers

    • @rudycolas3733
      @rudycolas3733 2 роки тому +1

      Very nice the Blondie .

    • @rudycolas3733
      @rudycolas3733 2 роки тому +1

      Very good Rock song .

    • @rudycolas3733
      @rudycolas3733 2 роки тому

      YEAH !!!!!!

    • @Danny-mx8rb
      @Danny-mx8rb 2 роки тому +1

      @@TheThetingler Tingles! Many of us get it. Debs adored.