They will never be a composer like John again RIP

Tears for a place i cannot ever go back to

This is in my opinion the most beautiful piece of music ever written.

@ptz593443x

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@ianmcnicol6425

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing better...although Morricone's Lolita, Malena and Cinema Paradiso are up there on Mount Olympus with this. I love this so much...it brings tears to my eyes. Every time I play it...I have to go somewhere private to let it out.

@josephclift3662

Жыл бұрын

@@ianmcnicol6425 makes me cry, too

@vicsaul5459

Жыл бұрын

Mine too, out of Africa 🌍 is a close 2nd

@orbitalforest

Жыл бұрын

Tend to agree .

Once experienced never forgotten .

PERFECT MUSIC, PERFECT FILM, PERFECT WOMAN. No more to say.

@johnbelcher7164

2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding Woman and the Movie

Why do i cry, every time i hear this piece?

Nichalos Roeg died today. In 1971, I had my Mom drive me to the classic Art Deco Hackensack Fox theater to see "Walkabout" at age 11. My life was changed at that tender age by the beauty of the visually-rich drama. The film is full of gorgeous images, fascinating soundscapes, and quietly disturbing scenes that create an evocative and powerful piece of art and commentary. Walkabout is a rite of passage filled with upsetting series of events meant to comment on the contrasts between Western and traditional cultures, as well as the loss of innocence. I never looked at the world the same way again. Roeg, who mastered panoramic visuals that were somehow very intimate, filmic techniques that produced jarring contrasts through editing, sound recording, and narrative third person camera language that placed you in the center of the action. Certainly one of my all time favorite cinematic storytellers that has a film resume with some of the most revolutionary 70s movies ever made. "Dont Look Now", "Bad Timing" and of course possibly the greatest film of the 70s "The Man Who Fell To Earth".. A great loss. Gods Speed Mr. Roeg. Thank you for your art and masterful storytelling. We wont see your like again soon....

@aralsea1

2 жыл бұрын

Your mom was awesome for doing that.

A beautiful film and perfectly cast. At the time Jenny Agutter was my dream girl.

Despite all the conflicts, there is still beauty out there.

Saw this aged 7, left a permanent mark.

The most beautiful and haunting melody ever ... fills you with such longing ... it's almost too painful to listen to!

There is a deep meaning beyond the mind if anyone has seen the movie, the story impacts when cultures collide, a story beyond the story about instructions to live in harmony with the Earth our mother, we live by instructions for freedom of happiness and true experience of life . Are we not all mankind ? , could people learn from the oldest living culture on Earth.The Aboriginal people are not what most people think we are so let us show you, walk with us in this ancient land.

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

@o00o0oo0

4 жыл бұрын

令人记忆深刻

@mikeanndavis

3 жыл бұрын

Who is the poet?

@mcveigh2k624

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeanndavis A E Housman

@mikeanndavis

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@anthonydavis5679

3 жыл бұрын

I feel for Mike.

...this film...like lost youth...purely bittersweet... memories sustain...

The tears are back

I cry every time I hear this, without fail.

Tears for those blue remembered hills

John Barry last album is called Eternal Echoes. This is his lesser known Masterpiece, as is this Film , his music echoes in eternity. R.I.P Maestro.. The poem at the end of this film inspired a song I wrote many moons 🌙 ago... My soul forever restless.. My heart will always stray... To the times that never come again... Like love... One Summers Day

Now trapped in suburban life she remembers the wild freedom she had..... Heartbreaking music.

What a beautiful tune. John Barry is a true genius.

Ohh I so agree. This is one the saddest endings to a film I have ever felt. Even now just watching the very end, still has a lump in throat and tears in my eyes - its the combination with the reading of that poem. God its just sooo sooo sad. My heart cries

@Random-yd7oh

4 ай бұрын

which poem?

Hits you like a ton of bricks memories that no one can take from you

Combined with the visuals from the film, it can reduce the most macho of men to tears. Simply unforgettable. Stunning! I saw it at the drive-in would you believe, and I have not forgotten it to this day.

@markfurnell6748

4 жыл бұрын

Im a 59 yr old man....and cry nearly every time. It is the loss of innocence. The scene at the billabong is like Eden....now lost.

I truly miss this era for its emotional scores of this caliber. They never shy'd away from being frank & open about emotions. We live in an era of disconnect now. So it's no surprise to me that I keep going back.. even to times before I was born.

第一次看此片是上中学时，央视播出删减版。片尾那段诗歌念白时，父亲说这片子拍得真棒。我那时懵懂中也觉得这个电影很特别，有一些心灵上的触动。我长大后有了网络，我又结婚，离婚。北上广深最后回到家乡。无意间找到片源，下载重温，才真正看懂它的深意，从此收藏在电脑中。而今我的父亲年已古稀，罹患肺癌。今天不经意间翻看以往回复，又来到这里。当音乐响起，眼泪不争气的流下来。电影中的小男孩，其实就是导演的儿子。而我的父亲，也是一名默默无闻的电影工作者。人生就像一场电影，我有一位出家的师父，他曾对我说，我们每个人，都在一边演电影，一边看电影，我们各自创造者世界的一个小小角落，而当我们离去时，电影会继续。

Saw a little snippet of this film tonight on the telly and it brought back so many memories of the film education i experienced back then, In those days the BBC played Fellini, Fassbinder, Nic Roeg, Bertolucci, Peter Weir, Antonioni, Sergio Leone...The list was endless. I was about ten or eleven when this was shown and its one of those films you never forget. Mind you, you ask most fifteen to twenty year olds today who those people are above and they do not have a clue...Sad really...G...

This is truly a masterpiece.

Thankyou dear John sad but beautiful and very nostalgic

I love the film especially that last shot when Jenny is looking at camera. The moment of innocence that you left behind and cannot get back beautifully poetic.

What a film, beautiful scenery, amazing sound effects and this theme music: such a beautiful accompaniment to the the land of lost content, reminding me of my own lost loves, bringing tears to my eyes. Jenny Agutters look at the end says it all.

Saw the film years ago but didn't remember the theme. How could i have forgotten something as beautiful as this!!!!

There'll probably never be another movie made, like Walkabout, ever...

@markfurnell6748

4 жыл бұрын

Yes...it's uniquely beautiful!!

John Barry is an amazing artist. I fell in love with this score the first time i saw walkabout when i was around 15. Nearly 30 years later it never fails to move me. Incredible, beautiful. Words can never do it justice. Play it at my funeral.

This is so haunting......

'Agutter's face at the end of the film is heartbreaking' - Absolutely spot on - wonderful film, stunning score, we miss movie music like this, we miss Barry, simple...

@sandramorey2529

2 жыл бұрын

Her face says it all. What an adventure this young girl and her brother had & what an amazing encounter with a young man earning his manhood by doing his required Walkabout. She'll never forget it, and she will never mention it either. Leaves you with an uncentered feeling about settler colonials' worlds.

@darrenallison9236

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandramorey2529 you're so right Sandra (sorry had wrong account lol)

@threemanthreeman5516

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandramorey2529 more about regret,guilt & passing of youth, no?

51 don't like this, Why? Why are there always people who don't like something for NO good reason?

Wonderful score - it never fails to move me. That closing scene is especially powerful.

Up until now, I didn't know that John Barry provided the music to this movie. Darn! This man's musical talent is like legendary.

OH SO MUCH SO, BUT YOU JUST HAVE TO SEE THE FILM FIRST AND ONCE SEEN, LIFE WILL NEVER BE QUITE THE SAME BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE VERY VERY RARE FILMS THAT TOUCHES THE PERST THAT NO OTHER DO ESPECIALLY AT THE END. FAIR BRINGS A TEAR TO THE EYE

Beautiful, haunting music by the great John Barry takes me right back to those blue remembered hills.......

This film, and music, often makes me cry. Here is the excerpt from Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' which is quoted at the end of the film whilst the theme plays: Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

@vicsaul5459

Жыл бұрын

That's the one, you cannot come again

This most maginificent theme song and the feelings that only John Barry could capture.

this music unlocks a time in your life where you can no longer go back to...

@consumerwarrior1267

6 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. They just don't make movies like these anymore.

@chillbuddy4178

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. 😥😥

@SunnyIlha

3 жыл бұрын

Very much so I always shed some tears hearing it

@sparejenner1141

3 жыл бұрын

@@consumerwarrior1267 6

@neilrobinson1956

3 жыл бұрын

'Golden days spent in the sunshine of our happy youth', quite simply this musical masterpiece says it all..

I hope they will play this one at my funeral, along with a reading of ‘Blue Remembered Hills’

@chrispick9899

4 жыл бұрын

had the same idea several years ago and the first time someone can see the beauty of the piece very reflective

Stunning!😊

Beautiful movie..

this pulled the tears right out of me, thinking of the beauty and sorrow of life

@josephclift3662

2 жыл бұрын

Does it to me, too

@antonioescobar1335

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@iniquity123

2 жыл бұрын

It's crazy how certain notes in the correct order can reduce one to a blubbering wreck. Handel's Largo tears me up too....

@childrenofminervaofficial4316

2 жыл бұрын

It does that because it hits the listener right in the heart. One of the finest pieces of music evwr.

The look of what she's left behind on Jenny Agutters face at the end of the film is heartbreaking

@chillbuddy4178

4 жыл бұрын

frank crisp you put it so well... That's it

@niallmorrissey3715

3 жыл бұрын

She has become a shell. It is one of the most awful things I've seen in film.

John Barry at his finest composing. The film is a beautiful classic all the way through. The ending with this and the poem just hits such sadness and such a sense of loss - within me, never mind the film characters. God its just so sad.

@josephclift3662

Жыл бұрын

I see you, I feel you. Love, from London

Am i the only one who gets tearful when i hear this beautiful music? tugs at the heartstrings .

@briancarr4607

Жыл бұрын

No it's so beautiful

@taroman7100

Жыл бұрын

I get that way over Movieola.

This almost rips my heart out.....spectacularly gorgeous, but heart wrenching. Since I viewed in 1971.....one of my all time favourite films and scores!

One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever created that captures the essence of the world through the eyes of the enlightened

@Poeme340

2 жыл бұрын

lovely👍

To say this man was a genius is truly an understatement. His music is so moving. Every score he wrote suited the situation. I know it isn't manly but his music certainly brings a lump to my throat.

I saw this film as a child, too many years to remember, but this music and the poem by A.E.Housman, it sends a shudder down my spine and a longing for events and people in the past, warm memories that will never come again!

a quiet, subtle example of the incredible power of music,deeply moving.

This would get my vote for the best film theme ever.

@e-care-books9867

7 жыл бұрын

One movie critic called this movie a "mind massage," and the music is AT LEAST 50 percent of that!

@johnlang8275

5 жыл бұрын

Still listening.

@jvig7353

5 жыл бұрын

Mine too. Definitely the most heart-breaking.

@shane-irish

3 жыл бұрын

One of john barry best

Wow didn't realise how beautiful this was!

Amazing film!! I saw it in an art house in LA 25 years ago. Blew me away!

What a beautiful. Melody I love it and loved the movie too. Aida

I love Ennio Morricone...and I always imagine him listening to this...closing his eyes and nodding gently in appreciation at the beauty of this.

Played this at my mums funeral. Eleven years ago today. Powerful, moving and just a little forlorn. Dream happy dreams mum...

@stevedunphy2848

7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful choice, I chose James Taylor's "You can close your eyes" at my Mum's cremation 10 years ago. It's impossible to convey the power & emotional impact music has on every individual, but it soothes all our souls at times like these & like absent loved ones, is eternal. Best wishes.

@nigelwillson8000

6 жыл бұрын

I’m going to have it at mine!!!!

@MassiveChetBakerFan

5 жыл бұрын

Just a LITTLE forlorn?

@garywilliams1194

5 жыл бұрын

Very profound tribute to your Mother

@peterscobbie2716

3 жыл бұрын

It's good music for a funeral. Sad but not overly so. It lifts the spirit in a way. I listen to it quite often.

into my heart an air that kills from yon far country blows, what are those blue remembered hills, what farms, what spires are those, that is the land of lost content, i see it shining plain, the happy highways were i went, and cannot come again. A. E. Housman

....you could go away from this music for years & years, & come back to it & all that time would have stood still. As if nothing had changed & you came back to your roots. It truly is a gifted piece of music.

Thank you John beautiful piece of music

Heartbreaking, heartwarming, nostalgia… I love this song and movie

@CrapheadMoleman

10 ай бұрын

It's wonderful but it isn't a song.

@Ninzumecha

10 ай бұрын

@@CrapheadMoleman no need to be pedantic, I hope your day gets better

Tears in my eyes...

If there's ever a song that so evocatively recalls your childhood and more innocent times, it's this one. Just wish it didn't make me feel so sad. He truly was a genius.

@calderarecords

8 жыл бұрын

+Hashpotato What's so bad about feeling sad? You should treasure it! I love feeling sadness. I understand that it is the greatest of all emotions; it teaches us the value of all things priceless. You don't see animals crying with tears.. only humans can understand the overwhelming beauty that all things lost, gone or unattainable inflicts upon us. As the old poem goes.. "I Love & Hate. Why I do this perhaps you ask? I do not know. But I sense it happening & I am tortured".

@steveblanco7494

8 жыл бұрын

+Caldera Records .Yes this piece is beautifully sad and you my friend Caldera are a Poet. J B wrote wonderful emotional music.Just wish the angry World would listen to more of this.

@calderarecords

8 жыл бұрын

Steve Blanco You are too kind! I only wish I was! But I am only a mere peasant at best. Nothing last forever I'm sorry to confess. However, John's art has survived so far, & shall more than likely outlive all alive today. If you like sad music & want to hear something a little more modern, you may (or may not!) allow Ólafur Arnalds to grow on you. I recommend 3 titles: Fök, This Place Was A Shelter, & For Now I Am Winter. Trust me, he is mixing Classical & Clandestine Synthesizers as John did. ;)

@RobSinclaire

8 жыл бұрын

John Barry - Somewhere In Time (Original) Aldo Pastrana

@davidchamberlain5425

7 жыл бұрын

Hashpotato He left us a lot of wonderful music r.I.p.j.b

John barry could say more about life and the human condition in a glorious three minute melody than most so called classical composers ,fail to achieve in an hour long symphony . They say no one is irreplaceable in this world but john you certainly are . You were a truly life enhancing human being, your wonderful music will live on into eternity B

@dangiambrone7350

8 жыл бұрын

One of the best comments that I have read in a long time.

@jayneholdsworth5608

2 жыл бұрын

I agree love John's ability to evoke so much emotion

@Kyle-ur4mr

2 жыл бұрын

Nice sentiment but kind of dumb to bring in the composers who wrote hour-long symphonies lol

John Barry has left us so much beauty to enjoy. How wonderful to have been able to do that

So sad, the things she rejects... And then longs for them again

@markfurnell6748

4 жыл бұрын

Eden....lost for us all

So beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.Suddenly-i feel, now I can remember..

@jayneholdsworth5608

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure your no loser you love beautiful emotional music

Mystical, haunting, profound, beautiful.

@stevenkirby3239

9 жыл бұрын

Jay Quintana my sentiments entirelysums up much of his output

Beautiful music.... John Barry is the best in the business..... RIP maestro...

So incredible!

How can you thumb this down , bloody beautiful, drift slowly on air with golden memories 💖

What to add to the comments already made about this spectacularly heart wrenching piece of music? Everything you've all said. It still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up every time I hear it.

Maybe the most beautiful orchestration in the history of music. John Barry you have me in tears.

@arima5657

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

What a beauty. Absolutely wonderful. Regards. ❤️❤️🌹🌹❤️❤️

Never fails to move me to tears. The soundtrack transports me back to my childhood. Such an emotive film, beautifully filmed and an absolute stunning and haunting soundtrack by the late great John Barry.

Tugs so hard at my heart ... I get lost in this piece... So so moving .

@johnwilliams2920

9 жыл бұрын

It's so beautiful that I can't put into words how my heart feels when I hear it....

Evokes memories of being truly alive...and so long ago...

Loved the film didn't understand it but lt facinated me just discovered that yet again a piece of music l Loved was by Barry one of my special composers this as happened to me a few times Rip genius John

Dreadtower: I'm in agreement with you. I absolutely LOVE that poem at the end of the film while John Barry's score just simply SOARS!

How beautiful is/was/ever will be Jenny Agutter?

Absolutely gorgeous music.

So beautiful. This would make a philistine weep...

The scene at the end where she realises modern life isn’t where it’s at and she longs for those more instinctive, natural happier moments, even though it came after the tragedy of her Dad… it was real. Nothing resonates with me more

I first saw Walkaout on tv at random. I had previously never heard of it, and I was just mesmerized... by the music, photography... the poem... by Jenny. I saw it a few more times on tv, and it just completely continued to mesmerize me, and then I saw the uncut version on the big screen at a revival house. I just love this movie.

I always think of my late mam and dad when I play this song and sob my heart out but I think it does me good.x

@petergibbs6039

5 жыл бұрын

Kay bells I am with you peter

Brilliant film on all counts, still to this day. I first saw it as a 9 year old upon release in 1971 - and lets not forget it also portrayed the late and brilliant David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril (known as David Gulpilil in the credits) in what I believe was only his second film - he went onto to cement himself as a brilliant actor in Australian film etc. I'm sure Jenny Agutter is aware of his passing in late 2021? As to John Barry and his film score - everything he touched was magic.

Beautiful

Pure perfection personified, beautiful music with an innocence of youth that resonates today.

Truly stunning piece....its all in this track...life, death, innocence, desire, beauty, ugliness and reality...makes me cry like a pansy when I hear it... watch the whole film to bring it in2 context.. very clever composition by the master of film scores R.I.P John Bary

@Rocky_Intertidal

10 жыл бұрын

Well said. I take the time to watch this movie every year or two when I see it come up in the TV listings.

@ambidextra_ambidextra

6 жыл бұрын

fucking offensive

One of the best film themes ever absolutely beautiful.

Brilliant Score, Brilliant Composer. Brilliant Film.

Haunting, mesmerizing, beautiful... just some of the words to describe the power of this music. Alas, I lack the vocabulary to give full justice to John Barry's score.

@bobwoodrow322

7 жыл бұрын

Excellent. You said it all. Exactly my own thoughts.

Something so beautiful and sad goes on tn the heart and soul of people that can compose this kind of music. Somehow I had never heard this before today and found it backing a very sad youtube posting. John Barry left us a beautiful legacy. I will be searching for a cd of this.

This film left such a lasting impression on me Nostalgia is so emotive, and Housemans poem to clinch it.The emotions this kicked in my life Just blue remembered hills that can never come again!!!!!!!!!!

Reminds me of the childhood I missed out on,, more times than I care to remember I was beaten by my father who I loved so much and admired, sadly I was unable to satisfy his want for success from all of his offspring. Many years later when he was suffering from Alzeimers I managed to find my real father, a kind, loving, gentle, intelligent man who I have now missed for 16 years. With tears streaming down my face,I would like to thank John Barry and if I may, dedicate this fantastic song to all you lovely people out there who have been misunderstood and to any child that is at present going through the traumas that I did. It does get better as time passes but I do wish I'd been hugged instead of beaten.

@jrb1802uk

6 жыл бұрын

Ralph Robbins Sad story man. :(

@vintagebrew1057

3 жыл бұрын

No words, just tears....

@shane-irish

3 жыл бұрын

It sure does

@jayneholdsworth5608

3 жыл бұрын

So sorry for your unhappy childhood hope you have peace ln the rest of your life

@liasoetje2531

3 жыл бұрын

Hear, Hear Ralph. Well done.

Rob Sinclaire. The "Blue Remembered Hills" poem is from "A Shropshire Lad" by Alfred Housman. Brings a lump to the throat.