Curved Air - Phantasmagoria (1972)

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  • Опубліковано 30 лис 2010
  • from Austrian TV Show "Spotlight" - 22.10.1972

КОМЕНТАРІ • 361

  • @chelseapoet3664
    @chelseapoet3664 8 місяців тому +9

    Her outfit is just the cherry on the cake! Gorgeous 🥰

  • @herringfly
    @herringfly 3 роки тому +86

    I'm emigrating back to the 70s.

  • @sciencefindsgod1091
    @sciencefindsgod1091 5 років тому +57

    Phantasmagoria is one the truly classic prog albums.

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 3 роки тому

      Is it? Haha.

    • @TomBoy836
      @TomBoy836 3 роки тому +3

      @@blackmore4 What is it that you are blackmore for ? : ) )

    • @blackmore4
      @blackmore4 3 роки тому +1

      @@TomBoy836 Punk. And free love with 70s Sonja Kristina ;)

  • @KaptainKopter
    @KaptainKopter 3 роки тому +14

    Sonja Kristina is so hauntingly beautiful jammed with this band in the 70's but had no idea just how she was so vital to the band till now! Immortalized right here forever! very underrated band and singer

  • @progfr0g
    @progfr0g 12 років тому +22

    Still fantastic. Timeless beauty

  • @garlowe8565
    @garlowe8565 3 роки тому +13

    How am I today years old and discovering this wonderful band?!?

    • @iloveFreedom.
      @iloveFreedom. Рік тому +3

      Get yourself to Morecome Bay on Sept 9th...Hawkfest....they r on the line-up

    • @ronniewall492
      @ronniewall492 Рік тому +1

      I HAVE A LOT OF STUFF LIKE THIS

  • @finderskeepers5343
    @finderskeepers5343 3 роки тому +5

    They were light years ahead of many back then.

  • @jeffjohnson4043
    @jeffjohnson4043 2 роки тому +4

    I love prog rock, but I never got into curved air. My father fell back into love with them on his last years of life. Just trying to connect with him. I lost him June 11th 2021. Fuck I miss you so much. You had an impact on me like no other father I know. I'm the real lucky man!

  • @jessekorhonen6963
    @jessekorhonen6963 4 роки тому +27

    This is so 70s and I love it!

    • @darganx
      @darganx 4 роки тому +1

      Sounds like a song on a kids show I used to watch!

    • @DR-xt9ux
      @DR-xt9ux 3 роки тому +1

      @@darganx
      Wiggles

  • @charliemorris2338
    @charliemorris2338 4 роки тому +82

    She is so beautiful.......glad technology has made her immortal.

    • @AnAmericanFan
      @AnAmericanFan 3 роки тому +2

      She reminds me of Amy Lee of Evanescence.

    • @greggasiorowski4025
      @greggasiorowski4025 3 роки тому +3

      Didn't think this was Sonja Kristina, looks sickly & coked out IMO, The most Kate Bush moment I've seen though.

    • @lauranicholls9421
      @lauranicholls9421 3 роки тому +3

      She’s very beautiful I love her lyrics Seventies was more spiritual than the sixties I feel now that’s everything’s the opposite of the seventies💜

    • @lauranicholls9421
      @lauranicholls9421 3 роки тому +2

      I’ve heard that before are you saying that Sonja was born male?or ?
      I know that. In the seventies cameras could do strange things but I do see that she looks different to herself with dark hair her facial expressions and dance moves are not her. So. Who is this person. Please. ?

    • @michaelcraig9449
      @michaelcraig9449 3 роки тому +2

      @@AnAmericanFan Bullshit. This chick is a positive vibes loving hippie. Amy Lee is a negative angry metal chick. They sound 100% different and look 100% different too. You dont know jack about music.

  • @johnsurrey7426
    @johnsurrey7426 3 роки тому +6

    I saw Curved Air at Guildford Civic Hall in the 1970s and fell in love with Sonja. I still am....

  • @marthafoxer728
    @marthafoxer728 11 років тому +6

    I had a piece of this song in my head for months and couldn't find it...I am SOOO happy I found it..... this is a great song to sing-a-long too

    • @borkair6581
      @borkair6581 6 років тому +1

      had this & backstreet love going round head for a couple of days after discovery.

  • @Amenphoto
    @Amenphoto 2 роки тому +7

    I know a couple of classical music conductors and I’ve been trying to convince them to do this song as a full orchestral piece, but to no avail. Maybe in 100 years.

  • @jimvandemoter6961
    @jimvandemoter6961 3 роки тому +38

    The whole "Phantasmagoria" album is awesome. Even after all these years it still stands up as a great piece of work. Something I like to point out, that bass on this song is totally off the hook.

  • @davidjefferies8376
    @davidjefferies8376 3 роки тому +5

    Wonderful memories from my twenties..... Still sounds good x

  • @teleroylichtenstein
    @teleroylichtenstein 7 років тому +4

    All talented musicians, and she... huge talent with tremendous charm

  • @JoshJohnson-yl7ll
    @JoshJohnson-yl7ll 7 років тому +27

    I've drank like 8 west sixth craft beers,(made right herein Kentucky) and this is now my favorite songs

    • @ernestogasulla7763
      @ernestogasulla7763 6 років тому +8

      Josh Johnson ha ha, after an eight pack the Soviet anthem could become your favorite song.

    • @TomBoy836
      @TomBoy836 3 роки тому

      @@ernestogasulla7763 And one could suppose you might have the Liberty Bell March as a fave tune (it is one good one, as is the Soviet/Ruski you phoo poo eng : ) ...

  • @williamburns5190
    @williamburns5190 Рік тому +2

    Wow we should have seen more of this woman in the 70's......

    •  3 місяці тому

      I did.

  • @nelsonsoucasaux2751
    @nelsonsoucasaux2751 5 років тому +17

    Great times... We were all young... There was hope...

    • @j.dragon651
      @j.dragon651 Рік тому

      Is there still hope?

    • @styepen602
      @styepen602 Рік тому

      @@j.dragon651 course there is pal! Just don’t watch the news and stay close to those who care and there’s always Hope, I think the guy was talking about his Youth though when Life was long and The World was your oyster.

  • @theesbband
    @theesbband 5 років тому +45

    There's some yo-yo in this thread claiming that it's a man posing as Sonja on this track. That's complete rubbish. The bass player is my best and oldest friend Mike Wedgwood, who well remembers this session for German TV. I know Sonja well and she's a lovely lass with a pure voice. The line-up on the album is Sonja, Mike, Darryl Way, Frank Monkman and Florian Pilkington-Miksa. By the way, it was Flo's 69th birthday on the 3rd June. Mike also plays bass and keys on both of my daughter's beautiful albums. See "On my Own" and "Keeping on" by Isobel Thatcher. A man, indeed.

    • @michaelcraig9449
      @michaelcraig9449 3 роки тому +3

      I want to stomp their faces in for saying that about her!

    • @kolloduke3341
      @kolloduke3341 2 роки тому

      @@michaelcraig9449 HEEHEE

    • @davebest2001
      @davebest2001 2 роки тому +1

      That's no man! It's a very sexy, elegant woman

    • @mickfretless
      @mickfretless Місяць тому +1

      Ridiculous. I roadied for them around 74/75 when Stewart Copeland was in. One night I got into some fisty-cuffs onstage with Daryl and promptly quit. Fantastic band.

    • @TomThatcher1
      @TomThatcher1 Місяць тому

      @@mickfretlessGreat story!

  • @KingOFuh
    @KingOFuh Рік тому +4

    When this album was released, no invisible headphones. People you would see in stores and on sidewalks across the world really WERE talking to themselves.

  • @maelstromobscura1575
    @maelstromobscura1575 3 роки тому +2

    Saw this great group at chatham central hall uk around this time. Brilliant...

  • @TheOrganiston9th
    @TheOrganiston9th 8 років тому +106

    After hear/seeing this clip, one wonders how on earth today's "music" can be called "music".

    • @hasanrolf
      @hasanrolf 7 років тому +5

      spot on there.

    • @morriganravenchild6613
      @morriganravenchild6613 6 років тому +10

      Totally agree with you. We were spoilt back then with so much talent around,

    • @lanabanana68
      @lanabanana68 6 років тому +8

      yes,it all degenerated in the '80s.

    • @lanabanana68
      @lanabanana68 6 років тому +6

      indeed,and it was real as opposed to this contrived,plastic,computerised crap of today.There are a few exceptions of course but overall,dire indeed.

    • @ernestogasulla7763
      @ernestogasulla7763 6 років тому +4

      A. Horne funny, I was thinking that about 1972, when this abomination was released.

  • @wkrp.5
    @wkrp.5 4 роки тому +5

    A MASTERPEICE! PURE BRILLIANCE 👍👄✌🦋🌼💋💕LovE U SONJA!!

  • @tarcisiomoura9755
    @tarcisiomoura9755 9 років тому +7

    Great clip for the time! I love this album!

  • @cliffcarr8569
    @cliffcarr8569 7 років тому +7

    Sonja and the band are so unique, love it

  • @geoffreycarson2311
    @geoffreycarson2311 Рік тому +2

    BLOODY HELL I AM SO OLD !!!😳😂16 Back then g

  • @brianhintze6440
    @brianhintze6440 4 роки тому +11

    The UA-cam trap can lead one to amazing roads of ummm....unique and enjoyable videos.

  • @anthonydavies8459
    @anthonydavies8459 7 років тому +3

    Saw Curved Air in Poole a couple of years ago , A different lineup but Sonja still there sounding great !

  • @iboskos2010
    @iboskos2010 11 років тому +8

    Progressive Art Rock at its best!

  • @rickrosetti2025
    @rickrosetti2025 5 років тому +1

    I got to see curved air in 1972 at the Boston commons with John kay band & deep purple great show nice week

  • @irlanalmeida8420
    @irlanalmeida8420 10 років тому +5

    Bela Sonja, Beautiful voice

  • @charlesroberts3650
    @charlesroberts3650 5 років тому +2

    Odd yet wonderful arrangement of music. Half way through the song I started to like it-a lot!

  • @paulmcnery
    @paulmcnery 12 років тому +7

    Amazing!! Sonja Kristina still rules!!

  • @mikewest1542
    @mikewest1542 3 роки тому +2

    Lucky old Stewart Copeland !

  • @cengeb
    @cengeb 5 років тому +3

    I have most of their albums, great stuff

  • @Crackiechan
    @Crackiechan 11 днів тому +1

    Here in 2024

  • @bazza1966
    @bazza1966 3 роки тому +3

    What a woman. Great diction.

  • @spartanx5806
    @spartanx5806 3 роки тому +2

    i like her ! alot

  • @markboller4313
    @markboller4313 2 місяці тому

    So psychedelic that my shoes melt the ceiling while my feelings wrong the ground.❤❤❤

  • @darganx
    @darganx 3 роки тому +1

    I love this early 70s 'Teacher Rock' lol the same energy you got on those Schools and Colleges kids shows of the same time.. I could definitely see Sonja Kristina making paper planes or something 😁

  • @chinesefake
    @chinesefake 8 років тому +9

    Sorry to all but I've never heard this CA track before. This must be the coolest song and greatest relaxed performance from Sonja ive ever seen. Absolutely brilliant. Those days will never come again. Don't forget this would have been recorded on film, way before the concept of a pop video and it stiil stands up well.
    God bless the 70's and may they rest in peace.

    • @XX-121
      @XX-121 5 років тому +1

      theclaypoollennondelirium.com

    • @j.dragon651
      @j.dragon651 Рік тому

      It is a lip sync of the studio version

  • @whiskyjack2706
    @whiskyjack2706 6 років тому +1

    Fantastic!

  • @alonzodavila6233
    @alonzodavila6233 23 дні тому

    This is beyond cool! 😎👍

  • @mobyboy
    @mobyboy 11 років тому +2

    very special band. prog-rock with soul and disco slight elements

  • @JellyMonster1
    @JellyMonster1 Рік тому

    Love this song. Got it on a flexi-disk.

  • @MrJezvesp
    @MrJezvesp 3 роки тому

    Beautiful

  • @drstevie
    @drstevie 4 роки тому

    Superb.

  • @jessicamonteiro7215
    @jessicamonteiro7215 10 років тому

    Very Good Song, i't's amazing song and band

  • @13towerofpower
    @13towerofpower 9 років тому +1

    PHANTASMAGORIA titulná pieseň tretieho albumu progresivne rockovej skupiny CURVED AIR, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku päť týždňov od 13. mája 1972 a skončil na 20.m. ako v poradi tretí album skupiny v TOP 20 a posledný úspešný album. Autorom skladby bol Francis Monkman nar. 9. júna 1949 v Hampsteade v severnom Londýne, ktorý s Darrylom Wayom v roku 1968 vytvoril súbor Sisyphos, ktorýv roku 1970 premenoval na Curved Air podľa slov z názvu albumu A Rainbow In Curved Air z roku 1969 od obľubeného amerického skladateľa Terryho Rileyho nar. 24. júna 1935 v Colfaxe v Californii, priekopníka minimalistickej hudby v ktorého kompozícii In C Monkman hral počas koncertu v Londýne. Názov skladby a albumu bol prevzatý z názvu básne Phantasmagoria britského básnika Lewisa Carrolla vl.m. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), ktorý bol autorom aj románu Alenka v riši snov.Záznam bol z vystupenia skupiny v TV Show Spotlight z 22. oktobra 1972, pričom moderátor mal problém správne vysloviť názov skupiny.Na albume sa prejavili spory medzi dvomi zakladajúcimi členmi o hudobné smerovanie skupiny.Zodpovedá tomu aj členenie skladieb.Na prvej strane sú skladby Waya a na druhej Monkmana, pričom pri ich nahrávaní nespolupracovali.V zostave popri Sonji Kristine Linwood spev bol névý basový gitarista Mike Wedgwood nar. 19. mája 1950 v Derby, ktorý v rokoch 1968 -1971 hral v skupine Overlanders preslávenej cover verziou piesne Beatles Michelle, ktorý potom hral v skupine Arthur´s Mother. Po odchode z Curved Air bol členom sprievodnej skupiny Kiki Dee a neskôr v skupine Caravan. Na bicie hral pôvodný člen skupiny Florian Pilkington-Miksa, ktorý ako jediný hrá s Kristinou v súčasnosti ako jediný z pôvodnej zostavy. Dokonca bol členom aj skupiny Sisyphos v ktorej boli ešte Nick Simon klavír a Rob Martin basová v gitara, v dome ktorého pod názvom Curved Air už s Kristinou namiesto Simona skúšali reperoar skupiny v ktorom boli aj skladby pôvodnej skupiny Sisyphus.

  • @bln3576
    @bln3576 3 роки тому +1

    PHANTASMAGORIA IS A STORE IN MONTREAL

  • @mrsalzano1
    @mrsalzano1 13 років тому +1

    Thanks! video of immeasurable valour! I've always liked the Rocky Horror"s vibe of this tune. Too bad that the sound was disabled.

  • @akiramotoskaneda5661
    @akiramotoskaneda5661 11 років тому +1

    Sonja Kristina beautiful vocal Woman

  • @ianreed1528
    @ianreed1528 Рік тому

    Although I was 'of the era' I have never heard this before.....

  • @davebraun4876
    @davebraun4876 8 років тому +2

    I once read that Bon Scott sang in a prog rock band before AC/DC. I didn't know he did it in drag with a woman's voice.

  • @wkrp.5
    @wkrp.5 4 роки тому +1

    SONJA!!👍😽

  • @Darkfatheroftheuniverse
    @Darkfatheroftheuniverse 7 років тому

    Elin Larsson of Blues Pills did a time trip in the 70s?The song is good, love the close sound and Daryl Wolfs violin

  • @ace-of-space
    @ace-of-space Рік тому

    Close your eyes and listen for best experience. Allow wonderland in.

  • @mickymantle3233
    @mickymantle3233 5 років тому +26

    This video reeks....of Patchouli !

  • @nikolaosmosxakis3395
    @nikolaosmosxakis3395 3 роки тому

    very good.......................

  • @Retroscoop
    @Retroscoop 11 років тому +1

    I first thought I saw Tony Curtiss in Some like it hot, but it was the skinny, excellent vocalist...

  • @ChrisInUtero
    @ChrisInUtero 6 років тому +3

    Sonja is beautiful

    • @hifismiffy
      @hifismiffy 4 роки тому +2

      Watch her singing Melinda More Or Less - she is lovely in that one !!

    • @ChrisInUtero
      @ChrisInUtero 3 роки тому +1

      @@hifismiffy She is lovely in every way (Y)

  • @PROGFIRE63
    @PROGFIRE63 9 років тому +2

    This clip is with the line-up of "Aircut": Wedgwood,Jobson etc.

    • @13towerofpower
      @13towerofpower 9 років тому

      omyl boli to Way, Wedgwood a Miksa.....oktober 1972

  • @borgduck
    @borgduck 11 років тому

    Fab!

  • @darganx
    @darganx 3 роки тому +1

    Only in the 70s was it even possible to wear a yellow ochre shirt under a brown tanktop!
    My greatest fear is that 70s sartorial style will return 😱 the music and times were great but those clothes!

  • @dilzappa
    @dilzappa 5 років тому +1

    I still have this as a flexi disc free with New Musical Express - the A side being snippets from the Exile On Main Street Rolling Stones album.3rd track was by Fanny - yes,a girl band!

    • @RickTransit
      @RickTransit 4 роки тому +1

      Yes, I've got that as well. Fanny were brilliant - I think the track was Blind Alley.

    • @swiftfest
      @swiftfest 3 роки тому

      I remember hearing a track where Mick Jagger actually sang "exile on main street, strange strret to walk down," but had no idea how...must have been on that disc you have...thanks...and i was reading the NME at the time...well done for holding on to that btw!

    • @gwensciora8516
      @gwensciora8516 2 роки тому

      One of Fannys albums was produced by TODD RUNDGREN.

  • @elbravovierde8010
    @elbravovierde8010 3 роки тому

    When you think that she could not become even prettyier ... This video shows!!!

  • @flamencoprof
    @flamencoprof 5 місяців тому

    I bought this album. It might have got 5 plays. Still have it though. More of a fossil than I.

  • @axxellein
    @axxellein 3 роки тому

    TRES COOL:!

  • @andycotton162
    @andycotton162 3 роки тому +1

    I think Purson's Electric Landlady is also a homage to this track

  • @AnibalCLitvin
    @AnibalCLitvin 11 років тому

    hermoso y creativo

    • @ernestogasulla7763
      @ernestogasulla7763 6 років тому

      ANIBAL LITVIN es uno de tus chistes? Por favor decime que si...

  • @blablabetbla
    @blablabetbla 12 років тому

    ça fais plaisir de voir un français sur la vidéo , je me sentais un peu seul ^^

  • @SeeDeeSea
    @SeeDeeSea 10 років тому +16

    Hand me the pills.

  • @blablabetbla
    @blablabetbla 12 років тому

    exact :)

  • @luciadelara2348
    @luciadelara2348 3 роки тому +1

    BEAUTY WOMAN
    SHE DON'T NEED DREES

  • @jamesharrison7354
    @jamesharrison7354 3 роки тому +10

    Think this inspired Kate Bush , Them heavy people

    • @angelacarter4395
      @angelacarter4395 3 роки тому

      Kate Bush has a completely different feel to me.

  • @mattwong9432
    @mattwong9432 3 роки тому

    Purveying a fact in a word non corrupted and neither dates as is now called a classic . True

  • @louiseducator
    @louiseducator 10 років тому

    Good musicianship and composition like this never ages (thankfully!)

    • @ernestogasulla7763
      @ernestogasulla7763 6 років тому

      Louis Berk sure, that's why all old rock stations only play Curved Air these days. 😛

  • @borgduck
    @borgduck 9 років тому +10

    It's *Sonja*.

  • @mark6302
    @mark6302 3 роки тому

    shredding that violin

  • @dannyhood66
    @dannyhood66 9 років тому

    You know she loved watching this 10 years later back in 80s.. You guys are funny lookin! You guys are fried cross- eyed.. Nothin you can do haha!

  • @themonomind
    @themonomind 5 років тому +1

    My friend "ghoul" is following me for 6 years now! :)

  • @johnoverton879
    @johnoverton879 2 роки тому

    Cool tune. I've still good the NME flexidisc

  • @glynnt54
    @glynnt54 11 років тому +1

    Daryl Way on violin!!!!!!

  • @Cactus29121989
    @Cactus29121989  13 років тому

    @TheHammond1986
    Да, от него. Слушай, у него там есть выпуски с Ролингами и Криденс. Там действительно выступления на этом шоу или просто трансляция каких-то клипов с других программ?

  • @mikewray6387
    @mikewray6387 3 роки тому

    this is the song spinal tap gave away during their jazz oddssey phase

  • @vegastyphoon
    @vegastyphoon 11 років тому +1

    i just gave up drinking

  • @smtxtv
    @smtxtv 9 років тому

    glad I'm not the only one who thought that...

  • @MarcoGarcia-mu8sl
    @MarcoGarcia-mu8sl 3 роки тому

    ...ich finde der Ansager ist das Highlight! :o)

  • @j.dragon651
    @j.dragon651 Рік тому

    Is there a live performance of this anywhere?

  • @elforeigner3260
    @elforeigner3260 3 місяці тому

    Sonja should be with Jon Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Greg Lake and Derek Shulman as the voices of Prog Rock

  • @christian_traxler
    @christian_traxler 6 років тому

    Peter!

  • @ImproperBostonian
    @ImproperBostonian 7 років тому

    Still amazing.

  • @mrswimmyboy
    @mrswimmyboy 4 роки тому +13

    This was an out-take from Mary Poppins...

  • @giffy5775
    @giffy5775 10 років тому +2

    This is possibly the weirdest thing I've ever seen and I've seen allot.

  • @eastlondongirl
    @eastlondongirl 13 років тому

    no sound ?

  • @junglejanna4176
    @junglejanna4176 7 років тому

    Sonja K. 😘

  • @ytnsanw
    @ytnsanw 11 років тому +1

    The negative picture certainly doesn't help, but I can tell you this much:
    The Aircut lineup didn't convene until early '73. I saw this same lineup live a few months earlier.
    Definitely Florian, not Jim Russell. You can tell by a) the hair, b) the orthodox grip and the older Ludwig logo.
    Definitely Darryl, not Eddie who had long straight hair.
    We never see the keyboard player's face, but the fact that the organ has tabs (so is a Hammond L or T series) means that it is not Jobson, who had a C3.

  • @cujimmy1366
    @cujimmy1366 7 років тому +6

    Far out.

  • @techsergeant1361
    @techsergeant1361 5 років тому

    what's this? spinal tap for folkies?