So many good beautiful people were lost to Aids and others lost to suicide - robbed of life by a society that condemned rather than commended them. I wish we could bring them back to dance with us. The strongest truth is love, that to me is the only meaning that makes this life worth living. When we criminalise a group of people who want to love we condemn ourselves. Bless Mark Ashton, a good soul who flew too soon.
How not to feel all the emotion, grief, and sadness that pass through this poignant ballad in memory of a loved one who died too soon , beautiful ! 👍❤️👏
YOUR voice still this day..give me goosebumps... I'm a woman with my husband of many years... thank you my darling for being my 80's love and NOW...still.😍
I never cried, the way I cried over you.... as I put down the telephone, and world it carried on....oh those phone calls..to many to remember....Watching the world the fade, all I want to do is kiss you once goodbye..
For gay men of a certain age, I hope Jimmy feels how important he was (and continues to be) to us. After Smalltown Boy, so many had the courage to come out. RIP Mark.
How medicine has progressed in 30 short years. No one need die of AIDS now! The sadness of all those who have died...their memory and sacrifice should never ever be forgotten. This song is so poignant and makes me cry every time I hear it. The sadness and the hope...all entwined. Thanks Jimmy. Love you ❤️
thank you for this song Jimmy Sommerville .... this is really one of those songs,which will never get old..... it still gives me tears like 20 years ago and just now i really read the lyrics.... this makesme proud
It is very sad that all these young men who died so young did not have the chance to have the treatments that now exist and that allow people to lead a normal life, and above all that they are alive and "healthy" ... and so many have lost their lives and left so much sadness and longing to their relatives and friends ...
I have just watch the film 120bpm about ActupParis. This song came to mind during it. Thank you Jimmy. In memory of all those who have passed through this awful virus.
I saw this video on a display walking through a department store in Geneva in 1991 - I was FLOORED, stopped to watch the rest, immediately looked it up (which was harder then than now). And as others have said, I'm-not-gay-but... WOW. I had tears in my eyes, one of the most profound, simple expressions of pain for love lost I've ever seen, and the original video (look it up) was so pure and simple too. (What's killing me here is the phone-it-in by (at least) the keyboard player, who's at least initially is just kind of moshing in some chords like a lounge/session-player, instead of the beautiful simple arpeggios of Richard Coles' original piano arrangement, which made it so clean and simple. The original was clean, bright, and soaring -- just piano, some beautiful sax, Jimmy's high pure voice -- this feels like "guys, here's the chord sheet, if you can wing some of the original that'd be great but no worries, do what you can")
This song touches me in so many ways. I feel blessed not to have lived through the real horrors experienced by a certain generation of the gay community - missed it by about 10 years; but have experienced the pain of loss, and can only imagine the pain felt by so many at the time. Thank you for such a beautiful song, hugely emotive. Truly timeless and profoundly human.
What a beautiful post... let's be honest... we can all relate to this wonderful track... let's celebrate our loved ones, and I'm sending a massive hug and oodles of love..xxx