John Denver - Bells of Rhymney- live - Oct 26, 1982

Live from the Apollo Theater in London, 10/26/1982
"The Bells of Rhymney" is a song first recorded by folk singer Pete Seeger, using words written by Welsh poet Idris Davies.

[@zon3665]

Not just anyone can play a twelve string and sing this way. Thanks for your talent John. We miss you.

[@kellyb2092]

So beautiful, such an amazing talent.

[@tam67871]

John was very underrated in his guitar playing and his musical style the entire time he was alive.

[@rodmenezes]

This is so beautiful. Thanks for share this video.

[@picardkid]

RIP John and Pete

[@rbernard6685]

DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS . RIP JOHN

[@ihatehoodies]

This was the best song John Denver ever sang.

[@chriscartwright9205]

This just stunning-I seen him a few times and still crave the same intelligent thoughtful incredible craftmanship when I see live music-and it never reaches this level-miss him

[@paulfenton4517]

Great.. Just beautiful!!

[@rbernard6685]

Just a note to add to John's singing. Check out Paul Robeson who went to the union halls in Wales in support of the
striking miners.

[@detleflammel8648]

John Denver was one of the greatest Musikman! I Play songs of him on my blusharp.

[@detleflammel8648]

One of the best i heard

[@ritch60ify]

I sure miss him.

[@MARISHAMACRAE]

Beautiful

[@ILOVESU2]

On my list of most beautiful songs I ever heard

[@paulmorrison5314]

John is to acoustic guitar as Eric is to electric.

[@karenjohnston7342]

[@themassofmen]

It wasn't written by Seeger, a Welsh poet from Rhymney wrote it, Seeger performed it as a song.

[@larry1824]

Misses the darkness

[@russelhill9721]

Why do all these musicians pronounce it 'rimney'. I'm next valley over and have only ever heard it pronounced HRUMney.

[@TheSanityInspector]

I have no use for Pete Seeger, the banjo bolshevik, Stalin's songbird...but this is gorgeous.

[@rbernard6685]

Sanity Man, I have a little story for you. But first let me guess that you had no problem with Johnny Cash's politics. Dylan and Baez would not appear on T.V. because the networks
had blacklisted Seeger. He had a radio show from N.Y.C. but it was also boycotted. No one would want any part of Pete Seeger. And then one day who should walk into his
office and appeared on his program, none other than Johnny Cash. Nobody was going to tell Cash who he could befriend. Oh yes, I mentioned Baez. That Peacenik!
Did you know that Baez's father refused an offer to join the Manhattan Project ?TAKE OFF YOUR BLINDERS MAN!

[@TheSanityInspector]

@@rbernard6685 My whole attitude towards entertainers and politics is Never Meet Your Heroes. Seeger's not my hero because no Stalin supporter ever would be. He & his set spun his legacy as anti-McCarthyist and civil rights activists, and apparently hoped no one would look more closely. He finally changed his tune, but by then he was a fossil from another age, and no one cared. See his wikipedia entry, section: Reflection on support for Soviet Communism. "I think you're right, I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in U.S.S.R. [in 1965]."

[@djdrews]

Around the turn of the century, into the early 20th century, many people were drawn to Communism/Socialism because our Capitalistic big businessmen, at that time, just about enslaved its workers. There wasn't our 8-hour work day, nor a 5-day work week. No, they worked people as if they were machines, and paid them pauper's wages that barely kept their families fed (In 1914, Ford introduced the $5 per day for a 40-hour work week). During WW2, America's big businessmen admired Hitler, and some did business with the dictator -- Henry Ford, Standard Oil, IBM -- profiting from Fascism. The Communism that Americans dreamed of wasn't the Communism of Stalin., who was a vicious dictator, Their Communism was an ideal of fairness, good/fair treatment of workers, unions that allowed workers to speak as one voice and to advance good wages, a safe work environment, etc. So, think again. Words change meaning over time. It's much more complicated that you think. Today's political Communism is much different than the Socialist dream of Americans who were kept poor for the benefit of the few who accumulated massive wealth. Today, the richest 1% now have as much wealth as the rest of the world combined. The values of our society is skewed and keeps the many who are poor and enslaved while the few sit around and count their money, their luxury cars, jets, mansions, servants, $3000 shoes, $40,000 designers dresses and suits, etc. , and connive to be included on the list of the 10 richest people in America. Skewed. Distorted. Our country should be a combination of the best social philosophies, blended together to create the type of advanced society that our forefathers had imagined.

[@TheSanityInspector]

@@djdrews The past is not so far behind us that this marxoid fable can be seriously believed. The working classes in the U. S. were never seriously attracted to communism a century ago. America, with its then-strong anglo-protestant work ethic, instinctively recoiled from theft as a means of social redress. And no matter how loudly the far Left claims credit for the accomplishments of liberals, people with historical memories know that this is theft, also.

[@pikeman80]

I just have a problem with people that equate Communism with Evil and Capitalism as good. It's actually the opposite. True Communism cares about the whole society not a select few money grubbers. But as time goes on it seems that money grubbers are everywhere these days