One of the most unappreciated songs ever. Total genius in every respect but it only spent one week in the Top 20 and none of the radio stations play it now. It will always be one of my favourite songs.
@@BeggarsArchive Hopefully I've helped you in your quest as it's been added to my FB page with most of the '80s! My 21-yr-old & her student buds can't get enough of her mum's music :)
Totally agreed mate. I’m a huge MUFC supporter and the whole LFC line Pete threw in always cuts deep and yet it’s still absolutely beautiful and brilliant. A pop song for the ages. Pete’s stuff was always soooooooo wonderful.
Well, pretty much The Manic Street Preachers have with their single 'Decline & Fall' which is pretty much this Pete Wiley tune from the epic eighties 😊
If only those Days and Nights of the 80's would come back,,along with the friends, the dreams, ambitions, and long lost loves, and not just be confined to memories
I feel your pain thats how it affects me, something unattainable , the people , the places , the smells and sounds gone forever , only a distant memory getting further away as we get old. Memorys are all we have left but they are unbeatable fantastic memorys of a unique space in time.
Josie Jones was just so cool. 13yr old me and my mates were so desperate to be Josie. Rip beautiful lady the owner of the most beautiful blue eyes ever. 😢 we loved you so much and always will XOXO
Very apt social commentary for the time. People were leaving not just Liverpool, but England, in droves in the early to mid 1980's, just to get work. I was born in Littleborough, Lancashire and lived there until I was 5 years old, then we moved to London because my Dad got made redundant and couldn't get another job in the area. So when he was offered a great job down south, he took it. The North of England was totally forgotten by the government in the early to mid 1980's.
This song never ever fails to bring a tear to my eye. Nostalgia for a brilliant track? Sadness that Josie Jones is no longer with us? Heartache for a far better - and musically infinitely-superior - era than 2024? Try all three of those.....
I love this video - Pete's awkwardness and dad dancing and Josie being utterly cool and looking amazing, such a contrast and actually works. Plus the song is bloody fantastic. Great times.
I agree the video and song are superb, but I think both protagonists actually look very cool. Pete looks spectacular, defiant and fearless in that leather jacket, the guy just reeks of sharp attitude, passion and pride. The point when he grabs the reel of film and tosses it to the sky is amazing. it's like he's signaling "this walk only happens here and npw, only today, and it is not repeatable! watch me!" - but of course, this precise moment is captured...from another camera. :)
@@mattcasson3238 They both look flat out amazing - the minute of footage starting at 1:36 has me smiling and gasping with appreciation to this day - and it's perfectly matchd to the music. This video is as great and inspiring as Kate Bush's famous video for Cloudbusting!
I don't get tired to listen to this song! It's amazing. The 80's was the best speaking about songs and singers. I was a child in this time but sometimes I can imagine how happy was the people who lived this time! 👏👏👏👏
There are songs that, when you hear them for the first time, feel like they have always been there, have been world hits and are imbedded in everybody's bones. And still they were just released. This is one of them.
I was the only Wah ! fan at my school in Bristol in the early 80's A mate of mine asked if I heard the Story of the Blues it was No 3 in the charts ! I told him , don't be daft ! But it was true !! This is brilliant as well !
My father in law was a scouser. he said they were just frightened of working that's why the place has always produced excellent pop music and football players. I live just up the road in Preston and know a real scouser will laugh at that so please don't take it the wrong way!
This song makes me cry everytime I hear it. The feeling of nostalgia from times I wish I had lived. This reminds me of my best friend and I miss him so much.
As a kid in the '70s, I remember all the adults with plasters holding their glasses together - bless 'em! 😂😂 I turned 17 in '80' so, forever a true '80's girl 🤩 Our partying music was & is to die for!
❤ I remember this as a kid and in my mind it’s as successful as a number one hit single. Hard to fathom it only hit #20. Genius and essential for me and many from my era
This IS one of the songs that I will miss most when i'm long and gone, and will feel jealous of the kids that might get to find this banger, and get to play it LOUD n PROUD. Play it for me guys, 'Come Back' wahayyyyy
Can anyone please put me out of my misery. I’m convinced that immediately after watching Liverpool winning the European cup that night, I tuned into John Peel’s show and without anything being said, he launched straight into this. It was euphoric,ecstatic and triumphant. If I’m wrong,then it would’ve been a great idea. However, if anyone else can remember it as I remember it,please confirm it for me. Spine tingling.
Absolutely brilliant, Wendy' I loved Pete Wylie's great pop anthems and his look, and this is probably my favourite track of his. Great nostalgic memory.
Agree - great song, superb production, incisive lyrics, a wonderful video. This should have been a mega-hit all over Europe and America. Instead, it just wound up scratching the UK top 20 for a single week! But at least, John Peel rightfully called it "the greatest single of the year 1984".
Hopefully one day the cathedral will fix one of those heritage plaques commemorating the filming of this video on the steps...It is truly well deserved...👌
@@uknumberthree1330 After 3 years, Im reading my own reaction and now realise the guy's name is Simon Potter. The Fullers and Cowells of this world indeed should be sent to a coalmine with "When will I be famous" by Bros played on repeat continuously.
A great antidote to most of the trash in the charts at that period in time. Ie. Phil Collins, Buck Fizz and Spandau bloody Ballet. Loved the bands coming out of Liverpool at that time,Teardrop Explodes and Echo And The Bunnymen. Music with a message.
I've always loved this song,and it was great watching Pete talk about it on the BT sport film Two Tribes, a brilliant film and anyone who thinks Liverpudlians are moaners, unable to take criticism or are unable to self reflect should watch it. Watching the video reminds of how run down my home town became, and it was mainly thanks to EU funding that Liverpool has undergone a regeneration (I'm not totally partisan and will acknowledge that Heseltine played a part).
I knew Pete back i thee day. Was at Erics thee day Thee Pistols l.p. came out. Wylie was d.j.ing and he played "Never Mind thee Bollocks ALL night at face blistering volume interspered with Heavy Heavy dub Lee Perry, King tubby, Big youth et al whilsts Pete Burns and his mrs threw Special Brew bottles at each other !!! Ah those were thee days. Pete is 100% pure genius, all upstanding solid Punk Rocker and thee funniest Scouser in a town full of Jokers. I am very proud to know him. Big love Wylie Fox, from Thee Mercenary Skank Legion of thee follicly redundant. Love $cratch xxxx☠❤
Yes, of course it should have! It's bizarre how it only ended up at no. 20 for one week in the UK. I figure his indie record label, who had signed him shortly before, had neither the money nor the vision to promote him. But at least MTV Europe noticed it and played the video several times.
One of the songs that brings me back in time thirty one years to when I was 21, one of the great anthems of my youth. Why does time have to march on? On the other hand, thank God for this pure nostalgia. Wonder what became of Pete Wylie?
Kieran O'Driscoll Pete is still around and performing.... There is a great luve version of story od the blues on here, featuring Pete's daughter, Mersey.
I've noticed nearly any record or music I listen to always has between 2% and 6% dislikes. What I'm wondering is, are these possibly all the same sad sacks disliking everything? If so, you've got to feel sorry for them, fancy going through life not getting any enjoyment out of any music.
When this was a hit I remember watching it and thinking: "Ah, this is what a music video is supposed to look like. Everything makes sense. It's a bit strange but normal at the same time because it's a music video. I'll keep that in mind for when I grow up and become a musician"
I grew up in the 80s an I remember this song coming out I was only 9 but I still remember it like it was yesterday the track is an absolute gem! It's so underrated only just got into the top 20 it should of been at least top 10 such a great classic from the forgotten 80s a complete classic from the summer of 84' an it's one of my favourite songs from that year too 🤩👌 Pete Wiyle has such an amazing voice I also love his solo one hit wonder track from the spring of 86' Sinful another absolute gem! 🔥👌🔥
That's a lot of hair for just 2 people. And Pete Wylie's dance moves are rather dad dancing but let's face facts this is one hell of a song and an amazing songwriter
I've watched this video so many times, but only just noticed Josie reattaching the flying duck to the wall at 0:59 mins. So Coronation Street don't cha think !
![Story of the Blues [Parts One & Two]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TvNHXZhyxFs/mqdefault.jpg)
Goosebumps time again!....Love this....
Did the same to me when I played it ..Brilliant song Goosebumps all over for sure ..:-)
One of the most unappreciated songs ever. Total genius in every respect but it only spent one week in the Top 20 and none of the radio stations play it now. It will always be one of my favourite songs.
Agreed! Trying to get more people to find it on TH-cam :)
@@BeggarsArchive Hopefully I've helped you in your quest as it's been added to my FB page with most of the '80s! My 21-yr-old & her student buds can't get enough of her mum's music :)
Totally agreed mate. I’m a huge MUFC supporter and the whole LFC line Pete threw in always cuts deep and yet it’s still absolutely beautiful and brilliant. A pop song for the ages. Pete’s stuff was always soooooooo wonderful.
It gets played every now and again on the Forgotten 80s show on Absolute 80s.
Agree. Been a fav of mine since it came out. Still have the single.
I’m surprised someone massive hasn’t covered this. It’s a fabulous song.
Well, pretty much The Manic Street Preachers have with their single 'Decline & Fall' which is pretty much this Pete Wiley tune from the epic eighties 😊
If only those Days and Nights of the 80's would come back,,along with the friends, the dreams, ambitions, and long lost loves, and not just be confined to memories
I feel your pain thats how it affects me, something unattainable , the people , the places , the smells and sounds gone forever , only a distant memory getting further away as we get old. Memorys are all we have left but they are unbeatable fantastic memorys of a unique space in time.
Listening in 2024
OMG yes
Still sends shivers down my spine.
Josie Jones was just so cool. 13yr old me and my mates were so desperate to be Josie. Rip beautiful lady the owner of the most beautiful blue eyes ever. 😢 we loved you so much and always will XOXO
One of my favorite songs of the 80’s. Should have been a number1.
agreed :)
Like all his songs
R.I.P. Josie! An amazing talent, beautiful lady, beautiful heart!
Long life to wah!
Something deeply beautiful & human about her. God bless Josie Jones.
And her voice adds so much to the track. Rhythmic and perfect 👍
really .......jebus wept ..... thank you lovely for rattling my life and bringing a bit of beauty to the soul
Very apt social commentary for the time. People were leaving not just Liverpool, but England, in droves in the early to mid 1980's, just to get work. I was born in Littleborough, Lancashire and lived there until I was 5 years old, then we moved to London because my Dad got made redundant and couldn't get another job in the area. So when he was offered a great job down south, he took it. The North of England was totally forgotten by the government in the early to mid 1980's.
Brilliant track and even more brilliant is Pete Wylie’s shoulder-jolting, thumb-jerking, dad dancing. Complete 80’s, and that’s why they were great.
This song never ever fails to bring a tear to my eye. Nostalgia for a brilliant track? Sadness that Josie Jones is no longer with us? Heartache for a far better - and musically infinitely-superior - era than 2024?
Try all three of those.....
I love this video - Pete's awkwardness and dad dancing and Josie being utterly cool and looking amazing, such a contrast and actually works. Plus the song is bloody fantastic. Great times.
I agree the video and song are superb, but I think both protagonists actually look very cool. Pete looks spectacular, defiant and fearless in that leather jacket, the guy just reeks of sharp attitude, passion and pride.
The point when he grabs the reel of film and tosses it to the sky is amazing. it's like he's signaling "this walk only happens here and npw, only today, and it is not repeatable! watch me!" - but of course, this precise moment is captured...from another camera. :)
Josie's rather lovely, isn't she ? 👌
@@mattcasson3238 They both look flat out amazing - the minute of footage starting at 1:36 has me smiling and gasping with appreciation to this day - and it's perfectly matchd to the music. This video is as great and inspiring as Kate Bush's famous video for Cloudbusting!
@@mattcasson3238 she was xx
Totally agree. Pete Wylie looks awkward in all his videos, but as you say it really works well.
An absolute classic. The quality of music was so high then many brilliant tracks never reached as high in the charts as they should have
1 47 he sings youll never walk alone❤❤
Brilliant tune
I just love the way he dances on this video , love the song
This is one of those songs that stays in Your head once You hear it, I bought it when it was released, and still enjoy listening to it now.
Josie Jones missed but not forgotten! (It was also the name of my beloved mother) RIP the pair of you xx
That's a bit special Ken! RIP ladies.
Thank You
I bought this single - FORTY YEARS AGO!!! Where have the years gone??
i think the gratitude is still being around to remember
Josie Jones so cool and beautiful. Don’t make them like that anymore
I am listening in 2020. 1980's bands children of Beatles fans of 1960's. Liverpool is a great music city.
Pete Wylie would say that he hated The Beatles.
It's a shithole.
This song leaves a hole in my heart long life to Wah! rest in piece Josie ❤
The Beehive pub opposite the Adelphi is made of Aswan Granite. From Eygpt. Go to Liverpool.
I don't get tired to listen to this song! It's amazing. The 80's was the best speaking about songs and singers. I was a child in this time but sometimes I can imagine how happy was the people who lived this time! 👏👏👏👏
Never stop listening to this song even 40 years on
The album this is taken from, "A Word to the Wise Guy", is BRILLIANT.
One of the most underrated bands in history 🎸
When I heard this for the first time in 1984, I thought it was the best song I had ever heard. I still think that!
Same as
Good lad
There are songs that, when you hear them for the first time, feel like they have always been there, have been world hits and are imbedded in everybody's bones. And still they were just released. This is one of them.
Fab song Pete Wylie very unique sound and style - Always sings with Heart & Soul 🎉
I was the only Wah ! fan at my school in Bristol in the early 80's
A mate of mine asked if I heard the Story of the Blues it was No 3 in the charts !
I told him , don't be daft !
But it was true !!
This is brilliant as well !
I can't believe I've only just discovered this band Petes voice transforms you back to the 80s cracking stuff 👌👌👌👌
Darren, (great name) you should of just asked, been listening to Wah! since the 80's. You gotta play it EVERYDAY !!!!! to make up for lost time haha
I met Pete Wylie once.....a totally genuine nice guy....his music is outstanding.....so Pete ,"Come Back"
New record in 2017 "Pete Sounds!"
We always need voices like Pete's.
He came back ...without hair.
The 80s please COME BACK ❤️
Loved this when it came out,still do,lived through thatcher fucking Britain up and the cold war and still here.
With you on that, it was one great day when she died. Just 60 years too late
There must have been something in the water in Liverpool in the 80s 'cos the city produced some incredible music.
Correct
There probably still are I wouldn't be surprised. It's just that the music industry wonks who decide who to make famous or not moved on elsewhere.
My father in law was a scouser. he said they were just frightened of working that's why the place has always produced excellent pop music and football players. I live just up the road in Preston and know a real scouser will laugh at that so please don't take it the wrong way!
what about manchester and glasgow
That it did.No doubt about it!
This song makes me cry everytime I hear it. The feeling of nostalgia from times I wish I had lived. This reminds me of my best friend and I miss him so much.
Songs have a habit of doing that. Hold on to your memories
I lost my best friend to cancer ..I know how hard it is ..but music he loved gives me happy chils cis I remember the laughs
Beautiful xx respect
Me too , ❤
best decade ever to be into music and it still lives on so strong
Between 1982 and 1986 he released some of the best singles of the decade. Great voice and a reminder of how good popular music used to be.
this song just makes you think of friends lost 😭
As a kid in the '70s, I remember all the adults with plasters holding their glasses together - bless 'em! 😂😂 I turned 17 in '80' so, forever a true '80's girl 🤩 Our partying music was & is to die for!
so underrated one of the highlights of the decade
❤ I remember this as a kid and in my mind it’s as successful as a number one hit single. Hard to fathom it only hit #20. Genius and essential for me and many from my era
What a great song, Pete Wylie's voice sounds so full and powerful.
This is such an addictive song - like the Story Of The Blues this is pure Genius.....
In a multi universe somewhere Wylie is in his rightful place as the biggest most loved performer of his age.
Class and cool with little to no effort.
Aww, lovely Josie. I miss her.
Still listening in 2022. Ever since it was released i think.
This IS one of the songs that I will miss most when i'm long and gone, and will feel jealous of the kids that might get to find this banger, and get to play it LOUD n PROUD. Play it for me guys, 'Come Back' wahayyyyy
The Manic Street Preachers new single sounds a lot like this.
I love her little smile at the end
Can anyone please put me out of my misery. I’m convinced that immediately after watching Liverpool winning the European cup that night, I tuned into John Peel’s show and without anything being said, he launched straight into this. It was euphoric,ecstatic and triumphant. If I’m wrong,then it would’ve been a great idea. However, if anyone else can remember it as I remember it,please confirm it for me. Spine tingling.
That is my memory as well. Apparently Peel was in tears…
Not heard it for 2 weeks still BRILLIANT.
Just watched this again an reminded me how great the 80s were for music...if only you could go back in time my suitcases would be packed tonight!!!
Same here !!
One of the best songs of the 80'S still sounds fresh and new, R.I.P JOSIE
what happened to josie ??? H..
@@henrylavery5837 Josie Jones died in 2015
@@karlclemmy2054 thank you for that. H…
A true classic just BRILLIANT
Absolutely brilliant, Wendy' I loved Pete Wylie's great pop anthems and his look, and this is probably my favourite track of his. Great nostalgic memory.
Agree - great song, superb production, incisive lyrics, a wonderful video. This should have been a mega-hit all over Europe and America. Instead, it just wound up scratching the UK top 20 for a single week! But at least, John Peel rightfully called it "the greatest single of the year 1984".
Hopefully one day the cathedral will fix one of those heritage plaques commemorating the filming of this video on the steps...It is truly well deserved...👌
Great song from the past ❤
80s Forever it had everything when growing up and majority in a good way.
James Richardson's Totally Football Show brought me here after Liverpool ended their 30 year wait for the EPL. The trophy has COME BACK !!!!
See them recently in edinburgh fantastic show
I'd almost forgotten this song, listening to it now evokes so many memories of being a young man, a really beautiful song.
RIP
Josie😢
Don't let time go by..
I'd forgotten this song till it popped up on TH-cam,Total genius of a song from a brilliant singer song writer.
Here because of Gary Davies "Sounds of the 80's" on BBC Radio 2.
My first exposure to the song.
And I'm 52.
All of us, any of us who were there,,,, well, makes me cry now
Seeing this takes me back to Music Box with Simon Fuller, Gaz Top, Martin Buchanan, Amanda Redington etc.
The Class of 84. Better days...
ironic really as simon fuller is conected to simon cowel both responcable for the decline of music
@@uknumberthree1330 After 3 years, Im reading my own reaction and now realise the guy's name is Simon Potter.
The Fullers and Cowells of this world indeed should be sent to a coalmine with "When will I be famous" by Bros played on repeat continuously.
A great antidote to most of the trash in the charts at that period in time. Ie. Phil Collins, Buck Fizz and Spandau bloody Ballet. Loved the bands coming out of Liverpool at that time,Teardrop Explodes and Echo And The Bunnymen. Music with a message.
I still have this on 7inch poster cover
COVID has brought us back to the good old days, to much time on our hands. Fantastic 😀😀😀
Couldn't agree more!
This is one song I will never tire of just loving it all these years on just pure class yeah yeah yeah
I've always loved this song,and it was great watching Pete talk about it on the BT sport film Two Tribes, a brilliant film and anyone who thinks Liverpudlians are moaners, unable to take criticism or are unable to self reflect should watch it. Watching the video reminds of how run down my home town became, and it was mainly thanks to EU funding that Liverpool has undergone a regeneration (I'm not totally partisan and will acknowledge that Heseltine played a part).
I assume you’re not including Pete’s contribution to that
So true
Heseltine was one of the more humane Tories.
Excellent post ❤
I saw em all over Liverpool then,
The kennedy rooms irish centre, hardmans, upstairs somewhere
I knew Pete back i thee day. Was at Erics thee day Thee Pistols l.p. came out.
Wylie was d.j.ing and he played "Never Mind thee Bollocks ALL night at face blistering volume interspered with Heavy Heavy dub Lee Perry, King tubby, Big youth et al whilsts Pete Burns and his mrs threw Special Brew bottles at each other !!!
Ah those were thee days. Pete is 100% pure genius, all upstanding solid Punk Rocker and thee funniest Scouser in a town full of Jokers. I am very proud to know him. Big love Wylie Fox, from Thee Mercenary Skank Legion of thee follicly redundant. Love $cratch xxxx☠❤
This song should have been a worldwide smash 💥
agreed :)
Yes, of course it should have! It's bizarre how it only ended up at no. 20 for one week in the UK. I figure his indie record label, who had signed him shortly before, had neither the money nor the vision to promote him.
But at least MTV Europe noticed it and played the video several times.
I’m going to do ‘that dance’ to every single song I dance to for the rest of my life
I do that dance to every single song.
what a masterpiece 💛💚💙🤎- love it in 2023
One of the songs that brings me back in time thirty one years to when I was 21, one of the great anthems of my youth. Why does time have to march on? On the other hand, thank God for this pure nostalgia. Wonder what became of Pete Wylie?
Kieran O'Driscoll Pete is still around and performing.... There is a great luve version of story od the blues on here, featuring Pete's daughter, Mersey.
Pete is still very much with us-he was touring recently.
There's a bit of Gerry and the Pacemakers in there as well.A top tune.When Pete says and you'll never walk alone.
I remember my brother having this as a single he bought from HMV in Bradford in 1984.
Great song.
I met Pete in the everyman pub in Liverpool about 1984, signed his autograph on a beer mat for Me, he's a sound feller
I've noticed nearly any record or music I listen to always has between 2% and 6% dislikes. What I'm wondering is, are these possibly all the same sad sacks disliking everything? If so, you've got to feel sorry for them, fancy going through life not getting any enjoyment out of any music.
Such a good song, the lasses hair is so cool and the guy's dancing is...well...from the heart :)
Sea Of Sin the lass is josie jones I read somewhere she died last year
I honestly didn't know anything about her beyond this band but that is sad, she achieved more than me.
Andy Parker I heard she had died aswell...very sad
Sea Of Sin Pete Wylie's dancing is straight from the circus! But he's so killing the leather jacket and floppy hair!
One of the 80s fantastic, songs
Doesn't life go so quickly when your really enjoying it.........live for today because your not guaranteed a tomorrow
still love this video, r.i.p to Josie jones & the lad who played cameraman, on another video a member of his family posted.
do you know any more about her ?
No doubt about it. Josie Jones was one very pretty lady.
If Springsteen had wrote it, it would have been hailed as a masterpiece
Incredibly underatted 80s track.
Great song love the mighty wah ❤
Reminds me of my first girlfriend Maureen when I hear this I think of you, thank you for happy times.
Do hope you're well and happy.
What a tune ....
When this was a hit I remember watching it and thinking: "Ah, this is what a music video is supposed to look like. Everything makes sense. It's a bit strange but normal at the same time because it's a music video. I'll keep that in mind for when I grow up and become a musician"
I grew up in the 80s an I remember this song coming out I was only 9 but I still remember it like it was yesterday the track is an absolute gem! It's so underrated only just got into the top 20 it should of been at least top 10 such a great classic from the forgotten 80s a complete classic from the summer of 84' an it's one of my favourite songs from that year too 🤩👌 Pete Wiyle has such an amazing voice I also love his solo one hit wonder track from the spring of 86' Sinful another absolute gem! 🔥👌🔥
agreed love this song :)
Its still a fkcing brilliant video/tune ! 2022 and it still makes the hairs on my neck tingle !
Magic 🕺💃
I remember seeing this on Top of the pops and I liked it on the first hear...... it still gets me today... great song......
That's a lot of hair for just 2 people.
And Pete Wylie's dance moves are rather dad dancing but let's face facts this is one hell of a song and an amazing songwriter
Echo and the Bunnymen brought me here. Digging it.
Very creative song
I've watched this video so many times, but only just noticed Josie reattaching the flying duck to the wall at 0:59 mins. So Coronation Street don't cha think !
I wish I could have penned this. Love it.
Whos listening 👀 😳 in 2020.met him.loads of times him and Derek Hatton hats off to Hatton