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- A song by Simon & Garfunkel performed by David Bowie on The Concert for New York City in 2001.
A self made clip created entirely from the footage of the original video by means of rearranging it.
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So perfect in his minimalist interpretation
the man was a genius.. a beautiful rendition and what balls to play this song as the opener to a televised charity concert.. he has so many hidden treasures in both live performances and rare album tracks... bless him
That lovely man was gloriously unafraid of art.
That‘s beautifully put.
Well stated. Bowie belongs to that rarefied class of popular talent unafraid of trying new paths and courses they feel might lead to aesthetic sublimity. Sure, not all these journeys turned up gold or even silver, but they made one appreciate their boldness and lack of fear of failing all the same. Us aesthetes gained so much from David's myriad explorations to the limits of artistic expression!
Zo mooi hoe je dat zegt ❤❤❤
Hij was niet bang voor usa om het zo maar te zeggen
Indeed. Paul Simon and David Bowie were two of the greatest songwriters of their generation. So inspiring to watch this lovely, talented man honor his fellow musician.
Ret .NYPD, David Opened The Concert for New York with this magical ,chilling song. God Bless David Bowie.
god i miss this man.
allan king My EXACT thought. The humanity in his voice...the expressions on his face, all show you the depth of what he's feeling.
We all do.
agreed
All of you are right greets from Bavaria
@@muller_to_x5283 hello!
A great tribute to NYC's people and America at its worst of moments. Rest in Peace to the lost on 9/11 and you David Bowie.
I still can’t believe that David is no longer with us.
I never will. He’ll always live in my heart though, as he so clearly will in yours.
Raw…as only David Bowie could do. Gut wrenchingly beautiful😢😢😢
In tears there is such beauty in the understated. Only David would flip the expected. And what does he do. This. An absolute gem. And I miss him my heart still aches
We sure miss his insight
Same
agree 100% Scott. couldn’t stop my tears. he wasn’t just a pop star / fashion icon otherwise he wouldn’t move us so deep
Absolutely. Didn't think it could hurt so much losing someone I never met and never knew.
Beautiful version
Paul Simons lyrics and music plus David Bowie . Perfection.
You can see the emotions of the next lyrics on his face well before he says them. A brilliant artist and communicator.
"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why"
His phrasing and the simple keyboard made this version so emotionally charged.
indeed.
That’s the key phrase right there
And the way he says it… 😮❤
I so much agree. And David knew. He knew what it all meant.
This just sent me spiraling into tears. I miss normal. I miss Bowie. I miss what America used to be. The way he does this pulled every heartstring this morning…
My transcendent, lovely Prince Bowie… how the world misses your genius…😪🙏🏽🎶
"the moon rose over an empty field" gets me every time. Pure genius...I think I am always expecting the "look for America" line and the detail is so beautiful. Testament to Simon & Garfunkel writing/music and Bowie's interpretation.
“counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, they’ve all come to look for America”. What a profound line.
At 71, I too miss what America used to be. Maybe I should get in my car and look for it, but I’m scared it’s not there anymore - and even more scared it’s not coming back.
AMEN.
Amen … I share every one of your sentiments.
I think I love you; what a perfect comment
Absolutely perfect. The tone , the phrasing , the physical and facial expression, the calliope like music.😢😮. I have never witnessed such a moving reincarnation of a song.
That man was a genius.
One of the last of the great artists...rip.
I love Bowie's rendition of this song. It's profoundly sad and describes that horrible feeling we all have had when you are trying to act like nothing is wrong but you are completely shattered inside.
Oh yes totally!
sounds like a circus tune!
@@jamessollazzo4860 you don't get it, do you?
...yap...one can hear overtones of "this is not america"....
@@Tom-xx1om What did he mean by it? Serious question please. I understand the choice of song, but why that music accompaniment?
David makes you fall in love (with his voice) and breaks your heart (with his sincerity) at the same time.
I never knew Bowie covered this song. He brings something very different to it.
I've been telling my kids about this for years. This is how the concert opened...how utterly profound. Bless you David!
THEN he sang "Heroes". Beautifully understated "America" in Bowie style.
Beautiful 😢
Where and when was this particular concert?
@Dandyd47 this was the concert for new york right after 9/11
This was one of Bowies finest moments (there's been a few!) But I didn't know he actually opened the concert with this x
Happy birthday David...the whole world misses you💔.
As a lifelong Bowie fan, I am disappointed that I have heard this for the first time in 2023. I recall a review of "Cat People" where the critic said David could sing a shopping list and make it a hit. This is simply sublime and made all the better for him singing in the London accent of his younger days. Beautiful.
I will never forget that day - seeing the tower fall from a train - and i will never forget this opening song at the 911 concert at MSG. I was never a big Bowie fan, and he came out playing this crazy little contraption whatever it was - doing this Simon & Garfunkel song - and just set the whole tone that this was going to be a serious and very heavy night of music, pain and hope.
Well said. He's playing a Suzuki Omnichord, made in the 80s. They're lovely - I have three.
@@morganfisherart One isn't enough?
@@Charleybones I own three different models - OM27, OM84, OM200M - each with different sounds and functions. Pro musicians (and nutty obsessives) do this sort of thing! :-)
I was there also! When *THIS* was the opening song, performed this way, we *KNEW* that we were in for an amazingly special, emotional, and unique show.
We were both lucky to be there!
JUST INCREDIBLE !!!!!!
His voice makes me cry. We all come to look for America. Priceless.
Now pls all of you return to where you all came from. Except me. Of course.
"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag"
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And walked off to look for America
"Kathy", I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said "Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera"
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
"Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Paul Simon
America lyrics © Paul Simon Music, Edition Falco Privatstiftung
America. Haunting to remember this time and events. To those that don’t know, this was so important for us. We are still losing those who served as first responders. Peace and respect.
Incredible. The emotion in that song alone - PLUS the emotion surrounding the context of the performance - is almost too much to bear. That man was a gift to the planet.
Every word with the right nuance. This one is the definitive performance.
For some reason I have seen this for the first time only now. It really gave me goosebumps. So sorely missed.
His unique creativity was a gift to us all.. his voice was always so emotive
I usually do not remake, but this is so very special. Oh, I miss him 😔
Me too 💔
You probably had not seen it until now, then.
@@helenepineau4636 He is sorely missed. He was a gift to us all!
Perfection….still hard to believe he’s gone…
Still hurts to see my hero knowing I will never see him again live the world lost a god
Not only was he a most talented human being,up there with the best,he had so much style.
His voice makes my goosebumps have goosebumps. I miss him...
I don't think most people see how beautiful this version is. The circus background music is very meaningful. The dream we are all looking for is a farce, just like a circus.
I don’t think that a lot of people really listen properly and understand the lyrics. What an interpretation by Mr Jones.
Could there have been a better way to adress the audience than with this song in just the way Bowie did it?
I cant't think of any.
Address
The greatest rock singer. Ever.
The greatest full stop ❤
David Bowie was a genius and proved it by opening The Concert for NY with this after 9/11.
Such intelligence. Such a unique voice, such a unique glance at the world. Love u David
The world a true gem…I don’t say “true gem” lightly! Many years of musical brilliance…what a nice turn for this tune!
A truly haunting cover made all the more poignant by the backdrop of scenes/vistas from a city that only weeks before had witnessed a rain of death and destruction from the sky as well as by Bowie's exquisite, emotion-laden phrasing. We lost a tremendous giant with his death!
Such a powerful, meaningful choice of song. Just when you have felt the evil of the world, breaking in, trying to weaken you, here comes Bowie, like the prophet, to remind how better souls from all over the world have long come to you in hope, in admiration, of your very strength
No one else but David could have done this. I miss this guy every day.
I’ve HEARD this song a hundred times before but hearing Bowies version just now is the first time I’ve FELT this song. Wow!
When it gets you, better than anything.
The world misses David Bowie
Beautiful
Where is this genius we have need of his wisdom. Our Country was so united after the 9/11 terrorist attack now some 19 years later I listen to this and cry. We can all do better some way some how
Its so strange that i miss David Bowie.
I never met him, I never even saw him live.
Lets dance was the first Bowie album i bought and from there i searched out each of the older one's.
Its so strange to feel a loss for someone i didnt know.
As far as i can remember i havent heard this before.
Its an absolute gem.
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A song, written by an American, about America, sung by an Englishman, with a South London accent. I Love it! (I like his chord choices, too.)
he's playing an omnichord, one of the coolest instruments that I want, if you look into them.
To be fair, it is not a total contrast. It was written by an American who was living in England and took his English girlfriend, Kathy, for a low budget tour of America and realised it was not the America he remembered.
Bunch of hitchhiking hippies discovering themselves while lost in the wilderness (and at heart)
Anthony Newley would be proud.
American means A miracle... everybodys looking for that.
Can you imagine Paul McCartney being able to do this? Or Roger Waters? Or Mick Jagger? Bruce Springsteen?
Bowie brings something else to his arrangements. There's an otherworldly quality, a beauty. Possibly the greatest pop musician of the twentieth century and beyond.
He was the Da Vinci of our era.
Yes, I can.
A bj is in order
Bowie always gives you his soul.
well put...yes, he does...I'm still sad I never saw him live...
One of my all time favs! David Bowie’s incredibly understated artistic live performance of Simon & Garfunkel’s “America” This to me is classic Bowie performance art stripping away all musical props and zoning in stripping the veil of musical form and familiar expectations revealing through his unique intimate delivery the complex layered mixed emotions of worn hope and buried despair while trying to maintain visibly undefeated unaffected. We miss you David!
We really really do - he's still out there somewhere though.
"There's a Starman......"
America was gone by the time I got there from the UK .Now I’m lost ,like Cathy , I guess it’s part of the ageing process .
Life is memories , the only reality is the present and that flies past so fast , you’ve not time to take it all in
He tried so valiantly when like us realized everything matters . Miss David Bowie
The world misses you David bowie, you were one of a kind .God speed.
He sang that very sincerely ... He Defiantly was "there" in that vision
i keep coming back to this. Outstanding
Pure genius.
I miss this beautiful man being on the earth. 💔
Well there you have it. A genius sings a geniuses song and hey presto - brilliance. Nothing more nothing less. Just pure brilliance.
He was such a beautiful man. Rest In Peace Bowie, and Rest In Peace to all the victims of 9/11.
What a genius he was
So special ! When he left us, a part of me went with him to be with the Starman !❤
Such a beautiful rendition of the song. Rest in Peace, David.
amen...
I wept the night of the concert when he did this. So personal and simple, so beautiful!
Proving less is more as only David could with his inimitable style and grace.
Incredibly moving, especially given the events of this week. Bowie forever.
Ha ha ha hee hee hee I'm the laughing knome and you can't catch me 🥳🥳🥳🥳💃🏼🎄🧎🏻☃️🚌🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♂️
WOW !! THis gave me shivers ! ~
I’ve loved this man’s music since I was a small child. I miss him and his sensitive creativity, as do so many millions. R.I.P. David ❤
One of his best and unique performances of all time.
The way that he flirts around the beat at the beginning, just beyond amazing, miss him every day
I'd never seen this until now, all these years later. I still mourn the towers, I still mourn Bowie. Both their demises marked a huge sea change in the world - and not for the better. This performance is overwhelming
Only Bowie could pull this off and at such an emotional event! Only Bowie!!
... and the moon rose over an open field. This line is so beautiful in context.
One of the greatest ever. Can’t believe he’s gone.
He sings it like a hymn. A melancholic hymn (without nationalism) about a problematic country.
It’s not a nationalistic song.
@@drunkenmasterii3250 Oh, really?! I know, I wrote exactly that. 😒 HYMNS usually are nationalistic! You need to improve text interpretation.
@ I'm pretty sure my comment had a reason and made sense at the time, I don't know why 3 people would've upvoted it if it made no sense, but I have no idea what your comment looked like at the time as you seem to have edited it and can't make sense of my comment in the present context.
Was the original version nationalistic? What makes it "nationalistic"? Curious why you would say that?
@@fobbitguy Well, maybe the confusion is in the word I used - "hymn", rather than national anthems, which are generally nationalistic, as opposed to Simon's lyrics. Therefore, why sing “America”? Well, the title was a good applause line for 9/11 context and Bowie “was looking for something which really evoked feelings of bewilderment and uncertainty, because for me that’s how that particular period really felt. And I really thought that Paul Simon’s song in this new context really captured that,” he said in a November 2001 web-chat. So, it seems like the reverse side of a hymn/anthem, certainly in tones of dystopia, but with a strange hope/hopelessness feeling on the search for "America".
In all of his genres, and I'm old enough to have lived through them all, he is just mesmerizing and it's always, just him, indescribable. Talent, intelligence and those eyes.
Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together. I love the romance between he and his Cathy. Picture a very young couple so in love, wanting to go on a lark to get away from it all to be alone with each other. Destination doesn't matter, the experience of it does.
Ya, from Ziggy to this ! Incredible! What a long strange trip it’s was ❤️
yep, there from the beginning. Wonderful iconic man
perfectly stated
@@dkjazzz Suffragatte City! Wish I had a Time Machine and we could all go back. Also his accent is so charming. I love how he says And the moon rose over an open field. I never appreciated this song so much until his rendition. Can't you just visualize better his way? I boarded a couple of Greyhounds back in the 70's and can relate to that whole experience. Darn, those were great times. Young and head full of dreams.
My dad died on November 4, 2022 unexpectedly. This song has been in my head since and I am now finally listening to it once again. I miss you dad where ever you are. I love you. And I like this version of the song by Bowie alot!
My favorite Simon and Garfunkel song, covered by my favorite artist, what more can I hope for. I’m so glad to have been alive for all of Bowie’s amazing career. His many different styles, his paintings, his acting & his music, David Bowie, Forever our Black ⭐️
They cheer mindlessly every time lovely David sings America, but they, and we, missed the warning and the comfort. I look back and see this moment as prophetic. Tears. Many tears.
there are only a hand full of artist who passed that generations will remember in the future bowie will be one of them
The marriage of two musical genius', Paul Simon and David Bowie. As close to perfection as you'll ever get.
4am, I'm seeing this for the first time.... absolutely blown away
Just no words.
Beautiful interpretation..brings a whole new depth and meaning to the tune, it's got that tinge of sadness to it , along with love. ..thank you David ❤️
His voice, such a beautiful touching rendition, he’s well missed😢
I miss him too.
I miss him, his lovely voice and creativity ❤❤❤
There really are no words that can do justice to this performance. Pure beauty.
This is a gem that YT comes up with every so often.
I was 47 when I heard this, first. 33 years after my first Bowie /ever concert.
Sometimes when you hear a song, even when it's the original you just don't get it. ....and then, sometimes, someone makes it all so clear. !! Well done David 👏
He is still here with us, around us, behind us, before us…an ascended master. I miss him so much on our earthly plain, but he is here amongst us just in different form of pure energy
For me part of David's appeal is the unabashed use of his accent. Whereas so many Brits accents go by the wayside when they sing, Bowie embraces it. Thanks be that I was born at the time needed to be able to appreciate this icon. ✌
Tears streaming. Oh my heart, what a deeply moving, beautifully aching and haunting rendition of America in 2001 post 9/11. As only David Bowie could do.
Bowie was truly a spokesman for Humanity from the Worlds greatest Venue....That performance that night from MSG in NYC doing that song is forever frozen in space and time of all our lives.....amazing.....
Bowie could read a shopping list and it would sound great ❤
Bowie putting his own spin on this Simon and Garfunkel classic. Amazing
That's our David.....an artist to the end.
this is the best version I ve ever heard
Gives me the chills.
The Church of Man is such a holy place to be. Such magic and such heartbreak in this moment, using music to express what we still struggle to comprehend.
Make me know you really care. Make me jump into the air.
A song about the sadness of chasing the American dream till it burns you out. Then looking on to see a never ending line of expectant dreamers while the onlooker knows exactly what lays ahead for them.
The American dream is only that, a dream
I never saw this before…and I love it. It sounds remarkably like Bowie’s earliest Tony Newley style songs. Beautiful.
This was an unforgettable moment for me right after 9/11. It felt like Bowie really felt the alienating zeitgeist of those times and the pain.
Bowie’s creative genius & Paul Simon’s words create a sad, magical moment.
It floored me then and today it brings a tear and it brings thanks.
Thank You David, it was an honor.