Go West - The Tube 1985 

Alan wasn't a pop star, he was a musicians musician. He made Go West better by his skill and imagination, and he was highly respected by his peers in the music world. He was also Kate Bush's guitarist of choice for 10 years. He matched Boon Gould in Level 42 even though by then he knew he was dying. He was brilliant, nice, brave and dignified to the end. I can't say that about many people.

Alan Murphy .. What a great guitarist! I absolutely adore his touch, tone, his choice of notes and well ... EVERYTHING! One of the greats! X

RIP Alan Murphy

This has brought back some lovely memories. I remember watching this back in the day 😀 My cousin Tony Beard on the drums! Go on Tone!! 🤩

All of them are /were incredible musicians. Sheer class. Great writers too. Alan Murphy...jeez....if only he could have held on a little longer. One of my favourite guitarists.

Brilliant. God bless Alan Murphy's playing

This is got to be one of the best live sets ever on TV . It was 34 years ago (yikes), but the music is still better than today. Peters voice is great, as are the gorgeous backing singers. Alan Murphy steals it with effortless brilliance, he's almost casual about the way he rattles off the solos . Tony's drumming is awesome. Eye To Eye is my favourite Go West song and the band do it justice. Thank God for videotape. R.I.P: Alan Murphy 1953-1989.

What a guitarist Alan Murphy was! He had such a big sound - I'd have loved to have heard him play some hard rock/metal.

Where did it all go wrong?!! To think we used to able to watch musicians of this calibre on TV. 😭😭 I remember recording and watching this on video repeatedly when I was learning the drums! Tony Beard is an absolute monster. What a shame he's been forgotten about. One of the most exciting drum performances I've ever seen! Unbelievable.

This is glorious... I remember sitting watching this as an 18 year old .... I’m a pro bass player but cannot take my eyes and ears off the guitar god that is Alan Murphy

Such a great line up - Tony Beard was awesome in Go West - rip Alan Murphy - he was incredible - they still sound Great today .

For me. Peter cox. What a voice. Alan murphy what a solo. Mr tony beard on drums omg just throws the beat in a different direction. Amazing.

Aside from the great music, what a collection of stellar musicians! RIP Alan - a truly unique voice on guitar - and pulled off the no mean feat of making fusion guitar accessible to a mainstream audience!

I was deeply "in love" with Richard Drummie in 1985.. .some would say "crush" but I would say "true love" :) He and Peter Cox became became part of my circle of friends in real life and I'm so pleased that they are as lovely in real life as they were as posters on my wall. Innocence will always be my most favourite track.. but this whole "The Tube" performance is special.. and is my "go to" viewing when the world is harsh, or I'm feeling "not great".. or for when I just want to be back in 1985. Thank you Richard and Peter... See again soon (and it's my turn to buy the round) Nx

Alan Murphy!!! Solo in Dont Look Down is seminal!!!

Loved Alan, am very fortunate I got to see him in Los Angeles with Go West on about half a dozen shows, all killer! Ran into Level 42's Mark King shortly after Alan's passing and we were both in shock; Mark said he had no idea that Alan was even ill. Check out Alan's stellar playing with Brit vocalist Zaine Griff here on YT---some great extended live solos.

Incredible performance by all...I have been playing guitar for 52 years and I am still floored by Alan Murphy's playing....his tone and feel are unequalled......something really special indeed...bless him.

I came hoe one Friday, turned on the telly to watch The Tube, and they said "Due to an electrician's strike, Go West will be playing all the show. I nearly shat! Shoved in a VHS, and recorded the whole thing. Such a joy to watch it again. Gotta love Alan Murphy!

Carol Kenyon (Heaven 17) and Sylvia Mason-James (Voyage & Pet Shop Boys) are two of the best backing singers on the planet. Most in the audience probably had no idea they were in the presence of genius vocal talent. And with Peter Cox up front, this show was legendary vocalist wise!!!!

Christ 30 years. Remember listening to bangs and crashes in 1987 on my dads escort xr3i tape machine.

Excellent! 80s powerhouse pop at its finest. Very under-rated band. I've seen them live twice in recent years and they are still just as good!

It's so awesome the respect Go West has for black music...

My friend and I took the train to London from Basingstoke aged 17 to see them at Hammersmith Odeon in 1985, we had standing tickets at the back. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to and such an adventure for two fresh faced teens madly in love with Go West🥰 ...had this on video too.

Watching Peter Cox during Innocence in particular, reacting to Alan Murphy's improvised fills and vice versa, enjoying playing with each other so much, is an absolute delight. Whilst very different players, the only guitarist to match Alan's ability and musicality with the floating bridge and vibrato bar, IMHO, was the late, very great Jeff Beck... and that really is saying something as anyone who has played a Floyd-Rose type will attest. But in Go West, Alan's rhythm playing is so well chosen and apposite in their great songs as well that there is no popular music which actually gives me greater pleasure and guarantees to lift my mood. Thanks Andrew Barry McMurdock

The Doctor will always be remembered with much respect and also great sadness. Go West will always be remembered for their clean cut image and professional prowess.

Monsters on this stage, Tony Beard, Alan Murphy, is that Jay Lochrie? Everyone is so talented , not taking anything away from Peter or Richard either! One of my favourite bands ever

Tony Beard and Alan Murphy "CRUSHING IT"A cracking show, and smashing gig, RIP Alan Murphy and Paula Yates.

Saw this lineup in the LA Paladium circa 1986(?) Now, I consider I was lucky. The guitar player's a monster!

I was at the party that was the 1980s.count myself so fortunate all the music was fantastic.the list is endless.timeless band go west.

Alan Murphy........Absolutely brilliant. Thank you Alan. The master.

WOW! What an OUTSTANDING L I V E performance!!! (evan at such a harried pace) Peter never fails to deliver on his great acrobatic vocals, & Alan Murphy's solid guitar work... Wish I could habe seen them live back then...this concert would have been ideal.... love these guys!

Bassist Graham Edwards is crushing this session greatest UK group and musicians the real A Team ....

My favourite band when i was a kid, sublime.. Don’t look down is such a great song

A supremely class act in every way possible..

I know Alam Murphy is wonderful but what about Peter Cox voice wow

great lead vocals .so powerful

There is some good footage of Tony B with Hall and Oates 'live in tokyo' around 87'. And recently with Johnny Winter. NIce guy too. And .... if you look for it the SFX CD released by NAIM with Alan, Tony, Cottie and Felix.

Absolute awesome performance from the Band Murrphy is my fav guitar player of all time. I could listen and watch him all night Such a sad loss at such an early age.

Best concert ever 👍🏽😎

I sat and recorded this whilst watching the tube many years ago...when I moved house I threw all my old videos out and I've been searching for this set ever since. I'm a drummer and Tony Beard is a hero of mine, so thanks for sharing. Happy times.

I'd kill to see a close up of Alan Murphy's pedalboard. He was an immense player!

Alan was in Go West AND Level 42. He was such a great guitarist he garnered praise from my man Steve Howe!! May he continue to RIP

Just everything and everyone on point. Giving a shout out and heads up on the bass (Eye to eye) and Carol Kenyon (HEAVEN 17S TEMPTATION) PLUS Sylvia Mason James

Alan Murphy still great in 2018 though no one can replace Pino on the Bass.

That drum fill at 12.40. Very cool.

Got to love you tube this just randomly came up .love go west mr cox needs to get on strictly come dancing with them moves 🤣

@Andrew Walmsley: This is not a compilation, there was some kind of technicians strike at channel 4, so the tube was unable to broadcast in its usual format. Go West were scheduled to appear anyway, so they were drafted in to play this half hour show. Its a shame the quality isn't great, as this was the band at their absolute best.

Does anyone have a recording they can post on YT of the other Tube set they did, the one where Alan Murphy breaks a guitar string in one of the songs? Used to have that on VHS, and there’s only one song from that set on YT. This is an amazing performance though, love this band and rip Alan, a truly wonderful talent sorely missed 💙

Can't believe that this was uploaded nine years ago and has only just found me! 😁 I'm a big Go West fan (ever since I was a kid); I have all of their stuff. Peter Cox definitely has one of my favourite voices in music; it carries so much punch, even at the high end. Blessed to have seen him perform live twice; once on a solo tour and once with Go West. He's still got it! 😄 Noticed lots of love for Alan in the comments. I'm a big Level 42 fan as well so he definitely fell inside my radar back in the day; a talented musician with some distinctive signature sounds. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

I watched this the night it was broadcast. What a great performance by all

Can't beat the feelin.

Looks like Alan and Richard are both using Aria guitars on this! I have 2 Arias , they are very underrated instruments....used to work in Harrow Music where the boss kept on reminding us at any available opportunity that he was the first person to sell Aria in the UK, ha ha !

R.I.P Alan Murphy. What a superb guitar player he was..

Peter Cox: great voice and great- looking.

Thanks for posting this as remember watching this in the good old days of the tube on a Friday tea time. I remember thinking what a great voice I was memorized by this appearance.

Absolutely fantastic, thanks for posting this. I love Go West and love Alan Murphy's playing, always wanted to play like him. RIP.

LOVE this...I wish we could've gotten this in America at the time when it aired. MTV did start showing a few things here and there but we didn't get this Go West appearance. God Bless Alan Murphy....

Great Band, Frank Beard, Peter Vitesse, Alan Murphy.. Amazing !!!

Remember this like yesterday, also have it on vhs. Whole band are good, but I love guitar, the guitarist was raw fusion. Skilled.

Watched it with my dad live - they were on fucking point

28:09, I've always thought an extended synth break would fit here to make it more epic but that's probably just me being greedy lol

GOD Bless You 🎸🎸🎸

Fcukin awesome GOWEST! AND WELLDONE TYNETEES/c4 !! Cutting away live on air just as the band of the decade start their signature tune.....👌🤯🤯

Alan Murphy solo in SOS brilliant as usual but visually destroyed by some small minded editor/ producer or whatever these twats are called.

Thank you for posting this. I have never seen them sing Man in My Mirror live. And this whole recording is great!

So glad i found this, great personal memories., I lifted Paula off the stage. :-)

31:43 Alan Murphy helping out with the keys

very grateful

Graham Edwards number one!!!!!

Alan makes Eddie Van Halen sound soulless. His note sequences are phenomenal. The whole band are totally on, and the audience, who were expecting another band, are really into it. I heard Bangs & Crashes in 86 and it is a brilliant album, I found myself needing to hear it in a building which no longer exists between 11th and 17th of July 1986. It was a welcome distraction......

Been trying to find this set for YEARS thank you

Alan Murphy legend!

I remember watching this at the time and PJV on keyboards is the best live version of Eye to Eye ...he makes that Jupiter 8 sing. This band of session musicans were the originals who recorded the album.

Punchy bottom there on track 2. Snappy bass.

The playing is pretty decent, super tight. Maybe Tony Beard on drums? There are some very nice chops.

A super star line up, what a band. PJ Vitesse is a genetic freak.

Absolutely scandalous that they cut “We Close Our Eyes” and why the heck didn’t they play “Call Me”?

Quality set all the way.Great energy.

wow

Thanks for sharing from a Westie fan :-)

Amazing, thanks for uploading.

This is great :-) Thank you.

Bons tempos Go west ótima banda

The sound of the keyboards remember me a song from Genesis.

Pretty much badass all the way around. Incredible.

What's great about this is that a careful reading of the end credits shows that Colonel Abrahams was going to be on the next show

Peter John Vitesse - master of the keys!

Brilliant mate

Kinell..Temptations interval..

they group actually did 2 sets on night of broadcast because jimmy summerville left bronski beat just as they were to be on stage to be headline and if i remember the guitarist who back vocalled lost a string during either set and looked visably upset and stressed

Peter Vettese rocking the synth!

Alan was the biz on guitar

A british TOTO, fuckin great

What happened to "Ball OF Confusion" the encore....?

Why is everyone live, but Richard is miming? It's a bit weird.

Does anybody know what Model Aria Allan Murphy played ?

I wonder whether the part of this that wasn’t broadcast is still hidden away in a vault somewhere 🤔 I’d certainly love to see it!