So glad this channel is doing so well 👍

I still hum this song in my head. And even when I hear in the supermarket I can't help but sing along with it.

This song brings back so many good memories.

Kevin Rowland………Legend 👍🏻

Great interview and a fantastic song that I have heard a million times but still love it and smile every time I hear that so familiar opening strings.

They did two absolute classics Come on and 'Geno'. Nicely done...

I met Kevin in London a few years ago, awfully lovely guy, and still making good music till today. And the Eileen in the clip looks like my girlfriend when I was 18. 😂

I was a senior in high school when this came out. It was the epitome of how awesome the the 80s British music was. (at one time in the early 1980s, 70% of all the videos on MTV were from British groups)

@80sandretrogubbins25

4 ай бұрын

British music in the early 1980s was very dynamic. I love it.

This really made me smile big time. Great memories

This song stands the test of time. It will be played in 1000 years time, unlike today's songs.

@mtb5778

Ай бұрын

played on Mars from the Elon Musk X radio station.

This was a big hit in Canada when I was in high school.

Great memories! Thanks for the channel! Greetings from Germany!

These are just so great! Thank you!

Still listen to this song at least once a month.

Good man kevin☘️🇮🇪👍

i like Dexys earlier stuff, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels was a good album. but this album Too Rye Ay is just an absolutely wonderful album and Celtic Soul Brothers is one of my all time favorite tracks. what a voice.

What a great interview!

great song one of my dads favs

Ohhh, it's from 2006 ! That explains why those old ladies are smoking inside the cafe !

I love this series, but knowing both Dutch and English, I often get annoyed at the translation in the subtitles. Like, he says explicitly "I wanted to have sex with her", but it is translated euphemistically as "I wanted to go to bed with her". Or the lyrics "My thoughts, I confess, verge on dirty" are translated as the much more negative "I almost get nasty thoughts"

@heroicnonsense

8 ай бұрын

This series is made by NTR, a public broadcaster in the Netherlands that likes to keep things civilised. Had this series been made by something more progressive, say BNNVARA, then yes, it would have been literally translated no doubt.

@hulzebos9760

8 ай бұрын

If you're so proficient in English, don't read the subtitles. Problem solved.

@munstersestraat

6 ай бұрын

happens in movies a lot. depends on the quality of the translator (which often translate literally, rather than trying to catch the true meaning)

@Vaginaninja

4 ай бұрын

Then I think you mean to say subtitle's

@80sandretrogubbins25

4 ай бұрын

@@heroicnonsense Civilised? There's full nudity in one of these older Top 2000 videos lol.

2:30 “…started off with an old soul song…” Jimmy James - A Man Like Me

This was a floor filler in 1982. I remember `everyone` except me dancing to this at a companies social club teenage disco.

🎵👌👌👌

Ahhhhgghhhhh Swedish girls,man. Be it the 70's...or now...just Damn.

So I still don’t know if that’s Paul Carrack in the music video but the inspiration for the song was partly from “Labeled With Love”? I’m so confused! Help a Yank out!

@80sandretrogubbins25

4 ай бұрын

Paul played on the album that Labelled With Love came from, but didn't sing that song.

Name of the group is a giveaway to the meaning.

Wolves fan 🐺✊

I thought he ripped it off from his friend & took out a full page ad, apologizing to him for doing it ?

@abraham_benson_official

2 ай бұрын

Nope. The song was always Rowland’s but he took the style from ex Dexys member, Kevin ‘Al’ Archer and made it better. I’ve always enjoyed The Blue Ox Babes equally as much, though! :)

This must be really old when the women in the café are smoking indoors... That was banned a loooong time ago

@intruder1300

8 ай бұрын

Just what I was thinking.

@davidellis2021

8 ай бұрын

Well spotted. Smoking indoors was banned in 2007. Kevin is now 70. He now looks quite a bit older than in this video. Looks in his 50's in the video, which ties in with the smoking ban.

@abraham_benson_official

8 ай бұрын

This is from 2006

@humanmold

8 ай бұрын

The song is from the 80's

@abraham_benson_official

8 ай бұрын

@@humanmold I know. The song is from 1982, but this little short documentary thing is from the 2000s.

He looks like everyone else

ik wol in lolly 🍭

Someone wrote „he sings like a young Jackie Wilson“ and after not having heard it for a long time I have to say - he was absolutely right. Incredible vocal performance.

Dam,was that woman smoking a cigarette in the restaurant?🚬😂

For a hundred years I thought it was a French band making English music. Such a fool I was.

Here's where they nicked the tune from: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6ulr7tpZ5zeaKQ.html

0:22 Ik wil een lolly...

And nowadays nobody can take inspiration from anywhere out of fear of getting sued.

@BlemishesNow

8 ай бұрын

Sure, man

@abraham_benson_official

2 ай бұрын

That’s not entirely accurate. I do it quite frequently as an artist, and I know some other people who do the same thing.

all catholics are chilled when they get over 30

With all the respect. I'm Sure it's me, but does anyone else really really hate this song? And it's an earwurm

@matthijstermeer611

7 ай бұрын

Yes, same sentiment here.

I HATED this song… it stayed sooooo long on nr 1 and later in top 10 that it bored me for,what, 50 weeks ?!? Keeping all the more cool obscure Brit synth pop bands at bay… uurrrgh. But today I can handle it..

back in the 80's when English working class people were skinny incl. me. strikes, unemployment. oxo cube in some boiled water with a slice of white bread for tea days.