I hear a heart beat It's ringing out across the Universe It sounds so lost and lonely Must come from somewhere deep inside of us And the operator says "All is calm and all is quiet Close your eyes, sleep tonight" This is the world calling This is earth This is the world calling This is us I'm on a train now I'm moving through the yellow fields of rape There's so much beauty I wished that I believed enough to pray Then the operator replied "Spinning 'round, you're wrapped in blue There's no one looks as good as you" This is the world calling This is us This is the world calling This is us This is the world calling This is us And it goes on and on What we gonna to do because it cannot go on? So, wrap me, come and get me because it cannot go on? So, wrap me in your arms and baby keep me warm tonight What we gonna to do because it cannot go on? So, wrap me, come and get me because it cannot go on? So, wrap me in your arms and baby keep me warm tonight This is the world calling This is us This is the world calling This is us This is the world calling This is us This is the world calling God help us And it goes on and on Where all is calm and all is quiet Close your eyes, sleep tonight (This is the world ) All is calm and all is quiet Close your eyes, sleep tonight (This is the world calling) All is calm and all is quiet [Incomprehensible] (This is the world calling) and that is you There's no one else as good as you (This is the world calling) World calling
SPECTACULAR SONG, ONE SONG OF MY LIFE FOREVER, THE GREAT BOB GELDOF, (THIS IS THE WORLD CALLING), THANKS MISTER AND MONSTER OF THE MUSIC BOB GELDOF FOR YOUR GREAT GREAT GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO THE MUSIC TO MY LIFE, AND OTHERS GREATS CIRCUNSTANCES, SIMPLY THANKS MORES THANKS BOB, FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER FOREVER, 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎸🎤🎤🎤🎤
Have loved this song for over 30 years but today is the first time I've seen this great video. A very underrated song and a terrible shame it didn't get the recognition it richly deserved.
WOW. Hadn't heard this in almost 35 years. It's funny because The Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays" is one of my all-time favorite songs and Bob Geldof was such a huge part of my teens because of Live Aid, yet I had completely forgotten about this one. And it's still great. An upside of being self-quarantined because of coronavirus is that you have plenty of time to rediscover lost or forgotten gems from your youth. Thank heavens for RU-vid!
Such a superb almost forgotten gem from Bob attached to the Live Aid project and produced by Dave Stewart who also played guitar With the Edge playing guitar also , Larry Mullins jnr and Clem Burke on drums and Annie Lennox and Bono on backing vocals ! No wonder it is a world class track!
Can you imagine that one person in this world listening to this gorgeous and wonderful song everydays from getting up in the morning until going to bed in the evening without a break and this over a period for one year straight - huh????? No????? But I did it and I must say it was gorgeous and awesome - especially because I was dreaming about to fly the fascinating and astonishing Boeing 747-400LCF Dreamlifter and this song is dedicated from me to be the song for this very special aircraft which I love so very much ✈️🤗👍👑💝 Thank you so much for this gorgeous and wonderful song and have a wonderful and peaceful day and enjoy your time and stay safe out there and take care of you and your family and stay blessed and happy and healthy in these times right now and lovely greetings from Sarah 🙋♀💖😍✈️🤗👍👑💝
I was reading the Wikipedia article about this album, and it turned up a suprise (for me, at least).... The female vocals on this song are by Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet, and Maria McKee. Close your eyes and listen, and you'll hear it (the women shown "singing" in the video are not the ones actually singing on the track).
Virginia viola I think it rather has to do with Bob Geldof's reach into the music community at the time. The album this track is from was released in late 1986, a year after Live Aid, and two years after "Do They Know It's Christmas" with Band Aid (two of Geldof's most notable projects in the 1980's). Re-reading the Personnel list for the same album, I see David A. Stewart (Annie Lennox's partner in Eurythmics), Eric Clapton, Midge Ure (from Ultravox), and Bono (from U2), among others. And this was after these people were already famous on their own (or with thir bands).
NeonNero David A Stewart was a busy man! Apart from his seminal achievements with Annie Lennox, he was working with everyone! The soundtrack for Lily Was Here is awesome, and I own a copy. He was also lending his talents to Jimmy Iovine, writing with Tom Petty ( he makes a guest appearance in Don’t Come Around Here No More, a song that the threesome are alleged to have stolen from Stevie Nicks, and based on a conversation she had with Joe Walsh..who by the way, was surreptitiously packed up and sent off to Australia by said threesome, to get him away from Stevie lol), and he still works with Stevie to this day. In 1991 I bought a compilation album called The Gun Hits, solely because The Great Song of Indifference was included in the tracks. Bob is a Libran, like me, and Lennon, and Mahatma Ghandi, and Oscar Wilde..and Friedrich Nietzsche..we are blessed with a pretty effective BS meter, and a way with words, and terrible love lives. My deep gratitude to Bob dates from 1983, when he literally saved my life. As much as he doesn’t think much of the part, his depiction of Pink in The Wall ( and my Floyd fandom dates from when Syd was still Pink Floyd), saved my life, pulled me out of a very deep depression, and my one and only suicide attempt..the evolution from deeply depressed with a good dose of weltschmerz ( don’t the Germans just have the best words for feeling you can’t really put a finger on?) thrown in, to actually getting some razor blades ( but coming to in a pool of blood, pissed off to still be here, and with good old St Peter wagging his finger and saying, nah uh kid, you don’t get out of it that easily, if you go now, then you will just be born again and have to start over..well, I had 20 years under my belt already, the idea of having to live them all over again was a masterful deterrent) to finally getting to the point of wanting to kick Pink in the head, and say ‘for God sake man, get over yourself’...and then I was well. It took 27 consecutive nights of going to the cinema to watch The Wall, but it worked, and I’ve been a huge fan and eternally grateful to him ever since. Well, that’s my story, for what it’s worth. But I’m listening to The Great Song of Indifference today, because I think like much of the world today, I am completely burnt out. For the first time in 57 years I can honestly say, I no longer give a f*ck. So yet again, thanks Bob!
Quite true m8. Bob Geldof s solo stuff that I have been lucky enough to have heard. Is quite good.if not Ace. I'm a big Human League fan myself. And I have been lucky enough to have met the Human League girls ie Queen Joanne Catherall♥️ and Queen Susan Sulley.♥️ and Philip Oakey. And like Bob Geldof. The Human League r Ace.. Bob Geldof s solo stuff that I have heard is fantastic. And he is 1of my heroes. I have been lucky enough to have met the Human League girls ie Queen Joanne Catherall(5times) and Queen Susan Sulley(4timee) and if you are interested in the reason why I have nicknamed the 2 Human League girls ie Susan Sulley and Joanne Catherall Queen. And Philip Oakey King. It's 2do with the game of Chess. I play Chess ,4 Portsmouth.. Bob Geldof s a good solo singer. And Sir Bob Geldof m8. If u ever get to read this message m8. I really mean it.
I have this on 45 single! Very emotive lovely song. About the needs of the world, and how we can respond. "Close your eyes sleep tonight..." those who pretend as if everything is alright. In contrast with what BG sees in reality - "On a train now.." Also a cry out to God to help solve the problems - like poverty, famine, etc which were big news at the time.
Aus80sRockRadio Agree Most of the ‘Music lovers’ are affected of other things, like advertising exc. Many have him (like me) as Pink, but not as Geldof BTW one of the best song of alltime
Carissimo Bob...mi sei entrato nel cuore la prima volta che ti ho sentito esibire questa canzone, ho potuto sentire il tuo cuore e me stessa...... Grazie.....
Die singende Freiheitsbewegung Wo man singt, da lass Dich nieder, böse Menschen haben keine Lieder, das hat meine Mutter früher immer gesagt. Lieder und Musik vereinen die Menschen, das hat man besonders bei Michael Jackson Konzerten gesehen oder bei Band Aid, Freddy Mercury, PUR und soo vielen anderen. Gestern beim großen Spaziergang in Düsseldorf hatte vor mir jemand ein selbst gemaltes Schild, hochgehalten an einem Stock, auf dem stand "Komm mit" und eine selbst gemalte Frau, die die Hand nach jemandem ausgestreckt hat da kam mir "Abenteuerland"von PUR in den Sinn und das mit dem Singen beim Spaziergang 😊 Ich war gestern das erste mal mit und es war eine riesige Menschenmenge, die in Düsseldorf marschierte. Mich hat das Rufen, die Trillerpfeifen und die Megaphone mit Sprechgesang etwas abgestoßen und besonders die Schilder, auf denen das zu lesen war, was man nicht will: Kein "Impfzwang" = Fokus auf Impfzwang Bild mit durchgestrichener Spritze = Fokus auf der Spritze Große Fahnen mit "kein Antifaschismus = Fokus auf Antifaschismus All die Dinge, die man nicht will. Ich konnte mich irgendwie in die weingen Menschen am Straßenrand und an den Fenstern hinein versetzen, und nachvollziehen, dass sie nicht Teil davon sein wollten. Ich bin mitgegangen, weil ich nun ein gutes Bauchgefühl hatte und damit es mehr werden und mein Fokus liegt darauf, dass Gott mir den freien Willen geschenkt hat, jedem Menschen. Und mit dem freiem Willen entscheidet jeder selbst über seinen Körper. Das ist der Fokus der bei den Spaziergängen im Vordergrund stehen sollte. Das was man will. Jeder hat andere Gründe, warum er dabei ist. Es sollte um Einheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit, Menschlichkeit und vor allem um Miteinander gehen. Wenn die Menschen beim Spaziergang - wie früher beim Sankt Martinszug - gemeinsam singen - hochschwingende, positive, freundliche, herzerwärmende Lieder singen, kommt das ganz anders rüber. Bei einer so riesigen Menschenmenge hätte das eine Welle von Wohlgefühl zur Folge, bei der "Außenstehende" sich eingeladen fühlen mitzusingen und mit zu marschieren. Und stell Dir mal vor, dass in jeder Stadt, Dorf etc. Ein riesiges Wir-Gefühl entsteht. Lieder vereinen die Menschen. Ein Freund meines Bruders, der zu der Zeit des Spaziergangs schlafen wollte, sagte zu meinem Bruder am Telefon, dass die Menschenmenge 1!!! Stunde lang an seiner Türe vorbei ging, er nicht schlafen konnte und es sich wie bei einem Karnevalszug anhörte. Er hatte sich darüber geärgert. Und genau das ist es. So eine Botschaft findet nicht bei jedem Gehör. Weil sie nicht jeden anspricht. Ein Gemeinschaftsgefühl kam bei mir so nicht so richtig auf. Musik vereint und wenn es Lieder sind, die jeder kennt und die die Menschen mitreißen, alte Erinnerungen wach werden lassen, Lieder, die viele Generationen kennen, entsteht ein Wir-Gefühl, dass die Botschaft schon innehat. Wir alle sind Menschen und gehören zur gleichen Menschheitsfamilie. Wir wollen unseren freien Willen ausüben und dadurch frei bleiben. Und seit es das Lied "Abenteuerland" gibt, habe ich immer so empfunden, wie die ersten Zeilen lauten: Der triste Himmel macht mich krank, ein schweres graues Tuch, dass die Sinne fast erstickt, die Gewohnheit zu Besuch ... das passt so gut in die jetzige Zeit Bitte verteilt meine Botschaft so viel wie möglich. Ich habe eine Vision, dass das Singen die Menschen vereint und wieder zusammenrücken lässt. Musik sprengt alle Grenzen. Haltet Euch die früheren Martinszüge vor Augen, wo immer wieder eine Blaskapelle dazwischen war, so das "jede Menschen Abteilung" die Musik hörte und alle das gleiche Lied gesungen haben und übertragt diese Vorstellung mal auf die Spaziergänge. Es gibt so viele Menschen, die Musikinstrumente spielen, die könnten immer wieder dazwischen sein und das gemeinsame Lied der großen Menschenmenge am Leben halten. Liebe Grüße Rita aus Düsseldorf 🌸
With war on our doorstep, millions of refugees from war, poverty and drought being dragged into an unprecedented looming humanitarian catastrophe, it is time for new Live Aid to connect people
The Violet U think that this song is romantic? I perfur the Human League single 1man in my heart. 2this track. And I'm not saying that this song is crap. I like the track. But I think that u should download and listen to the Human League single 1man in my heart. from Paul Eyles from Portsmouth
Sorry for swearing but this is such an absolutely effing WONDERFUL song! I was born in 1988 so I missed it originally. But why did Bob Geldof who also was behind the LIVE AID legacy ... Lose Peaches in such shit awful circumstances? Before which Paula Yates treated him so gratuitously and ungratefully before Karma came along and returned her all this. Geldof is actually quite inspirational although he recently commented [wrongly IMHO] 'all he is up to these days is writing Paddy Songs!' UNDERSELL or what!!!
Fly Drive 2020 i was born in 1962, so I missed nothing originally, and I thank God for that every day..my whole generation all agree that we were just quite simply blessed..people forget about us, I call us the Cold War Babies, slotted in between the Boomers and the Gen Xers, but we know who we are 😎
