Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good (Live Aid 1985)
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2018
- Nik Kershaw performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
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Whose listening to this in 2024?
I'm listening right now
Still listening forty years later
@@taylor-ug5rt Me too
May 22, 2024, me in Indonesia, love to all
@@bungasujatmo1439 I'm from 2025, but hi there!
Wouldn't it be good if they still made music like this?
Yes it sure would be! I was 13 then & remember like it was yesterday..this music festival was huuugge🎶🎶 I read somewhere that Nik Kershaw had terrible stage fright we he saw the crowd!
When the live version sounded like what you hear on Spotify.
Wouldn't it be good if this was still the 80s?
Nothing is stopping anybody still making music like this. If you think it should be made - make it.
So
Agree with all of you, but no mullets please, I am 61 and bald!
No politics no mobile phones no internet no hatred for each other just good fun and love for eachother
; ) D
The 80s was a pretty intense time politically, especially in England.
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
No sequencers, no backing track, no in ear monitors- simply a great band playing a great song. So good. 👌🏻
Aye, Synths though! That's what ❤'d about the 80's mainly & onwards.
Not in this one, but they use séquencers in the rest of the songs at this gig, the pionniers of that matter
No smart phones
He have monitors in front of him
Yeah and he starts a clap and then plays out of time 🤣🤣
There is something magic, special, almost incredible, in the 80's and no one can deny that !
HBA Power they’d probably would say the same thing about 2000s. but I have to agree I wish I was born in the 80s.
@@jackallen83 I have a 16 year old son and he says he wishes he grew up in the 80s. He hears me talk about the simplicity of it, and even though he likes the advances of the modern age, I think he thinks that a simpler life would be better.
@@lisaboje3640 , yeah, haha. 'Cause 1985 was 1730. Delusional...
@@colinmontgomery1956 no, 1730 would be a very difficult life.
@@lisaboje3640 ...1985 was yesterday, practically. That's my point. You (or your son, I presume) are making it out like it was the dark ages. Don't be thick with me.
look at all those happy people with no phones
It's sad isn't it?
That was life!!!!
but without phones now you wouldn't have this video..Enjoy.. We did.. Peter Cox (Go West) - King of Wishful Thinking @ Shugborough Hall, Milford, Staffordshire, 2010
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LOL, well spotted
its true better life with no phones
His singing was just magical, The 80s will never be forgotten
I agree, there's something effortless but remarkable about his voice
He's a very underrated artist.
For some of us, they never left.
in 6 years time the 80s will be 50 years old .....scary
Yes yes yes again!
The 80s was such a magical decade and I’m so very blessed to have been a part of it .
Me too! Graduated HS in 1987. Soooo miss those days. This type of music brings it all back.
Me too! From 15 to 25 years old! Magic!
@Sabah Zarid Yep , I was born in 72 and we really did have the best music , movies and TV shows hands down . No generation will ever top ours .
@@jenniferconley5793 born in 69 but best tv ? Not in my opinion, music maybe, films ? Good and bad in every decade but on other things, 80s fashion very dodgy, Tech? Terrible, no mobiles, internet, HD tv, Gaming consoles, so overall prefer to be in the 21st century but nice to look back even with rose tinted glasses
born 77 so a true 80s childhood for me .... it was a brilliant time to grow up
I saw Nik Kershaw perform this song live once. It was this performance. I was there. I was with my Mum and Dad to Nik's left near the Royal Box. Live Aid was the most magical day of my life. I still have my ticket stub and programme. I so miss tese days.
Lucky buggggger
Live Aid was very unfortunate - for every single human that wasnt there. the devils got me there, im jealous
its 2024 and we're still listening...
Yessss !!
Yes, definitely, life was better in the 1980s carefree. Now everyone is miserable and hateful in 2024 all over the world .
Why not ? 😊
Always loved this, decades change and tastes but I come back
Definitely. Very cool song and sounds.
I'm just finishing off my time machine, I'm off back to the 80's.... Who's coming?
👊😎✊
@BruceLee-zd9bw
Don't be scared of the 21st century, grandma- it won't bite.
It's got nothing to do with being scared. We have 100% gone backwards. @@hyena131
I finished mine years ago and I have been in 1985 ever since.
Already there, See you at Shugborough!
For the people that search Shugborough.. Welcome..
I constantly tell my children how magical the 80’s were. They are beginning to understand and agree with me! God bless Gen X!!!🥰
Stranger Things helps us convince them we're not blowing smoke on this subject. They're able to identify with the synth-heavy sounds more easily.
When music was real 100% 😊
Hello sonya I totally agree this song is so catchy I enjoy that guitar play too👋🙂🎸
Modern pop is objectively lacking - no intros, no solos, little distinction between verses and choruses, no surprise factor, dumbed down melodies, no key changes. Music from the 80's was more sophisticated and will stand the test of time. Current pop won't.
I never thought the music was that great in the 80s. It was just producer driven evolutionary music, but what the times did have was a huge breadth of music and styles and no sound defined the times. In total, it really was a great time for music.
Wouldn't It Be Good if we had a time machine :) I'd go back to the 80's & never come back.
The 80's were something truly special when it came to music
It was easier to pick up chicks and talk to them not play some bullshit voicemail text games how most of them do today. Pathetic
so would I
50s 60s 70s thats were id go 80s was begining of the end
@@RS-of1om True dat
The 80's were some of the best years of my life but at the time I wasn't fully aware of just how great those years were. I'd love to go back the 80's and appreciate them for the fantastic times that they were.
Yeah I totally agree
Yeah def. I was a kid in the 80’s. It was great. Stayed outside all day, only played Nintendo at night. MTV was the shit and played nonstop music 24 hours a day. Rode my bike or skateboard everywhere I went. Girls had big ass hair and the radio was dominated by bands like Motley Crue and Ratt. Truly a great time to be alive
Very true
This stuff was taken for granted then. Nowadays everyone’s trying to emulate it.
@Sleeping no i don t think so.2019 is just pure shit
3:00 the whole stadium singing along with him and millions more on the TV screen on this hot summers day - it must be one of the greatest moments in his professional life.
Nope, he forgot the words and was embarrassed by this performance.
@@MikeD-bu6hr He has not said he was embarrassed in any of the interviews I have read about it.
@@cinarsovany He did forget some of the words and has said so in interviews that I have seen. On reflection it is reasonable to infer at least some embarrassment about this as opposed to in regard to the entire performance. Difficult to know precisely what the poster above meant.
@@cinarsovany Ok, understood. It is a great song and Live Aid was an amazing concert. Have a good day.
@@cinarsovany Sorry to hear about Covid. I had it in October/ November 2021 and it was awful, despite having taken every possible precaution to avoid it since early 2020 and being fully vaccinated. Get well soon.
The 80s spoiled us. Proof.
I make this comment each and every time I find a song that proves my point. Nik is live for crying out loud.
wouldn't it be good if every July 13th, all the radio stations/music-streaming sites in the entire planet will play only '80s music?
There’s a radio station that plays 80’s music only 24/7 it’s called “absolute 80’s”
In honour of what was trying to be achieved by a generation that cared.
1985 was a good year for the music.
They have either Absolute or Heart's 70s and 80s stations on often at my place of work.
1984 and the first half of 1985 was one of the best eras for pop music. There was lots of good music to be found throughout that decade,especially the first half.
Wouldn't it be good to live in a world like the '80's were, today? #2023
"Hello Mum" on the snare drum makes me smile 🙂Oh, and I want a time machine. The 80s were incredible in music and everybody looked good without filters
80's was the best decade to grow up in, it will never happen again :(
Spandau Ballet, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw the list is just endless. Wasn't the 80s a great era for pioneering revolutionary music. This was one of my favourites, a lot of young people listen to Nik these days and enjoy his music as much as we did.
Depeche Mode, OMD, and Breathe…🙏🏾👍🏾
Good song 👌 🦋💚2022//^^^
Es verdad!!! Son unicos en su genero.... mis saludos.
Simple Minds, Human League, ABC, Gary Newman, Kajagoogoo, Cutting Crew, Men at Work, Tears for Fears, INXS.
Thompson Twins , Bryan Ferry, INXS , Tears For Fears, UB40 on and on
Back to a simpler time,no cell phones,live music,everyone watching the act on stage and not on a small screen.Bring back the 80s.
Dawn Edwards they really weren’t simpler times.. I mean, I spent a ton of time grooming my mullet.. very complicated procedure..
@@83K5Blazer I was too young to have a mullet!!!😁
Or 90s too
Yes please 👍👍
Don’t forget those forgettable mullets.
If I could only go back to this time, right when I just finished high school and do it all over again. I would cherish every single moment of this decade.
A very underrated performer globally...always had success in Oz...the world needs to listen more to Nik Kershaw....
I remember that day. I was 19 years old and full of dreams, sitting with my buddies in my room and watching the whole concert on german tv. And drinking beer of course.😎
I remember too
No doobies?
A little caring society was created after this. The wall came down Mandela was freed and the nuclear arms race took a pause.
Ed Zimmerman same age
Ed Zimmerman i
The decade of using synthesizers, drums ,guitars all together plus raw talent, love it
Actually synths weren't really a that new.
It was more the digital synths that gave that classic 80s sound.
@@HouseholdDog synths have been popular since hammond novachord synthesizer in the early 1940s
Yamaha DX-7 in FULL FLIGHT 😊
I was 17 and had just graduated high school. I remember this day like it was yesterday. What an amazing day of great music! I loved the 80's. I just wish I had known it at the time. It was a great time to grow up. I wish I could go back knowing what I know now. I would cherish every moment.
I feel the same way... :/
I agree. Great memories
every human says this in the western world, mabye the whole world
So well said
I was 17 too but in Italy we graduate high school on 18...I was an eye on TV an eye on books that wonderful summer
Saw him live tonight in Melbourne. Dude still has it. It was so good to see him live. Inspiring songwriter without a doubt!!
I'd still argue that the start of this song is one of the best guitar riffs of all time.
it's not an iommi riff, but yeah, it's still pretty f-cking amazing
@@davidovics92 Weird Sabbath plug
No argument here 🤘🏻😉
@@forumchatter09: ESPECIALLY since he used to COVER some of THEIR songs.....
Wish he made more music
Sat in bed watching this now 46. Wishing I was young again really upsets ya knowing them days gone
darthroon1 I am 48 but I feel the same.
@@mariagraziatrolli1220 😭
I miss them day's too
i'm with ya, great times
Don't be sad. We were part of an insanely creative era in British music x
simple times no phones or social media just good music
I'll never forget this song in my life. Nik Kershaw sings so good.
I'm 21 but I can already see humanity officially peaked in 80s.. oh what I'd do to experience that decade
Sam Weisberg hey great to hear that...The boomer in me can confirm....the 80’s up until the mid 90’s and the birth of The www. and the death of Kurt Cobain were the glory years of rock music
Nice 👍 mate! 🇬🇧
Clothing was colorful. Not dull black & white 90s no color age.
That was sweet post. No, the 80’s weren’t “better”, they were great bcs I was young. You’re 21 now, this is YOUR decade. Make lots of love, you’ll have happy memories for later in life.
Im 20 and I agree
This song gives me chills, even after all these years! I sooooo miss my decade!
I know *exactly* what you mean. SE England 1980's epic.
This song remind my 1st girlfriend never felt the same again vive me chills alzó beatiful song
Yes , very beautiful........
80 is magnific
@Lori Reece SAME - I had the record and listened over and over and over....no internet to surf - was fully immersed in listening to it.
I wish I could enter a Time Machine, and go back to the 80s to see all of these great concerts. That would be a dream come true!
I keep coming back and watching this over and over. Such a good live rendition.
It's crazy how I felt like listening to this today then I noticed the date on the banner above the stage...July 13th which is today's date!
Me too! I love this song & I named my baby girl Alyssa! (:
Who els absolutely loves Live Aid? ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Completely.just magical.the uk is just the best
One of the best live performances right here. Not a huge Nik fan but this song and performance is just unreal.
The sound quality before digital came along was so much better than the digitally compressed crap of today
The days before autotune
I'm 60...a young 60 because of the 80's positivity. I played drums with a band for a living while in college in St Louis and met and opened for several 80's artists including The Romantics, The Alarm, Night Ranger etc and I get a heaviness in my chest and welling of tears when I think about this modern day Renaissance in music and culture
Great memories indeed ☺️
Can we just appreciate the "Hello Mum" sign on the drums lol
LOL...yes we can!
haahahahahhahaha me too!!!
Omg my dad told me his stories of writing that, he says he wrote it upside down cuz he thought that the camera would be on the other side (mark price (the drummer) is my dad I’m not just an internet troll)
@@isaacprice1750 Hope your Dad is doing well, I was a big fan of All About Eve back in the day.
figurehead1971 yeah he’s doing good! It’s awesome to see videos on him playing live on UA-cam as I am not old enough to have actually seen it!
No mobile phones recording........ people living in the moment! A better time
🙄🙄 a better time yes but that’s got nothing to do with phones. I will never get you people. What’s wrong with making the moment last forever?
I would never wish to go back to days before mobile phones. It’s great being able to stay in touch with family members, and able to call for help. I would go back for the music as music today is shit in comparison.
@@ceeaitch11 everything is recorded, you dont need to do it yourself - put the fucking phones away.
Dan Jones. the 80’s was about capturing the moment of Music, Films, Special Occasions, Family, Friends, Cartoons and Video Games 🎮
when humans were human.
Mullets, baggy pants, baggy shirt, synthesizers and a unibrow. Top THAT 2020!
Mullets, baggy pants, baggy shirt, synthesizers and a unibrow. Top THAT 2021!
@@kansascityonline nothing can top that! 😉
I actually have a mullet. Or well, had a mullet. I had to shave it off yesterday due to the summer heat. My hair always grows into a mullet though so I always look like some kid from the 80s who time traveled to the present
My shirts and pants are considerably less baggy than they were in 1985...I think they must have shrunk in the cupboard... 🤔
He was hot for a guy with a unibrow
Every household should have this album and play it everyday
I'm addicted to listening to this song 😍😍 this is a masterpiece
The video is great it reminds me of Take On Me, but these songs were around the same time.
80's the most colorful era and you could memorize the lyrics even without the copy because they sang clearly.
What a fantastic look Nick had. What lyrics...for these times! Wow.
I was there at Live Aid and Nik Kershaw was one of the openers before some unknown acts like u2, Queen, Elton John and the Who followed him. What a day, what an amazing concert, the greatest concert of all time.
Lucky of You 💕
Lucky. How old were you then?
Ah I’m jealous. I wish I could have been at Live Aid. But I was only 12 at the time and in another country!
I'm jealous
And don't forget Phil Collins, who played both concerts!
This is LIVE AID FOLKS..the biggest concert next of Woodstock.. this was huge, and the best time to be a 16yr old!! Miss it, love it and glad I was part of it!!
I was just 16 then...
1972 here, i was just 13 old, but remember every bit of it (i watched it on Austria television - ORF, lol, in Bratislava, in former Czechoslovakia)
me too. 24 and just married. Wonderful time to be alive. still am married to the same guy. only 17 in my head though haha!
16 too and headed to 11th grade that fall.
Lucky....
14 years old and glued to the tv watching live aid in TORONTO...best years of my life...didnt know how good music was and took it for granted...today's music as young people today tell me is crap
It's one of those songs that remind you of a bygone time, Nik Kershaw is truly underrated
This is THE EVENT of the 20th century !!! 80's FOREVER
He had the look, he made the demands of instrumentation & melody, singing like a champ & laying a knockout song onto an unsuspecting world . . . & a message that resonates through the decades. Nick Kershaw . . . the thunder rumbled, lightning flashed, & God said, "Thou shall ROCK." And lo, Nick did Rock. HE STILL ROCKS.
Great to see nobody with cell phones recording. But dang, I’m glad somebody did record it!
That would be the BBC and its American equivalent.
It was on TV all day.
Never knew he played Live Aid- Have loved this song since the 80’s- Best time to grow up and the BEST music!!
Oh he did-apparently he was so nervous he ended up repeating the first verse twice
Music is no longer made this way anymore, unfortunately! Not only was this a great song, the 80’s era was one of a kind!
Take me back to the 80s just for one day😍
Me leva com vc! 😁😉👊
Take me back to the 80s just for one life 😁
1 day ??? I would do unimaginable things just for a few hours to relive 80s
I’ll go with you.thanks 😊🥂🍾
I want back to the 80's too. 😌
I was 12 then and still feel the same listening to this, sooo good!! Happy great 80s music forever!! Coolest trousers n boots nick!!
I was also 12 at the time. Wish I could have been at Live Aid! Bring back the 80s!
I wasn’t born for another 21 years yet I’m here lol
Check out the live version of this song with Nik Kershaw and Howard Jones.
@@kellyisraels2763 cool ty!!
@@fuchsia5899 yayy lets rock :)
Feel so bad when I see where the world is heading to on current days. Music back than had soul and love.
One of the best summers in my life. 19 years old with my whole life in front of me. I still listen to this song, what magic this all was.
Now, this is a real concert! No fancy stuff, no iphones, just the most awesome concert ever!
@Sleeping Hehe yeah but 80s fancy is the real fancy ;)
My mind just drifts to a better place in time when things were so much better
and that with a cold war going on! Things were so much simpler...
...bear in mind that this concert only happened because of a deadly famine in Africa. Every decade has its problems.
The 80s were the best I know I was there Nick was great .
The magic era of the 80s, my heart makes a jump for joy every time I hear a nice eighties song and sometimes a tear jumps in my eye. Am I getting old?
Yes my friend.. Same feeling here
Yes, you are! Lol
@@bobjohnson1587 true bro, my soul is still 22 but the rest is almost 70 years now. Still rockin' though.
Fué una de las lindas épocas de los 80's. Qué recuerdos aquellos.
this was the Woodstock of my youth !!
can't get enough of these 80ies performances. great great great! wish I could have been a popstar in the 80ies!
There may not have been Facebook, smartphones, iTunes let alone the internet but an incredible time to be alive!
when it used to be sunny in July in England! Oh those were the days! Fantastic memories
Now we are chemtrailed to death.
awesome live performance! and this is REAL LIVE and no playback!
in other tone :/
Deserves far more views!
Most of the live aid performances from everyone who performed are seriously top quality! Todays artist dont compare.
Oh look! No mobile phones. Only people having the time of their lives. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Just because people didn't have them, doesn't mean they wouldn't use them.
Hey not all of us are addicted to our phones
Brilliant observation and sooooooooooooo true !!
@@hildrethbird Best times!
@@zackdavies2949, Excuse the idiots.😂
I cry when i see it. Time flies. Those were different times, much better times than now. Wouldn't it be good to go back to the 80s?
Definately...you re right
Nik was a bloody good artist and held his own on this spectacular day 😎😎
He looks so handsome when he whas young and his music is one of the best things that I ever heard. Absolutely love it.
Yep, a cutie :)
I agree and im a guy lol
True artists. No auto tune
Awesome song!! Take me back to the 80's and never let me out!!!!
Oh if we could....
That drum intro needs a special mention.
34 years ago and still listing in 2019
No Doubt
bobby comme moi , pour sauver l'éthiopie je revois ses images si triste ce peuple qui mouraient de famine , j'en pleure encore , tous ces groupes U2 ,Queen etc... pour Live Aide Merci a eux
Bring me back to the 80's😢 -Glory Time 😎
I have not heard this song in decades until I walked into the Grocery store this morning. How blessed some of us were to come up in this age of music.
The best decade ever and the best music
And we had Mrs T in No.10 the entire decade. Wonderful times.
I was 19 what a awsome time
Great song, I remember Nik singing this on radio in 1984
1985 - Come out, save lives!!
2021 - Stay home, save lives!!
World is upside down..
You’re right
It always has been.
Inverted on purpose by the ruling "elites". Sadly even this 1985 event was a globalist sham. The musicians were doing it for the right reasons (except for maybe Bono and Geldof), but had no idea of what was actually going on.
Two of the biggest cons ever
@@JulieRushworth Agree!
Ahhhh what a day that was ...
🎶 Wouldn't' it be good if I had a time machine...
The eighties was the greatest decade in the history of humans!
Still listening in 2024 🇨🇦🫶🎵🎶
These videos are the closest thing we have to a time machine... Nik forever💙
The 80's - Amazing blend of music, fashion, creativity, aesthetics & happiness.
I was young when this music was about, and had no idea just how creative and pioneering these musicians were. Thank the gods of Music for these incredibly adventurous and experimental minds, paving the way with synths but also writing amazing songs.
Nobody who didn't live to experience the 80s can possibly imagine what it was like.
@Sleeping yawn.....
Good friends and the best of times! I loved the 80's!
@Sleeping keep on sleeping... that's all you are good for.
As a 25 year old, I absolutely love this song
Everything about the 80s from music, movies, clothes, hair, even the people what a wonderful time! Marsha Marie Greene.
I 100% agree
So true there was some charm in those days that is hard to explain in words.
This is actually a very good performance. Not all Live Aid acts can say that.
Well Queen certainly can....
@@GizStudPrez yes, Queen certainly can.
Hats off to Midge Ure... very much the unsung hero of that great day.
rodstewartshow agree 100%
Bob geldof
#JusticeForMidge
100 percent
And Bob geldof
i m still astonished, at how good 80s music was.....this one is one of those experimental pop songs ,which left me dreaming...the melody, the dynamics, the different instruments complementing each others....i m glad to be born in 72 and being grown up during the 80s ....
I remember being 17 and sitting with my boyfriend, and future husband watching this all day long. What an amazing thing to have witnessed. ❤
Loved Nik as a teen, still love him now, What a talent and intelligent song writer
The summer before my senior year of high school, what a magical time to be a teenager, and the music was performed without auto tune, no lip synching, and the artists actually played their instruments...wonderful memories
I remember watching this live. Unreal day.
Seeing him in Manchester this October. Can't wait.
This just makes you feel good, I'm 61 loved it first time I heard it , like "yesterday"f--- yeah!!!