Airport - The Motors
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- 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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Rentrée scolaire 1978 ( classe de première ) , le jukebox du bar le Saint-Eloi ( notre fief ..!! 😆) de Limoges passait cette chanson en boucle ..!! Nostalgie ..!! 😏😞
Fantastic!
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
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...
i love this song
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.
Was only 12 but never forgot this great song ❤
Same. Was 12 too when this great song came out
@@johnnyb6584 Well i was FIVE teehee! I'm a female.
I would click like, but this comment has exactly 66 of those ^^
This is simply great music, i miss those days when there was real music
80/90
and talent
omg lmfao.
So do I...everything seemed so easygoing those days...
@@ericrabaey2889 yes indeed..... it's totaly chanched the past 40-50 years....
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.
January 2025 and still love this song.
❤
me tooooooo
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
❤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 😉
Merci We are all just stardust mon ami.
i miss the past
I want to go back and stay there forever.
@@andymatthews7617I'll come with you!
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸☘️🇯🇲🇨🇮👀🌈🌈🐈⬛🦊🙏🙏🏴✝️🏴🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Better than missing the future
Better than missing the future
The most miserable era in Britain's social history produced the best, most uplifting music ever created.
The most miserable era, so far, may be now. The country was, in many ways, so much better then.
Sorry mate 70s or 80s if its 80s disagree, nothing compared to the shit show now. Sorry. Foundation's of which will never be built again. A fact.
@@johncallow22Seconded.
We should be in for some good music soon then.
Yeah, miserable in some ways but most miserable ever? Check out the Western Front in World War 1, the Great Depression, the Blitz in World War 2, wartime rationing continuing into post-War austerity for many years.
And how about before the 20th century when people worked 60 or 80 hours a week for a number of shillings, no electricity or water and sewerage systems, cholera, typhoid, etc killed people and lots of children died young.
Aahh...the carefree days when one could walk through the Heathrow Tunnels.
Wish i could fly back to the 70,s when the sounds were just awsome,not like the drivel thats called music nowadays.
or... I wish I could start a bland band in the 1990´s and base my breakthrough song based on a riff in this song.... maybe something like Coldplay did, and I´d call the song "Clocks"
@@richardspikman7116 good catch!!
Pub rock at its finest!! Reminiscing bring back the 70's!! The world was so less complicated, who's listening in 2025.
2025 for me too. I got reminded of it because it's in a French action film I'm watching.
@kittymetal186 we share our love of timeless Great music.
@MikeHunt-h3z Yes, a great era for music!
Io in Italy
@kittymetal186 what music are you listening to today.
The melancholy synth and fervent piano weave together so perfectly in this timeless tune from my youth.
💯
The only song to listen to while sitting in the departures lounge waiting to board your flight like I am now ✈️
@@darrylmarsh6847 yeah me too ❤️
😊one of the best songs I can remember as a 49 year old woman. nostalgic
Me too❤
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. :)
It's EVERYTHING
What a great Song
Listening this in August 2024. Wish I had a Time machine 😢
I'd go back in a heartbeat, this world is now full of evil.
Me too 😊
@@andymatthews7617 truth
Reminds me of a better time....better music and happier people
Arguably one of the best pop songs ever released. An entire film script in a short song.
Brilliantly written.
Yep...beautiful
Not THEIR ONLY Great song! dx
Yes! I thought up an entire film listening to this. Pity it's still only in my head lol
I still listen to it now what a tune love it child hood favorite love it 💯
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.
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 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....😭
😉😇
Merci j'avais oublié cette chanson qui pourtant à accompagné des rêveries adolescentes
just brilliant
Love this 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 :)
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.
Try Taxi by the Deaf School and if you do you will understand this………..
I love this song❤❤❤❤❤❤
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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Great song! Haven't heard it for years! 15 years old and the whole of life in front of me... 61 now.
You still have a good chunk left mate 👍
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🏴
One of the best pop songs of all time
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.
Im 62 i love this tune when it come out in 78 with the stranglers nice n sleazy elvis costello watching the detetives etc
Or from a time when music was allowed to be music
Exactly. It's a well made hit.
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!
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
Why isn't this the universal anthem of all terminals everywhere?
It must be
Bram Tchaikowsky, a truly great name, I'm seriously jealous...! Great song, great band.
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
Bring back the 70s music gone
But never never forgeten
What a time the 70s was class
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.
1978 was a procession of superb music just like this!!!
I played this to death when it first came out. Hearing it again now, I'm struck by how much it sounds like it could be an ELO record!
thetragicyouth drummer sounds like ELO’s Bev Bevan 👌
I hear shades of ELO in the backing vocals, but that’s about it. This is melodic but tough power pop, with more edge to it than anything ELO did. That’s not to knock ELO but theirs is a different style.
Yes, just like them. But for now, it's more sorrow and control. Do you think anything will be free again. ?
For year I thought it was
Still have the single..I heard the Amazing number to a party late 70 ties..Memories ❤️
This is one of the best songs of this era, surprised it didn't do better in the charts
loved these saw them in guilford in my time . seen many groups but these were one of my first x brill
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 !
'Ad Vitam' brought me here.
Pareil pour moi 😅
One of my top favourites from that aera. Together with Sarah Smiles by Bram Tchaikowsky and everything from Talk Talk.
I agree with who ever said "music was for me at least better from 60's --to early 90's ..I dont listen to any music anymore , maybe 'cause Im 76 yrs and addin' 😅😅😅
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
Saw them live at the Marquee Club in London's Wardour Street. Aug 25 1978 ....
DEFINITELY AN UNDERESTIMATED MASTERPIECE!!!
SPEAK UP. CAN'T HEAR YA!!!!
Absolutely!! 👍🏻
Memories from 1978
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. 😊
It's probably why I ended up working at Manchester Airport for 30 years... Brilliant song!
Philadelphia airport 20 plus years
I laughed!
Super Red Devil’s
School holidays of 78, yeah!
I was working at the Exelsior Hotel at Manchester Airport when this was in the charts. I was a room assistant and I used to turn this up full blast on the radio in the room I was cleaning when it came on the radio. Priceless memories.
One of the greatest songs ever. An absolute classic.
Great song. Never forgot it.
I still love it.
ITREALLY IS TRULY GREAT SONG IT RIVALS THE BEATLES FOR ME
@@daveglen6063 I'd agree with that.
A great song I’d forgotten about but “one of the greatest songs ever”? I don’t think so.
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
To many memories
Musically speaking, one of the finest songs of the late 70s and surprisingly complex for a pop tune, with about 20 different chords.
Spot on my friend,a brilliant song.
Keyboardists, such as Andy McMaster, generally write more musically complex songs than guitarists!
@fjf sjdnx - maybe the harmonic progression in the chorus is fairly similar, but in overall structure the song is more reminiscent of Abba than Sir Paul. I can just picture Benny Andersson going berserk with that staccato piano solo!
18 chords
@@goldheartbadge Not Abba - E.L.O!
Great song.
One of the all time Great songs ...it takes me back to place called youth ..
Wish we had stayed there locked in time.
I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could.
@@rw8733 to right, this works now has gone bonkers.
World.
From a time when music was real music
Totally brilliant song one of my favs
Loved this song in 1978 ,still love it 40 years later.brilliant keyboards.
I love this song 1978. I was 28 years old
thanxx
I was 18 when this came out what a classic song 😊
Oh forgot to say,my first flight in a aircraft was 1978 and believe or not ,we got to smoke on the plane,the airline was Dan Air ,god knows what happened to them.
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. 😀
songs from this era remind of being with my dad in his crusader when I was 4,like you say a much simpler time.
@@terrycrusader 👍 now that's a blast from the past - a bit spartan by today's standards, (at least there was a sleeper) but pull like a train and you could hear the turbo whistle when approaching Shap (old road) early morning a mile away.
This has to be a 70's classic, this actually states our youth....1970's were a rebel decade for young but the Motors transformed our way of thinking......but listen to the words.... They have a lot of meaning
The sequel to this masterpiece should have been a massive '80's blockbuster detective thriller film . . ! C'mon marketing people, get your skates on, for goodness sake . . !
Hauntingly perfect.....in fact its a masterpiece !
Perfectly put.
This song is really haunting. I can't stop watching at the singer while listening to it.
Takes me back to my childhood. I remember loving this song when I was 7 years old 🤗❤️
I'm 48 and have literally only just found out that this song isn't by ELO! One of their best, too.
61 years was ,15 when punk was everything to me but I had my guilty pleasures.
Love this song the first time i heard my brother played it he love it to im 70 now he is 69
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.
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.
43 years later there is still nothing that sounds like this song. There are other Motors songs that use the same piano line (Today for example) but musically I've never heard anything that sounds like Airport since... And that's fine with me!
Our generation latched onto clever pop songs because we had an ear for music, something lacking in the music scene today. Fed up with hearing so called super stars, ha ha, what super stars? Suggest they all go onto You Tube and be enlightened as to true talent, yes I am biased but with I think justification.
nothing compares to this diamond of song
You are so right my friend,I loved this song,I was 20,this song took me to Italia
My birth date is 3/16/65. I've never forgotten this great song..........🎉
Merci Guillaume canet Ad vitam 🎉
Excellent Song. 60s 70s 80s. Great Music. Started to go down the Crapper from the 90s Onwards.
This is the 1978th comment, same year as this song charted. It has always moved me.
Happy belated birthday Andy McMaster.
I knew it was your Birthday yesterday.
Your a genius.
From an Irish fan.
Great success in France too
They play the song in the French film Ad Vitam which premiered on netflix a week ago.


one of the very best tunes of the brilliant 70s
I'm an early Queen fan, but I've always loved this song. It must be because it's a catchy tune, as I've never even been in an airport.
True, along with Baker Street, Wuthering Heights...so many brilliant tunes in that incredible decade.
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
This would fit perfectly on ELO's Out Of The Blue album. A fantastic song. I never get tired of hearing it.
Sorry it's good but ELO....SOZ again. ...but Sir Jeff Lynn....everyday ....beautiful music. ..even Street video in Dublin a fave ...love it.
Yes, I agree, the production style and sound are very similar to songs like Turn to Stone or Mr Blue Sky (ELO were never this heavy at that point of their career, but this is just a question of changing a few accents, adding heavier guitar and a different keyboard instead of strings, etc)
Wir haben in der Garage eines Nachbarn Monopoly gespielt und dieses Lied gehöhrt wie geil war das denn.Da war ich 12Jahre alt unbeschwerte Zeit was ist aus unserer Welt nur geworden.
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 !
Best era for tunes ever !!
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
Beautiful song
One of the first records I bought!
I was in my teens when I made my own top 40 and this song was my number one for a lot of weeks!
Used to trip me out as a kid.
Beautifully haunting almost sad keyboard riff that’s stayed with me from the first time I heard it. Great song
Way ahead of its time
prachtig idd !!!!!!!
I know this is a sad song but it makes me so happy somehow.😁
Currently 83 years. I hope Andy is fit and well and less concerned about air travel.