Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is (Radio 2 Piano Room) 

-Old friends/Bookends

Poignant.

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I’m born in 68 too - i don’t feel like I’m in mid 50s but numbers don’t lie

Ditto, where did the time go?

I’m only 31 but feel the same, like early 2010s, 90s feel like lifetimes ago

YOU'RE NOT ALONE. I too am living the same.. But hey, we truly are Blessed beings.. having been there back then. Stay Healthy and Well.

Same here, and 56 now. Although '86 wasn't the best year ever for music, it had some very significant personal milestones

So true.

Is he dead?

@@Boilingfrogg Haha, no! :) My comment was present-tense.

He's a treasure to the world. It's a testament to his incredible talent that his piano playing is so unique and recognizable.

@@400_billion_sunsyou scare the hell out of me … I though he was dead

That's just the way it is a classic❤

Your first word is the key one. In particular, we are talking about God the Holy Spirit, who is ACTIVE in offering signs through Scripture, nature, culture ... and (maybe soon enough) Rapture. Even in the 80s, He might be more active in British music than American - though the above is a wondrous exception. Already the corporate control was getting strong in the sad context of 1 John 5:19. Now music is so much in the hands of the darkness (as we can discern quite clearly), that is much harder for the Holy Spirit to find ways in. That is the truth. He is the Spirit of love and truth, but also meaning. So we mostly keep going back to older pieces of music. [Elbow's "One Day Like this" came out in 2008] ["If this is it" - Netwon Faulkner, 2009] [Frank Turner "the way I tend to be" - 2013, so even that is 11 years ago, and that's Indie music] ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R_xmJcg1iBU.html is in the special pandemic circumstances of 2020, though the song (with very religious origins) goes back to '97 - Katrina.

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@runupindayard753 yes, I think it is ... very!

I was there too! A great gig.

I saw Huey Lewis and the news in the 80's at Birmingham NEC. It will always be held as the loudest gig we've ever been to!

Saw the Hammersmith Odeon show in this tour. Superb.

I was in Stuttgart at the time in 1986 I heard this song on the radio and had to find out more about Bruce. Turns out he was touring that same tour with Huey and we drove up to Frankfurt about a week later to see him/them. Still one of the most memorable concerts I have been to.

I went to the Hammersmith Odeon show way back then, simply the best live piano I've ever seen. Great songs aswell, who can't forget Mandolin Rain

But, genius that he is, it is never surpassed by "The way it is"... The love and truth in the song was from the Holy Spirit (as all love and truth is), but somehow passed Him on through the song. As ever was. Song even defies happy-sad classification as it so far transcends such basis stuff...

Yes, This was one of the first CDs I ever bought in 1986!

Indeed!

Inolvidable!

God bless you both and every moment you have together. ❤

you must have been in Carmel. Us too ! Fun show and amazing talent on stage

Just saw him in Santa Rosa last night, fantastic as the first time I saw him at Yoshi's back in the 90's I believe.

Seeing him tonight in London, can’t wait.

You are definitely right!

Bruce Hornsby is a bucket list concert....hoping to make it happen!

Same

Adolph well said . I could not have said it any better. I watch videos of my favorite stars in the 80s and I view them doing their work now and I am blown away. We are all getting older. Father time does not hold back.

Same here.

Gen x. All the way.

Heck yes. Proud to be an Xer.

1972 guy here myself. We’ve lived through some great times. Knowing I have more years behind me than in front of me doesn’t bother me any cause I know I’ve had a good life albeit some hard times with love and loss and loss of loved ones. Gen X Proud

October 1972 🤘

@@jumboslice1514 thank you for your superb comment..that just echo's the words from our Gen X brother's and sister's...we are all related...👌😎😌

I'm about the same age, incredible song. I just played an earlier version when he was younger looking and came across this edition, how fast time flies.

The song says it, "Some things will NEVER change". Painful truth. Sadness!!!!! And for some of us from Africa, it has become a DOUBLE EDGED SWORD. So we run to the diaspora where conditions in a deceptive kind of way, cut the same. Now our children grow in lands far from their own true culture, their identity. Totally detached from the motherland. One would say, "Go Back HOME". Like I said before, the double edged sword waits to cut you. This is "The way it is for some of us" Whoever created this world, certainly made it Hell on Earth but continue to sell a place in the sky as the place to accept the suffering until we get to the Pearley gates!!

I only know what it really is about now…

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​@@moreflowfalls2404 people make the world bad, not our Father.

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Calm down and rethink what you just wrote.

@@Batten-jc6ws Dejalo que inicie el movimiento. No hará nada.

Truly beautiful, this life… ❤

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So beautiful

Linda história me emocionou aqui

I was 24 too when this song was released....and now I'm almost retired and a grandparent.

I just turned 40 this week. Your comment made me think about my wife, my mom, my mother in law, life and how things tend to seem mundane and unchanging until you look back on your life and realize nothing ever stays the same. For whatever it's worth, just know this young man in Denver Colorado respects you and is greatly encouraged by your love and committed to your family. God bless you and I wish grace and peace you

This is so beautiful, what a fantastic performance by an amazing artist. 👏

God bless you.

Hanging in there! Believe in the power of prayer! I was a care giver for my mother during the Pandemic! We became great friends!

Yes,there must be a disconnect from what our young are understanding about what the called folks in authority believe about Life. The Cultural stories are not real just myths and fallacies. We must create a New Cultural Story based on Oneness and unity .

Dint believe who? Who you referring to?

@@Boilingfrogg Those that pass down the Cultural Story of humanity. A great read to understand this is the book Communion With God by Neale Donald Walsch.

Life goes by in a blink of an eye.

My brother had his 18th round about when this was in the uk charts .1986. He is now 55

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Muito bom, abertura da minha rádio pirata em 1988

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I was 20, then, too!

before china took control of usa universities, - hear you guys im not american, but really love the america of 1980s

And gonna be some changes made…the Home Depot commercial song

If you watch the music video for Mandolin Rain, there's a guy playing bongos. There are no bongos used in that song but it's Bruce's brother playing as a little joke.

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Nothing compares to Holy-Spirit-inspired music. Love and truth, meaning and inspiration. He does that - willingly working with human genius, to achieve signs through culture.

Seriously? As a 75 year old geezer, you’re entitled to your opinion….but if we agreed with you, we’d all be wrong ……

well...., the 90's was the TRUE golden age of American pop....., but the 80's was just behind it....,

Gosh, I can’t think of anything well written in the past 5 years,

@@waffles1ca The beloved Holy Spirit is enigmatic, but of course would never deceive. The movie "Don't look up" is pastiche for most of the way until its divinity becomes clear at the near-final "dining table scene" (which also includes Di Caprio's beautiful ad-lib). There is quite a bit of great music associated with the movie, but stunningly great is "Second Nature", which we can immediately see as a clever title, of at least three meanings. The song matches, with many lyrics likewise being parable-like in having 3 meanings simultaneously. Quite a bit is deeply religious in the second layer, and the song is achingly and entrancingly beautiful, as befits the movie. It is sung by Bon Iver (which from French connects with the greeting/blessing "Good Winter" aa used by people in the series "Northern Exposure"). In my view the wondrous "Second Narure" is the greatest song of recent years, and the Holy Spirit's raising of it into transcendence is seen clearly enough. The writer/singer admits to being "inspired" and concedes that it "came easily'. I know that feeling ... I am having it now, as I do whenever I post in reference, directly or indirectly, to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Probably it is clear to you (as Eurovision a few days ago made clear) that, while the Holy Spirit can inject His love and truth into a song, so the darkness can inject his deception, distraction and destruction ... and that in the 2020s is a more overt process than it has ever been. Of course, "Don't look up" IS a work of End-Times type content, while "Second Nature" features the word "Rapture"...

Funnily enough this is EXACTLY what I thought from the beginning of this video ..

What has the (imaginery) "right wing press", commenting on political bias got to do with staging music? Or are you just trying to squeeze in a political comment yourself? If you are unquestioning about the traitorous BBC, it probably comes naturally.

Right wing press 😂😂😂 Yes the BBC do music very well ….things that the licence fee payers like to see

The BBC provides so much good stuff but some people are just happy to burn all our great institutions

The proms and Glastonbury are worth the license fee alone , just my opinion ( ex pro musician ) 👍🎹🎼

Sorry, "cuts".

Same. Sharp intake of breath... euphoric.

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I couldn't agree more with you. 👏

Are you serious? Even in this he plays out of Tune. It’s a super great song. But seriously his vocal is weak. And like I said he played many notes wrong. One of the best who ever touched a piano. What are you tone def?at 3,42min I count 3 notes in a row that’s out of tune.😂 freaking hilarious

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@HowIsThat69 You sound like nothing more than a troll doing what they do best: stir up trouble. If you're going to criticize Bruce Hornsby, it is you who's tone deaf. This was simply a revision of the original version to play with the orchestra. When the hell was he flat? Did it occur to you he may have just been nervous playing in that environment? 🙄 God, how judgemental can one be?

Not one note out of tune dude. Get your ears checked. And at nearly 70, his voice is just wonderful@@HowIsThat69

He was in a pressure situation but played without a hint of it on his face.

“It’s Bruce” in a larger sense, usually refers to Springsteen. But your wife’s more local interpretation is understandable.

Sad thing is I never told her how much I loved and miss her 😢

Lucky!!! You know what I met Bill Graham outside Oakland Coliseum New Year’s eve concert 1987🥳😎 Yeah i did. random

@@Yamparunner good times

I love that you capitalized *Father*

BBC is corrupt.

I like that yes!!! May God be praised for many colorful blessings om our lives.

i hope your world is better now

So glad you hung in there and can still focus on the positive! Take care my friend.

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Magnificent. This album was my first CD when that technology was brand new. I played it over and over, amazed at the way his piano filled the track. This is such a wonderful version.

I remember his beginnings well in the late 70's. Boot Hill Express. Local favorite at Horne's in Hampton, VA.

i live in mannheim sadly bad place now

Thank you for your service.

The power of his voice at his current age is a bigger shock, him and Cyndi Lauper

The BBC has made some poor DJ choices for Radio 2 recently. I'm pretty sure that both Ritchie Anderson and Owain Wyn Evans would make excellent daytime presenters, but we have Vernon Kay (a nice guy, but talks non-stop without actually saying anything) and Scott Mills, whose dumbing down of the afternoon show has made it unlistenable. Thankfully, OJ Borg is standing in for Sara Cox right now, so they do get some things right!

Vernon's a good bloke..

@@paulchannel5275Being "a good bloke" is far from the only quality required to be a good radio DJ.

@@paulchannel5275 Yes, I agree, he's a good bloke and as far as I can tell, a decent role model. That doesn't make him the ideal choice for a daytime radio DJ, and I believe the BBC could have chosen someone who would appeal to a wider audience.

​​@@1man1guitarletsgo i stopped listening to music radio in the 90s. Pretty much all radio bantering irritates my curmudgeonly personality. I used to listen to Radio 4 until last year- stopped as it had become the plaything of the Conservative Party.