Still listening and love it in 2024 ❤

So wish I could go back to the 70’s. There was such a wealth of good music. The kids today just don’t have a clue to how good we had it.

@drstraightup8188

5 ай бұрын

You’re sooo right. Even the worst in the 70’s are still better than the crap nowadays.

@gweilospur5877

3 ай бұрын

Every old geezer in history said something like that.

@richardplume3212

3 ай бұрын

Ha 4561z my number n i hav a grandson hendrix yup life is sweet enjoy everyday people peace

@richardplume3212

3 ай бұрын

Ha im still there in my head but my grandson hendrix keeps my feet on the ground peace friends

@richardplume3212

2 ай бұрын

Ha never left hav a party 7 on m own

One of the most underrated bands of their time.

@frostyrobot7689

2 жыл бұрын

... and one of the most underrated songs of all time...

@robertballuumm730

2 жыл бұрын

@@frostyrobot7689 Without a shadow of a doubt! 🙏

@carrie7220

2 жыл бұрын

I love it I find it Haunting and Mysterious

@gwyndrasterry3036

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree. Budgie ia another one!

@richardyoung7415

Жыл бұрын

LINDASFARN,S MUSIC COME,S FROM A TIME THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, IT WAS SPECIAL BACK THEN AND IT'S STILL SPECIAL TODAY, CHEERS LINDASFARN FOR ALL THE GREAT MEMORIES. PEACE BE WITH YOU MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The 70s was alive and kicking with great music, what a time to be young it was.....take me back please.

One the best songs ever written..pure class.!

@nathandavis440

8 ай бұрын

Couldn’t have said it better!

@emmabell7465

3 ай бұрын

❤🎉

Without doubt one of the finest songs of the '70's and of all time. Still sounds wonderful nearly 50 years on!

@frostyrobot7689

2 жыл бұрын

ikr, first time I heard it was on a jukey back in the early 90s, immediately loved the song and love hearing it again.

@koitorob

Жыл бұрын

Headphones on. Program computer to play a dozen times. Volume turned up. Lights off. Enjoy until sleep takes me. An alternitive is Lacky Lady by Status Quo

Lady Eleanor. Lindisfarne. 50 years later. Spine Chilling !!!!!

oh to be young in the 70's again!

@elisepollydee2128

5 жыл бұрын

yup, we had some GOOD times, huh!

@kescowethtys

5 жыл бұрын

My date of birth: 31/07/79 !

@unamckillen7125

5 жыл бұрын

He/she is clearly not talking to you. You will not begin to understand.@@kescowethtys

@garytwitchett9359

4 жыл бұрын

How right you are Sunet. A child of the Sixties, a Teenager of the Seventies. The Best time to be alive for Great Music in every aspect. 🎶👍😀👍🎶

@TheGloucestersausage

3 жыл бұрын

Snap

we were so lucky to have such a wealth of talent and beautiful music back in the 70's thank you .

Best song ever,what a band,so haunting and will never forget it.

Sorry to have missed you Lindisfarne, but what a legacy you've left for us to continue to enjoy.

Takes me back many years ago in the village of Amble Northumberland I met a young guy sat on the harbour wall playing his guitar and he asked me to join him.I had no idea who he was and e few years after he was on top of the pops his name Alan Hull I believe he passed away in the nineties May you rest in peace and Thankyou for the memory.

@trappistpreserves

4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic memory!

@joelbrannigan3037

4 жыл бұрын

alan morrison what a story. We live in a great place

@trudinabialek

Ай бұрын

Wow what a beautiful memory 🙂

Heard it sung by some buskers recently on a trip back home, walking by the Tyne. Impossible not to cry.

Anyone who thumbs down this song doesn't know Jack about music....its beautiful, musically, lyrically, ...

Amazing what music the mind forgets with time passing. I'm 48 this song came on Radio Suffolk today and it took me back to my childhood as my parents played this. Was adopted age 6 and this is a song i can remember my parents playing also remember feeling safe for first time. Nice feeling hearing it again but painful at same time as my parents longer around. It's a class song to remember things by as it's so layed back perfect music therapy for sure 👍👍👍

@andydavies1810

2 жыл бұрын

Fostered Dave 14 years old, dad n mom gone, got you, 61 now,good luck!

One of them classic songs that, once heard, never forgotten. Marvellous song

Music of my youth ............... enjoying it now as I did 40+ years ago ......... if it's good it's good!

@paulinerenshaw5121

5 жыл бұрын

Me as well...

@brianmctague5723

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulinerenshaw5121 snap 👍!!

@richardyoung7415

Жыл бұрын

ALL RIGHT LADY ELINOR, I,M ALRIGHT WHERE I AM. PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Absolute masterpiece...still as spine tingling today as when I first heard it in 1971 as a spotty teenager. Beautiful.

Still superb. Memories still hit me like a sledgehammer

Now that's what you call a beautiful song....love it.

This song has always given me goosebumps. A fine version.

Dammit, I've aged with them...part of the tapestry of my life.

@eleonorefuss916

7 жыл бұрын

Sean Joseph

Instantly transported back to sitting in my room with my cousin, belting this out at the top of our lungs. One of my top five songs of all time. Class never dies.

@jimdalton2142

6 жыл бұрын

Was a kid in the 70's and listened to Lady Eleanor on Radio Caroline.I'm a Paddy living in TX. What music ...we need more

@johnharris9528

5 жыл бұрын

Elaine King 4

@franorichardson

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimdalton2142 thank you Jim, yes we need more, I am Paddy living in California but my heart is in the Ireland and my soul is in the 70s with songs like this.

@LesleyTanMortyMortisha

2 жыл бұрын

@@franorichardson Billy Mitchell went to my school, so did Sam Fender, I feel very very privileged

The most wonderful song and beautiful musical talent I’ve ever heard ❤

40 years on , as was still the most haunting and beautiful song of my early 20s

I am so happy to have been raised in the 60s and 70s when there was no greed no judgement no mobiles just pure music and that’s what brought people together loads of great bands about and as a smoggyLINDISFARNE where the best by a mile 🎈

Thank you Alan Hull. What a loss. A song that makes you fell good and sad at the same time. From someone who saw Lindesfarne in the 70s and Alan Hull in the New Crown in South Shields in the early 80s.

@newhavenneil

2 жыл бұрын

Crikey, I was there too!

This tune is a masterpiece ❤

I got this record in the early 70's. I've heard it in 20 years. I just fell in love with the song all over again. Magic!

Just happened upon this and got vaulted back in time to when musicians played for the love of it, the creativity, social comment, etc etc and finally for whatever money they could earn. Such brilliant talent!! Now I'm going to go through my boxes of vinyl that have collected dust for the past 40 yrs and pull out Lindisfarne and play it over and again just like I did in the 70s. Thanks for the music guys!!

I loved the original back in the day, but what a wonderful live version this is, tremendous....

@philipandreicuk5356

11 ай бұрын

Lip sinking lol

I will Never. Ever. Ever. Grow tired of this song.

@jerrylefever

5 жыл бұрын

Me neither.

Musical beauty, thank you Lindisfarne.

I have to admit, this version with Billy, is up there at the top for performances.

@jinkertsun

5 жыл бұрын

Rusty Y saw Billy and Ray do this at the Scarborough Spa during their Lindisfarne Story gig. 12th April 2019. The song was as fresh as the day it was written. Great performance by both guys.

Not just a lovely song, but a thing of beauty.

Beautiful. Takes me back to the City Hall and hearing this live a few years ago. Thank you.

I remember seeing them play in a pub just after they had changed their name from Brethren and it was the first time we had heard these songs from that first Lindisfarne album. Just before they breakthrough but we didn't know it at the time. Great times when people were just striving to be great musicians, not X factor wannabe's.

Live in Cardiff circa 1971 or possibly 72. Loved them then and still love this track now. It's surprising how you revert back to teh tracks of your youth and the emotions come flooding back.

There are songs that give me goosebumps, hence my name. And this is one of them. Truly nicely out of tune. Utterly brilliant. Lucky old Roderick Usher. I imagine it, I feel it, this song is one of the greatest ever written. It’s about time one of those American rappers puts up a ‘first time I heard Lady Eleanor’ video and we can watch them cry at the end.😢

Lindisfarne have been performing this song for years, and years, but this had just as much Feeling, emotion, and harmony in it, as the first time they played it ~ An Excellent performance by a Brilliant band ~ Nice post ~ All the best ~ Geoff

@alejandrogolt68

5 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more..

@djpriddin6211

4 жыл бұрын

And me!! Really impressed. 49 years later. What a, song that is!!!

@jinkertsun

3 жыл бұрын

Much respect to Billy Mitchell who did justice to all their songs and helped keep the band alive.

@eleanorrolph476

3 жыл бұрын

bless your heart xxx all the best too you

Saw them in Paignton Devon in the 80's. They sang this. Sometimes band just create magic moments. That was one of those nights

Fantastic. When you start with a great song and excellant musicians, the song and the live performance evolves over the years and just gets better and better and this is a classic example of this. Could listen to this over and over again.

Saw them in Milford Haven and had a drink with them after their brilliant show, Bought their last CD and all the band signed it. All members were down to Earth legends !! Seen many big bands in big venues but lindesfairne were the most memorable !!!x

Class performance of a song i first heard as an 11 year old......I`ve aged, the song hasn`t.

I was at their first Christmas concert at the City Hall and I have seen them about six times since; they are one of the most underrated bands of all time; Hull was a magician with words and the harmonies and musicianship were fantastic; even the more recent incarnations are brilliant!

@miriamjones9510

Жыл бұрын

❤

@tommcdermott4575

Жыл бұрын

I saw Lindesfarne at Cambridge Folk Festival 1986, I went to at least 12 consecutive CFFs and the Lindesfarne gig was the best I ever saw at Cambridge.

Most beautiful song ever.x

@paulinerenshaw5121

5 жыл бұрын

After Dreamseller.🥀

Just love it. It's been going through my head all day - still as good as ever

Northumbrian music is vastly underappreciated by the masses.

@toomuchinformation

2 ай бұрын

I think you're right.

This is an all time classic - pure poetry that has stood the test of time.

like a bottle of wine, they have got better with age.......

Just captures the care free 70s and a warm feeling. We could do with some of that now.

@brianmctague5723

3 жыл бұрын

Ah John, u took the words right out of my mouth! I remember walking around with 'nicely out of tune' ( the LP)under my arm and people looking over at me and saying ah, Lindisfarne ! Nice one man! nowadays you'd probably get mugged and they'd nick it ! The early 70's they were great day's !! They were the best day's !!

loved this song since i first heard it as a 13 yr old schoolboy , i always thought the mandolin at the end could be extended for a couple of minutes , with the acoustic it has such a beautiful vibe . Fantastic song anyway

@Babeiloveyouso

2 жыл бұрын

Heard it when I was 11

classic band......absolutely great thank you for posting

WONDERFUL ! ..... I used to have an 8-Track player in my Mini Cooper S in 1973 and they were top of the bill in my car and I still have the 8-Track !! ...... simply great, don't disappear boys !

@terrysherlock6356

5 жыл бұрын

Same

Who could ever forget that mandolin? Takes me straight back to Hull and 6th form!

@eugenekierans9188

3 жыл бұрын

Madolin player that played on Rod Stewart Maggie May

Saw them live at the Hammersmith Odeon something like 40 years ago, been one of my favorite bands ever since. This is music which will still be being played for many years to come, not like much of todays stuff which is forgotten after a couple of months at most.

Second lp I ever bought was Fog on the Tyne,with Fire and Water by Free.Still have both and still love both.Wonderful days

@brianmctague5723

3 жыл бұрын

Having a ramble round utube and saw this performance, love this song, and album! And u mentioned fire and water by free, as well as fog on the Tyne, that's 3 of my all time favourite LP's right there! Pity they hardly ever get a mention on utube, as u say, great, great days !

One of my all time favourites. They were always far better live than any other band I have seen, or any recording of them. I've lost count of how many times I have seen them. The first was at the Cambridge corn exchange. The last was probably at North Shields Fish Quay, wrapping up what was then known as the fish key festival, having just rolled out of the Magnesia Bank. Nothing beats seeing them perform "Fog on the Tyne" with the very same flowing right by.

I love Lindisfarne and this song gets the attention of everyone I ever played it for. It is wonderful and has layers, textures and subtleties, plus a pathos to the vocals that should draw anyone to Celtic, Gaelic or Brit ballads and music. Pardon me as an American if those labels aren't accurate or are outdated.

@ronhall9394

Жыл бұрын

The band was Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne is a tidal island which was the spiritual capital of the Angle (as in Anglo-Saxon, as in Angelcynn, as in Angleterre, as in England) kingdom of Northumbria. So in theory neither Celtic nor Gaelic should really apply, however if you used the term Geordie, you would be on the mark. There used to be a version of history where the Germanic invaders (Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Friisians) came and ethnically cleansed the majority of what is now called England and a large lump of southern Scotland leaving the former inhabitants huddled in Wales, the wet and cold part of Scotland and the extreme western parts of England, however that is now mostly discredited and the current idea is that the 'invaders' mainly just moved in, settled and because they had better Rock Bands the local Brythonic people decided to ditch their old ways and join in with the new lads, parlez Angleterre, get together and generally play good rock music and - after a considerable influx of Scandinavian blood - go on to terrorize the world (and still play good rock).

@boulevardblueband

Жыл бұрын

@@ronhall9394 That was very enjoyable. Thank you! Despite being from the U. S., which has confused pop culture with culture for 130 years, I have been to Lindisfarne Island and can hang in there well on Brit history and tolerably on slang, sports, cars and rock bands. I even know about Peter the Wild Boy, and not just from Dickens. But damn Melody Maker not only left ink all over my hands but sluffed over your 70s folk and folk rock scene. These days in the U. S. music at all like that just gets labeled "Irish", because being simplistic and/or misinformed is vitally important here. So you have inspired me to dig deeper into the differences in and development of your traditional music. I am very drawn to it. Thank you again, most sincerely. Nice wit.

Oh those 1970’s.....so glad I’m old enough now to have been young enough then....

@brianmctague5723

3 жыл бұрын

Well said my friend!!

this is one of my favorite songs always as been ....

Always gives me CHILLS! 😘

It’s funny in the seventies we were kayaking around a Scottish island called Islay setting off from Port Ellen we passed a little rock just off the harbour with a monument which had the inscription to a lady called Eleanor as I paddled past with my little sony tape playing Lady Eleanor. It gave me a strange feeling who was this lady. But the beauty and the excitement of the inner Hebrides made me forget it at the time.

Not ashamed to admit that this brings a tear to my eye.

@jerrylefever

8 ай бұрын

Mine too.

My triplet (twin)brother introduced me to this band in the 80s Cheers bro everytime reminds me of you!!

Best version I've found on their tube tonight!

Class....pure professional class

always love this song since I was a kid!! Im now over 60!!!

Forgot how bloody good they were, saw them years ago and they played to perfection.

the best song ever sung well

I can still feel how I felt & the emotions I felt when this song came out in my youth, The power of music is incredible & this song still fills me with joy to this day, What a fantastic band & song.

I remember seeing them in Harrogate twice at the start of "lady Eleanor" dry ice came on the stage the organ kicked in and the hairs on my back stood up great band

this is such a nostalgic time of my life like very many 50+ absolutel timeless

You don't get lyrics like this wonderful song these days , no talent out there will ever beat this track....

I just found out about this band today and so far I'm liking what I'm hearing.

wonderful song, so much class. not many like this nowadays.

Got tickets for North Shields this Sunday! cant wait to see them live again after so many years - proper old favourite :)))

Terrific song,great version. Thanks for the posting,this takes me back to school days. Listened to it mesmerized by the lyrics. Still love hearing it nearly 50 years later.

saw em live at Ewell Tech were absolutely brilliant and the Drank Newcastle Brown on stage good advert that as well

Love this song so much! Still have the LP.

First song my first love played for me.beautiful song that haunts me still 42years later. Thanks,Gym, I will always love you

Always come here to hear this version when I want to listen to this song. My fave.

My favourite Lyndisfarne song I recognised it’s beauty the first time I heard it with its medieval tones and lovely poetic words

@HaleBopp

19 күн бұрын

Beautifully stated.

A Great British Band their live concert titled Magic in The Air remastered version is a Brilliant Album

@andrewwmoore1

4 жыл бұрын

One of the best albums of all time. The energy is incredible! I play it often.

Outstanding version ! ❤

im hearing this song for the first time today and i am in love with it

Absolutely haunting.

@davidwaterhouse2552

4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Manchester , but have travelled up to the North East a few times, and always wondered about the 'Mystical Holy Island' called 'Lindisfarne! So I did it, in 2018 and we drove over the causeway to and from the island in terrible rain, which added to the 'mood' , and there were folk in swim suits ,racing to the causeway to swim in the incoming sea! The weather was shocking but the experience was amazing, and this song always reminds me of this experience, it captures it beautifully! dx

Been a fan since 1970, thank you so much for this great song..

I was at the first Christmas concert. A lifetime away and not a little sad that it was so long ago.

Simply brilliant ........ superb composition and delivered to perfection! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Such a Gorgeous song! Originally written and produced in the 1970's ! As a music fan and dj I Discovered this wonderful tune many years ago, and on my occasional road trips to; The North East, it is always on my playlist! Love dx

this guy has an amazing voice, can't stop listening to it.

Oh, this one brings back some great memories. Beautiful, thank you.

Saw them at Millom Palladium in about 2003...absolutely brilliant. The mandoline player was superb that night too!

brilliant, as class then as the original,pure class

What a fantastic, highly understated group! From my dads neck of the woods as well. I remember him telling me that he used to busk to their songs in Northumberland street in Newcastle city centre back in the 70s.

Forty eight years ago and now I listen with studio headphones, almost as good as then, just no smoko.

Always a magical song.. Never gets old...saw Lindisfarne many times in early 70s...still lidten to them today! A taste of 'home', you can take the girl out of Newcastle (upon Tyne) but you cant take Newcastle out of the girl!

One of the most memorable British songs of the 70's - beautiful melodies and lyrics. Another great song from this period is Rod Stewart's 'Mandolin wind'

I will regret never going to their Xmas shows at the Newcastle City Hall till the day I die.