How weird , came to hear this track and there's my comment from 9 years ago. Such a great age for music . Wish I could turn back the clock. I'd do a lot of things differently. But the music lives on. I'm 61 now and in the Autumn of my years .I still prefer the 80s music .❤(November 2024)
Some younger, silly bastards said to me "Shut up, babyboomer" when i tried to explain to them, that our music in the 80s was the best ever to be heared. So this unique song.
It's an astonishing piece of work. For me, it does for the '80s what Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' did for the '70s. It made living a pretty miserable life seem somehow desirable. It helped me through some atrocious periods. 👌
Totally agree. Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Communards, Simple Minds, OMD, Human League, Deacon Blue, Prefab Sprout, Spandau Ballet, the list is endless, I could go on forever..... Nothing comes close to matching the 80's today.
@@storrho Yeh, can't remember the club they were from, but it was a kind of home base for the New Romantics- Boy George and Culture Club are another of the club's alumni.
I've been thinking for some time that this is perhaps the greatest song of the entire '80s decade. The surging synth, those superbly placed percussion beats, the desolate lyrics in English and French sweeping in like a fog-bank. The atmosphere of this masterwork stays with you long after each listen. The video is great, too.
Pas une ride , ce Tube fascine toutes les générations Atmosphère très Anglaise , mystérieuse , presque inquiétante fascinante , la voix parlée en Français l'anglais chanté la troublante musique ... l'ensemble est absolument fascinant... Merveilleux tube des débuts des années 80 où régne l' atmosphère des 70... Immense merci pour ce partage.
I was born in '95... Even when I was a child (3,4,5 years old somewhere)... My parents bought me a small children's cassette play-deck... And my tastes originated from good music, like Boney M, 70's, 80's music... In other words "modern" *pop* music (at least in the last decade or so) simply makes me wanna barf lol... Its a disgust to my eardrums ^__^ I know that 99.8% that comes from the 80's -- its awesome :)
I grew up in the same small town as Steve, he was older than me but I knew his sister. He was an eccentric superstar in Newbridge, South Wales, and a big deal in the Blitz Club in London. Bless his heart, he was really something.
I'm 60 now so was in my early 20s. I was an ardent New Romantic. Everybody dressed individually and creatively and tried to make the best impression lol. I've only recently seen some of my favourite bands live with my daughter who is also into it. Gary Numan, Ultravox and Human League. They still perform to packed out venues.
I'm 60 next week - a true '80s' teen. These amazing songs were our party music...what an honour to have made it onto the Brit pub/club scene ...my youth was magical. Went to see my favourite '80s' band -- OMD -- with my 23-yr-old daughter in Nov '21, in April '22 we went together to watch Echo & Bunnymen ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
@@alessandronorfini3665 Ciao, io sono dell'idea che scandali, malfattori di ogni genere,guerre, ecc eccetera ma intanto eravamo all'oscuro ma Vuoi mettere ???? ora come ora io Questo Mondo non lo Riconosco Più solo Lacrimeeee ma Benedetti gli anni 80 e i miei 64 anni buona serata e sempre avanti iii 🫣🫣🫣
I was a very little kid and this song used to spook me to tears, each time it came on the radio over the 80s. I suppose it touched the spot it intended to touch. The whole atmosphere is dramatic. I was very musically sensitive, and grew up and became a classical musician. The music of my first few years of life, my childhood, the 80s, remains indelebile inside me 💖
@@ЕвгенийБ-е4жага и ещё ягоду малину из всех утюгов Ах мы бедняги И так мало было музыки Можно было слушать только кино музыку Артемьева Рыбникова Каравайчука Волконский хорошую музыку написал к Мёртвому сезону Вот никогда они нас не поймут что такое запрет музыки 3:44
@@Monica-nf3yjperché questa è musica fatta per entrarti nell'anima e farsi ricordare. E dopo 45 anni ce la ricordiamo ancora. Oggi le canzoni dopo 6 mesi non se le ricorda più nessuno.
80 это рассвет электронной музыки и поэтому они считаются лучшими в истории. По крайней мере так совпало что и музыка и жизнь 80 годов были наполнены жизнью и мечтами того поколения, это было хорошее поколение. Много качественной музыки, разнообразие и вкус к жизни. После хорошие 90 и дальше можно сказать что полный мрак. Потому что поколение совсем другое и приоритеты к жизни совсем другие. Но музыка 80 будет в сердах людей пока они помнят и живы.
@@АлексейСтряпков-м5ш это 80й год, Новая Волна и Синти Поп. Это их первый альбом. Певец Steve Strange умер в 15 году, в 79-80 годах он был совладельцем ночного клуба из которого вышли такие знаменитые артисты как Boy George, Spandau Ballet, Sade, Billy Idol.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Visage and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
Hard to believe this was 42 bloody years ago. I remember it vividly. At that time I was in my early teens, cold and alone in an hostile environment. Music was my reason for living and going on, this in particular was new, fresh and arresting. Demanding attention. Back then it was near impossible to see videos in my country. So never got to see this one, looking at it today, it's groundbreaking on many levels. Here's to the 80's, still a rich source of outstanding music both pop and more high brow.
This was from late 1980 went to number 8 here in UK. Great of course too. Their other hits mind of a toy visage the damned don't cry were lower in the charts so too. Used to hear this on the steve wright oldies then on bbc radio 2 of old too.
I heard this song before it was released in Australia when we lived in Redhill, our neighbours, Peter and Shelly from England, had the record and played it for me and my brother, they said it wasn't released yet. I remember feeling blown away by it.. I'd never heard anything like it before.
+IKE66 I agree - but do you like Underpass (Jon Foxx), Games Without Frontiers (P.Gabriel) and Echo Beach (Martha and the Muffins) too? I'd put them alongside this.
Some songs really are masterpieces aren't they? I mean there's nothing complex or out of the ordinary about this song. A basic beat and melodies, yet when it all comes together it's magic
Perhaps because this song was made with the heart for music, and not with the thought how much it would fill the producer's wallet. That difference can make be of more importance than how complex a song is...
I suggest you go check Chris Payne's story about how it came together . It's like the song had a soul of it's own as someone else said .It was quite an unusual way to the song we know and love . th-cam.com/video/AmF_jeokUX8/w-d-xo.html
Absolute classic song from an incredible era for British music. The years 78-82 were perfection that brought us so much quality, the list is almost endless. Visage, Ultravox, Teardrop Explodes, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, The Police, The Jam, XTC, Duran Duran, OMD, Human League etc etc. Today's music will never have the shelf life that this era has. Name me ten classic songs from 2010-2015 that will be on the radio in thirty years time? Not a chance. Not anyone's fault, it's just the way it is!
My kids and grandkids cannot believe I was young when this was released, yes, Grandma LOVES Visage, and to all you young ones, I wish you could have been there, it was an awesome time to be young, I was 21, has it really been 40 years!
Where have those years gone? I can remember the time this was released! The 80's were a wonderful time to grow up in. We will never see the like again !
@@valgehiir right. and it was created with basic equipment. a cr78 drum machine, a solina string machine, polymoog brass and a simmons sds1. no editing software, no computer.... thats what i find so great.
@@Mr11ESSE111 I think Steve Strange was more fringe than Phil Oakley. Plus I feel Human League was more commercial. So for me the early 80’s will always be bands like Visage.
Que ceux et celles qui n'ont pas vécu ces années charnières se taisent et écoutent.On peut reprocher aux années 80,gold,images ,mader et toute la clique mais les groupes made in britain c'est de la pépite pour vos oreilles!!!
And 70's too. I would say ESPECIALY 70's.Look at all those amazing rock bands from UK. Actualy, Britain was ruled always. No compare to British musicians...
@@33neptun Britain always ruled music? Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Telemann, Handel, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Pachelbel... the list goes on of the greatest composers in history, and they are all German. Mozart was Austrian, so close enough. Don't get me wrong, England ruled music throughout the 20th century, but to say they always have is not true. They definitely played a good game of catch-up, although bands like Queen and Led Zeppelin make you think twice about that. Remember also, the synth-driven 80s would not exist without Kraftwerk...
This song has always been in rotation on my playlists, and I absolutely love it. So hauntingly beautiful and gloriously 80’s. So glad I was able to kid of that era. ❤
J'avais 11 ans a cette époque, c'était vraiment bien les années 80, l'insouciance, la sécurité, les gens sortaient, se parlaient, dansaient, il y avait encore une douceur de vivre en France a cette époque. Je paierais cher pour remonter le temps et revivre ma vie en boucle de 1978 a 1987 non stop! Déjà pour les musiques, les fringues, le BMX, le walkman, le passage au CD puis le DAT La seul chose que j'ai gardé des années 80 hormis les souvenirs ce sont les synthétiseurs, les boites a rythmes et les platines vinyles/K7/DAT de cette époque.
C'est marrant que vous évoquiez l'insouciance et la douceur de vivre au sujet d'une chanson qui parle des sdf, des clochards, et de l'indifférence des gens à leur égard. Ce n'est vraiment pas une chanson joyeuse, et encore moins son sujet.
@@heliedecastanet1882 Je parle de cette époque là , pas de la chanson elle même!. La période des années 80 était bien autre chose que ce que l'on vit/subi aujourd'hui.
The French girl wasn't originally intended to be on the song. She was just visiting her boyfriend at the recording studio at the time and someone suggested that her spoken translation of Steve Strange's lyrics was added afterwards. I agree the song wouldn't be as good without her.
I was 14 when this song was released. It still sends chills down my spine! So blessed to have been born when I was. All this fantastic early and mid 1980's music. The sound track to my youth and even now in my 50's. Truly glorious days of fantastic music. Oh to be a teenager again and to go back to the early 1980's. How great that would be. Rest in peace Steve Strange a true and utter south Wales legend ❤❤❤❤
@@FriesinNF So, smart-aleck, why people of your kind keep obsessing over ancient songs then like this one ?? Along the lines of "the grass is always greener on the other side". Stay in YOUR generation then for heaven's sake and don't listen surreptitiously to music that's basically none of your business!!!
I've always loved this song, to me, it epitomises the New Romantics. And it would have been very different if the French girl wasn't on the record. R.I.P. Steve Strange
This song has to be played on my funeral, thank god I was a teenager in the eighties and witnessed all of these great and precious songs when they had been released...Fade to grey , for me, ist the best synth/pop song ever written by a mile and influenced my life since it appeared in 1981, love it❤❤!
Sans doute la plus grande chanson de la période new wave ! Merci Midge Ure, Billy Currie et Chris Payne de l'avoir composée. Merci à Midge Ure, Billy Curie, Dave Formula, Barry Adamson, John Mc Geoch, et bien sûr Steve Strange et Rusty Egan de l'avoir interprétée ! Les goûts musicaux évoluent avec le temps et c'est tant mieux, mais celle-ci je ne m'en lasse pas !
Oh yes, moments one has to understand/regonize that we all grow old... and that youth never returns ;-/ But we have our brain to keep these memories alive!
This was one of the first, if not the first tune of the new romantic movement. Steve Strange took over Tuesday nights at the Blitz wine bar in London's Covent Garden in 1979 which later became the iconic Blitz Club. His door policy of only allowing in the weird and wonderful people was directly responsible for the start of the new romantic movement and a decade of a fresh new music style!
Eben..., ich höre bis heute sehr gerne diese Hits. Dagegen kann man mich mit diesem heutigen Techno-Kram oder all dem, was so ab Mitte der 90's heraus kam, echt jagen...
Oh que oui!! Sans aucun doute je pensais que la musique serait été toujours aussi belle ❤❤ Hellas je ne pouvais savoir que l'électronique détruirait même ma musique si belle si douce et si sincère, je pleure l'adieu de cette musique génération 70'80'et 90'!!!! L'être humain se retrouve orphelin de ces générations !!!
When I grew up in the 80’s I never realised I was living in a golden age of music, I just assumed music would always be this good. I was wrong!
Music in this age is yo yo gangsta music or talent show production line music
On some level, some of us knew it was 'unsustainable'. I mean this type of music was so intense for 3-4 years.
I agree, but I think everyone thinks their generation of music is the best!
You are absolutely right, bro.
So true!♥️
This song is like 40 years old and still sounds like it's from the future
The 41 years for this song (since 1982).
@@sergiyivanov461942
@@sergiyivanov4619 1980* in the uk :) so 44 years now
@@kcaj7512 Thanks for right information. 👋🙂
yes and 40 y l8r i fade to grey myself ! Who else and....what else ?
Very possibly the greatest synth pop song ever written. Mysterious, atmospheric and avant-garde. A true masterpiece, glad I was around to witness it.
I guess you know p.machinery by Propaganda ? Another great new wave track, although I prefer "Fade to Gray"
Legendary song
@@speedsterh had a listen to it, didn’t grab me but love her voice..👍
Up there with Laura Brannigan self control.
That's a really bold claim, man . . . I counter with Japan "Ghosts."
Greetings from Uruguay 🇺🇾 !!!
How weird , came to hear this track and there's my comment from 9 years ago. Such a great age for music . Wish I could turn back the clock. I'd do a lot of things differently. But the music lives on. I'm 61 now and in the Autumn of my years .I still prefer the 80s music .❤(November 2024)
Hi yes feel the same 👍
Same 😊 I listen only to 80's. Im turning 45 this year.
You might like my music. Check it out.
it was released 43 years ago and still sounds futuristic
It certainly sounds more futuristic than what we hear these days in shops and shopping malls...
It's all the sYNtH aND fReNCh.
most good music sounds timeless..
du hast so recht! magisch wie damals! ich bin jahrgang 1966.
Anche il video ed i make up.
The 80's songs are written for the eternity.....
Amo tu comentario
E vero sono eterne le canzoni anni 80
I truly believe aliens would say how cool is that song
Absolutely
Not all - there was also released a lot of crap. 😉
Anyone else still listening to this in 2024 ? I love it 🤘 never gets old
Thank god for TH-cam
Acabo de descubrir viendo una peli ❤y me encantó el sonido
👍🏻😃😉 R.I.P Steve ♥️
I was 15 years old that year , love the song
Nightclubbing at Faces and Rum Runner. Great days and nights.
The 1980's were the best of times. Great music, no social media, just friends, music and good times.
Shame about the poverty.
I was 13 growing up with the new romantics like Ultravox omd Duran Duran and ultravox it's imprinted on my brain and no complaints.
@@AmazinglyGayPhil Nothing,compared to todays Britain.
At least people could get by,on the dole,more than now.
Yes, Multiculturalism and Diversity has contributed greatly to our lives immensely. Or not.
Yes, in Yugoslavia also
RIP Stephen Strange. This song is brilliant and it's more than a song. It was a movement.
emiscand loved it then and still do to this day ,
magnifique
@David Millar I'm gonna listen later and let you know 😉💓
What he died 😭😕
F o r e v e r 💞👌💔😭
Some younger, silly bastards said to me "Shut up, babyboomer" when i tried to explain to them, that our music in the 80s was the best ever to be heared. So this unique song.
80s music was beautiful
most people tell me 70s was better. one day someone will tell someone 90s music was great and so on. all just a period in time.
First 45" single I ever bought... in Woolworths.
This song will forever be a masterpiece
To jest chłam 🤮 najwyższych lotów.
@@helmutlang902 to pochwal sie czego sluchasz
It's an astonishing piece of work. For me, it does for the '80s what Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' did for the '70s. It made living a pretty miserable life seem somehow desirable. It helped me through some atrocious periods. 👌
emoçoes
@@o.kubajek Nooo Helmut is only talking crap!! He shows nothing.. Only a castle becouse he is the king.. He knows stuf!!
For all the 80's kids, this was golden.
childhood!!! ;)
I'm from 1983 was born in USSR
@Richard Sir, this *is* still golden !
@@ahmedcentralasiantyurik1916 *_товарищ !_* ☭ ✊🏻 😂
Still is golden. Takes me back to when I was 18.
62 now and music like this gave me the addiction to electronic music that I still have today.
same - Gary Numan started it all
Me too buddy and being 63 makes no difference as I'm 22 again when I hear this👍
same.
@@OGillo2001 Feedback
Are 'Friends' Electric and Cars.
Brilliant sounds.
61 takes me back to good times.
Can't beat 80s music. The best era on the planet. Love this still to this day.
We are one and the same........
Totally agree. Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Communards, Simple Minds, OMD, Human League, Deacon Blue, Prefab Sprout, Spandau Ballet, the list is endless, I could go on forever.....
Nothing comes close to matching the 80's today.
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@@dad7720 Excellent ❤👏
this is 90s
37 years later- it still sounds like the future....
Qui aurait pensé à un futur comme ce de aujourd'hui. On était dans un autre monde.
For those who didn't know, this guy and a few others from the new romantic scene are in Bowie's Ashes to Ashes video.
Midge Ure is the criminally underrated musical master behind it.
@@stephenmcdonagh2795 Wow i was just thinking about how i was getting a Bowie-vibe from this video.
@@storrho Yeh, can't remember the club they were from, but it was a kind of home base for the New Romantics- Boy George and Culture Club are another of the club's alumni.
Is it just me or did we Brit's put out a hell of a lot of damn good music to the world in the 80's especially? 😎
No, you are definitely right !
Yep '70's too
Add the '60's to that too
Not so much now
Music is the only thing that Britain has left to give!
I've been thinking for some time that this is perhaps the greatest song of the entire '80s decade. The surging synth, those superbly placed percussion beats, the desolate lyrics in English and French sweeping in like a fog-bank. The atmosphere of this masterwork stays with you long after each listen. The video is great, too.
Gets my vote.
Difficult to make a top 10 songs of the 80s list, but this is definately on mine. Incredible.
Agreed. For me, it’s between this, West End Girls and Ghosts (Japan).
Maid Of Orleans stole the '80s' crown ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
I think it is definitely is the best song of the 80,s!
Pas une ride , ce Tube fascine toutes les générations
Atmosphère très Anglaise , mystérieuse , presque inquiétante fascinante , la voix parlée en Français l'anglais chanté la troublante musique ... l'ensemble est absolument fascinant...
Merveilleux tube des débuts des années 80 où régne l' atmosphère des 70...
Immense merci pour ce partage.
Those of us that were lucky enough to grow up in the 80's.... thumbs up
80's is the best
I just glad that I can hear it, but I wouldn´t want to be 10-20 years older :D
chris harding 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I was born in '95... Even when I was a child (3,4,5 years old somewhere)... My parents bought me a small children's cassette play-deck... And my tastes originated from good music, like Boney M, 70's, 80's music... In other words "modern" *pop* music (at least in the last decade or so) simply makes me wanna barf lol... Its a disgust to my eardrums ^__^ I know that 99.8% that comes from the 80's -- its awesome :)
ex ussr's civilans agre with u
I'm 50, I've listened and loved this song back in 82/83, and still today and will continue, this is the power of music!
Isn't this song from 1981?
55 now and always will listen to this song because...
I put my 50s as well :)
I feel young again. I'm also in my 50 s now
Let a 54 old drummer shake your hand mate! 🤝🏻 ✌️🏻
53 years old and heard thousands of songs over the years this is one of my favourite and I always come back to it .👌
❤❤❤❤❤
@@hondac7028I am 54, Russia, I AM here.
Я, такая же херня... 😉
Totally agree 59 now miss this era
I grew up in the same small town as Steve, he was older than me but I knew his sister. He was an eccentric superstar in Newbridge, South Wales, and a big deal in the Blitz Club in London. Bless his heart, he was really something.
I'm 60 now so was in my early 20s. I was an ardent New Romantic. Everybody dressed individually and creatively and tried to make the best impression lol. I've only recently seen some of my favourite bands live with my daughter who is also into it. Gary Numan, Ultravox and Human League. They still perform to packed out venues.
I'm 60 next week - a true '80s' teen. These amazing songs were our party music...what an honour to have made it onto the Brit pub/club scene ...my youth was magical. Went to see my favourite '80s' band -- OMD -- with my 23-yr-old daughter in Nov '21, in April '22 we went together to watch Echo & Bunnymen ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Me too 👍🌻
How wonderful!! ☺️
Top shelf nice
R.I.P Steve Strange 1959 -2015 you will be missed.
@Charlie-rw8he I have.
Gli anni 80 ?? Quanti ricordi Stupendiii Tutto era una Meravigliaaaa Ora ??? .........😢😢😢
Ora .... Uno schifo
❤merci bcp
Anche io li rimpiango moltissimo, ma temo che sia soltanto perché avevo vent'anni
@@alessandronorfini3665 Ciao, io sono dell'idea che scandali, malfattori di ogni genere,guerre, ecc eccetera ma intanto eravamo all'oscuro ma Vuoi mettere ???? ora come ora io Questo Mondo non lo Riconosco Più solo Lacrimeeee ma Benedetti gli anni 80 e i miei 64 anni buona serata e sempre avanti iii 🫣🫣🫣
Ein Song für die Ewigkeit ❤ 💋
Genauso wie PoP Up the Volume
@@martinaheyer28SNAP
Oui exactement bizz ❤
❤merci bcp
*1980* PEOPLE: THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE GREAT 🤩
*2020* PEOPLE: LET'S GO BACK TO THE 80'S 😎
So true! 🙏♥️
Yesss 🙄
There was a lot of pessimism about the future since the '70s, and in 1982 a lot of people were still expecting a full-scale nuclear war.
@@leocomerford Yes.
As ELO sang... 'Remember the good old 1980's, I wish I could back there again' Damm they were right......... So much fun..
Discovering this masterpiece after watching Ms. Violet's video. 🤩✨
Can defo recommend watching documentaries on Steve Strange and the New Romantics :)
Mee too. I love it!
Same!
@@FrankNFurter1000 que. QQQQ.......Q
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I was a very little kid and this song used to spook me to tears, each time it came on the radio over the 80s. I suppose it touched the spot it intended to touch. The whole atmosphere is dramatic. I was very musically sensitive, and grew up and became a classical musician.
The music of my first few years of life, my childhood, the 80s, remains indelebile inside me 💖
Love this comment. Musically sensitive is a great term. I understand how this song would have spooked you to tears as a child ❤
If you have not listened to music that brings you to tears, you haven't lived.
А у нас в детстве такие песни по радио не гоняли. Только Лещенко, Кобзона и Ротару. 😂
Midge ure.
@@ЕвгенийБ-е4жага и ещё ягоду малину из всех утюгов Ах мы бедняги И так мало было музыки Можно было слушать только кино музыку Артемьева Рыбникова Каравайчука Волконский хорошую музыку написал к Мёртвому сезону Вот никогда они нас не поймут что такое запрет музыки 3:44
...non torneranno mai più quegli anni...unici fantastici meravigliosi
I migliori anni che una persona potesse vivere!
Un periodo assolutamente unico e irripetibile , sono del 63 , grande nostalgia di una gioventù ormai lontana , e che haime' non puo' più tornare.
Sono del 68 e mi vengono ancora i brividi ad ascoltare e tanta voglia di ballare
@@Monica-nf3yjperché questa è musica fatta per entrarti nell'anima e farsi ricordare.
E dopo 45 anni ce la ricordiamo ancora.
Oggi le canzoni dopo 6 mesi non se le ricorda più nessuno.
Yes❤
80 это рассвет электронной музыки и поэтому они считаются лучшими в истории. По крайней мере так совпало что и музыка и жизнь 80 годов были наполнены жизнью и мечтами того поколения, это было хорошее поколение. Много качественной музыки, разнообразие и вкус к жизни. После хорошие 90 и дальше можно сказать что полный мрак. Потому что поколение совсем другое и приоритеты к жизни совсем другие. Но музыка 80 будет в сердах людей пока они помнят и живы.
Wonderful!
Thank you!
Peace overcome the world!!!
Круто сказали , точно.🎉🎉🎉
Нифига себе 84, я думал 2024 года эта композиция по стилю музыки и песни❤❤❤
@@АлексейСтряпков-м5ш она вроде 80 или 81 год
@@АлексейСтряпков-м5ш это 80й год, Новая Волна и Синти Поп. Это их первый альбом. Певец Steve Strange умер в 15 году, в 79-80 годах он был совладельцем ночного клуба из которого вышли такие знаменитые артисты как Boy George, Spandau Ballet, Sade, Billy Idol.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Visage and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere.
What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
The best parts of this are the French bits!
Thank you for such a nice compliment!☺☺☺
Benedetto Bruno speaking as a brit your more than welcome.
Thank you for those very kind words.
Kim Paul yes
Hard to believe this was 42 bloody years ago. I remember it vividly. At that time I was in my early teens, cold and alone in an hostile environment. Music was my reason for living and going on, this in particular was new, fresh and arresting. Demanding attention. Back then it was near impossible to see videos in my country. So never got to see this one, looking at it today, it's groundbreaking on many levels. Here's to the 80's, still a rich source of outstanding music both pop and more high brow.
This was from late 1980 went to number 8 here in UK. Great of course too. Their other hits mind of a toy visage the damned don't cry were lower in the charts so too. Used to hear this on the steve wright oldies then on bbc radio 2 of old too.
I remember this song in Spain when it came out
You write exactly my youth, my story. It's music that saved me, and especially this kind of music.
Great story 💕
I heard this song before it was released in Australia when we lived in Redhill, our neighbours, Peter and Shelly from England, had the record and played it for me and my brother, they said it wasn't released yet. I remember feeling blown away by it.. I'd never heard anything like it before.
To this day, Visage's "Fade to Grey" remains one of the most creative and innovative videos of all time.
Absolutely. The budget may not have been enormous, but the intelligence and creativity apparent in this video are top notch.
@simonebarry15 not only video but most creative and innovative song of all times also.
One of the greatest hits of all time
Sono d'accordo con te 👍
@@FabrizioDurzu concordo pienamente..
This music was so ahead of its time, and it still is ahead of its time. And thats scary
Fantastic this 80th..never comes back, but this great truck will ve 4Ever
one of the best tracks of the 80s
+IKE66 One of my favourites but ilike all of visage's songs ^O^
+IKE66 das stimmt es ist ein super lied a very nice big track
+IKE66 I agree - but do you like Underpass (Jon Foxx), Games Without Frontiers (P.Gabriel) and Echo Beach (Martha and the Muffins) too? I'd put them alongside this.
Games without Frontiers is in my all time top 10, an absolute classic record. Echo Beach is pretty damn classy too.
SettingSon79
My mum didn't like Peter Gabriel's song Shock the monkey but I love it
One of the most iconic synth melodies ever created 🎧🎹🎤
The clip, the style, the woman, the man, the music, the ghost, my god what a classic in EVERY way
And he is a ghost now😔
Ich höre das Lied,obwohl es schon so alt ist, immer wieder gerne. Das war noch Musik .❤
What???
Errore! Scusa non era una risposta per te.
Merci bcp bisous
Merci bcp bisous
In realtà, è una canzone molto triste
The best years of my life.
The 80's, what a wonderful time.
80 y 90 también de la mía ❤❤❤
A que de très très bon souvenir 😂😂❤❤❤😂le total kiffe😂❤❤
Merveilleuse époque pour moi , les années 80...nostalgie 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Idem 😢❤
Some songs really are masterpieces aren't they? I mean there's nothing complex or out of the ordinary about this song. A basic beat and melodies, yet when it all comes together it's magic
Sometimes simple is best.
Well, tbh there aren't that many songs with the snare drum entering when the first half has passed.
@@marks2731 Most times simple is best
Perhaps because this song was made with the heart for music, and not with the thought how much it would fill the producer's wallet.
That difference can make be of more importance than how complex a song is...
I suggest you go check Chris Payne's story about how it came together . It's like the song had a soul of it's own as someone else said .It was quite an unusual way to the song we know and love . th-cam.com/video/AmF_jeokUX8/w-d-xo.html
Absolute classic song from an incredible era for British music. The years 78-82 were perfection that brought us so much quality, the list is almost endless. Visage, Ultravox, Teardrop Explodes, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, The Police, The Jam, XTC, Duran Duran, OMD, Human League etc etc. Today's music will never have the shelf life that this era has. Name me ten classic songs from 2010-2015 that will be on the radio in thirty years time? Not a chance. Not anyone's fault, it's just the way it is!
SettingSon79 The Smiths, Morrissey. :)
SettingSon79 I hear the 80's Music since 1995 and it's not boring. I love 80's Music.
SettingSon79 Absolutely spot on mate!
totally agree! All that's out there now is bland dull shite from the likes of ed sheeran, an over rated guy who is an insult to real music like this!
Music evolves, get with it. And PLENTY of songs today have already became classics. Nostalgia is blinding you.
Eso era musica 80 y 90 😢
My kids and grandkids cannot believe I was young when this was released, yes, Grandma LOVES Visage, and to all you young ones, I wish you could have been there, it was an awesome time to be young, I was 21, has it really been 40 years!
Brilliant tune loved the 80s still do I'm 55 this year
Brilliant loved the 80s
age is (largely) a state of mind
Where have those years gone? I can remember the time this was released! The 80's were a wonderful time to grow up in. We will never see the like again !
c'est fou la vie.....tu as raison
The Golden Age of Youth Music 1950 - 2000. If you missed it, you missed it. It'll never happen again.
This music was ahead of its time 40 years ago
and it is still ahead of its time.
@@valgehiir right. and it was created with basic equipment. a cr78 drum machine, a solina string machine, polymoog brass and a simmons sds1. no editing software, no computer.... thats what i find so great.
Yes 👍
All the synth pop classics were ahead of their time yet timeless
@@top-ten.music_and_more No autotune and no "millenial whoop" which plague today's music.
I don’t think you can get any more early 80’s than this.
Trust me it is!
isn't it😊!
Encapsulated the everything of that time...
human league ,dont you want me
@@Mr11ESSE111 I think Steve Strange was more fringe than Phil Oakley. Plus I feel Human League was more commercial. So for me the early 80’s will always be bands like Visage.
@@deborahjones5289 but Human League start first with that hit song in 80-81
Definitely!! I can remember when it came out, living in Waterlooville Portsmouth, a few years before we relocated to Devon.
Love this song 🎶✨️
Que ceux et celles qui n'ont pas vécu ces années charnières se taisent et écoutent.On peut reprocher aux années 80,gold,images ,mader et toute la clique mais les groupes made in britain c'est de la pépite pour vos oreilles!!!
Britain basically took ownership of music in the 80's. An era of true artists.
And 70's too. I would say ESPECIALY 70's.Look at all those amazing rock bands from UK. Actualy, Britain was ruled always. No compare to British musicians...
Юритмикс напоминает.
@@33neptun Britain always ruled music? Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Telemann, Handel, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Pachelbel... the list goes on of the greatest composers in history, and they are all German. Mozart was Austrian, so close enough. Don't get me wrong, England ruled music throughout the 20th century, but to say they always have is not true. They definitely played a good game of catch-up, although bands like Queen and Led Zeppelin make you think twice about that. Remember also, the synth-driven 80s would not exist without Kraftwerk...
Don't forget 90's! Remember the Bristol Sound, just to name one!
They were good contributors but Van Halen defined the eighties.
Still sounds way ahead... Like the future... Impossible to ever go out of date... Still sounds so far forward into the future. Pure art. A visionary.
For me it hits like a forgotten future, a place impossible to reach, like the future from an alternative timeline or something
@@fernandomaron87 a blade runner world......
Ich war 12, das prägt dich dein ganzes Leben...... ❤️
Dankeschön
Auf jeden.....definitiv.
This song has always been in rotation on my playlists, and I absolutely love it. So hauntingly beautiful and gloriously 80’s. So glad I was able to kid of that era. ❤
Australia; Its unique.
Дискотека 80х-лучшая музыка! Лучшее время!❤❤❤
New-wave.....
El mejor...sin duda!
An absolute classic track from the greatest decade of music ever.
agree
YES THE BEST MUSIC OF ALL, EVER.
100%
60s and 70s had a different vibe for me, my favourites. Love music from all eras though.
I'd say 70's through to early to mid 90's then music seemed to become very stale.
Ero una bambina .......mi è sempre piaciuta tantissimo.....una delle canzoni più belle in assoluto....che nostalgia 😢
Splendid makeup, fantastic song
pure art
extraordinar cintec, intr-adevar. favoritul tineretii mele!
love it
Dono Ciao
Dono Ciao really
A big hug of nostalgia to all my brothers and sisters from the 80´s.
Thankyou. You can have one of my Spangles.
@VIRGO QUEEN About you 2000 kids you can make virtual hugs to each orher through your social networks.
David Smith are they cola flavour? If they are I’ll swap you for a Chewit😃
Buena sythpop visage tema desde 1980
we will never fade to grey brother..
Synthpop perfection. When this was released the charts in the whole fucking world collapsed. Number one for MONTHS in 30 country.
J'avais 11 ans a cette époque, c'était vraiment bien les années 80, l'insouciance, la sécurité, les gens sortaient, se parlaient, dansaient, il y avait encore une douceur de vivre en France a cette époque.
Je paierais cher pour remonter le temps et revivre ma vie en boucle de 1978 a 1987 non stop!
Déjà pour les musiques, les fringues, le BMX, le walkman, le passage au CD puis le DAT
La seul chose que j'ai gardé des années 80 hormis les souvenirs ce sont les synthétiseurs, les boites a rythmes et les platines vinyles/K7/DAT de cette époque.
So true !!!!
C'est Magnifique. 🇮🇪
Moi aussi je ferai bien un retour en arrière..
C'est marrant que vous évoquiez l'insouciance et la douceur de vivre au sujet d'une chanson qui parle des sdf, des clochards, et de l'indifférence des gens à leur égard. Ce n'est vraiment pas une chanson joyeuse, et encore moins son sujet.
@@heliedecastanet1882 Je parle de cette époque là , pas de la chanson elle même!.
La période des années 80 était bien autre chose que ce que l'on vit/subi aujourd'hui.
The genius of Midge Ure at the start of his golden era...the theme to the early 80s
The mix with the French voice sound really great.
The French girl wasn't originally intended to be on the song. She was just visiting her boyfriend at the recording studio at the time and someone suggested that her spoken translation of Steve Strange's lyrics was added afterwards. I agree the song wouldn't be as good without her.
@@robthegardener9631
And so ? It' s french touch changed the track !
On s’en balek !
@@robthegardener9631 nice story 👍🏻 thanks to share it.
I was 14 when this song was released. It still sends chills down my spine! So blessed to have been born when I was. All this fantastic early and mid 1980's music. The sound track to my youth and even now in my 50's. Truly glorious days of fantastic music. Oh to be a teenager again and to go back to the early 1980's. How great that would be. Rest in peace Steve Strange a true and utter south Wales legend ❤❤❤❤
Takes me back to my youth 🎶✨️
Another song you can’t cover as it wouldn’t sound the same this is unique
The music of the 80s is still the best music of all time.💕💕
The 80's are still the coolest decade of music...!
only if you didnt experience the 60s 0r 70s
@@HOOKmusicUK
Quite true, that was we used to say back in the 80's.
I agree, the 80's had the coolest music.
Every generation says: our decade were the coolest and the best! 🌞
@@FriesinNF So, smart-aleck, why people of your kind keep obsessing over ancient songs then like this one ?? Along the lines of "the grass is always greener on the other side". Stay in YOUR generation then for heaven's sake and don't listen surreptitiously to music that's basically none of your business!!!
The SONG that depicts the 80s synth music. My ultimate new wave song!
I've always loved this song, to me, it epitomises the New Romantics. And it would have been very different if the French girl wasn't on the record. R.I.P. Steve Strange
It's more than 40 years old but still sounds futuristic.. What a masterpiece.. ❤
Imposible olvidar a Visage! 63 años tengo y adoro esta canción!!!
Why IN STEREO
RIP Steve Strange. Visage pretty much epitomised the 80s for me, with their synth pop new romantic style.
wenn es einen Song braucht der die 80 er repräsentiert ist dies wahrscheinlich einer von denen Masterpiece.
J ai 48 ans,période difficile pour moi mais grand merci pour cette chanson, vous me mettez du baume au coeur bises.le sref
Courage ! la musique et l'art en général rend la vie supportable.
This song NEVER gets old.Absolute masterpiece!!
This is a synth-pop masterpiece! I love this song since the 80's. R.I.P. Steve
Was für Erinnerungen da hochkommen für alle aus dem Raum Kalrsruhe bis Baden-Baden, insbesondere dieses Jahre von 1978 bis 1982
Grüße an die gele föss
Happy Birthday Steve!
A great voice and a wonderfull man is gone... So sad
R.I.P Steve Strange
Gambler this is guy jojos steve strange joestar rip :(
:-(
Gambler seen him 3 months before he passed, he sang this song in Whitby 🇬🇧.. Halloween .. amazing memory
It's a pity because their last album was very good ! I'm sure Steve was working on new projects...
A timeless classic song of the 80s. It will be listened to in a centurys time at least.
This song has to be played on my funeral, thank god I was a teenager in the eighties and witnessed all of these great and precious songs when they had been released...Fade to grey , for me, ist the best synth/pop song ever written by a mile and influenced my life since it appeared in 1981, love it❤❤!
I'm glad you are still alive to listen more and more this great song! Cheers !
@@arcadoli Alive and kicking...👍😃
I told my daughter I want this playing at my funeral too. Fade to Grey..... R.I.P. Steve Strange.
@@angelarawlinson8033 ❤️👍
Amazing !
Stroke of genius! Nothing in electronica compares in impact and legacy of Fade To Grey. Timeless masterpiece.
This track makes me feel proud to be British. We had so many great tracks from so many bands back in the day.
Ohhh, you sure did. I love it when I can HEAR THE BRITISH ACCENT as they sing (not always obvious, I find). 😊
Scots man wrote that song :)
@@briantyrrell5072. Co-wrote.
@@briantyrrell5072midge Iré is scotland
@@briantyrrell5072Last time I looked Scotland was in Britain
Love the 80s. 54yrs old and reminiscing the best of times.
Same here
Sure the same here too
England in the 80’s 🏴❤️
So hypnotizing, I would listen to it again and again!
It's that octave bass line; that makes it hypnotic.
So why aren't you? or are you ? 😉👍
I do
Non ci sono dubbi: gli anni 80, a livello musicale, sono stati e resteranno i migliori!
Exactement !!!
Now that’s a masterpiece, way ahead of time in the 80s💙
Yes it is too.
Video molto emozionante .Grazie a tutti.Ciao Valentina.
British music of the 80's : the best music ever made !
Sans doute la plus grande chanson de la période new wave ! Merci Midge Ure, Billy Currie et Chris Payne de l'avoir composée. Merci à Midge Ure, Billy Curie, Dave Formula, Barry Adamson, John Mc Geoch, et bien sûr Steve Strange et Rusty Egan de l'avoir interprétée !
Les goûts musicaux évoluent avec le temps et c'est tant mieux, mais celle-ci je ne m'en lasse pas !
Ronan LVE oui c'est vrai je ne m'en lasse pas de l'écouter
I am 55 years old now. But still remeber the times we were partiying the weekends with this song.
Oh yes, moments one has to understand/regonize that we all grow old... and that youth never returns ;-/ But we have our brain to keep these memories alive!
This was one of the first, if not the first tune of the new romantic movement. Steve Strange took over Tuesday nights at the Blitz wine bar in London's Covent Garden in 1979 which later became the iconic Blitz Club. His door policy of only allowing in the weird and wonderful people was directly responsible for the start of the new romantic movement and a decade of a fresh new music style!
A timeless masterpiece! This will still sound amazing in 2080!
Rejoice because we witnessed this first-hand. The 80's are like a special lover who has gone missing, and we are constantly searching.
genial, einfach Weltklasse diese Song- Einer der besten dieser Zeit.
+Klaus Bielawa Auch noch heute genial
Eben..., ich höre bis heute sehr gerne diese Hits.
Dagegen kann man mich mit diesem heutigen Techno-Kram oder all dem, was so ab Mitte der 90's heraus kam, echt jagen...
Einfach die beste Zeit, genialer Song.
Oh que oui!! Sans aucun doute je pensais que la musique serait été toujours aussi belle ❤❤
Hellas je ne pouvais savoir que l'électronique détruirait même ma musique si belle si douce et si sincère, je pleure l'adieu de cette musique génération 70'80'et 90'!!!!
L'être humain se retrouve orphelin de ces générations !!!