Classic Rock Walking Tour of London or How Rock 'n' Roll Saved the English Language.

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  • @LetThemTalkTV
    @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +2

    I made a playlist of the music featured in the tour. There are also a few "extras" that didn't make the video because of copyright infringement
    ua-cam.com/video/MGxjIBEZvx0/v-deo.html
    Share your own favourite lyrics in the comments
    Any rock places in London I missed on this tour? Let us know

  • @tothepointenglishwithben.
    @tothepointenglishwithben. Рік тому +18

    Great video, Gideon and Jon! 👏
    "Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand
    Vanished from my hand
    Left me blindly here to stand, but still not sleeping
    My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
    I have no one to meet
    And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming" Mr Tambourine Man, Bob Dylan

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +7

      "… And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
      Down the foggy ruins of time. "Yes, I almost chose that one. Best wishes

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
    @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 Рік тому +1

    This made the recall that almost nothing of my childhood stomping grounds still stands in Detroit, MI.

  • @camillamuscarito8472
    @camillamuscarito8472 Рік тому +4

    That is the best video of urs. It's a great idea

    • @mamymimma
      @mamymimma Рік тому +1

      Agreed, I absolutely loved it 👏

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +2

      Thanks, I'm glad you think so. It was a labour of love.

    • @camillamuscarito8472
      @camillamuscarito8472 Рік тому

      @@LetThemTalkTV Ur welcome, keep up the good work, the channel is very nice

  • @tinmachine693
    @tinmachine693 Рік тому +1

    Cor blimey guvnor!! I always assumed SHB video was recorded in N.Y. You live and learn, thanks for that nugget

  • @isabelatence7035
    @isabelatence7035 4 місяці тому

    This is one of my favorites, teachers hanging out in the city, it's fun, memorable places for super bands and famous rockers✌️🎸

  • @meryuk
    @meryuk Рік тому +4

    That was nothing short of a masterpiece 👏👏👏

  • @josephcote6120
    @josephcote6120 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this great video. London has always been terrific place for music. Fun to get to see all of them.

  • @alyonamakarona
    @alyonamakarona 10 місяців тому

    That was something indeed. Thank you for such a wonderful tour. The content itself and how you presented it in here - simply delightful! And I really loved how you read out the lyrics excerpts yourself:) Such a sweet personal touch to it all ..... the composition, the information, the stories, the editing and these recreated pictures... and of course the walking!!:) my oh my... and overall the amount of work you did here!! Thanks!!!!

  • @catheriner8397
    @catheriner8397 Рік тому +1

    Very good idea this rock tour in london , especially when you already Know some of these places 😉 happy new year 🎉!

  • @donnawaldron3261
    @donnawaldron3261 Рік тому

    The Crown and Sceptre in Streatham was also mentioned in a Clash song, Stay Free. I practised daily in my room, you were down the Crown planning your next move.

  • @dr.winstonoboogie7302
    @dr.winstonoboogie7302 Рік тому

    This summer I went to Heddon Street: a magical sensation, because David is my favourite artist of all time!

  • @papercup2517
    @papercup2517 Рік тому +1

    Well, that was fun! Thank you for the tour, I enjoyed it greatly.
    I have a sort of a London story, involving not one but two (now) legendary figures from the rock world.
    In the Tate Gallery (the old one, not Tate Modern), in one of the smaller rooms, hangs possibly one of the most bizarre and complex paintings seen since the days of Hieronymus Bosch. Queen fans, certain mystics and art history types might recognise the name: The Fairy Fella's Master Stroke, by Richard Dadd.
    Freddie Mercury, a regular explorer of London's galleries while an art student at Ealing wrote a fairly obscure song about it, describing all the strange other-worldly folk featured and what he imagined they were up to. Down in deepest Devon, a friend had the album it featured on by this still pretty obscure new rock band, Queen. Being mystical temporarily dropped-out rural hippy types at the time, another friend and I decided we needed to check out the original painting, so headed off to the Tate - probably around Christmas/New Year 1974/5 - when we were next up in London. Found the gallery with the Dadds, and entering through one of two arched doorway, found the painting, had a good look, then looked around looking for more by the artist, only to be disappointed when the few others were fairly ordinary. We turned to leave out of the other arched doorway, when a strange figure rushed in through the same doorway we'd entered 10 minutes earlier.
    With gingery hair and no eyebrows, his thin frame was encased in an extraordinary looking baggy pale coloured suit, an enormous brightly coloured ethnic (possibly Mexican?) blanket wound around the whole thing to keep out the winter cold. Making straight for The Fairy Fella's Master Stroke, like us, this apparition studied it closely for a few minutes, then, again like us, looked around for more like it. Finding none, looking disappointed, he turned to go. I smiled at him sympathetically and was about to say something about our shared, unsuccessful quest, when my friend started digging me furiously in the ribs, and hissing something in my ear. I eventually made out he was saying 'It's David Bowie!". Not having a clue who that was, I continued smiling. The apparently coked up Bowie looked my friend and I up and down, from our mud-spattered boots to our rosy country cheeks, tangled hair and innocent smiles; a look of horror came over his face and with an almost imperceptible shudder, he turned away and fled, back through the doorway he'd entered from, in what you might perhaps fancifully imagine as a cloud of white dust. He seemed in a great hurry, shall we say.
    Of course, David knew Freddie, since they'd met when Freddie had helped him set up for a pre-fame gig at his art school's canteen, and later a still impoverished Freddie sold him a pair of handmade boots, while working full-time at a leather goods stall at the Kensington Market, in addition to running his and Roger's own stall there, to make ends meet. I have a story about them at the Market, too, if you wanted to do something on Kensington some time, and were interested. :-)

  • @mlnxzy
    @mlnxzy Рік тому

    Thank you for my choice of music for this sunny Maltese Sunday morning ;)

  • @amerikawoche8243
    @amerikawoche8243 Рік тому

    ‘A’ Bomb in Wardour St heard as a teen thousands of miles away, an inspiration to visit it was.

  • @kampai71
    @kampai71 Рік тому

    Hi Gideon, warm welcome from Poland. Rock and roll changing English language... Some time ago I've come across a song of famous, renowned Jethro Tull, called "Hunting Girl". It for sure has little to do with London, but as far the language is concerned it is somehow interesting. Making long story short, a guy walks a grove or forest and meets a lady on a saddled horse (on a throne of finest English leather) hunting with a pack of hounds. And The lyrical I says this:
    Crop handle carved in bone; sat high upon a throne of finest English leather.
    The queen of all the pack, this joker raised his hat and talked about the weather.
    All should be warned about this high born Hunting Girl.
    She took this simple man's downfall in hand; I raised the flag that she unfurled.
    Boot leather flashing and spurnecks the size of my thumb.
    This highborn hunter had tastes as strange as they come.
    Unbridled passion: I took the bit in my teeth.
    Her standing over me on my knees underneath.
    And my question is this: She took the man's downfall in hand, raised the flag... He took the bit in his teeth - means what? Further in the text the lyrical I appreciates however that she's no deviate... nonetheless she had as strange tastes as they come. Is the song about "country matters"? 😉

  • @Benebrindil
    @Benebrindil Рік тому

    Great selection, a couple of places I haven't yet checked out too! Thanks

  • @Crisguay
    @Crisguay Рік тому

    Camden Town... What a colorful place to grow up!. I fell in love with this neighborhood when I visited it a long time ago. I have to go back to feel its vibrations. Thank you for such a wonderful video, Gideon. It's always a pleasure touring London with you!

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      Camden is certainly a lively place though not always in a good way. Many thanks

  • @Stratiotis_tou_Christou
    @Stratiotis_tou_Christou Рік тому +1

    Your videos are absolutely 💯 prodigious, Mr. Gideon. I really love and admire the classy grammatical information that is provided by your channel.

  • @muffinka_ani1_
    @muffinka_ani1_ Рік тому +1

    Great video. Thank you for this trip. I love your sense of humor. You showed beautiful, historical places in an interesting way.

  • @OceanChild75
    @OceanChild75 Рік тому +1

    Brilliant video!! 🤩
    You got so lucky to meet Henry Rose and he sounded dead chilled - most people working with celebs wouldn’t talk to anyone with a camera switched on but he wasn’t bothered, or it could just be an English thing I don’t know! 🤷🏻‍♀️
    Again, many thanks for sharing your knowledge and research with us, it is much appreciated. I’ll recreate this tour next time I’m in London. Now I do have a long list of songs to listen to! 😉
    By the way, I wish you, Jon and all the Let Them Talk team all the very best of 2023 ❤️

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +3

      Many thanks. If you do the tour let us know how it goes. If you catch Henry Rose then say hello. Happy New Year.

  • @ceilconstante640
    @ceilconstante640 Рік тому

    That was a lot of fun! I enjoyed the video very much!

  • @andrewcollins2366
    @andrewcollins2366 Рік тому

    What a great video, thank you very much for it, nice start to 2023, keep up the great work guys

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      Thanks, judging by your avatar you too must be a Clash fan

    • @andrewcollins2366
      @andrewcollins2366 Рік тому

      @@LetThemTalkTV oh wow, wasn’t expecting a reply, yes a clash fan, love every artist you featured in this video. I find your channel fascinating, really unique and interesting stuff. Thank you for all you’re doing and keep up the great work.

  • @drywater4935
    @drywater4935 Рік тому

    I'm feeling supersonic give me gin and tonic is a great line from the Oasis! I always get inspired when I hear it!

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +1

      Yes, it's good and makes me want a gin and tonic.

  • @vesnadraz
    @vesnadraz Рік тому

    This was so touching, with an intelelctual flair!

  • @missidoleyes
    @missidoleyes Рік тому

    Wonderful video. This was like a breath of fresh air. Well done. I enjoyed every second. Deffo will do this tour next time I am in London.

  • @anaim978
    @anaim978 Рік тому

    Great idea! Watching your videos is always a pleasure👍🏻

  • @robbsclassics
    @robbsclassics Рік тому

    Red House was written by Buddy Guy and covered by Hendrix. I got to see Buddy Guy in concert covering Hendrix. It was amazing. He did all covers friends that died.

  • @hastalavista9431
    @hastalavista9431 Рік тому

    Nice London rock'n'roll tour, Gideon! Thank you very much!

  • @googlymoogly9884
    @googlymoogly9884 11 місяців тому

    Missing off Trident Studios when you were 30 secs away at the Ship. Cmon my friend!

  • @mariannereuter
    @mariannereuter Рік тому

    Loved this episode! I liked how you tried to recreate the well known images of those places and that you showed us where to find them on the street map. I should definitely plan another trip to London!

  • @winnerby
    @winnerby Рік тому

    Absolutely brilliant! even if I've already seen most of the places during my London walks🎸

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      Happy to hear you liked it even if the places are familiar.

  • @agustinbenencia
    @agustinbenencia Рік тому

    omg what an awesome video. i’m going to London this February. i’ll do this tour for sure! Thanks for your astonishing videos. I’m a great fan. Cheers from Buenos Aires

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      Happy to hear you liked it. Let us know how to tour goes.

  • @aram5642
    @aram5642 Рік тому

    Na na na na naaaa na na
    We are London
    Na na na na naaaa na na
    London walking!

  • @williampatten9165
    @williampatten9165 Рік тому

    Dude, such a bitchn good day! My mind is blown.

  • @rickebuschcatherine2729
    @rickebuschcatherine2729 Рік тому

    Oh yes Now we 've breaking the wall, a very great moment of History... Ok for me for other video like that... Thanks...

  • @d.p.jvandeelen5390
    @d.p.jvandeelen5390 Рік тому

    Great vid! Thx

  • @Nunaromedus
    @Nunaromedus Рік тому

    Thanks.
    I'd like to see more videos regarding the language history and how the language were changing through years.

  • @pedromunoz9797
    @pedromunoz9797 Рік тому

    Fantastic video guys! I'm looking forward to getting back to London as soon as posible. Cheers!

  • @rickebuschcatherine2729
    @rickebuschcatherine2729 Рік тому

    Oh thanks Gideon I know a lot of songs in Enlish but not these ones... but for the Taxe man... I don't think that the Beatles had so troubles to pay their taxe.... I think the trouble was when the right of the songs where sold.... We have to much people who exploit workless people in France.... specialy if the workless had gone in University.... and what Johnny Holliday had try to do not pay his taxes... when you know the situation in France, it's not the singer or the teachers who is to feel sorrow for... but the workless... but what a great idea to make us visit London with the songs.... Very good work indeed...

  • @rgun2737
    @rgun2737 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this wonderfull tour.

  • @Anita-hc2sq
    @Anita-hc2sq Рік тому

    Thanks for the tour! It's was great. 🤩

  • @TheIanoTube
    @TheIanoTube Рік тому +1

    "Tell us more"
    "I'm telling you"
    Hahahaha

  • @reglisse42
    @reglisse42 Рік тому

    So interesting so funny please Gedeon make another video like that. I’m a fan English rock stars

  • @vi8585
    @vi8585 Рік тому

    Hi Gideon, I hope you make more thematic UA-cam like this 👍 🍻 👏 ✌️

  • @paulseoighemcgee5772
    @paulseoighemcgee5772 9 місяців тому

    Great stuff , thanks !

  • @leopard36cat
    @leopard36cat 11 місяців тому

    That was cool

  • @elipsis620304
    @elipsis620304 Рік тому

    Quite entertaining - thanks a lot. One of these days I shall be able to visit London, and your videos shall prove truly useful (in many ways). Regards from Mexico.

  • @camillamuscarito8472
    @camillamuscarito8472 Рік тому +1

    07:42 - U could add
    Slowly walkin' down the hall, faster than a cannonball
    Don't look back in anger, I heard u say
    Some might say! You know that some might say (One of Noel's fav song from the album)
    You gotta roll with it. You gotta take ur time...
    (The first two lyrics don't have a clear meaning, but they're amazing)

  • @kadowaluna1
    @kadowaluna1 Рік тому

    28:30 hello, Gideon, it was very nice to see your video, here in Japan, wow! Certainly it was a fine whether, wow! Now here in January 2023, it was a delightful view…please have a wonderful ful 2023 happy year, and hello to to mr.Jon, without “H”……from a Mexican person living in Japan ..’Ta….

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      Happy to hear you liked it. Gracias and arigato. Happy New Year

  • @aram5642
    @aram5642 Рік тому

    Get a shiver in the dark
    It's raining in the park but meantime-
    South of the river you stop and you hold everything
    ...
    Way on down south
    Way on down south
    London town

  • @katibertotto-thomas5206
    @katibertotto-thomas5206 Місяць тому

    Do have the full map you guys did for us to walk it? Really fun video!

  • @joandelur4407
    @joandelur4407 Рік тому

    amazing London educational 🎹 "Musiclern & Teach Magically Tour !! more! 🎶 more!🎶 common!! shake it out London! 🤪🎤😜🎷🎵🔊

  • @hogopogo7616
    @hogopogo7616 Рік тому +3

    Though there wasn't anything connected to my fave Led Zeppelin, I still enjoyed this walk and talk tremendously. As always I must say. Thanks a lot!

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +5

      Thanks. I'll add Led Zeppelin to part 2.

  • @isabelatence7035
    @isabelatence7035 Рік тому

    Great idea to know the points that remained in London's musical history, I loved the performances 🤩London is wonderful!! I love thinking about knowing every corner there. Great job Gideon, John and Yoko, I want to see others, could that be Cat Stevens? my fv

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +1

      Cat Stevens is great. He grew up in the centre of London. I'll have to mention it in part 2. Thanks

    • @isabelatence7035
      @isabelatence7035 Рік тому

      @@LetThemTalkTV It will be interesting and cool, thanks Gideon! 😉

  • @r5yamaha
    @r5yamaha Рік тому

    Are you guiding personal tours. We did a Beatles tour. Abbey road, strawberry fields, Eleanor Rigby's grave, the casbah club, Cavern Club, Mona Best's home, the intersection of the Banker, Penny Lane.

  • @hglundahl
    @hglundahl Рік тому

    0:10 Does it include _Streets of London?_
    Thank you for the nice chat and the assistance, anyway!

  • @Tony32
    @Tony32 Рік тому

    Great video Gideon, the ending was great correcting Pink Floyd lyrics 🤣🤣🤣
    Please do the Pink Floyd tour.

  • @sallybarton6457
    @sallybarton6457 Рік тому

    Just love your videos.

  • @XavierBaesens
    @XavierBaesens Рік тому

    Great video! Really enjoyed this one!

  • @zimmie99
    @zimmie99 Рік тому

    The steps at Camden Lock also feature in a Bob Dylan video of Blood in My Eyes. He walks around and sits in a few bars there. It’s off one of the two Folk albums he did in early 90s. (World Gone Wrong)

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      Yes, a great track. I had forgotten the video was made in Camden. What a legend.

  • @webrambler88
    @webrambler88 Рік тому

    In a nutshell : Awesome video! By the way winter seems to be nice in London (lots of t-shirted people !).

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +2

      Thanks, yes, kind of nice this time of year.

  • @bhaswatibanerjee8351
    @bhaswatibanerjee8351 Рік тому

    💖💖💖💖

  • @maritzajimenez6690
    @maritzajimenez6690 10 місяців тому

    Thank you so much, Gideon. I really enjoyed this rock and roll flavored journey. But you forgot Queen. You think they are too commercial ?

  • @josgarage13
    @josgarage13 Місяць тому

    thans a lot .....

  • @ronaran8420
    @ronaran8420 Рік тому

    This video will be even more enjoyable if it is a 'Part One'...🤞
    Still, very enjoyable! 👍👍👍

  • @hglundahl
    @hglundahl Рік тому

    3:23 The first two lines so echo:
    The huxters haggle in the mart ... except the next line in Chesterton's war memorial is not a repetition, Dylan's second line is ...

    • @hglundahl
      @hglundahl Рік тому

      I did scroll back and actually enjoy the whole lyrics though.

  • @nezapamatovatelne
    @nezapamatovatelne Рік тому +1

    barkoque and roll :)

  • @sergeibocharov3575
    @sergeibocharov3575 Рік тому

    Thank you for the video! Very interesting! Offtopic: what the program do you use for video editing?

  • @isladurrant2015
    @isladurrant2015 Рік тому

    More please... I worked near King's Cross Station before gentrification (erm, I was in print/publishing) and had to go outside for a smoke post the ban and saw, besides others: David Bowie, David Bailey and David Essex walking by... not together, separate occasions, obviously others whose names aren't David

  • @rickebuschcatherine2729
    @rickebuschcatherine2729 Рік тому

    Yes Should I Stay or should I go that song I know....

  • @welcome_Moscow_walks
    @welcome_Moscow_walks Рік тому

    It was interesting 😊

  • @LESKONN
    @LESKONN Рік тому +1

    1:17 Great video. Where did you get your t shirt of Bob Dylan?

  • @tvarqwz
    @tvarqwz Рік тому

    Oh, great!
    What's the building behind Jon reading David Bowie's?

  • @sajza1728
    @sajza1728 Рік тому

    Hi, I hope you’re doing fine and having a merry Christmas and happy new year. I took the IELTS exam in March 2020 and achieved a band score of 7 as I needed it to go to Uni. I’ve been living in the UK since 2016. I reckon my English is much stronger than what it was when I sat the exam. The thing is I’m still not feeling I’m at C2 level as I miss the conversations spoken by others, I don’t fully understand the films and tv shows, and I don’t fully understand when somebody talks to me especially when they have thick or skewed accents or talk super fast or with a dialectal language. I’m aiming to get my English level to beyond C2. It’d be deeply appreciated if you could inform me what to do. Many thanks.

  • @paganaye
    @paganaye Рік тому

    Nice, video. I don't know what youtube is doing,it gets interrupted with a lot of adds (more than before). I have a question about this channel.
    In one of LetThemTalkTV videos, it speaks about how and why the English language diverged from the French. From what I remember it was a bit of movement in the late middle ages when people started to try to pronounce differently by reaction to something I forgot.
    I'd like to listen to this again. Does this ring a bell to anyone?

    • @OceanChild75
      @OceanChild75 Рік тому

      I think you are talking about the great vowel shift, if so it should be this video
      ua-cam.com/video/m0aQh7b5F_E/v-deo.html

  • @kinksfan9781
    @kinksfan9781 Рік тому +4

    No Kinks??!! Often described as the most British of the British Invasion bands, and chroniclers of London places real and imaginary. Muswell Hill, Dead End Street, Waterloo Station, etc... WTF? And Squeeze only mentioned in passing. You should have bumped Oasis in favor of either of these.

  • @msadurski
    @msadurski Рік тому

    Is this a beginning of a new series? Seems to be a pretty cool idea. Albeit, sorry to say that, the technical quality is not up to your usual standards.

  • @delboymartin7465
    @delboymartin7465 Рік тому

    I haven't watched the whole clip yet, but when you say, the first ever rap song?? Dude listen to Louis Jordan 'I want you to be my baby' 45 seconds in, he raps. Recorded in 1953 and I'm not saying Louis was the first!

  • @gabrieldepra4329
    @gabrieldepra4329 Рік тому

    hehe looks like there were some Brazilians at Abbey road

  • @dorkarama3135
    @dorkarama3135 Рік тому

    I hope that phone booth is the actual one that Bowie stood in. It looks old enough.

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +2

      It could well be. It was a bit smelly. I chose not to stand inside.

  • @Erik_Swiger
    @Erik_Swiger Рік тому

    Did Hendrix ever play anything classical? I'm not aware of it, but I can imagine it.

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      He played the Star Spangled Banner. That's kind of classical

    • @derka90
      @derka90 Рік тому

      Came here for Oasis and Beatles! 💜

  • @hglundahl
    @hglundahl Рік тому

    7:55 Champagne supernova? Was Liam Gallagher trying to describe my experience with Ukrainean or Polish Kwas?

  • @tomrox8921
    @tomrox8921 Рік тому

    Hi.
    Do you teach now in London?

  • @mgh1628
    @mgh1628 Рік тому

    Keep Subtitle for your videos!📝🙏

  • @michaelduffy6874
    @michaelduffy6874 Рік тому

    You might have included Goodge Street tube station, immortalised by Donovan.

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      I didn't know he wrote a song about it.

    • @jameskid81
      @jameskid81 Рік тому

      Oh is that what too many broken hearts was about?

  • @gorjanapetrovic5383
    @gorjanapetrovic5383 10 місяців тому

    Good idea,you realise this tour wery well.

  • @freddiemercury8700
    @freddiemercury8700 Рік тому

    Did you konw that in the summer of 1969, Hendrix, made a brief stop in Essaouira, Morocco.

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +1

      Yes, I did know that because I went to Essaouira about 20 years ago and it got mentioned ....

    • @freddiemercury8700
      @freddiemercury8700 Рік тому

      You are a champ Gideon.

  • @hglundahl
    @hglundahl Рік тому

    9:06 You couldn't have taken Macca's song Mull of Kintyre?
    Wait ... that's not Beatles, even if he was a Beatle ... (wonder if he owns a beetle VW ...)

  • @hglundahl
    @hglundahl Рік тому

    10:18 Sounds nearly Biblical. A little exposé over what carreere Zacchaeus and St. Matthew did well to turn away from ...

  • @hglundahl
    @hglundahl Рік тому

    2:59 Disagreeing!
    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is the greatest poet in the English language since the contemporary of Chaucer who was a West Midland's man and whom Tolkien also translated to Modern English - the Gawain poet! (If not possibly even since the anonymous author of Beowulf).

  • @pilouboy4736
    @pilouboy4736 Рік тому

    DAVID BOWIE IS.

  • @skleinberg1
    @skleinberg1 10 місяців тому

    Gents- do you conduct actual walking tours????

  • @madrid-berlinidiomas1412
    @madrid-berlinidiomas1412 Рік тому

    Great,,,, in terms of Music,,,, you have "neglected" Roney Scotts Club,,,, And,,, Ian Dury 🤣🤣🤣

  • @aussicd
    @aussicd Рік тому +1

    why do we get the readings, instead of a walking tour.
    what a waste

  • @Breakfast_of_Champions
    @Breakfast_of_Champions Рік тому +11

    British rock - the big sigh of relief when the British empire came down. And today, it's almost done with and forgotten, overshadowed by another empire and its horrible tunes.

    • @hogopogo7616
      @hogopogo7616 Рік тому +1

      There's only one empire left, and it's not what you mean. Ask pres. Reagan.

    • @Breakfast_of_Champions
      @Breakfast_of_Champions Рік тому +2

      @@hogopogo7616 There's the gigantic empire of neoliberal financialisation. It's a bit like the Roman empire phase after the republic. Things seem to go back to the past and continue for a while...

    • @tymofiishynkarenko7416
      @tymofiishynkarenko7416 Рік тому +1

      Don’t you agree with Scholz saying that Russia started an imperialistic war? This war is so similar to Japanese aggression in 30s, German expansion in late 30s, Russian aggression in 80s, Serbian agony in 90s, isn’t it? The war is to kill, to annex

    • @Breakfast_of_Champions
      @Breakfast_of_Champions Рік тому

      @@tymofiishynkarenko7416 The war is to save centuries old Russian cities from ethnic cleansing by a fascist regime. Same deal as WW2.

    • @scottgardner397
      @scottgardner397 Рік тому

      Corporations rule the nations of the planet. The world is an oligarchical conglomerate

  • @lostjackets4006
    @lostjackets4006 Рік тому

    Any great words or poetry from Oasis? Not really.

  • @ahmetturkoglu3376
    @ahmetturkoglu3376 Рік тому

    Oasis lyrics are mostly pretentious crap without any actual meaning and i was wondering what you would come up with as you are quoting them and you came up with exactly what i was expecting.

  • @bartmullin8018
    @bartmullin8018 Рік тому

    No mention or hints for British Punk Rock? 'God Save the Queen' from the Sex Pistols; apropos for the situation then and now with the new head of the parasitic monarchy, King Horse face... Kind of a tragic scenario that British citizens can't protest an institution that benefits Nobody. Maybe King Charles needs to take rowing lessons from George III...

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +1

      We covered The Clash. Were you not watching?

    • @bartmullin8018
      @bartmullin8018 Рік тому

      @@LetThemTalkTV I was, The Clash was only so anarchistic and actually much more corporate/'safe' compared to the True punk that was patently Not acknowledged. The Clash weren't banned by the government like the Sex Pistols or other Real, True Hard- core Punk bands were.

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому

      I don't agree The Clash were more political than The Sex Pistols in spite of "God Save the Queen". Paul Weller also got a mention in the video though I didn't play any Jam.

    • @bartmullin8018
      @bartmullin8018 Рік тому

      @@LetThemTalkTV I watched a Sex Pistols documentary and they (Sex Pistols, and any other bands in similar spirit) felt the Clash was more intellectual rhetoric than action in everyday life. I've caught a few really cool documentaries on British Punk (Punk Britannica for starters) and grew up during the Punk invasion in the U.S. and the birth of many a seminal American punk band. All the Punks/Anarchists i knew Barely acknowledged
      The Clash; they were more seen as corporate rock to paraphrase a 90's expression. I respect The Clash but, if what John Lyndon aka Johnny Rotten, says is mostly true, they were more The Beatles/Stones of punk. They were respectable, sold out, and to this day in the U.S., you'll Never hear a punk song outside something from The Clash on the horrible, Boring, and generally stale Classic Rock stations. That's kind of telling if you ask me...
      As per the title of greatest poets/lyricists, Rush, Pink Floyd, Sting/The Police make Dylan look like an amateur open-mike night participant. Dylan was just in the right place, time, and moment and got lucky. (Same with Ringo, not really that great of a drummer if the truth be told...).
      P.s. you failed to mention that Hendrix hailed from Seattle, Washington Before it became cool... Love your videos/humor, just picking some nits on the musical front as an amateur music historian/lover.

  • @ruskinyruskiny1611
    @ruskinyruskiny1611 Рік тому

    People who pay their tax fund the NHS, Education and the police and many other things. Paying your taxes is a good thing.

    • @Tony32
      @Tony32 Рік тому

      Not 90% thou.

    • @LetThemTalkTV
      @LetThemTalkTV  Рік тому +1

      That's true but in the 1960s those in the higher tax bracket in Britain paid 90% income tax. It seems inconceivable now (currently 45%)

    • @ruskinyruskiny1611
      @ruskinyruskiny1611 Рік тому +1

      @@Tony32 From what I can see Oligarchs like Sunak pay less tax than nurses

    • @Tony32
      @Tony32 Рік тому

      @@ruskinyruskiny1611 Maybe The Beatles just needed a better accountant 🤣they were new to the game.