RIP, Ian Tich Amey, 2300 14/02/24. The best friend I have ever had: miss you, Tich. Love you forever. Tom T and family xxxxx😪😪😪

@DocReasonable

Ай бұрын

Sad to see this.

@Uwe-if3dh

Ай бұрын

😮😭😞 R.I.P 🖤🕯️ Legende🙏

@TomThatcher1

Ай бұрын

@@DocReasonableDear Tich… not only was he the most decent man I have ever met, he also counted Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton as friends. Tich and I spent a whole afternoon and evening chatting about the old days and package shows of unlikely pairings and European tours. Luckily I wrote down the conversations and I’ll try to put them into intelligible form for anyone interested. Suffice it to say that Jimi rated Tich as one of the very best players, full stop. He was. Forget the flash guys… Tich could play anything. I miss my friend so much. There is a gaping hole in our lives: Tich, Andy Golden (Eric Bell, Thin Lizzy): Robin Gair: Pete Lucas (Troggs): Gordie Haskell (King Crimson, just about everyone): Brad Bradbury: Noddy Dudman: Pete Catlin….. all these extraordinary and brilliant friends have left the building. Tomorrow will be the first time that Andy Golden, will not be here on my birthday for about 30 years. Andy may have been one of the technically best drummers in Europe: he was good enough for Thin Lizzy, Eric Bell, The Frankie Miller Full House Project…it’s endless. He also took on Robert Maxwell and his spawn and won. I miss him every day. My obituary of him is on the Salisbury Journal website but also on the National websites. I miss my friend so much… 😓😓😓

54 Years later and I have just been screaming it out on my car Radio in a traffic jam with the windows down BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 70 Year old Rocker!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Brissieskater1

2 жыл бұрын

The age doesn't apply when you enjoy such a brilliant song in a traffic jam. Solidarity brother!

@andyberegszaszi3430

2 жыл бұрын

@@Brissieskater1 á1

@josephinemgordon

2 жыл бұрын

Yip! Bloody brilliant song🎵

@detlevdiegel6465

2 жыл бұрын

You Go Girl/Boy/Them/They!!! 69 here in South Africa but then we always have been a tad behind the times. But when you learn to bend it just a little bit and take it easy life is grand,. Aweh

@alexdury6577

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️😎🎉😭

A perfect pop song. There is nothing that could be added or subtracted that would improve it. Brilliant songwriting and production.

These songs still get to me after all these years because they had great tunes

One of my dads favourites, Can still him whistling it although he's sadly gone, I'll sing it for you dad,miss you.

This song has never aged, and still sounds as fresh now as it did in the 60s. Its a testament to some good songwriting, and Dave Dee who had a great voice, and the guys. In some respects they were a band ahead of their time, Rip Dave.....

@murraywood7480

9 ай бұрын

Agree with your comment, I also believe this band was not given the airtime or credit it deserved. Their songs were well ahead of their time.. Peggy Wood (Aotearoa)

'Xanadu' is absolutely stuffed with hooks. Playful Spanish guitar, urgent horns and of course Dave Dee’s bullwhip percussion. I love how the song peaks with a fantastically poker-faced spoken word section before the chorus gets one last giddy spin.

Ich bin 64 Jahre alt. Habe dieses Lied früher immer geliebt und jetzt hier zufällig gefunden . Ich freue mich sehr , Tag gerettet 👍🌹😊

55 years later and I`m still excited when I hear this immortal song.

@user-vk4el9oy6m

Ай бұрын

It certainly takes me back every time I hear it this was played on the radio incessantly when I was a kid and I loved it.

Its Heartbreaking that 166 Galoots have given this classic the thumbs down ,Such a great tune that has been around before I was born in July 1973 and for over 50 odd years it's still standing as a testament of Classics ❤️

Fabulous guitar and trumpet playing

This music lifts you to great heights

Sadly, only John Dymond (Beaky) and Michael Wilson (Mick) as of 15 February 2024 still with us. RIP David, Trevor and Ian.

today someone told me about someone who is called Xanadu, and I immediately started to sing this song as loud as I could, one of my first singles back then, when I was 13!

I'm 41 and have grown up with a varied education in music from parents, right from the 1920's upwards, and I'm so glad i have. this song is brilliant! what a great tune and Dave Dee's voice is wonderful. I have 3 children, and I'm now passing on my love of good music to them. Thank God for KZread so we can all enjoy good music

@murraywood7480

2 ай бұрын

Well said .. Like you I grew up with a love of music, & good songs such as this.. Peggy wood Aotearoa

What a wonderfull song❤ I was 11 in 1968 when I first heard it.

Brings back many wonderful teenage memories

when music was great 🥰

How many people are on You Tube tonight with a drink inside them and a smile on the face

It still gets my old bones working.

@maguemarable

3 ай бұрын

Just like me...

Incredible, it still gets in to you after all those years. I am now 68 and it's still a favourite

@hafnadullhafnadul4200

4 жыл бұрын

I feel just like you! When I heard it the first time, I believe in the german "Beatclub", it was like thunder and lightning for me!

@Keithbarber

4 жыл бұрын

A song you like for life

@MrJabcross12

4 жыл бұрын

Played it at my dad's funeral it was his favourite song ..i love it too

@goodo5691

4 жыл бұрын

same.im 65

@rw8733

4 жыл бұрын

My mum loved this. I forgot how good it was. Thanks for this. 😢

Just three words: joyful ~ powerful ~ _timeless_ ...

This band is so great and not recognized enough. Love them .their songs are timeless and really appreciated.

I was mesmerised by this song and this man as a tiny tot! I would stand in front of the TV screen to watch it. xx

💕 this will always remind me of my late Mother, she loved this song, I was just 9 when this came out 💕

Songs like this never die

How super fantastic is this song ❤❤❤

I was thirteen when this came out.... THAT WHIP !

When my mum died my dad bought us tickets to go to The solid silver 60s shows and they were amazing as I was a 60s baby, we went to a few of the shows and it didn't seem real with all the legends on the stage in awe really xx

First listened to this on a cheap pop hits record as a child, played by a Stromberg Carlson radiogram. Gave me a lifelong love of pop/ rock .

I’m 18 and I love this song 🤣❤️

@meneserte6123

Ай бұрын

taky jsem měl 18 a tu pisničku jsem měl moc rád.....a mám...nyní mám 68.....zdravím z Opavy-cz

I first heard this song when I was 18 in the New York Pub in Wakefield West Yorkshire. My mate Paul took me and said watch what happens when it came on.....All the bar staff came around the front and danced to it with tambourines. I forgot all about it until I heard it again yesterday on UK Gold. Gives me shivers every time I listen to it. Classic!

@CheeseSarny

2 жыл бұрын

Near where Lightwaves was?

@daviesfortnitechannel5745

2 жыл бұрын

@@CheeseSarny yes that's right. Everyone was really friendly and there was no trouble. Merry Xmas friend and everyone.

@papapiers1588

2 жыл бұрын

What a great memory

@dawnjohnson3263

11 ай бұрын

If I saw that in a bar I'd think I was in a movie. That's brilliant

@Uwe-if3dh

Ай бұрын

Wowwww…🙏😍👌

Priceless memory from a bygone era...pure magic...

@russellgerrard3944

2 жыл бұрын

I was there.

This song was brilliant in the sixty's and remember it like yesterday watching them on top of the pops .it's a favorite classic even today still love to hear them .fantastic.

@johntaylor7123

2 жыл бұрын

This song is brilliant in 2022

@jimmcgill748

2 жыл бұрын

Yes 1968

@carmenolmos1606

2 жыл бұрын

Mi favorita lindo recuerdo

Very beautiful. I feel grateful that we had this wonderful songs during our younger years. Can't see that the music of today gets anywhere near it.

@dawnjohnson3263

11 ай бұрын

There is no music today. Just noise. Sad, aggrevating noise

@murraywood7480

8 ай бұрын

Exactly so well put. Can you imagine asking todays 'singers' (?) to do this.. "Oh , you want me to do what ! bit hard...yeah right.." Amen for the 1970's era ..Peggy Wood (Aotearoa) @@dawnjohnson3263

@mebalshaw

7 ай бұрын

I totally agree with you I'm 76 and feel lucky to have been a teenager we had all this great music. We didn't appreciate at the time just how good it was.

@46514651

3 ай бұрын

Just noise, repetitive beat, unpleasant tattooed women shouting and sneering

Es war eine so unbeschwerte Zeit und ich war unsterblich verliebt in Deve Dee. 🥰😍Dieser Song ist ein Oldie und wird immer einer bleiben. Zarte 15 Jahre und unheimlich verliebt, wo es ja eigentlich keinen Weg hin gibt. Aber trotzdem schön.😊🥰😍🤩👍👍

Love the Songs - from Dave Dee....... all time

SHOULD BE RERELEASED WOULD BE A NO 1. IT KNOCKS SPOTS OFF TODAYS CRAP.

@djpaul146

3 жыл бұрын

You're right there I used to be a dj and I never played any of today's rubbish I played 1950s 60s 70s 80s

@tonylong5197

3 жыл бұрын

Beats these girly boy bands here today gone tomorrow

@djpaul146

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonylong5197 my girlfriends son had the top 40 on and what a load of rubbish I couldn't tell what they where singing about with most of them 😂😂😮

@arthurpewtey

3 жыл бұрын

I'd bet my life savings that your parent's said exactly the same about what you listened to when you were a kid. And that your grandparents said the same to your parents when they were kids. Do you see a pattern? Come back 20 years from now and you'll find your kids are saying it about your grandchildren's music..... which you will REALLY hate, btw!

@thefurrybastard1964

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly it wouldn't get anywhere today. Not because it's bad, it isn't, it's brilliant. But the Media Execs would bury it.

Whips its way into your memory, this one. Love it.

I’m 48 and I absolutely love this band, amazing 👍👍

The production on this song is excellent. It stands the test of time.

@lebe220

2 жыл бұрын

It´s perfect. In every way.

frickin classic love it still bumpin in 2024 😊❤👍

Loved this song when i was young, i used a piece of electrical flex to make a whip and joined in when it came on the radio!

In April I'm seeing them for my 16th birthday and I'm so excited!!

This group released some seriously class songs,2022 and still hard to beat

I was about 2 or3 when my parents realized I likes Dave dee doze you beacky mick and tich I’m 64 now

Tunes Like this is what I was brought up on. Still believe 40's to 70's were the best tunes.

@tommytippee5900

5 жыл бұрын

Stuart Ongley i was born in 1962 so i really understand you. was a great era in the sense of Popular and Rock music. We were lucky.

Inak na vysvetlenie. Pamatam si ich, ked vy ste bol este babo. Ctila som tuto piesen.

I never really had much idea what this silly, nonsensical song was about, when it was in the charts in the old world we once knew in 1968 when I was a child. But I did know even at that young age that it was one of the greatest classics of pure pop music ever written and performed, and a testament to the creativity, inventiveness and optimism of all those involved. 50 long, strange, sad years later, at the opposite end of my life, nothing at all in that estimation has changed a jot, and the magic of this song and performance has not dimmed. Time has made me feel at times so very old - but masterpieces of joy and brightness and optimism and sheer raw talent like this make me feel forever young. RIP Dave Dee, and Trevor "Dozy" Ward-Davis. They will remain as timeless as Xanadu itself.

@tommytippee5900

4 жыл бұрын

Colin Phillips You put it very well. I was five when this was out and i used to run behind the sofa when this came on the telly rented from Rediffusion. This World is a sad place without great music and proper conversation,i couldnt care if i died soon.

@roberttreborable

4 жыл бұрын

@@tommytippee5900 Don't give up Tommy There's probable others near you who would love a conversation, keep looking there's always some beauty in the world among all the rubbish ....

Just love this old tune. Always makes me smile.

Such nostalgia floods back when I hear this. I remember I was only a kid , my brother was a friend of Dave Dee. He was such a nice guy. I had a crush of him.

@LadyJessM7

2 жыл бұрын

I had a crush on him at six years old.. something about his smile and the gap teeth!!

@mariannelaba

7 ай бұрын

I have a crush on him now and I'm a lot older than 6 😅😅😂😂

Superb production. Balance of brass, strings and vocals excellent.

60s had wonderful music and no auto tuning!

I'm 79 years old, I've known and loved this song since I was in high school. I am thankful for technology because today there are no such musicians and songs!!

This song has to be in my all time top five favorites.

This song is fantastic. The melody with the spanish touch mixed with the great voice and text, i love it.

Thank you mum for the music you played ,and I learned to love 😘

Skvělá kapela, která se dá neustále poslouchat a bude ještě dlouho.

I'm 40 years old and grew up listening to oldies stations; today is my first time hearing this song and I can get why they never played this on the radio.

@noelsalisbury7448

4 ай бұрын

Please tell us your theory 👍

@jonothanthrace1530

4 ай бұрын

@@noelsalisbury7448 It's all the whip sounds.

Heart pounding, fist thumping, whip cracking bloody brilliant.

Can't get any better than this ! Just can't

A one off! What a time to be young, thank god I was.

These guys were my aunts fav band. love it.

Cant get enough of this 🦋🌹

I was a fan of the band as a teenager in the 60's and loved this song.We saw them some years ago when they were special guests on the Solid Silver Sixties tour where Dave was still cracking the whip on stage, it wasn't too long afterwards that he sadly died.

I renember this song ,when I was young , But I still love this song

My first single I bought with my pocket money... Fitted right in with all the TV Western series and films I used to watch in those years!... That whip on stage was so original too and made that story come even more alive! This band's stories in song were certainly something fun to look forward to back in their heighday!❤

Love the whip effect. :-)

@Keithbarber

4 жыл бұрын

That's his fan club, whipping up support

@edje8339

3 жыл бұрын

if you like whips hahahahaha bye from amsterdam

Ein sehr schöner Song 😊

I was stationed in St. Mawgan, England in very early 1987 when SSgt Jimenez caught me listening to the 'oldies' in the weight room. "What do you know about that kind of music...you're too young...". We began talkin' while lifting weights and the next thing I knew...he was loaning me his cassette tapes to record. Little did he know that I had those recorded tapes and Sony Walkman in my right cargo pocket, ran the cord up the back of my shirt/blouse and listened with my headphones during the midnight to 4 A.M. post. ... to his music. Thanks, SSgt Jimenez

GOT to be one of the best songs from the 60S unforgettable , by an awesome band

Fabulous, takes me back to Junior School, such happy days with a killer soundtrack that featured songs like this.

We're my favourite band growing up still listen to them all these years later and are just as good.

My favorite song from my childhood it really takes me back and still holds up today.

******* I will never forget those days" LOBO" SPECKY

THIS REMINDS ME OF MY LATE COUSIN NEAREST THING TO MY SISTER I WISH SHE HAD LIVED LONGER TO TELL HER HOW MUCH SHE MEANT TO ME I REGRET I LUV HER ETERNALLY DESPITE BOTH OUR IMPERFECTIONS AND MISTAKES IN LIFE IM SO SADDENED HER LIFE WAS WRACKED WITH MISFORTUNE GOD BLESS LIZ X

Absolute classic.. brilliant song

R.I.P Dave Dee, Dozy und Tich 🕯

This fantastic music can never ever be forgotten, it will live longer than all of us. DD, D, B, M and T thank you for the music that you gave to us!

Wow! I'd completely forgotten about these guys. They were fantastic, I'm seventy-two now.

Esse música será eterna, para quem gosta de música de qualidade, lindos arranjos musicais, e uma bela interpretação do vocalista , essa música lembra a minha adolescência e a de muita gente que ouviu essa belíssima música. Parabéns a quem postou essa pérola musical. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.

@jonelavorat

Жыл бұрын

banda subestimada!

@dimaspaulo3066

Жыл бұрын

@@jonelavorat . Concordo com você. 👍

@jonelavorat

Жыл бұрын

@@dimaspaulo3066uma pena o material deles ser tão dificil de encontrar, acho q a maior relevancia q eles tiveram foi num filme do Tarantino.

@dimaspaulo3066

Жыл бұрын

@@jonelavorat. Ok . Essa música , Legend of xanadu, lembra a minha adolescência e gostei dessa música de cara, está nas TOP das minhas preferidas. Inesquecível. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@jonelavorat

Жыл бұрын

@@dimaspaulo3066 eu tbm cara, qnd descobri essa banda fiquei mto empolgado, Hold tighy e a Okay são outras músicas fantásticas deles!

Just totally amazing takes me back a lot of yrs.you guys are amazing xxxx☘♥️👊👍😘

Toller Sound 60er Hit auch heute noch schwungvoll. 14.01.2023 4.26h DANKE

Davka pozitivni nalady naporad. Thanks for ever !!!

still fantastic ,,, after 50 years

Almost 25 years ago me and my mates used to select this song on a Jukebox in a pub because we thought the whip sound was funny. Turns out I just love the song and I still listen to it today.

My mum introduced me to this song when I was in my mid 20's (2007), loved it from the get go. Still love it, such a unique song & great vocals. Now I just need to get my hands on a physical album of it:)

Bonita canción, excelente voz del cantante, perfectas armonías vocales. Muchas gracias por el vídeo.

@yvetteleerdam1148

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful song, Dave Dee and his band was one if the very best ! now July of 2022 it still sounds fresh and exciting, thanks guys!!

This was one of the best songs of the 60's Dave dee had a great voice often not given enough Credit - last Night in Soho is brilliant

I have loved it from the first time i heard it and still do. Simply fantastic! ❤❤❤. Maria in Sweden.

This music is so great... It feeds my soul Thank God we are lucky enough to live in this time🌞💐🌺🎃🌟

I heard this on the early 80's, when was a little kid! It's a great classic song!

I was five when this was out and i used to run behind the sofa in case i got excoriated by the angry Dave!😂😂😂😂😂. great times,if only we could go back for a while,it wasnt all good the World is troubled. Love n Peace t ye all.

Trevor Ward-Davis aka Dozy aged 70, after a short illness, passed away today , R.I.P man

@mariogrungo9933

9 жыл бұрын

theminerone Rip great man

@notlob23

6 жыл бұрын

didn't know..😢

@1computernew

6 жыл бұрын

RIP

@MrKitkennedy

6 жыл бұрын

sorry to hear..........loved their sound

@AbandonEarth911

6 жыл бұрын

Rip. Seize the Moment and seize the Day.

On of the Best Oldies.

What is the legend im 74 loved the song from day one took no notice legend of what

Ich liebe das lied Meine Eltern hatten das frueher gehoert. Dann verschwand es fuer ein paar jahre von der Bildfläche. Und tauchte gott sei dank wieder auf. Nun ist es mit in meiner liste und ,, ich steh drauf,, 💃👩‍👧

Get tears listening to this song. Was a young unspoiled 12 years old kid.

2020 and still much better than today's "music", if we can call it music, bravo for Dave Dee and partners!!!

Great song played often in NZ on the older radio stations!!

@Joop.23-2-63

7 жыл бұрын

Veronica, Caroline, Mi Amigo.................

@rictrain55

6 жыл бұрын

Yes Karlene, it was my Favourite song too in NZ during the 60's, along with their other hits,. great Band.