The song he's talking about is "Love is a Losing Game" by Amy Winehouse, and I agree with him. It is so desperately sad. I see many comments insulting her because of her drug problems. Amy had a unique soul and an even more unique way of expressing it, something that is a rarity in music. She wasn't afraid to tell the world "I'm hurting and some of this I caused myself." She was such a talented artist. I was one of those people that found her overrated before I really listened to her less mainstream music. Every song she writes is a proclamation of pain, heartbreak, love and life.
I’ve been listening to a lot Joni Mitchell lately; she came into music at a good time when the field was a bit more open, though she was pretty fed up with the industry even before she retired. Amy Winehouse came into the industry at a bad time; she had the potential to become a gifted songwriter, possibly in the same league as Mitchell, but the industry - as it is now - doesn’t care about art or nurturing (or protecting) talent. It’s all driven by profit and it’s luck if a really piece of well-crafted music makes it into the mainstream. The current nature of celebrity and social media doesn’t help either.
@@paulmallon9292 There are plenty of people who were good at things and were also drug addicts. Whether that be fixing toilets, painting walls or driving trucks. Amy Winehouse just happened to be a filthy drug addict whose vocal chords could produce pleasant vibrations, and that's apparently enough for her to exceptionally remembered and memorialized as some tragic figure.
I totally agree with Bill but for me when she sings the last chorus in "Tears dry on their own", the "he walks away" line is performed with such deep soul I get terrible goose bumps like a wave washing over me. I didn't listen to her really until after but I can appreciate her now and what we have lost.
The whole last bit from Love Is A Losing Game tho... "Memories mar my mind, love is a fate resigned, over futile odds and laughed at by the gods, now the final frame, love is a losing game" That shit kills me.
I agree - Amy Winehouse was such an immensely talented musician and singer, and Back To Black so perfect, that her loss, and the huge further potential she had that was never realised, always leaves me with a massive twinge of sadness. Many newer singers have tried to take her place since, but none have quite her mix of respect for her musical heritage, such great songwriting, or the voice. A very, very much missed artist..........
I looked at his Wikipedia page and oh my god! he supports Jeremy Corbyn. Bill's gone down in my estimation now, although I like that he is sympathetic towards animal causes. As is Ricky Gervais.
What I adore about Bill, outside his obvious and varied gifts and talents, is he reminds me of people I met in bars near my Uni. Older guys (40's/50's) with long hair, alone at the bar, balding from the front, band t shirt on, drinking some IPA when it was not cool at all, but possessing an unreal knowledge of music of a surprising range of genres, but their heart lies with rock. Good guys, dying breed.
I see what he's saying - after seeing the Amy film it was impossible to listen to her songs, especially Love is A Losing Game. She was an enormous talent.
Me too - it’s a difficult listen these days. Partly because it’s so damn good, and these days listening to really good music seems to bring a lump to my throat, and because of the back story.......
Bill Bailey, seems to be one of the nicest people in "show biz." - He is a great comedian, and a talented musician.... but seems like a person that, if I lived in the same town, would be just an excellent neighbor and person to run into each week. I would love to live next door to him, or be a regular at the same pub that he frequents. Bill: "Hey VideoNozoki, I'm going to be on tour next week. Here is the key to my place and a list of the directions for each pet. Would you mind looking after them for 10 days (same as last time)??" VideoNozoki: "Of course Bill. No problem at all. In return, when you get back, let's invite the regular 4 and head down to the pub?" Bill: "That sounds like a very fair exchange. As always, thanks again, really helps me out knowing that the pets are safe with you (you've done it several times)." VideoNozoki: "Not a problem at all. As I've said, it is as much fun for me to see all the animals. Give Kristin my love, and when you get back let's have you and Kristin, and me and mine celebrate with a few drinks at the pub." - Cheers
When I was somewhere around four my parents gave me a cassette tape player with some shitty speakers to it. My first cassette tape a mix album with the Beach Boys. I remember listening to it over and over, loved it.
I can't listen to "he ain't heavy..he's my brother" coz my uncle was gonna sing it at my dad's funeral, but he was so emotional he couldn't! So that's one song I will try and avoid, coz of that sad sad memory !!
I have had the dvd for years, but I still cant watch either. I listen B2B and Frank regularly, they are masterpieces. I am still brought to tears several times on full playthroughs.
I struggle to listen to Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland" these days, because of this quote; "This isn't just a song; it's poetry." - My dad, Alan Kirk. Sleep well, old man.
Totally understand that. I can't listen to "wish you were here" (or even type it in) without getting sad as this was the song my mother requested played at her funeral. "Like a stone" by Chris Cornell from the songbook album too.
First song I can confidently say I ever heard was William Tell Overture. I was sitting on my fathers knee, watching The Lone Ranger, bouncing up and down in following the tune of the music. I must have been 2 or 3.
first album - i want to say it was a Police greatest hits Album but im not sure. first song you remember hearing - gimme a friggin break, i cant remember the first song i heard this morning.... first song that made me want to perform - none, i have no musical talent whatsoever karaoke - see above song i cant listen to - Luther Vandross, dance with my father, i still have both parents but the thought of losing my mother who has been my rock for 42 years frightens the life out of me, (the other one who walked out when i was 5, not so much.) so listening to that gets to me, and i know it gets to my mum who has lost both parents, and that gets to me, so i cant listen to that one.
Same here. First I was avoiding listening to it because I knew it was his goodbye. Then my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and died 9 months later. God know when I'll actually be able to listen to it.
Yes I played the whole album once and honestly cant ever play it again, it is so sad and I dont think of him like that, fortunately he left us a wealth of music we can enjoy forever.
I bought my first album at age 7. And by that time, I already knew all the albums in my parents' collection. All the artists and all the songs. Hundreds of them. So not all of us are late bloomers. And not all of us later turn out to be fucking musical geniuses like Bill Bailey... :(
Nah, poor beard. I done the same and the beard made a full recovery and is currently hosting a successful dance class. So ive to eh leave it alone for a bit :P
A New World Record by ELO was also my first ever album purchase as well. Good choice Bill! My first single was Don't Blame It On the Boogie by the Jackson 5, I think, god that was a long time ago.
Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher Night They Drove old Dixie Down - Joan Baez all around early 70's, can't remember the first but I still have a soft spot for them today
Yeah, I know. Things haven't been as good since. It was just - well, more absorbing. I don't mean I used the NME for toilet paper by that, of course . . .
This guy... Probably my favourite British comedian/stand-on-the-scene/talker guy. The rest of those calling themselves "Comedians" or "stand-ups" are practically unwatchable. They all suffer from immense "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME" syndrome, no matter if they're girls or guys, which makes the choice of those who pay to look at them... kinda weird. This guy doesn't have a hint of it, and he's immensely talanted. Not one of his songs or stupid faces feel cheap. So well done, keep on whatever you're doing and best wishes from Latvia.
I can't listen to this song, either. It was the soundtrack of my girlfriend, whom I'd lived with for ten years, leaving me for my best friend of 30 years. I was just....destroyed. I was once in WH Smith's, and it started playing and I just had to get out. I was absolutely bawling my eyes out. Terrible, terrible time. Heartbreaking song.
My earliest memory’s are cool :) can’t pinpoint who came first but it was either Gary Numan, Adam Ant or Queen :) I think it might be Gary Numan ‘cars’ I just remember seeing him on tv and I stopped everything I was doing and it was seeing this guy with a white face! And the sound of the Moogs!! Years later and to this day, I play guitar and synths :) and now own a Moog :) those sounds stayed with me :)
My first LP bought was a secondhand copy of Atom Heart Mother in Brixton because I like the 🐄 on the cover, I really liked “If”, then later I bought Relics for 99p starline version in Woolworths & thought oh another Floyd. On listening it make me want to investigate Wtf happened between these two albums that made them so vastly different.
The first record I bought with my own hard-earned pocket money was 'Hard Day's Night' by the Fabs. 29/6 (ruinously expensive at my pocket money rate of two shillings a week.) Pretty good launch point though.
When he said it was one his mum sang it reminded me that the earliest one I remember was from my dad singing "sitting on the dock of the bay" which is now ruined by a comedian talking about laughing at some singing it "sitting on a cock coz I'm gay" haha.
*First Album bought me:* _Merry Wombling Christmas_ *First song i actually thought I liked:* My cousin playing _Tiger Feet_ First single I received: Judas Priest _United_ *First single I bought:* Duran Duran _Planet Earth_ *First Album I bought:* Iron Maiden _Number of the Beast_
Bill is a fave of mine. Agree about Amy 😢 When you asked first song you remember, my first guess was the theme from Andy Pandy, how embarrassing is that! The one I can’t listen to (without crying) is Lover You Should Have Come Over by Jeff Buckley, not just because of him, it strikes an all too personal chord.
not sure if its my special kind of special or if it's a musician/artist thing but I can remember, vividly, the first time I heard songs that would end up being monumental in my life. sometimes, I can remember the first time I actually listened and heard the lyrics....other times its the first time I remember hearing the song consciously (it may have played in the background but I never noticed until then, like Bill said).....but a lot of songs, I can tell you exactly where I was, the age and what I was doing when I first heard a song I fell in love with. .....make me think I have a brain tumor or something.....
That's amazing. I also remember Perry Como's Magic Moments as somethinglike the first song I remember hearing. It popped into my mind a few seconds before Bill said it. It also seems to be inextricably connected in my mind with choosing something off the penny tray in the corner shop (old pennies that is). There were four-a-penny chews on the tray and liquorice sticks. . Weird where minds go isn't it? I chose a banana flavour chew at least that's what pops into my mind on thinking about "Magic moments memories are made of this" quite random what's down near the bottom of a 67 year old mind.
Magic Moments was one of the first songs I remember too, it was in my Dad's record collection along with the Beverley Sisters, Harry Belafonte, Debbie Reynolds and others. For some reason I misheard 'memories we've been sharing' as 'memories wreathed in sherry!' (I'm 62 by the way).
Lol. His impression of the typical poser NME interviewees, it's so true them trying to act like their first album was something obscure... stop posing we know it was fackin Spice Girls or Lionel Ritchtea.
Like many others, I saw Amy's demise coming a mile away. It was a loss for all of the world - what a talent. But above all, it was heartbreaking for that beautiful and struggling soul. It is not a good club to join.
How strange to hear Mr. Bailey talking frankly. Edit: ...and come on, the first song you ever heard was probably a nursery rhyme. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, The Wheels On The Bus or Heads Shoulders Knees And Toes.
No, they would be at least 1 year old by then. It would be hard to avoid hearing any music for the first year of life until then. Of course, none of it would be remembered.
Theres too much of Our past's fanfares, decognatively resigned to dissonance. Amy is the tip of the iceberg. My 1970's childhood is smashed by a series of Headline, whose a Nonce News broadcasts.
When I saw the thumbnail for this vid, with the accompanying mention of Amy Winehouse as an Artist whom this man cannot listen-to anymore, I HAD to view it - somehow knowing EXACTLY the song to which he referred. I share the sentiments, "junky cunt" or not.
Winehouse had some cracking songs. She was young and dumb and the tabloid's play thing, I think she'd probably have been better off not being famous...
Naïve I'd say and lacking life experience rather than actually dumb. prone to self-destructive behaviour to. I suppose then again you might indeed class that as a certain style of stupidity, she hurt herself most of all and didn't seem to learn from it in life. I viewed her as talented and one of the brighter lights in popular music in recent years, but not as talented as she has been made out to be since she died.
i've never had a enemy except for nme but ill be selling twice as many copy's as their magazines will ever be with spectecals ahead of me are healthier then a dalmaition on pedigree
The song he's talking about is "Love is a Losing Game" by Amy Winehouse, and I agree with him. It is so desperately sad. I see many comments insulting her because of her drug problems. Amy had a unique soul and an even more unique way of expressing it, something that is a rarity in music. She wasn't afraid to tell the world "I'm hurting and some of this I caused myself." She was such a talented artist. I was one of those people that found her overrated before I really listened to her less mainstream music. Every song she writes is a proclamation of pain, heartbreak, love and life.
I’ve been listening to a lot Joni Mitchell lately; she came into music at a good time when the field was a bit more open, though she was pretty fed up with the industry even before she retired. Amy Winehouse came into the industry at a bad time; she had the potential to become a gifted songwriter, possibly in the same league as Mitchell, but the industry - as it is now - doesn’t care about art or nurturing (or protecting) talent. It’s all driven by profit and it’s luck if a really piece of well-crafted music makes it into the mainstream. The current nature of celebrity and social media doesn’t help either.
Who has made fun of her addiction here? Let alone 'many'.
She wasn't a unique soul, she was a drug addict who had a nice voice.
@@arandombard1197 Completely ignorant take. She was a fantastic songwriter. Don't. Talk. Shite.
@@paulmallon9292 There are plenty of people who were good at things and were also drug addicts. Whether that be fixing toilets, painting walls or driving trucks. Amy Winehouse just happened to be a filthy drug addict whose vocal chords could produce pleasant vibrations, and that's apparently enough for her to exceptionally remembered and memorialized as some tragic figure.
I totally agree with Bill but for me when she sings the last chorus in "Tears dry on their own", the "he walks away" line is performed with such deep soul I get terrible goose bumps like a wave washing over me. I didn't listen to her really until after but I can appreciate her now and what we have lost.
The whole last bit from Love Is A Losing Game tho... "Memories mar my mind, love is a fate resigned, over futile odds and laughed at by the gods, now the final frame, love is a losing game" That shit kills me.
I agree - Amy Winehouse was such an immensely talented musician and singer, and Back To Black so perfect, that her loss, and the huge further potential she had that was never realised, always leaves me with a massive twinge of sadness. Many newer singers have tried to take her place since, but none have quite her mix of respect for her musical heritage, such great songwriting, or the voice. A very, very much missed artist..........
Bill Bailey’s such a great human being. His love of animals and music is so inspiring. He also makes me laugh a lot.
I looked at his Wikipedia page and oh my god! he supports Jeremy Corbyn. Bill's gone down in my estimation now, although I like that he is sympathetic towards animal causes. As is Ricky Gervais.
What I adore about Bill, outside his obvious and varied gifts and talents, is he reminds me of people I met in bars near my Uni. Older guys (40's/50's) with long hair, alone at the bar, balding from the front, band t shirt on, drinking some IPA when it was not cool at all, but possessing an unreal knowledge of music of a surprising range of genres, but their heart lies with rock. Good guys, dying breed.
I see what he's saying - after seeing the Amy film it was impossible to listen to her songs, especially Love is A Losing Game. She was an enormous talent.
One of the many great things about Bill Bailey is how he's been rocking a mullet for years and no-one has even noticed.
Not a mullet. That baby is a skullet. And Bills rocking that bad boy.
I doubt that is an intentional mullet.
It's just what nature left him.
Love Bill Bailey - A brilliant comedian and hugely talented musician. National treasure.
bill bailey namedropping this heat is one of the greatest things i've ever seen. mad respect.
I love when people are so passionate about something that you can see their enthusiasm leaking from them
After seeing that Docu, I sometimes tear up hearing Love is a losing game. And that's my tribute to one of the greats that went much too soon.
Me too - it’s a difficult listen these days. Partly because it’s so damn good, and these days listening to really good music seems to bring a lump to my throat, and because of the back story.......
God Bless Amy Winehouse
I can't watch Hugh Grant films. He was in the year below me at school and was an annoying little tick.
Maybe watch one of his films where his character dies?
@William Perez if all you see when u watch a move is that kid that was annoying in school, you won't really enjoy the movie
Still is
Did you go to Latymer? 90% of the products of that school are insufferable toffs!
@William Perez 🙄 how you get jealousy out of this I don't know...
Bill Bailey, seems to be one of the nicest people in "show biz." -
He is a great comedian, and a talented musician.... but seems like a person that, if I lived in the same town, would be just an excellent neighbor and person to run into each week.
I would love to live next door to him, or be a regular at the same pub that he frequents.
Bill: "Hey VideoNozoki, I'm going to be on tour next week. Here is the key to my place and a list of the directions for each pet. Would you mind looking after them for 10 days (same as last time)??"
VideoNozoki: "Of course Bill. No problem at all. In return, when you get back, let's invite the regular 4 and head down to the pub?"
Bill: "That sounds like a very fair exchange. As always, thanks again, really helps me out knowing that the pets are safe with you (you've done it several times)."
VideoNozoki: "Not a problem at all. As I've said, it is as much fun for me to see all the animals.
Give Kristin my love, and when you get back let's have you and Kristin, and me and mine celebrate with a few drinks at the pub." - Cheers
If you're here only for the title, skip to 2:44.
And what he actually said turned out not to be nearly as meaningful as the title.
Why would you want to skip the rest? You're missing out.
skip to 1:27
Skip the rest of this decade. It's crap.
Why - it's good to hear Bill talk seriously about music and his childhood.
im pretty much the same but with all her music. such a sad story, rip amy
When I was somewhere around four my parents gave me a cassette tape player with some shitty speakers to it. My first cassette tape a mix album with the Beach Boys. I remember listening to it over and over, loved it.
I can't listen to "he ain't heavy..he's my brother" coz my uncle was gonna sing it at my dad's funeral, but he was so emotional he couldn't! So that's one song I will try and avoid, coz of that sad sad memory !!
personally i cant bring myself to even watch the documentary. there was so much talent on her soul its too sad to revisit her downfall
I have had the dvd for years, but I still cant watch either. I listen B2B and Frank regularly, they are masterpieces. I am still brought to tears several times on full playthroughs.
I struggle to listen to Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland" these days, because of this quote;
"This isn't just a song; it's poetry." - My dad, Alan Kirk. Sleep well, old man.
Your dad has great taste in music. So sorry for your loss.
God speed Alan Kirk.
May he rest in peace.
Yeah, but the poets down here don't write nothing at all - they just stand back and let it all be.
Totally understand that.
I can't listen to "wish you were here" (or even type it in) without getting sad as this was the song my mother requested played at her funeral.
"Like a stone" by Chris Cornell from the songbook album too.
The Buzzcocks Love Bites is one of greatest albums ever made.
First song I can confidently say I ever heard was William Tell Overture. I was sitting on my fathers knee, watching The Lone Ranger, bouncing up and down in following the tune of the music. I must have been 2 or 3.
You heard your first song when you were 2-3?
First song I can remember, yeah. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to say it was, right?
Ps. No one likes a smart arse :^)
he wasn't being smart, he was just surprised that you can remember a song from when you were 2-3 years old. A near impossibility I would have thought.
Might have been the theme to Black Beauty ?
He looks like he has a thought bubble coming from his head
First song I remember was “Penny Lane” I was 2, I can still visualise where I was, brilliant memory 😁
I love Bill, absolute legend.
Probably the most beautiful song ever written
First song I remember "getting" as affecting me was "Something" by The Beatles. Summer of '68 it was on the radio constantly. I was nine.
The first thing you remember listening to was "This Heat"?!!?
Fuck I love "This Heat".
first album - i want to say it was a Police greatest hits Album but im not sure.
first song you remember hearing - gimme a friggin break, i cant remember the first song i heard this morning....
first song that made me want to perform - none, i have no musical talent whatsoever
karaoke - see above
song i cant listen to - Luther Vandross, dance with my father, i still have both parents but the thought of losing my mother who has been my rock for 42 years frightens the life out of me, (the other one who walked out when i was 5, not so much.) so listening to that gets to me, and i know it gets to my mum who has lost both parents, and that gets to me, so i cant listen to that one.
My first favorite song was "Whip it" by Devo.
that was a great start!
I still haven't been able to put on Black Star by David Bowie. I know I'll end up crying. It's sat on my shelf for 18 months.
Same here. First I was avoiding listening to it because I knew it was his goodbye. Then my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, and died 9 months later. God know when I'll actually be able to listen to it.
Yes I played the whole album once and honestly cant ever play it again, it is so sad and I dont think of him like that, fortunately he left us a wealth of music we can enjoy forever.
It is painful, but worth it. It's like reading someone's final letter to you. "I can't give everything away" is just so, so tragic.
It will be there when you're ready. No rush.
Ben Archer
I reckon go for it. It will be cathartic.
I loved This Heat!!! Not waving is one of my favourite songs
I bought my first album at age 7. And by that time, I already knew all the albums in my parents' collection. All the artists and all the songs. Hundreds of them.
So not all of us are late bloomers. And not all of us later turn out to be fucking musical geniuses like Bill Bailey... :(
never seem bill sad before.
I fucking love Bill Bailey
Yeah It's so sad, after watching the doco' "Amy" every song of her's wrenches my heart, and I can't watch the documentary again.
it is a beautifully sad song and thats why Amy is one of the greatests
Amy Winehouse was a great artist. We've got her tracks and they'll be her legacy, not her death.
First album I brought was Louise 'Naked'...I was twenty eight years old.
Are you a chutney ferrett?
@@bobbyfischer6786 I didn't expect that from one of my own subscribers.
@@DCI-Frank-Burnside is that a yes, then? Fair play to you, Sir
Shaved one half of his beard off. We've all done it
Usually go on to do the other half though ;)
Nah, poor beard. I done the same and the beard made a full recovery and is currently hosting a successful dance class. So ive to eh leave it alone for a bit :P
I've never shaved one half of his beard off. How dare you!
oberhippie
Nor have I. These outrageous internet claims ...
let's hope he nailed it to a frisbee and flung it into a rainbow
Thats the first album i bought too. Jeff Lynn ELO.
First album Fat of the land - Prodigy.
A New World Record by ELO was also my first ever album purchase as well. Good choice Bill! My first single was Don't Blame It On the Boogie by the Jackson 5, I think, god that was a long time ago.
Bill Bailey, looking more and more like Peter gabriel with Michelle pfifer stood hiding behind him.
Bill Bailey - greatest living human.
Totally agree, Bill. Fantastic track. While, perhaps, not the most popular of Amy’s songs, in time, it will become Amy’s signature track.
Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
Night They Drove old Dixie Down - Joan Baez
all around early 70's, can't remember the first but I still have a soft spot for them today
New Music Express in print will be missed. when i was a knee high the magazine and album covers made saving up and buying music more exciting
Yeah, I know. Things haven't been as good since. It was just - well, more absorbing.
I don't mean I used the NME for toilet paper by that, of course . . .
This guy... Probably my favourite British comedian/stand-on-the-scene/talker guy. The rest of those calling themselves "Comedians" or "stand-ups" are practically unwatchable. They all suffer from immense "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME" syndrome, no matter if they're girls or guys, which makes the choice of those who pay to look at them... kinda weird. This guy doesn't have a hint of it, and he's immensely talanted. Not one of his songs or stupid faces feel cheap. So well done, keep on whatever you're doing and best wishes from Latvia.
I can't listen to this song, either. It was the soundtrack of my girlfriend, whom I'd lived with for ten years, leaving me for my best friend of 30 years. I was just....destroyed. I was once in WH Smith's, and it started playing and I just had to get out. I was absolutely bawling my eyes out. Terrible, terrible time. Heartbreaking song.
I’m going to ruin this with the 304th comment but currently… 303k views, 303 comments and 303k NME subs Magic!
this heat is the shit!
they#re great and no so difficult to listen really
Remember going into a record shop (remember those?) and asking for both The Jam's "The Modern World" LP and a Genesis album. Oh how naive we were...
:-)
A better choise instead of “uppers” and sedatives.
Bailey does a fantastic rendition of Horizontal Hold by This Heat at 1:29
first songs I REMEMBER:
Jaws theme ... and Jeff Wayne: War of the Worlds =(
nice for a 6 year-old!
My first record was ELO Mr Blue sky - but it was purple?... loved John Peel, music was my first love...
My earliest memory’s are cool :) can’t pinpoint who came first but it was either Gary Numan, Adam Ant or Queen :) I think it might be Gary Numan ‘cars’ I just remember seeing him on tv and I stopped everything I was doing and it was seeing this guy with a white face! And the sound of the Moogs!! Years later and to this day, I play guitar and synths :) and now own a Moog :) those sounds stayed with me :)
Such an awesome dude.
Nothing unlistenable about this heat!!
All that lead-up, I thought for sure his first remembered song would be Happy Birthday like the rest of us. :)
My first LP bought was a secondhand copy of Atom Heart Mother in Brixton because I like the 🐄 on the cover, I really liked “If”, then later I bought Relics for 99p starline version in Woolworths & thought oh another Floyd. On listening it make me want to investigate Wtf happened between these two albums that made them so vastly different.
The first record I bought with my own hard-earned pocket money was 'Hard Day's Night' by the Fabs. 29/6 (ruinously expensive at my pocket money rate of two shillings a week.) Pretty good launch point though.
When he said it was one his mum sang it reminded me that the earliest one I remember was from my dad singing "sitting on the dock of the bay" which is now ruined by a comedian talking about laughing at some singing it "sitting on a cock coz I'm gay" haha.
I had a feeling it would be that song.
He said "This Heat" big Charles Heyward fan here. For those who have ears to hear
The man has soul
Well said Bill.
*First Album bought me:*
_Merry Wombling Christmas_
*First song i actually thought I liked:*
My cousin playing _Tiger Feet_
First single I received:
Judas Priest _United_
*First single I bought:*
Duran Duran _Planet Earth_
*First Album I bought:*
Iron Maiden _Number of the Beast_
Strange he makes no mention of meeting her on Buzzcocks.
May have slipped his mind
Maybe he didn't feel the need to point it out?
That would be name dropping and completely not necessary
I'm the same ,can't listen to her at all now .Thought it would pass but never did.
Bill is a fave of mine. Agree about Amy 😢
When you asked first song you remember, my first guess was the theme from Andy Pandy, how embarrassing is that! The one I can’t listen to (without crying) is Lover You Should Have Come Over by Jeff Buckley, not just because of him, it strikes an all too personal chord.
Magnificent song.
Not Andy Pandy.
@@tonybates7870 lol
not sure if its my special kind of special or if it's a musician/artist thing but I can remember, vividly, the first time I heard songs that would end up being monumental in my life. sometimes, I can remember the first time I actually listened and heard the lyrics....other times its the first time I remember hearing the song consciously (it may have played in the background but I never noticed until then, like Bill said).....but a lot of songs, I can tell you exactly
where I was, the age and what I was doing when I first heard a song I fell in love with.
.....make me think I have a brain tumor or something.....
This Heat unlistenable? Never!
That's amazing. I also remember Perry Como's Magic Moments as somethinglike the first song I remember hearing. It popped into my mind a few seconds before Bill said it. It also seems to be inextricably connected in my mind with choosing something off the penny tray in the corner shop (old pennies that is). There were four-a-penny chews on the tray and liquorice sticks. . Weird where minds go isn't it? I chose a banana flavour chew at least that's what pops into my mind on thinking about "Magic moments memories are made of this" quite random what's down near the bottom of a 67 year old mind.
Magic Moments was one of the first songs I remember too, it was in my Dad's record collection along with the Beverley Sisters, Harry Belafonte, Debbie Reynolds and others. For some reason I misheard 'memories we've been sharing' as 'memories wreathed in sherry!' (I'm 62 by the way).
For years, I thought that he sang "Magic more mince"!
If you're here for the title, it's not Amy Winehouse in general, it's one specific song. And it's because it's too sad.
Me to agree with bill any versions
I'm annoyed I can't see the rest of the thought bubble coming out of the left side of Bill's head
cars by gary numan is in there somewhere i'm sure of that...i really am..i also like paris on a summers night so
"I was actually on stage with The Clash" hahahha
bill bailey & billy bragg for duo country leaders, then we can sleep soundly
As much as I enjoy Bill being daft on stage it's nice to hear him being himself
Lol. His impression of the typical poser NME interviewees, it's so true them trying to act like their first album was something obscure... stop posing we know it was fackin Spice Girls or Lionel Ritchtea.
Neither of whom had hit songs until he was much older.
Nothing is more obscure than listening to the most popular artists, because nobody will ever notice that you listen to them.
Like many others, I saw Amy's demise coming a mile away. It was a loss for all of the world - what a talent. But above all, it was heartbreaking for that beautiful and struggling soul. It is not a good club to join.
I really struggle with Under Pressure. Anybody who's seen Aftersun knows why.
How strange to hear Mr. Bailey talking frankly.
Edit: ...and come on, the first song you ever heard was probably a nursery rhyme. Baa Baa Black Sheep, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, The Wheels On The Bus or Heads Shoulders Knees And Toes.
The first song most people would have heard is Happy Birthday. Whether you remember it or not.
No, they would be at least 1 year old by then. It would be hard to avoid hearing any music for the first year of life until then.
Of course, none of it would be remembered.
I thought he was gonna say he was 11 when Amy Winehouse's album came out 🥲
Perry Como. Without a doubt.
the first album i ever bought was a tape, and michael jackson :)
Theres too much of Our past's fanfares, decognatively resigned to dissonance. Amy is the tip of the iceberg. My 1970's childhood is smashed by a series of Headline, whose a Nonce News broadcasts.
Wow Axl has really let himself go
Yes he has, and Bill Bailey looks even better than him.
mani!!!!
When I saw the thumbnail for this vid, with the accompanying mention of Amy Winehouse as an Artist whom this man cannot listen-to anymore, I HAD to view it - somehow knowing EXACTLY the song to which he referred. I share the sentiments, "junky cunt" or not.
Winehouse had some cracking songs. She was young and dumb and the tabloid's play thing, I think she'd probably have been better off not being famous...
Naïve I'd say and lacking life experience rather than actually dumb. prone to self-destructive behaviour to. I suppose then again you might indeed class that as a certain style of stupidity, she hurt herself most of all and didn't seem to learn from it in life. I viewed her as talented and one of the brighter lights in popular music in recent years, but not as talented as she has been made out to be since she died.
Okay
first record i bought was all the young dudes by mott the hoople
i've never had a enemy except for nme
but ill be selling twice as many copy's as their magazines will ever be
with spectecals ahead of me are healthier then a dalmaition on pedigree
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