One of the most moving and beautiful songs in the world. Thanks Jimmy and Richard for this jewel. Pride.

One of the finest ballads of all time. The production, the instrumentation, the hooks, vocals...everything's just perfect.

As I get older and older, friends around me are starting to fade away. So I listen to this magnificent song and get some comfort out of it time and time again.

❤❤❤RIP Mark Ashton ❤❤❤ and to all who were lost

This was one of my late partner's favourite songs. It always brings tears to my eyes but I never tire of listening to it. One of the most beautiful songs ever written

“As I put down the telephone and the world it carried on” This line resonates, to lose a loved one and then step out into the street and watch the world, life, carry on, it’s almost a surreal experience

@dragonboy718

11 ай бұрын

my fav is ill lll never let you down, a battle i have found.....Fck

@neilorr9685

8 ай бұрын

So true

This beautiful song deserves more recognition 💖

This is my favorite song from Mr Somerville. Will never get better than this. It even eclipses Small Town Boy. Thank you for being a truly amazing artist.

Mark Ashton Thank You, gone but not forgotten, I love this song about him😭

@katedawson6020

Жыл бұрын

Me too - Mark was my Mum’s good friend and now in my 50s, I remember her loss of such a special young man. What a very fine and fitting song to remember him ❤

How can anyone not be touched by this beautiful song? Thank you Communards,you have been touched by Angels.

This was during the AIDS crisis prior to the influx of medicines that now treat so many people living with HIV/AIDS. RIP to all those who passed on. 🕯️ 🕊️

Oh this song is so heartbreakingly beautiful - as I get older - it hits home even harder - the tears roll down my face - those memories come rushing back to me 🏳‍🌈

Pride Month again Thank You Jimmy & Richard And Thank You Mark Ashton Gone But not Forgotten RIP.

This song makes me think of my many friends who have passed away. A certain sadness but beauty

@PSYCHOLOGICALx

Жыл бұрын

Over 4 minutes of memories of people you love and loved in your life . Without any photos... Pure perfection 💗

@Cosford869

10 ай бұрын

​@@PSYCHOLOGICALx beautiful words.

the only song that can actually make me cry. Masterpiece, the story behind it, so moving. Pride always!

I miss my friend, the only friend I ever had and waited 37 years for, had for a short 16 months and lost her.. my beautiful Piper. My dog. Alone again now.. I cant stop thinking of her.. just found this song,, Thanks Jimmy sweetheart. Sorry about you losing Steve Bronski too. Xx😢😢

@katedawson6020

Жыл бұрын

This song was written about the passing of his wonderful friend, Mark Ashton

Want this played at my funeral.Wonderful song from Scotland's Greatest.'I'm Loving Jimmy Sommerville Instead!'.👼

How this song only has just over 600 Likes is BEYOND me. Such an emotionally charged, deep, mesmerizing and sad song. I love it today just like I did decades ago ♥

@LarryFleetwood8675

4 ай бұрын

It has more on the London Records channel.

A beautiful, sad and haunting song..a real masterpiece.

I adore this song! Great 80s...It was always on repeat in my walkman before sleeping...what a lovely memory...Many greetings from Croatia! We love you, Jimmy...🥰

About and dedicated to Mark Ashton RIP ... a joy of a man, lost so very young.

A truly beautiful and emotive song! Gotta rank up there as one of the best in my opinion! Richard's arrangement, Jimi's vocals and that saxophone break. Perfect 👌👌👌

Such an emotive and incredibly touching song. For my Carlos and everyone else we have lost. Goodbye but never forgotten 💔❤ Thank you Jimmy & Richard for this gorgeous meaningful song ❤❤

Anyone who has ever lost a friend / lover to AIDS will carry this song in their hearts forever.

I heard this song on the BBC"s Aids- The Unheard Tapes documentary, very powerful documentary which was hard to watch for a straight guy like me just turned 50, I was just starting high school when AIDS was at its peak, honestly I wasn't mature or interested enough to understand it, put now I really really understand the pain those guys felt just by listening to this song, I must of listened to it 10 times tonight , for a guy that has seen and grew up listening to metal bands it's strange I like this but that's

@MrTimg12

Жыл бұрын

A testament to how such a profound song about the tragedy of loss can strike a chord in us all. A lovely post from your heart 🤗

I can’t hear this song without crying, it’s beautiful and timeless.

How this is even possible I've never heard this masterpiece before? 😍😍😍

@simon3824

9 ай бұрын

Glad you appreciate this masterpiece, it’s of its time when being diagnosed with AIDS was a death sentence. I lost a dear friend within six months of his diagnosis.

Whenever I listen to this song, it just makes me remember the millions of people who died from this sad disease and who didn't have the chance that we have today, to have medication that lets us live a normal life, i feel so sorry for that!

Words fail me. I’m just very grateful for this song. Thanks.

Absolutely beautiful song and voice

A lot of Love...from Italy ! ❤️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇹

Great song with particular performance hard to find nowadays

Jimmy, this song is the biggest present You could make to the world… thank You so much for this beautiful and very important song for the pride community ❤❤❤

For my Simon. Turned my life around 1985. Died 1989. You were my first. For all that has happend since, I love you still. I always will - because I never got to Kiss You Once Goodbye.

Toujours bouleversé, trente ans après... Magnifique. Merci.

Ich liebe es und ist meine Nummer " One" 💝🫶🤛💖 auch wenn es sehr traurig ist. Jedesmal wenn ich es höre, denke ich an meine Lieben die ich verloren habe 😢. Danke 🙏 für dieses wunderschöne Lied.

Merci pour cette belle chanson Jimmy et Richard je vous adore vous êtes trop les meilleurs pour moi ! Bisous de France !

This is such a moving song for anyone not just a gay friend men have really amazing friends who are more family and brothers than your own

Me mum used to play it on repeat for ages.

Your voice is amazing 😊 Thanks jimmy

Such a sad song. God I love Jimmy ❤ Thanks Jimmy and Richard for this.

LOVE ANYTHING JIMMY does, what a voice, this song still makes me cry .

@karenjagger9739

4 ай бұрын

@JimmySomerville0fficial. THANKYOOU. have a blessed day 🌟🙏 🧡💜

Great ! Wow ❤

Touching song aimed at Lost friend.

Brilliant song both legends

Stunning

Brings back memories of someone in my life. It’s hard to listen without a tear. I’m sure it’s the same for many people. Beautiful like the petals falling from a cherry tree but over too quickly , now only memories.

Devastatingly gorgeous song jimmys voice is so beautiful..god bless mark ashton xx

Wat een geweldige song, kippenvel

This song got me through adolescence. Thank you.

Such a beautiful song. Speaks from the heart and surrounds it with love.

No tengo palabras para esta canción, me ha acompañado toda mi vida. Mi total admiración a Jimmy Somerville, que con Richard coles hizo grandes tesoros de canciones

es ist brilliant...meine Seele kennt es...freut sich und trauert gleichzeitig...diese Lied hat mich durch großen Verlust getragen...es ist mir soo vertraut und ich liebe es über 30 Jahre später immer noch.

I love this song so much ❤

I never cried the way I cried over you As I put down the telephone and the world it carried on Somewhere else, someone else is crying too Another man has lost a friend, I bet he feels the way I do And now I'm left without, I know your love within As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away All the memories of you come rushing back to me As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye Summer comes and I remember how we'd march We'd march for love and pride, together arm in arm Tears have turned, turned to anger and contempt I'll never let you down, a battle I have found And all the dreams we had, I will carry on As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away All the memories of you come rushing back to me As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye, goodbye Goodbye, goodbye And all the dreams we had, I will carry on As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away All the memories of you come rushing back to me As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye, goodbye As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away All the memories of you come rushing back to me As I watch the sun go down, a darkness comes to me All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye

@DanTony68

Жыл бұрын

👍👌🙏😘

Such a beautiful song ❤️

Wonderful

Uma das minhas canções favoritas. Jimmy é o melhor.

So good. Even after covid. Words mean a lot.

@VovanMeloman

Жыл бұрын

Перевод на русский:

Canção emocionante! Linha melódica de cortar o coração! Piano que nos remete uma nostalgia inexplicável! Thanks, Jimmy! Hugs from Brazil!

@EiSeNhOwZ

8 ай бұрын

Uma verdadeira obra prima. 🇧🇷Brasil❤️

Anyone else listening to this wishing you could turn back the clock? Just for a few more minutes together...

@mikepemberton7710

4 ай бұрын

Yep 😢

@LarryFleetwood8675

4 ай бұрын

Picture is better here but overall sound-wise, I do prefer the old version it just grabs me more. Of all their videos, this is probably the biggest time capsule would adore a making-of with maybe leftover footage of 1987 street scenes/buildings (of which the clip always needed more, in my humble opinion) but there's probably zero of it anymore, alas.

Here's hoping for a Communards reunion and new album!!!

@MrTimg12

Жыл бұрын

Now wouldn't that be great 👍

@mandymelbourne4188

Жыл бұрын

I doubt it, Richard is busy being a vicar.

@DennySF415

Жыл бұрын

@@mandymelbourne4188 He retired from the priesthood. Perfect timing for a reunion!

Rest In Peace Mark Ashton

The Communards best tune by a country mile, but got overlooked a bit somehow 🤔

This is such a beautiful song.

@VovanMeloman

Жыл бұрын

Красивейшая и самая пронзительная у Джимми❤ Я пою ее на русском языке на своих шоу🎉

@mariamadarova1781

Жыл бұрын

beautiful indeed all his songs are beautiful

Such a beautiful and tender song I can feel the emotions 🌹💐

The song that defined a time in history that current generations seem to know little about ...... xx

Jimmy I love you, you´re a part of my life.

The song is an emotional ballad and was written in the memory of Mark Ashton,[2] a friend of Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles.[3] Mark Hooper of The Rough Guide to Rock writes that this cut may be Somerville's "most impassioned moment".[2] "For a Friend" reached number 28 on the British charts.

@DanTony68

Жыл бұрын

... [2] ?... [3] ?... 😉😜😂

When you know this song was written about Mark Ashton, it hits especially deep. Ben Schnetzer played him brilliantly in Pride, and I can't hear this song without picturing Mark's youthful energy - as portrayed in the film - or the real Mark Ashton, smiling for the camera just one year before he died of AIDS. Rest in peace, brother xx We live in a world where every victory for justice feels like euphoria, and every defeat feels like a cruel, crushing blow. But love and hope die last.

You carry some songs with you through life , most from you teen formative years ,this is and "small town boy " both from JS have stayed with me for years . They have a very special meaning to me they both bring me close to tears , some happy some sad, but when I hear them, I just stop and listen and become that 14 year old boy again and remember that time and really feal the emotion again. Small town boy was the start and For a friend was the end, the girl will forever be with me but lost to the world in the 80’s .

@CarmelDeery

9 ай бұрын

Ah paul what a lovely way to sum up a relationship. Sending loads of love pal: bright side out and keep smiling 😊❤

I put down that telephone 13 days ago when I found out my father had passed away Miss u Dad ❤️🙏🌹

@markgraves7279

8 ай бұрын

My thoughts are with you.

Love this a lot. So much emotion in the lyrics and instruments. Great song.

Wow! Just wow! ❤

@VovanMeloman

Жыл бұрын

(C)

@VovanMeloman

Жыл бұрын

A

Lindo... Obrigado Portugal Aveiro

I heard this during the recent BBC documentary and looked it up Beautiful song

@mikepemberton7710

Жыл бұрын

I just did the exact same thing

@mandymelbourne4188

Жыл бұрын

Was that Positive or The AIDS tapes??

@laxeystu8096

Жыл бұрын

@@mandymelbourne4188 The AIDS tapes

😢❤Vermisse Dich große Schwester!

Incredible

Esta música me acompanha durante toda a minha vida. Ela está sempre em minha memória. Obrigado, Jimmy, por fazer parte de minha vida. Um fã do Brasil. ❤️

@TedrosOficial

8 ай бұрын

Brasil 🇧🇷💙

@EiSeNhOwZ

8 ай бұрын

​@@TedrosOficialOlá irmãos!!! Prazer conhecê-los. Acabei de ouvir o trabalho de vcs. Muito bom . Legal que vc/vcs curte/curtem Jimmy Somerville. Bem... Acho que sim, né! Rsrs

@TedrosOficial

8 ай бұрын

@@EiSeNhOwZ Olá! Que legal saber que ouviu e curtiu nossas canções! "For a Friend" foi nosso primeiro contato com o Jimmy! Estamos conhecendo a obra dele e foi muito bom saber que o mesmo continua na ativa! Abraços!

@EiSeNhOwZ

8 ай бұрын

@@TedrosOficial que interessante! O tempo passa rápido demais. Essa música tem 36 anos. Jimmy Somerville cantou em duas bandas de symph-pop: Bronski Beat e The Communards. Seu primeiro sucesso foi "Smaltow Boy" (Bronski Beat). Bem conhecida aqui no Brasil. E algumas regravações da Disco music também chegou a tocar por aqui. Mas não se popularizou muito por aqui. Só mesmo quem comprou os álbuns teve a sorte de conhecer outras preciosidades . Como "For a Friend".

Its my fever

Боже колко те обичам!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Så bra låt . Måste tillägga att han är ju så söt ❤

Uff viviendo una història de amor en Paris ❤ que recuerdo más agradable

Прекрасная композиция, красивый голос!!!💯💯💯💯💯♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👏👏👏👏👏

@VovanMeloman

Жыл бұрын

Пообщаемся? Я пензенский Джимми Сомервилль.❤

❤

1st😮 time of listening ..

@markgraves7279

8 ай бұрын

And your thoughts ?

IKONE!!!✊

'Stranger Things' should get hold of this song

The best, thanks 👍😊😊😊

I bought the vinyl of this record in a $5 bin a few years ago because I had vaguely remembered a friend telling me about it. At a certain point after listening to it a few times, I finally registered the lyrics to this song and just cried uncontrollably. And still do on occasion. There's a gay bar nearby that has live piano karaoke most nights, and I had mentioned to the pianist that I would like to do "Smalltown Boy" (which he already had) but suggested that he should learn some Communards. Well, I just got his newsletter and it turns out that he picked THIS SONG. I'm not sure how appropriate it is for a bar, but I'm willing to try to do it some justice. I try to turn people on to both Bronski Beat and Communards because I think it's important gay cultural history, still relevant and emotionally compelling today.

i think the communards are great,but this song stands out by far, beautiful

I’m pretty sure Mark would be flawed with such a tribute. This is what a true friendship is. Goosebumps every time I hear this.

love this song so much

❤️❤️❤️

Certainly one of the more tea focused music videos.

@DanTony68

Жыл бұрын

... tea focused ?... 🤔

@Ian666peace

Жыл бұрын

@@DanTony68 There are so many shots of people drinking mugs of tea, it looks really strange

@DanTony68

Жыл бұрын

@@Ian666peace Have you ever been to England? Because most of the time people don't use to drink beer.

I still have this on my tape somewhere in the garage ❤ just looking for Walkman now 😂

❤❤😢

I detest all their other work but adore this.

@DanTony68

Жыл бұрын

Such a shame to write this stupid comment !

💖

Especially for my co lkol (overste) Victor Beckers from The Royal Dutch Army (Natres)..😢