When my mum snuck me and my two brothers out of the house at 5 in the morning to escape our step dad, we took a coach from Newcastle to Manchester, but first we had to get on a bus, wait at a cafe...we heard this song 4 times during the journey, and it's haunted me ever since, but not for any dark reasons, everything worked out in the end. This, for me, is nostalgia with bells on.
I say to others, what's annoying, well, sometimes 😁, is that we can't exchange private messages to talk about the good old days, etc. You do not think? Or maybe it's possible and I don't know how to do it 🤔😞
@markpaterson2053 I was going to write the exact opposite song... for modern times and how everyone these days hates to fly and smiling faces are rare to see in a large airport... I'm writing it in a minor key
I'm french,and I can say that this Motor's song is one of my best memory.I was just 9 years old when I discovered this song in 1980...fantastic!Since The Beatles in the sixties,I say thank you to England for all those prodigious musicians that this country have done...
Always loved this song. So evocative. Not sure if it's Andy McMasters fantastic vocal or his distinctive keyboard sound, or maybe both? Takes me back to being a 13 year old in 1978. Loving punk rock, football stickers, 2000ad comics and the Argentina 78 world cup. What a time to be a kid! Wouldn't change it for the world. :)
I loved this song so much when I was a young guy. Now I am an old man and I’ve listened to this song again and I still love it so much. Meanwhile my life went by and so much has happened, but this music is still amazing.❤😢😊
I always found the melody of the synthesizer very interesting, but today I heard it on the radio and I realized it's just an amazing song in general and I can't stop listening and singing along anymore
I was at the age where I was dancing to disco music in 1978 and knew this was a hit song, but how good it is.The younger generations if they can get their heads out of social media on their phones they just might be able to write music like this today.
Minutes ago I woke up with this song in my 'ears'. Immediately re-/searched it and listened to it.! Know I know more about song + band,. For example that I was 9ys old when it was released. Must have impressed me much. Wonderful. And I'm healed for the moment. 🙏🤗❤
My dad is 73 years-old he told me to listen to this song, he always told me how he’s so grateful he was born in that generation being young in the 60s and 70s are the best time in his life.
@@DaveAndBeth1978 OMG what a miserable non binary person you are/we're... transitioning into, cheer up we've got a highly laughable government, high interest rates, ww3 a possibility and a pint of beer going up to a eye watering £7.00 , now what's there to be negative about!!!!
@@grahammaguire404 - no need for me to "cheer up", I'm happier now than I ever was in the 60s / 70s! 😂 I don't drink alcohol so the price of beer is a moot point; I'm astute financially despite never being in a high paid job, and WW3 isn't happening anytime soon. Definitely not "non-binary" either, not sure what made you bring that completely irrelevant point in there! As I said, life's whatever you make it
This is one of my favourite records. The only real bad things about the 60's and the 70's were the spassies blaming everything on the Black's or the Irish, when they should have joined Europe wisely in my opinion in those decades, to stop the strikes, and have sensible trade barriers, with hopeful foreign friends.
❤i m french whoman i have 54 years i remember this song when i m in the car with my parents i love this song for ever my father is dead in 2015 and my mother in 2021 victim of covid dad mum i love you in the star s ornella south of france😢
This is one of those songs that has remained at the back of my head since childhood. Musically it has an irresistible tune: catchy as hell yet sad and dramatic. The arrangement is just exceptional, delivering a perfect slice of pop.
Rentrée scolaire 1978 ( classe de première ) , le jukebox du bar le Saint-Eloi ( notre fief ..!! 😆) de Limoges passait cette chanson en boucle ..!! Nostalgie ..!! 😏😞
I was a long distance lorry driver when this came out, and remember singing loudly along with this on the radio. I got some funny looks at traffic lights ! This song is remembered as a much simpler way of life, even then. Happy days. 😀
@@terrycrusader 👍 now that's a blast from the past - a bit spartan by today's standards, (at least there was a sleeper) but pull like a train and you could hear the turbo whistle when approaching Shap (old road) early morning a mile away.
Yeah, miserable in some ways but most miserable ever? Check out the Western Front in World War 1, the Great Depression, the Blitz in World War 2, wartime rationing continuing into post-War austerity for many years. And how about before the 20th century when people worked 60 or 80 hours a week for a number of shillings, no electricity or water and sewerage systems, cholera, typhoid, etc killed people and lots of children died young.
Sorry for your loss of your mum, she may be gone, but at least you have a great song to remember her. Music heals most things, well make life a little easier
This song to me is the most complete song I have ever heard. Its not telling you much but every note & lyric fit perfectly This is a masterpiece raptures X
Was 7 years old when this hit the charts. It's a bittersweet song for me of memories of early life where we didn't have much, lived in a council flat but we're so happy & grateful for the little we had. The song is beautifully, poetically written, the piano solo in the break, the vocals are everything. xx
Heard this on the radio in my grandfather's car after a day trip. Only a little boy then, initially spooked by the melody but is a song that I have grown to like. I'm only at the end of my teenage years but would definitely pick this over most of the garbage they spew out today.
Growing up in the Middle East, a friend who visited her English Grandma frequently, brought this record & played it for us. I was in love & until this day.
How on earth hadn't i heard this song before? Was watching the 70s channel on fetch tv and this song came on. I thought it sounded alright. Saw it again a couple of days later and I was hooked. Straight to youtube to get my fix every day after that. Fantastic song.
Oh forgot to say,my first flight in a aircraft was 1978 and believe or not ,we got to smoke on the plane,the airline was Dan Air ,god knows what happened to them.
We had a record player at my youth club with a few records including this one. I used to stick it on all the time. Most of the others wanted disco music !
I think it really is perfect pop. I've just rediscovered it, and can't stop playing it! It's just genius. The vocals, the arrangement, so f'ing spot on.
I loved the 70's...... Strikes, 4 day week, winter of discontent, power cuts, petrol crisis, football hooligans, Austin Allegro........ and great music.. 👍
or... I wish I could start a bland band in the 1990´s and base my breakthrough song based on a riff in this song.... maybe something like Coldplay did, and I´d call the song "Clocks"
Late 70s. What a fantastic time for music. Brimming over with energy!!! The excitement of buying a single as soon as it was released! Getting it home an playing it over and over. I defo did that with this epic tune.
Why shouldn't a record made in 1978 sound good today? The reason why is because it's a good record, it's catchy and memorable. Catchy and memorable records are in short supply these days, we all know that. The only people that don't are the people in the current music business.
@@flares Kinda nails it innit ? Is it because "those icky youngsters can't compose good music nowadays", or is it because record companies executives would not recognize good music if it bit their are, going for stupid dreck ? (There WAS stupid dreck Back In The Days, but there was good stuff to balance it all…)
43 years later there is still nothing that sounds like this song. There are other Motors songs that use the same piano line (Today for example) but musically I've never heard anything that sounds like Airport since... And that's fine with me!
Our generation latched onto clever pop songs because we had an ear for music, something lacking in the music scene today. Fed up with hearing so called super stars, ha ha, what super stars? Suggest they all go onto You Tube and be enlightened as to true talent, yes I am biased but with I think justification.
To this day I can remember lying on a sun bed in our back garden with this track playing from the radio. Played it ever since although no-one has ever requested it. Fantastic.
I hear shades of ELO in the backing vocals, but that’s about it. This is melodic but tough power pop, with more edge to it than anything ELO did. That’s not to knock ELO but theirs is a different style.
I can’t believe I haven’t heard this song in probably all of this century! Of course I loved it when it came out in 1978. As soon as I heard it, it brought tears to my eyes and I can’t really say why. It wasn’t a girlfriend break up in 1978. The music and the sad, wistful lyrics just get to me for some reason. Probably set off some deep emotional part of the brain, and maybe a little reflection of the stress of our sheltering in place bummer of a Summer 2020 as of today Thursday, September 3, 2020 in San Diego California. You all know how bad things are in this Country at this time.
Rotten Johnny absolutely! all the music I’m getting nowadays from TH-cam, I love exploring and enjoying once again those forgotten musical gems of our lives!
Mine was one of the all-time greats, "D.I.Y.: Teenage Kicks: UK Pop I, 1976-79 (Rhino, 1993), with Nick Lowe on the cover. Internet Archive has it free, liner notes also.
I was only 4 when this was out, but today at 49 it reminds me of something I'm not even aware of but makes me so emotional. It's hard to listen to for some reason.
Great memories can see that cheeky glasweigan smile Andy has as been from Glasgow myself brilliant song. Coming on 60 and still listening to this song 👍
Was at Ambleside youth hostel aged about 10 when I first heard this song.liked it then but love it now. Happy days-life so much better in the 70s and 80s. Music to remember unlike today’s shite.
How good is this slice of new wave-influenced power pop? "Airport" is complete with a haunting synth melody and a dreamily foreboding chorus - all bound together with an arrangement that features some nice 10cc-like, pop touches.
Dedicating this fantastic song to my ex Director Mr Paul Judge who emigrated to Canada. He'll probably never read these comments so he'll never know I had the biggest crush on him. But he's flown away and I'll never see him again...Airport you've took the one I love so far away...so apt...
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When my mum snuck me and my two brothers out of the house at 5 in the morning to escape our step dad, we took a coach from Newcastle to Manchester, but first we had to get on a bus, wait at a cafe...we heard this song 4 times during the journey, and it's haunted me ever since, but not for any dark reasons, everything worked out in the end.
This, for me, is nostalgia with bells on.
So friendly.
Perhaps, I 'll write. 😊
😉 in Link....? If you.... Take care. Odile.
Thats quit a picture you've painted, hope all worked out well
I say to others, what's annoying, well, sometimes 😁, is that we can't exchange private messages to talk about the good old days, etc. You do not think?
Or maybe it's possible and I don't know how to do it 🤔😞
@@baz3338 it did, though my brothers pretty much grew up a bit criminally insane
I'm glad that a lot of people beside myself are still liking this song!
Great song
no way, was gonna write the exact same thing, word for word.
@markpaterson2053 I was going to write the exact opposite song... for modern times and how everyone these days hates to fly and smiling faces are rare to see in a large airport... I'm writing it in a minor key
german uniform video is the best
I'm french,and I can say that this Motor's song is one of my best memory.I was just 9 years old when I discovered this song in 1980...fantastic!Since The Beatles in the sixties,I say thank you to England for all those prodigious musicians that this country have done...
i miss the past
I want to go back and stay there forever.
@@andymatthews7617I'll come with you!
🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸☘️🇯🇲🇨🇮👀🌈🌈🐈⬛🦊🙏🙏🏴✝️🏴🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
One of those BRILLIANT half forgotten songs that reminds us what an unbeatable time for pop music this era was
Exactly!
Yes! Also the band Magazine is great if you like this though... darker vibe
Yes you've summed it up.
one of the best things about 64 years old,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 70's that is priceless and I am grateful!!
So true, Golden days.
Cool 👍
Gold
sme timre as me ,,,, i remember . nor ]t the same today
You are so right Michele. I'm 65 now and that era of music has been and always been my favourite era for music.
This is simply great music, i miss those days when there was real music
80/90
and talent
omg lmfao.
Was only 12 but never forgot this great song ❤
Same. Was 12 too when this great song came out
@@johnnyb6584 Well i was FIVE teehee! I'm a female.
The melancholy synth and fervent piano weave together so perfectly in this timeless tune from my youth.
💯
Always loved this song. So evocative. Not sure if it's Andy McMasters fantastic vocal or his distinctive keyboard sound, or maybe both? Takes me back to being a 13 year old in 1978. Loving punk rock, football stickers, 2000ad comics and the Argentina 78 world cup. What a time to be a kid!
Wouldn't change it for the world. :)
It's EVERYTHING
i love this song
I loved this song so much when I was a young guy. Now I am an old man and I’ve listened to this song again and I still love it so much. Meanwhile my life went by and so much has happened, but this music is still amazing.❤😢😊
🙂😘
You must not be that old, 🙂, otherwise.....there must be many of us....😭
😉😇
loved these saw them in guilford in my time . seen many groups but these were one of my first x brill
Arguably one of the best pop songs ever released. An entire film script in a short song.
Brilliantly written.
Yep...beautiful
Not THEIR ONLY Great song! dx
Yes! I thought up an entire film listening to this. Pity it's still only in my head lol
I always found the melody of the synthesizer very interesting, but today I heard it on the radio and I realized it's just an amazing song in general and I can't stop listening and singing along anymore
just brilliant
I was born in 1960.my music upbringing was incredible.i was soooo lucky to be born in those days.
Me too, glad we lived the good days eh !
@@wokeupandsmellthecoffee214
Yep. Glam rock. Punk rock. Disco.
WOW
Yeeeees! Ouiiiiiiil! 😊😊❤😘
which country do you live in ?
@@odileo9373
Scotland where the Bay city Rollers were from
I was at the age where I was dancing to disco music in 1978 and knew this was a hit song, but how good it is.The younger generations if they can get their heads out of social media on their phones they just might be able to write music like this today.
Minutes ago I woke up with this song in my 'ears'. Immediately re-/searched it and listened to it.! Know I know more about song + band,. For example that I was 9ys old when it was released. Must have impressed me much. Wonderful. And I'm healed for the moment. 🙏🤗❤
My dad is 73 years-old he told me to listen to this song, he always told me how he’s so grateful he was born in that generation being young in the 60s and 70s are the best time in his life.
It wasn't all good in the 60s and 70s TBH... Life is whatever you make it, no matter what era you were born into
Ahh youth it always becomes that lost estate we can never find our way back to .
@@DaveAndBeth1978 OMG what a miserable non binary person you are/we're... transitioning into, cheer up we've got a highly laughable government, high interest rates, ww3 a possibility and a pint of beer going up to a eye watering £7.00 , now what's there to be negative about!!!!
@@grahammaguire404 - no need for me to "cheer up", I'm happier now than I ever was in the 60s / 70s! 😂 I don't drink alcohol so the price of beer is a moot point; I'm astute financially despite never being in a high paid job, and WW3 isn't happening anytime soon. Definitely not "non-binary" either, not sure what made you bring that completely irrelevant point in there! As I said, life's whatever you make it
This is one of my favourite records. The only real bad things about the 60's and the 70's were the spassies blaming everything on the Black's or the Irish, when they should have joined Europe wisely in my opinion in those decades, to stop the strikes, and have sensible trade barriers, with hopeful foreign friends.
Happy belated birthday Andy McMaster.
I knew it was your Birthday yesterday.
Your a genius.
From an Irish fan.
❤i m french whoman i have 54 years i remember this song when i m in the car with my parents i love this song for ever my father is dead in 2015 and my mother in 2021 victim of covid dad mum i love you in the star s ornella south of france😢
Love to you have great taste 💙
th-cam.com/video/VPo1SgRvMZA/w-d-xo.html
God bless
😢🙏😘, bien amicalement, du middle France, et sud, cet été 😉
Merci We are all just stardust mon ami.
One of my top favourites from that aera. Together with Sarah Smiles by Bram Tchaikowsky and everything from Talk Talk.
This is one of those songs that has remained at the back of my head since childhood. Musically it has an irresistible tune: catchy as hell yet sad and dramatic. The arrangement is just exceptional, delivering a perfect slice of pop.
Or from a time when music was allowed to be music
Rentrée scolaire 1978 ( classe de première ) , le jukebox du bar le Saint-Eloi ( notre fief ..!! 😆) de Limoges passait cette chanson en boucle ..!! Nostalgie ..!! 😏😞
😊one of the best songs I can remember as a 49 year old woman. nostalgic
Me too❤
Still listening in 2024 😺👍🏻
Me too🙂🏴
me too bud
15/5 /2024 still listening ❤
Sunday 26 May .
29/5/25 still listening to my youth at 63🏴
I was a long distance lorry driver when this came out, and remember singing loudly along with this on the radio. I got some funny looks at traffic lights !
This song is remembered as a much simpler way of life, even then. Happy days. 😀
songs from this era remind of being with my dad in his crusader when I was 4,like you say a much simpler time.
@@terrycrusader 👍 now that's a blast from the past - a bit spartan by today's standards, (at least there was a sleeper) but pull like a train and you could hear the turbo whistle when approaching Shap (old road) early morning a mile away.
The most miserable era in Britain's social history produced the best, most uplifting music ever created.
The most miserable era, so far, may be now. The country was, in many ways, so much better then.
Sorry mate 70s or 80s if its 80s disagree, nothing compared to the shit show now. Sorry. Foundation's of which will never be built again. A fact.
@@johncallow22Seconded.
We should be in for some good music soon then.
Yeah, miserable in some ways but most miserable ever? Check out the Western Front in World War 1, the Great Depression, the Blitz in World War 2, wartime rationing continuing into post-War austerity for many years.
And how about before the 20th century when people worked 60 or 80 hours a week for a number of shillings, no electricity or water and sewerage systems, cholera, typhoid, etc killed people and lots of children died young.
Listening this in August 2024. Wish I had a Time machine 😢
I'd go back in a heartbeat, this world is now full of evil.
Me too 😊
@@andymatthews7617 truth
Reminds me of a better time....better music and happier people
I remember my mum buying this and I think of her and those times when I hear it. RIP mum.
Sorry for your loss of your mum, she may be gone, but at least you have a great song to remember her. Music heals most things, well make life a little easier
Never forget my friend ❤
When you listen to this you're mum is listening to it with you
This song has been stuck in my head for days.
Seeing this video makes me realize it's more 70's than I expected.
Still sounds brilliant, beautiful song.
It certainly does Chris,great song.
A real belter.
Oui Monsieur !!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Sir
I agree. Loved it from the moment I first heard Nicky Horne play it when the album 'Approved' entered his Saturday evening 'Mummies Chart'.
It does
What a great Song
One of those songs that evoke a series of beloved memories of a long past time when life was still a magical thing, it still is, great song
I know exactly what you mean,I first flew abroad in 1978 ,these songs stick.
A time when life was so much simpler
What when you were young you mean? That's a song, we are young Kim carnes or someone. Orrible getting old innit
Sorry pat benatar love is a battlefield. We are young is a better title
With ya bro.
The only song to listen to while sitting in the departures lounge waiting to board your flight like I am now ✈️
@@darrylmarsh6847 yeah me too ❤️
Aahh...the carefree days when one could walk through the Heathrow Tunnels.
This song to me is the most complete song I have ever heard.
Its not telling you much but every note & lyric fit perfectly
This is a masterpiece
raptures
X
I had forgotten how good this is. Havn’t heard it in years.
Was 7 years old when this hit the charts. It's a bittersweet song for me of memories of early life where we didn't have much, lived in a council flat but we're so happy & grateful for the little we had. The song is beautifully, poetically written, the piano solo in the break, the vocals are everything. xx
BETTER DAYS, I WISH I COULD GO BACK AND STAY THERE FOREVER.
I love this song.. Ever and ever.. Sorry iamPortuguesa
The Motors. Probably the most underrated band of the New Wave era.
get a new word ffs. everyone is UNDERRATED. Jesus underrated by whom .
Not really. Their albums were patchworks of sounds and The Buzzcocks had taken over the entire Glory space.
Try Taxi by the Deaf School and if you do you will understand this………..
I still listen to it now what a tune love it child hood favorite love it 💯
Heard this on the radio in my grandfather's car after a day trip. Only a little boy then, initially spooked by the melody but is a song that I have grown to like. I'm only at the end of my teenage years but would definitely pick this over most of the garbage they spew out today.
One of the best pop songs of all time
Growing up in the Middle East, a friend who visited her English Grandma frequently, brought this record & played it for us. I was in love & until this day.
Bram Tchaikowsky, a truly great name, I'm seriously jealous...! Great song, great band.
How on earth hadn't i heard this song before? Was watching the 70s channel on fetch tv and this song came on. I thought it sounded alright. Saw it again a couple of days later and I was hooked. Straight to youtube to get my fix every day after that. Fantastic song.
Loved this song in 1978 ,still love it 40 years later.brilliant keyboards.
I love this song 1978. I was 28 years old
thanxx
I was 18 when this came out what a classic song 😊
Oh forgot to say,my first flight in a aircraft was 1978 and believe or not ,we got to smoke on the plane,the airline was Dan Air ,god knows what happened to them.
This takes me right back to the moment I realised I hadn't done enough revision for my O-levels. May '78.
Takes me back to my childhood. I remember loving this song when I was 7 years old 🤗❤️
Love this song
I love this song. Reminds me of being on the district line heading up West shopping in Oxford Street. Every shop had it on the radio. X
Beautifully haunting almost sad keyboard riff that’s stayed with me from the first time I heard it. Great song
Way ahead of its time
prachtig idd !!!!!!!
We had a record player at my youth club with a few records including this one. I used to stick it on all the time. Most of the others wanted disco music !
If only we could fly back to the 70s ✈️
You totally can. Drop some acid, wear terrible clothes, and look out at a ruined economy. Bingo.
I would do it
Heaven is a rewind button....fingers crossed everybody.
@@MrThrib I misread that the first time, I thought you were recommending going down to a ruined bingo hall to play bingo.
Total classic
Hauntingly perfect.....in fact its a masterpiece !
Perfectly put.
This song is really haunting. I can't stop watching at the singer while listening to it.
Why isn't this the universal anthem of all terminals everywhere?
It must be
Great synth tunes here ❤
A perfect pop song: piano, drums, harmonies: its got everything
Including the "dip, dip, da-dip, dip" background vocals.
"A perfect pop song: piano, drums, harmonies: its got everything"
Except Debbie Harry, strutting the stage for all the gals in pop and rock!
exactly.. perfect!!
I think it really is perfect pop. I've just rediscovered it, and can't stop playing it! It's just genius. The vocals, the arrangement, so f'ing spot on.
What a bassline ..the soul of this song !
One of my favourite songs of all time absolutely brilliant timeless classic nice one mate take care
Happy Birthday Andy McMaster your a genius.
I remember this song when I was a child.
I loved it then and now.
Did you know he wrote Tuppenny Bus Ride for Anita Harris ?
I was in my teens when I made my own top 40 and this song was my number one for a lot of weeks!
TUNE..... LYRICS...... STORY - FANTASTIC WORK OF ART all in one hit.
Saw them live at the Marquee Club in London's Wardour Street. Aug 25 1978 ....
Totally brilliant song one of my favs
DEFINITELY AN UNDERESTIMATED MASTERPIECE!!!
SPEAK UP. CAN'T HEAR YA!!!!
Absolutely!! 👍🏻
Never get on a plane without listening to this great song at least once...Airport!
Fly her away
Calling America . That's where she has to be!! :)
Also Luton Airport by Cats UK. 😊
I loved the 70's...... Strikes, 4 day week, winter of discontent, power cuts, petrol crisis, football hooligans, Austin Allegro........ and great music.. 👍
I had two Allegros 🙂
@@morrisey1970 you had 2 'all-aggros'.. ha ha ha.... love 70's cars... Nothing wrong with a beige Morris Marina... 😉😉👍
@@morrisey1970 I only had One, All Agro...
In a nutshell!
3
Wish i could fly back to the 70,s when the sounds were just awsome,not like the drivel thats called music nowadays.
or... I wish I could start a bland band in the 1990´s and base my breakthrough song based on a riff in this song.... maybe something like Coldplay did, and I´d call the song "Clocks"
Late 70s. What a fantastic time for music. Brimming over with energy!!! The excitement of buying a single as soon as it was released! Getting it home an playing it over and over. I defo did that with this epic tune.
Glad I was there.. I love it now but just different then..
Mine would skip at the drum roll, but I still loved this single.
How does a record made in 1978, still sound sooo good....
Because in those days they had the talent to create such great music.
Why shouldn't a record made in 1978 sound good today? The reason why is because it's a good record, it's catchy and memorable. Catchy and memorable records are in short supply these days, we all know that. The only people that don't are the people in the current music business.
@@flares Kinda nails it innit ? Is it because "those icky youngsters can't compose good music nowadays", or is it because record companies executives would not recognize good music if it bit their are, going for stupid dreck ? (There WAS stupid dreck Back In The Days, but there was good stuff to balance it all…)
Strange question indeed! Do you really think people could not write songs back then?
Because music from those days are timeless classics :)
Found this clip on TH-cam and it instantly took me back in time… can’t get it out of my head ❤️terrific song
Been playing this on repeat.
This is one of my favourite songs, I'm glad I was a teenager when this was released.
43 years later there is still nothing that sounds like this song. There are other Motors songs that use the same piano line (Today for example) but musically I've never heard anything that sounds like Airport since... And that's fine with me!
Our generation latched onto clever pop songs because we had an ear for music, something lacking in the music scene today. Fed up with hearing so called super stars, ha ha, what super stars? Suggest they all go onto You Tube and be enlightened as to true talent, yes I am biased but with I think justification.
nothing compares to this diamond of song
You are so right my friend,I loved this song,I was 20,this song took me to Italia
Haven't heard this before, now it's on repeat!
Beautiful
Great song from a brilliant era for music!
This song had stood the test of time. It is as good now as in the beginning.
"Great song from a brilliant era for music!"
They stole it from my honey, Wolfgang A. Mozart. Now t that was a real era for music!
better than this ERA
To this day I can remember lying on a sun bed in our back garden with this track playing from the radio. Played it ever since although no-one has ever requested it. Fantastic.
I played this to death when it first came out. Hearing it again now, I'm struck by how much it sounds like it could be an ELO record!
thetragicyouth drummer sounds like ELO’s Bev Bevan 👌
I hear shades of ELO in the backing vocals, but that’s about it. This is melodic but tough power pop, with more edge to it than anything ELO did. That’s not to knock ELO but theirs is a different style.
Yes, just like them. But for now, it's more sorrow and control. Do you think anything will be free again. ?
For year I thought it was
Still have the single..I heard the Amazing number to a party late 70 ties..Memories ❤️
A brilliant classic no one these days could write a song like this all composed on a computer
I love this song❤❤❤❤❤❤
I can’t believe I haven’t heard this song in probably all of this century! Of course I loved it when it came out in 1978.
As soon as I heard it, it brought tears to my eyes and I can’t really say why. It wasn’t a girlfriend break up in 1978. The music and the sad, wistful lyrics just get to me for some reason.
Probably set off some deep emotional part of the brain, and maybe a little reflection of the stress of our sheltering in place bummer of a Summer 2020 as of today Thursday, September 3, 2020 in San Diego California. You all know how bad things are in this Country at this time.
Yes, I've a sister in San Diego. Bummer of a Summer, indeed! Hope the music helps.
Rotten Johnny absolutely! all the music I’m getting nowadays from TH-cam, I love exploring and enjoying once again those forgotten musical gems of our lives!
ENJOY this mAgiCaL!**~MOST 1970'S for SO MANY ones of the best song EVER PRODUCED !
Such perfect balance between the vocals and synthesizers!
what brand thought they were just keyboards what a tune??
First heard this from a 1970’s compilation album, fantastic 🙌😁♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Mine was one of the all-time greats, "D.I.Y.: Teenage Kicks: UK Pop I, 1976-79 (Rhino, 1993), with Nick Lowe on the cover. Internet Archive has it free, liner notes also.
Best era for tunes ever !!
Great song hasn't dated sounds as good as it did when first released ❤.
In my honest opinion this song is very underated a fabulous tune timeless classic brilliant
Great music 💙
I was only 4 when this was out, but today at 49 it reminds me of something I'm not even aware of but makes me so emotional. It's hard to listen to for some reason.
Great memories can see that cheeky glasweigan smile Andy has as been from Glasgow myself brilliant song. Coming on 60 and still listening to this song 👍
Great song.
Why do I love this song so much? I'm a long-time Queen fan, and I've never been to a bloody airport!!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this song...takes me way way back...where have all the years gone...time machine please.
Scary isn't it!
"It's not the years honey/it's the mileage" (Indy)
It is an amazing song. I keep coming back to it every few weeks/months/years and it always stirs up strong feelings.
Count me in with the time machine mate, but count me out for the return trip....
me too ✈
Was at Ambleside youth hostel aged about 10 when I first heard this song.liked it then but love it now. Happy days-life so much better in the 70s and 80s. Music to remember unlike today’s shite.
How good is this slice of new wave-influenced power pop?
"Airport" is complete with a haunting synth melody and a dreamily foreboding chorus - all bound together with an arrangement that features some nice 10cc-like, pop touches.
It´s a gem!
Such a sad little song. I;d love to hear the inspiration for it -
So many memories come flooding back when I hear this song...some good, some bad, all filled with 1970’s angst. I love this song.
Dedicating this fantastic song to my ex Director Mr Paul Judge who emigrated to Canada. He'll probably never read these comments so he'll never know I had the biggest crush on him. But he's flown away and I'll never see him again...Airport you've took the one I love so far away...so apt...
Excellent Song. 60s 70s 80s. Great Music. Started to go down the Crapper from the 90s Onwards.