Blondie - English Boys
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Blondie English Boys from The Hunter
Definitive upload HQ (the other clip on youtube is a compressed rip of my original upload) of rarely seen music video for shelved single from The Hunter. Shown once only on french tv in 1982. This is the best quality I can get from the source. (The other version is a compressed rip of my original upload, this is much clearer)
There were a few songs by Blondie that pushed even their own boundaries. I think this is one. They were so much more than 'just another rock band'. They completely shaped and molded a generation. Their ripple will be felt in the music world forever. Legend.
This song has a VERY SPECIAL place in my heart.... When I was 21, I drove my Daddy and my Mama, along with my oldest sister to Duke University in North Carolina. Daddy was going to have treatment for his cancer, and I was listening to "The Hunter". This was the song I listened to before going out the door and making that journey.... I still remember as if it was yesterday, instead of being 15 years ago.
"We knew each other well, although we never met, messages passed to tell, equal respect" One of Debbie's great lines!
Amazing. It's 2023 and this is the first time I've seen this video.and I'm usually all over music videos. so I've got anew one to replay and replay. I Love Blondie!!!!!!!!!!💜💜💜
Glad you enjoyed it!
I admire their professionalism. Everything was falling apart. And yet they managed an under-rated last album, and personal, troubling times. I will always be impressed and awed by their ability to "Blondiesize" different styles of music. Of course I'm in my 50's and now understand things I couldn't before. They were/are ahead of their time. This is just this old man's opinion. much love.
Well said!
How this band never received a Grammy is one of the music mysteries of our time. Legends, well said
Last album? Their last(est) album is two months old, and kicks all kinds of as tbh.
The album wasn't underrated, it was shit.
Her voice is so pure here. I loved Blondie for a long time, but never really listened to this one before now. Well done. What a band.
One member down, the band couldn't bare to even look at each other never mind speak to each other. It's amazing they all came through this period alive!
This song contains one of Debbie's best quotes!
"We knew each other well although we never met,
messages passed to tell, equal respect."
Technically, the last song on the last (original-era) album was a cover of "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," but because this was the last one written by band members, I think of it as the Last Blondie Song. The short coda at the end may not be anything special, music-wise, but it feels very Blondie and a fitting ending for the band. It always makes me think of the beginning of "Sunday Girl" and the end of "I'm Always Touched by Your Presence Dear."
I feel like this may be Blondie's most somber-sounding song from that era
the great music that is still coming from the coolest band ever...POLLINATOR !!!!!
just bought the record!!! They are touring now.
This is from the show Platine 45, on Antenne 2, 13th June 1982. Director Pat Le Guen x
I discovered Blondie on 10/10/12 , it was on my dad's birthday. My dad had passed away some years. I think my dad gave me Blondie as a present. That was a
twist. I remember a couple of songs some years ago " The Tide Is High " and " Call
Me " but that was all. I think Blondie was an east coast thing. At that time there
were many great rock-groups and they just blotted out Blondie, rock-groups like the
Beatles - Rolling Stones - Sunny and Cher, I would always hear those rock-groups
on the radio. I remember when I first time I heard a Blondie song " The Tide Is High "
I thought the Blondie band was from Tijuana, Mexico. The music had that spanish
flare to it.
After reading Debbie Harry's book "English Boys" this is definitely about The Beatles specifically John Lennon. Wouldn't have known about great songs like this if I hadn't read it. Thanks for posting vivid_perception_photography. Cheers!
I’m STILL looking for my English Boy 🤗 x
I JUST cry my eyes out everytime I hear this song. It's so beautiful!
One of my favorites, I can feel the nostalgia in her voice, love it
Ooh I never knew that.
Blondie and Abba were two great acts to flop in the early 80s only to have a resurgence in the 90s which is still going strong today.
I have a feeling this was inspired by John Lennon's death. This song was recorded the year after he died. And it has a feeling of regret. The sad thing is that they were going to meet John and Yoko sometime later in December 1980 because John was a huge Blondie fan and they had a mutual friend in photographer Bob Gruen who was going to arrange it.
I think you are right. A real shame what happened. I think they may have even worked together one day.
It was written in response of his death. Explains the somber tone of the music.
Wow, on the 40th Anniversary of the release of "The Hunter", i learn that there was a film-clip made for my second fav track from the Album, "English Boys" and that it had been scheduled to be released as a single. Thanks Lee B. :)
My pleasure!
When I was seventeen I saw a magazine.
It had those English boys who had long hair.
When I was on my own they moved into my town,
And I just called 'em up and they'd be there.
In 1969 I had a lousy time.
I listened to the songs, read letters sent from Nam.
Now peace and love were gone, the tired soldiers home.
Ideal society gunned down the seventies.
Does it feel the same to you?
Why do you act the way you do?
Pack it up or pack it in.
There's no excuse.
Could the hands of time reverse?
Would we wake or take the ride
And again speak with one voice?
We knew each other well although we never met.
Messages passed to tell equal respect.
Coincidence recurred.
I had to laugh a lot.
One week hung up superb, said maybe not.
Who here wants a Blondie biopic?
They just announced they will plan to make one, starring Kirsten Dunst.
@@anonyarena I've always had supermodel/actress Kate Upton in mind to portray Debbie. She does bare a resemblance to her. I do like Kirsten, but she doesn't seem right.
This has such an Big Star / Alex Chilton aura - nostalgia, honesty, dissolution, beauty. Love it.
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I really enjoyed ‘the hunter’ and ‘ no exit’ both rather creative and different and a-tuned to their departure in the early 80s and return in the late 90s.
This really is an amazing song!
She was the most beautiful female (rock) star at the time. Period.
HarryPotter87: "The Hunter" was a rushed Album to meet production deadlines. At least they found enough time to get TWO war-protest songs into the Album. "Warchild" made a reappearance in concert while georgie bush jnr was slaughtering Iraq.
Yes like the early X Offender and In The Flesh vids, made for Australian tv but used as promos. This was lined up for the proposed single release, but it got canned when the UK tour got cancelled
@RobotronZone Chris Stein was the one who really had it in for Frankie. Though of course I wasn't there, apparently Chris was very, very jealous ( due to insecurity?) of Frankie's hot guitar prowess and had issues over it (according to producer Mike Chapman, who had told Chris to get over it). Unlike Gary Valentine, who constantly vied for the spotlight and was fired because of it, Frankie was always content to be the guitarist on the side. Perhaps, there were personality conflicts as well.
Nice to see a video for a song I've been listening to every now and then for over 15 years. Retro-Cool video clip.
Somehow, I feel this is their most sincere song.
to me that would be Dead Air.
Koira Kolmonen i know, it gives you that feel of peace or something
Thanks for posting this video i have all the albums but i never new this video existed til i asked for the song brilliant takes me back from a 61 year old blondie fan
Ahh, that's wonderful. Thanks for sharing , Wayne. ✌️
thanks for uploading, although I had heard of this video, I had never seen it
There are DEFINITELY some issues going down here........you can feel the tension/boredom/unease............
+Mike Hunt I don't feel it. What I think is going on here is you. The music is in slow-pace and your not use to that. The tension and boredom is alsowith you. Just relax, kick-back and enjoy the music!
@@larrycastro7937 Yeah, my interpretation is that it is a slow song and there was no budget to shoot a better video. It looks like a high school student directed it.
So I see Frank (Infante) was already out in the video, sign that the golden era was over, but still the best track of The Hunter album, along with For Your Eyes Only.
thanks for posting this rarity
The Hunter album was superb. I blame the wig.
Yeah, it was awkward...
It's not the wig, it's the cheesy video effects. The video looks like it was directed by a high school student.
Blondie was about 16 years old when this was filmed partly in Cornwall on the Hudson New York on Hudson Street
@@robertmoroney3461 The earliest you could say Blondie was formed would be 1973 when Chris met Debbie. In 1982 that's just 9 years old, Debbie was 37 in 1982.
This song is about the Goodbye of Blondie
Always thought this song was about when she first saw the Beatles.
It is
I can' beleive I am just finding this video. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting this Lee. How did this video go under my radar for ages? Great to see and love this song.
My pleasure Josh. It was a performance from a French TV show, Platine 45.
Chrysalis briefly considered this as a video but ultimately the single release didn't materialise as by Septmeber 1982 the momentum had died.
Blondie are my favourite band of all time, and this is right up there as one of their best songs. So underrated!
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
I think it gets better with age. Maybe me getting older as well as the song!
This was my favourite track from The Hunter - it's a TV performance though, they didn't even make a video for the album's second single - Warchild - things were all but over by this point.
Don't think anyone can say Blondie was better than the iconic Deep Purple or Black Sabbath. Blondie were there own rock style in their own iconic way. Debbie is beautiful. Ozzy is not. Ian gillan. Good looking. Different era of rock completely different styles of music. I really don't think we will ever see another Debbie Harry. She's unique and that's how it should be.
its a shame looking back ... The Hunter was kind of like a first draft and a bit passionless.
thanks for posting this!
its wonderful
The lyrics is clear: “Could the hands of time reverse? Would we wake or take the ride And again speak with one voice?” It was the adiós 👋
Guitarist Frank Infante isn't in the video. (Great song, by the way.)
thank you for uploading this! really nice song from a not so good album
@MrTraherne-Chris Stein got noticeably ill in late 1980 and by 82 everyone thought he had AIDS it had gotten so bad. He had to take oxygen during their final tour. It had a profound effect on Debbie. Even before the illness really emerged you would read articles where he was always in bed. It's probably why they stopped touring after early 1980. That caused a lot of friction. Koo Koo was a gold record, very arty. If she wanted a commercial album she would have worked with Moroder.
Thanks for uploading.was this a real promo video or just a tv program appearence? anyone knows?
It's a TV appearance but Chrysalis were hoping to use this as an official video and then all label support got pulled and that was that. No 3rd or 4th single.
Remember, they didn't make a video for "Sunday Girl" either - don't think it was an onimous sign. Bands didn't make videos for everything back then.
This video still mesmerizes me.. thanks Lee!
You can tell she was over it here. Still gorgeous but she's just (in her own words) "reached the end of the rope with the whole Blondie experience" - the World's loss!
Thanks for posting this! (and telling the background of it!).
A promo wasn't made for this song - this is from French TV,
shattering song, melancholic, like the music style of early 80s, reminds me Frida's song " Threnody"
I wonder why they made a video for this and not War Child, which was released as a single. That aside, they were really unluclky with the singles from The Hunter because of the war in the Falklands. UK radio gave limited airplay to Island Of Lost Souls, and War Child received next to none. I heard on a podcast (Phonogenics 101, which cover all the Blondie albums) that they pulled this because it might also be associated with the war. I think it would have been a big hit. Danceway could also have been a single.
Only me hearing Uriah's heep "wonderland",? May b i'm very love Blondie songs
Interesting!
I love this song
Love this so much Lee
This reminds me of "Wake Me Up When September Ends," released 32 years after "English Boys"!
The song from green day? The songs don't sound alike at all. I don't know how this reminds you of that.
RedGreenBluePig Actually, though the key and beat are different, they are similar in melody. Listen to one then the other and mentally shift out the fact that the key/beat are different -- they are "cousins", melody-wise.
tideoftime sorry. I can't hear the similarity. However Fozzy's "Friday the 13th" does have the same melody as "Call me" and that one is easy to recognize.
RedGreenBluePig That's funny that you can hear the similar points between "Call Me" and Friday the 13th, but you can't hear the similarity between EB and WMUWSE. Granted, Friday has both a similar melody (at points) as well as having the same proportional tempo (if you slow the "speed-metal" factor, it's almost in-sync with CM), whereas the WM... only has the single point of similarity. Still, though, I'm surprised you can't hear the similarity, loose as it may be.
+HarryPotter87 The feeling is just the same "our ideals are over, our romance is over too, if that was a dream I don´t what to wake up..."
Love her !!!!
lovely song ...
I love Blondie
It bothers me that one of my favorite current bands, Alvvays, do not cite Blondie as an influence. This track sounds very similar to hits of theirs like Party Police and Dreams Tonite, at least in the way Molly Rankin sings.
She's absolutely beautiful live debbie
second best track on the hunter............ orchid club is the best
Destri's 'Danceaway' does it for me.
war child is my favorite
Lovely!
She seems so sad...It was the end of an age...
Probably 'cuz it was the end of Blondie until 15 years later. I heard somewhere that "English Boys" was planned to be their "farewell" single, but their split halted the release.
"Ideal society gunned down the Seventies..... " True today more than ever.
The face of angel has this woman.
I see frank infante isn't in this video. Anyone have a link to a page which describes the feud between frank infante/nigel the bass player and deborah harry?
I guess they packed it in...till PANIC, can't wait to see them in Boston
When I was 17 I saw a magazine
It had those English boys who had long hair
When I was on my own they moved into my town and I just called 'em up and they'd be there
In 1969 I had a lousy time
I listened to the songs read letters sent from Nam
Now peace and love were gone the tired soldiers home
Ideal society gunned down the seventies
Does it feel the same to you?
Why do you act the way you do?
Pack it up or pack it in
There's no excuse
Could the hands of time reverse?
Debbie Harry is lovely here
My pleasure :)
This was live on my film
What a difference in the presants of the band here, a lack of enthusiasm. Great song 🎵
легенда
Was the end of Blondie
Showcase song for Debbie's voice.
Blondie
Yep - Chris Stein, music; Debbie Harry, lyrics.
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@HarryPotter87 Yeah, I would just put it down to MTV as well as the 80's really kicking in by 1982.
@JohnnyTheWolfLupino It would've been their farewell single. It's indeed a very touching song.
Where's Frank Infante?
Very touching song. Appealing mew style singing by Debbie Harry. Real Doppo Dopo :-)
Blondie 💗
Your welcome lee
Yes things were over, but at one point Chrysalis were going to put out English Boys and use this tv performance as the "video"
Blondie wasn't even "Blondie" anymore when they released "The Hunter." By then, Berlin and Missing Persons overshadowed Blondie by taking over the airwaves.
Not to mention McDonna.
Thanks for sharing, but I'm not sure this is much better quality than the first version.
It's not a "video" - it's from "Top Pop" (AVRO in The Netherlands)
Those are my faves ♥ + this one
I know by this point they were going to split up and the hunter has been always painted by the music press as an album half hearted lacking in direction and so on i find some aspects of it deserve much more merit not least this one great lyrics.
no Frank = a sham. How much better an album could "The Hunter" have been with some tracks from Infante? sheesh. (I like the album overall, but it's hardly up there with others from Blondie).
+HCIKFS1 Well, we don't know the whole story. There are others in this band who weren't exactly the best friends one can have.
As jas22 says, there are two sides to every story, and I wouldn't trust the remaining band members' side to be anything other than partisan.
I say this having seen a documentary on Blondie around the time of their reformation that essentially whitewashed Nigel Harrison and Frank Infante out of their history. As in, IIRC, they weren't even mentioned at all- not even in passing- the only clue to their existence being inevitable (and unacknowledged) brief appearances in the background of archive clips.
I remember this because it became increasingly jarring as I watched. I wasn't even aware of the bad blood between them at the time, and even then it was obvious they were attempting to rewrite things to suit themselves in an officially-sanctioned documentary and that there was only one explanation for a would-be Stalinist purge.
Regardless of who was in the right or wrong, I lost way more respect for Harry et al than I'd even have done if they'd mentioned them in disrespectful passing, a simple acknowledgement that they were former members they were (or had been) in dispute with.
FWIW, Debbie Harry doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would be particularly tolerant of anyone who got on the wrong side of her. Don't know whether that applies to the other band members as I don't know enough about them.
VERY true. frank's unmissable vibe would have upgraded that album!
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coulda beenn much more upbeat if they called it "limey lads"
Debbie Harry is just so interesting! Like a female that has broken out of the Matrix, and is helping her lover break out.
Pour moi tu es la plus jolie fille du monde, celle dont les cris effacent les ciels de grisaille, celle dont la voix sonne comme un violoncelle. Si tu savais qu'aucune fille au monde ne fait virevolter comme toi.