Airport - The Motors
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2018
- The Motors' biggest single, Airport, reached #4 on the UK charts in 1978. It is still used in feature stories about airports and aircraft. Written by Andy McMaster, and taken from the album "Approved By The Motors", the song also reached the top 10 in Sweden and Ireland, and was top 40 in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
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Still listening in 2024 😺👍🏻
Me too🙂🏴
me too bud
15/5 /2024 still listening ❤
Sunday 26 May .
29/5/25 still listening to my youth at 63🏴
I'm glad that a lot of people beside myself are still liking this song!
Great song
no way, was gonna write the exact same thing, word for word.
@markpaterson2053 I was going to write the exact opposite song... for modern times and how everyone these days hates to fly and smiling faces are rare to see in a large airport... I'm writing it in a minor key
german uniform video is the best
I'm french,and I can say that this Motor's song is one of my best memory.I was just 9 years old when I discovered this song in 1980...fantastic!Since The Beatles in the sixties,I say thank you to England for all those prodigious musicians that this country have done...
When my mum snuck me and my two brothers out of the house at 5 in the morning to escape our step dad, we took a coach from Newcastle to Manchester, but first we had to get on a bus, wait at a cafe...we heard this song 4 times during the journey, and it's haunted me ever since, but not for any dark reasons, everything worked out in the end.
This, for me, is nostalgia with bells on.
So friendly.
Perhaps, I 'll write. 😊
😉 in Link....? If you.... Take care. Odile.
Thats quit a picture you've painted, hope all worked out well
I say to others, what's annoying, well, sometimes 😁, is that we can't exchange private messages to talk about the good old days, etc. You do not think?
Or maybe it's possible and I don't know how to do it 🤔😞
@@baz3338 it did, though my brothers pretty much grew up a bit criminally insane
one of the best things about 64 years old,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 70's that is priceless and I am grateful!!
So true, Golden days.
Cool 👍
Gold
sme timre as me ,,,, i remember . nor ]t the same today
You are so right Michele. I'm 65 now and that era of music has been and always been my favourite era for music.
One of the best pop songs of all time
Was only 12 but never forgot this great song ❤
Same. Was 12 too when this great song came out
The melancholy synth and fervent piano weave together so perfectly in this timeless tune from my youth.
💯
One of those BRILLIANT half forgotten songs that reminds us what an unbeatable time for pop music this era was
Exactly!
Yes! Also the band Magazine is great if you like this though... darker vibe
Yes you've summed it up.
i love this song
Loved it aged 26, still love it aged 71.
I was a long distance lorry driver when this came out, and remember singing loudly along with this on the radio. I got some funny looks at traffic lights !
This song is remembered as a much simpler way of life, even then. Happy days. 😀
So many memories come flooding back when I hear this song...some good, some bad, all filled with 1970’s angst. I love this song.
Arguably one of the best pop songs ever released. An entire film script in a short song.
Brilliantly written.
Yep...beautiful
This is simply great music, i miss those days when there was real music
80/90
and talent
I was born in 1960.my music upbringing was incredible.i was soooo lucky to be born in those days.
Me too, glad we lived the good days eh !
@@wokeupandsmellthecoffee214
Yep. Glam rock. Punk rock. Disco.
WOW
Yeeeees! Ouiiiiiiil! 😊😊❤😘
which country do you live in ?
@@odileo9373
Scotland where the Bay city Rollers were from
This is one of my favourite songs, I'm glad I was a teenager when this was released.
If only we could fly back to the 70s ✈️
You totally can. Drop some acid, wear terrible clothes, and look out at a ruined economy. Bingo.
I would do it
Heaven is a rewind button....fingers crossed everybody.
@@MrThrib I misread that the first time, I thought you were recommending going down to a ruined bingo hall to play bingo.
Total classic
I love this song❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great song.the 70s had some great music .im in late 50s so remember most of tgem
😊one of the best songs I can remember as a 49 year old woman. nostalgic
Me too❤
What a song 🎵 underrated in the late 70s still stood the test of time classic.
❤i m french whoman i have 54 years i remember this song when i m in the car with my parents i love this song for ever my father is dead in 2015 and my mother in 2021 victim of covid dad mum i love you in the star s ornella south of france😢
Love to you have great taste 💙
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God bless
😢🙏😘, bien amicalement, du middle France, et sud, cet été 😉
I loved this song so much when I was a young guy. Now I am an old man and I’ve listened to this song again and I still love it so much. Meanwhile my life went by and so much has happened, but this music is still amazing.❤😢😊
🙂😘
You must not be that old, 🙂, otherwise.....there must be many of us....😭
😉😇
I loved the 70's...... Strikes, 4 day week, winter of discontent, power cuts, petrol crisis, football hooligans, Austin Allegro........ and great music.. 👍
I had two Allegros 🙂
@@morrisey1970 you had 2 'all-aggros'.. ha ha ha.... love 70's cars... Nothing wrong with a beige Morris Marina... 😉😉👍
@@morrisey1970 I only had One, All Agro...
In a nutshell!
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My dad is 73 years-old he told me to listen to this song, he always told me how he’s so grateful he was born in that generation being young in the 60s and 70s are the best time in his life.
It wasn't all good in the 60s and 70s TBH... Life is whatever you make it, no matter what era you were born into
Ahh youth it always becomes that lost estate we can never find our way back to .
@@DaveAndBeth1978 OMG what a miserable non binary person you are/we're... transitioning into, cheer up we've got a highly laughable government, high interest rates, ww3 a possibility and a pint of beer going up to a eye watering £7.00 , now what's there to be negative about!!!!
@@grahammaguire404 - no need for me to "cheer up", I'm happier now than I ever was in the 60s / 70s! 😂 I don't drink alcohol so the price of beer is a moot point; I'm astute financially despite never being in a high paid job, and WW3 isn't happening anytime soon. Definitely not "non-binary" either, not sure what made you bring that completely irrelevant point in there! As I said, life's whatever you make it
This is one of my favourite records. The only real bad things about the 60's and the 70's were the spassies blaming everything on the Black's or the Irish, when they should have joined Europe wisely in my opinion in those decades, to stop the strikes, and have sensible trade barriers, with hopeful foreign friends.
65 and still love it.
This song has been stuck in my head for days.
Seeing this video makes me realize it's more 70's than I expected.
Bram Tchaikowsky, a truly great name, I'm seriously jealous...! Great song, great band.
Aahh...the carefree days when one could walk through the Heathrow Tunnels.
I am listening as I text,I am nearly 64 and oh God I wish I was back their.
Masterpiece ❤
Most days I play this I just reminds me of my X Alma wish i was together now I am with someone to day but omg I can not stop thinking of Alma
Always loved this song. So evocative. Not sure if it's Andy McMasters fantastic vocal or his distinctive keyboard sound, or maybe both? Takes me back to being a 13 year old in 1978. Loving punk rock, football stickers, 2000ad comics and the Argentina 78 world cup. What a time to be a kid!
Wouldn't change it for the world. :)
MASTERPIECE.....
Love this song
Totally brilliant song one of my favs
The Motors. Probably the most underrated band of the New Wave era.
get a new word ffs. everyone is UNDERRATED. Jesus underrated by whom .
Not really. Their albums were patchworks of sounds and The Buzzcocks had taken over the entire Glory space.
Excellent Song. 60s 70s 80s. Great Music. Started to go down the Crapper from the 90s Onwards.
From a time when music was real music
First heard this from a 1970’s compilation album, fantastic 🙌😁♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
I remember it well...CLASSSSSSSS
Why isn't this the universal anthem of all terminals everywhere?
It must be
I adore this song so much
Brilliant song never forgotten by me
Another immortal song..Perfect.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS TUNE. PURE CLASSIC!
One of the first records I bought!
I always found the melody of the synthesizer very interesting, but today I heard it on the radio and I realized it's just an amazing song in general and I can't stop listening and singing along anymore
Beautiful song
How does a record made in 1978, still sound sooo good....
Because in those days they had the talent to create such great music.
Why shouldn't a record made in 1978 sound good today? The reason why is because it's a good record, it's catchy and memorable. Catchy and memorable records are in short supply these days, we all know that. The only people that don't are the people in the current music business.
@@flares Kinda nails it innit ? Is it because "those icky youngsters can't compose good music nowadays", or is it because record companies executives would not recognize good music if it bit their are, going for stupid dreck ? (There WAS stupid dreck Back In The Days, but there was good stuff to balance it all…)
Strange question indeed! Do you really think people could not write songs back then?
Because music from those days are timeless classics :)
A strident, inspirational song from a mega era of pop!
How to take yourself back to your early days... wonderful years..... 😍
Best era for tunes ever !!
I was at the age where I was dancing to disco music in 1978 and knew this was a hit song, but how good it is.The younger generations if they can get their heads out of social media on their phones they just might be able to write music like this today.
One of the best tunes ever!
This Song ist for ever.Perfect.
Incredible song sad brilliant keyboards are amazing solo the bass synthesizer seriously some song it always amazed me how superb this song was
loved these saw them in guilford in my time . seen many groups but these were one of my first x brill
Beautiful
Les belles années,j'écoutais cette chanson en boucle
A perfect pop song: piano, drums, harmonies: its got everything
Including the "dip, dip, da-dip, dip" background vocals.
"A perfect pop song: piano, drums, harmonies: its got everything"
Except Debbie Harry, strutting the stage for all the gals in pop and rock!
exactly.. perfect!!
I think it really is perfect pop. I've just rediscovered it, and can't stop playing it! It's just genius. The vocals, the arrangement, so f'ing spot on.
What a bassline ..the soul of this song !
This is one of those songs that has remained at the back of my head since childhood. Musically it has an irresistible tune: catchy as hell yet sad and dramatic. The arrangement is just exceptional, delivering a perfect slice of pop.
Memories from 1978
Yes what a brilliant song ❤️
Great music 💙
just brilliant
Que de souvenirs !!! J'étais toute gamine mais je me souviens très bien de cette chanson, je l'ai reconnue dès les premières notes 👍
The only song to listen to while sitting in the departures lounge waiting to board your flight like I am now ✈️
I was 12 when I first heard this song in 1978. I loved it then as I still do now in 2023.
I was born in 1976 and i am listening right now!
Airport - The Motors 1016am 11.4.23 i was about 6 or 7... all the kids used to sing: eff off! thinking it vastly amusing...
same here !
Same age as myself, brilliant decade for music 🎶
One of my fav bands still.
I was a few years older than you, and just like you, I STILL LOVE IT,,, I am working on my cover version of Airport!
Great song.
I still listen to it now what a tune love it child hood favorite love it 💯
Just fantastic song ❤
Still sounds brilliant, beautiful song.
It certainly does Chris,great song.
A real belter.
Oui Monsieur !!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Sir
I agree. Loved it from the moment I first heard Nicky Horne play it when the album 'Approved' entered his Saturday evening 'Mummies Chart'.
It does
This song to me is the most complete song I have ever heard.
Its not telling you much but every note & lyric fit perfectly
This is a masterpiece
raptures
X
We had a record player at my youth club with a few records including this one. I used to stick it on all the time. Most of the others wanted disco music !
Magnifique.... 🎈
I remember my mum buying this and I think of her and those times when I hear it. RIP mum.
Sorry for your loss of your mum, she may be gone, but at least you have a great song to remember her. Music heals most things, well make life a little easier
Never forget my friend ❤
When you listen to this you're mum is listening to it with you
Im 62 i love this tune when it come out in 78 with the stranglers nice n sleazy elvis costello watching the detetives etc
TUNE..... LYRICS...... STORY - FANTASTIC WORK OF ART all in one hit.
Takes me back to my childhood. I remember loving this song when I was 7 years old 🤗❤️
Saw them live at the Marquee Club in London's Wardour Street. Aug 25 1978 ....
A reason why i love music
Chefs d'œuvre absolu 👍🌹 les années 70 80 les années d'or 👍 aujourd'hui ça pue j'ai une envie folle de prendre l'avion de partir loin ... Partir loin très loin c'est vivre 🌹🇺🇲🇨🇵. Dany
Classic Tune ❤️
Growing up in the Middle East, a friend who visited her English Grandma frequently, brought this record & played it for us. I was in love & until this day.
Was at Ambleside youth hostel aged about 10 when I first heard this song.liked it then but love it now. Happy days-life so much better in the 70s and 80s. Music to remember unlike today’s shite.
❤ superbe chanson ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Never get on a plane without listening to this great song at least once...Airport!
Fly her away
Calling America . That's where she has to be!! :)
Also Luton Airport by Cats UK. 😊
One of those songs that evoke a series of beloved memories of a long past time when life was still a magical thing, it still is, great song
I know exactly what you mean,I first flew abroad in 1978 ,these songs stick.
A time when life was so much simpler
What when you were young you mean? That's a song, we are young Kim carnes or someone. Orrible getting old innit
Sorry pat benatar love is a battlefield. We are young is a better title
With ya bro.
Boss song
Wonderfull song🙏🙏. And wonderfull memories 😊😊
I was in my teens when I made my own top 40 and this song was my number one for a lot of weeks!
I find this song so strangely mesmerising.
My schooltime in 78,graet song til today.
The most brilliant sounding pop song. When i read it was produced by Mutt Lange, it all made sense. Pure genius.
No wonder it was so good, Mutt did amazing work for Def Leppard 👍 I didn't know he produced this. Cheers for the info 👌
I played in a band that backed these in 1978 they were a great bunch of blokes true musicians
Used to hear this song in 78 when we were first married on the way home from work. We will be married 46 years tomorrow. Still love her like it was all them years ago .thank you for such. A great 46 years.
A brilliant classic no one these days could write a song like this all composed on a computer
I was only 4 when this was out, but today at 49 it reminds me of something I'm not even aware of but makes me so emotional. It's hard to listen to for some reason.
never understood how The Motors were not massive. Classic. Forget about you was even better
I wish there was a airport to fly me back to the seventys. I miss them in this much worse era to live in. It's not nostalgia or rose tinted lenses. Things were so much more innocent back then and yet those times produced complex tunes like this classic with its haunting keyboards and a whirlwind of magical memories that carry I'm the wind. Today's era is a cross between nasty and glib.
The 70s sound like a great time to live in sad Time Machines are invented yet 😢
You were young and innocent Phil , there are youngsters out there today who are equally innocent in 2024 .They will no doubt respond in a similar manner about the music of 2024 in 2070