Level 42 - Lessons In Love (The Prince's Trust Rock Gala 1989) 

What makes Mark King so special is,, Not only does he play some incredibly complex bass lines, but to sing at the same time I just out of this World. This is what puts him on another page from most other bassists out there. Total respect to the legend he really is. 🙏👏👏👏

That slap bass is phenomenal 👌

Mark’s slapping and singing is incredible, however I give credit to Mike as well as his singing is great and the keyboard sounds are spot on. ✌️😙

Mark King simply nails it each time..One of the greats at the bass..My personal favorite

NOBODY BUT LEVEL 42 COULD DO THIS LIVE AND EXCEED ANYTHING THAT COULD BE PRODUCED IN THE STUDIO. SONIC PERFECTION AND SUPERIOR STAGE PRESENCE!🏆🎶🎷🎶🏆

One of my favourite bands from the decade...for obvious reasons. So many amazing groups came of of the UK in the 80's.

What I am mostly amazed at is how he can thump out that bassline and still be able to sing so well. That's talent alone.

Brilliance, Dignity, Courage and a willingness to help a charitable cause, despite the fact he probably felt dreadful. Rest In Peace Alan. 1953-1989.

Probaby one of the most underrated bands of all time.

80s bands and music was better than any other decade. There's proof.

RIP Alan Murphy. Such a great talent gone too soon 😔

Helluva performance! Mark King is a bass monster! The band was tighter than a stretched rubber band! 😊👊🇨🇦

Moving to see Alan Murphy playing guitar here. Such a fantastically talented guitarist, so sad that his life was cut so short.

My adolescence was blessed listening to bands like Level 42 .... professional musicians that besides being excellent instrumentalists have a sensational funk balance! Thank you God! For being born and raised at that time!

WOW ! ! Im a bass player and I never knew the front man was slapping the soul out of the bass and singing ..NICE

This song will NEVER GET OLD! I was extremely lucky to have parents with amazing music to taste since I'm an 89 born gal who has been jamming to this song since I was born (there is evidence of 3 year old Me surprising my parents by singing this song despite my first language is Spanish 😆) This is one of my All time favorite songs ❤️🥰

I've now watched this video at least 50 times. It has everything: Great crafted song, incredible vocals including the three backing singers (who never seem to get recognized or identified as they were great!), rhythm extraordinaire, excellent musicianship, Mark's crazy ass slap basing, Mark's infectious smile, Mike's solid and not screechy falsetto and his engagement with the crowd, and beautiful Alan giving the music world a lesson in love as he plays in his final days. to me this one of the best live musical performances ever by any musical act.

This song brings me back to some of my happiest times in my life my daughter was a brand new baby who made me the happiest man in the world and I was in love with her mother I hated to go to work and leave my baby and could not wait to get home to play with her now she's 40 years old and she's still my lil girl.

When Screetch came out singing, I was like, go back to your keyboard. I do love this song though!

seeing really great players laying down legit grooves while simultaneously singing always amazes me.

What a band! All incredibly talented musicians.

The brilliant Alan Murphy RIP

I love Mike's voice. Such a performer

The Level 42 es simplemente magistral, son únicos en su forma de tocar, son expectaculares, son un clásico de los ochentas!!!

Who is still listening to this awesome song in 2021?

Real good pop music....amazing trough the years !!!

My senior year in high school when this came out! I was awestruck by Mark's playing and Mike's vocals. I've been hooked all these years later.❤

That beast of a drummer! The slap of the snare gets me everytime!

Monster bass playing, great vocals, and chewing gum. Who says multi-tasking is just for women?

Such a great performance from Level 42. Also catch a glimpse of the Smurph’s solo at 2:59. Bittersweet. May have been one of his last public performances. Great to see him but difficult to see him so painfully thin. He died just 3 months later. 😔

Mark the King of making it look easy.

Unas de mis preferidas de adolescente y no cambio de opinión,si miramos el tremendo despliegue tanto técnico como escénico,esa marca del bajo desde inicio a término que le da el toque,distinción,difrenciacion y sello único se nota el trabajo y la excelencia profesionalismo y esfuerzo de estos siempre clásicos ochenteros,un aplauso. La que ahora es ya la vieja escuela de calidad esfuerzo creatividad,innovación,decuando la música aún no era de mal gusto ni vulgar.

King is the king of 80s hybrid pop/soul/jazz that bass playing and singing is bonkers good

Kocham ten utwór. ❤😊Jest pełen pozytywnej energii. 😁😁👍

80s is the best era of my life

Quel groupe magnifique et surtout des musiciens hors pairs..❤

0% nudity, 0% playback, 100% talent

The greatest gum chewer that ever lived, pretty good on bass to!!!

No tatoos, no fluorescent hair, just rock stars in nice suits...like it seems they have nothing to prove to anybody or themselves like today's "musicians" need!

Mark King...the THUMPINEST Englishman I’ve ever experienced! Great voice, too.

Playing bass this way and singing is a true massacre. + bubble gum, Gee. No other living soul on Earth can do it. Hats off! You've deserved all of them high in the air.

Una ee jis xanciones davoritas de los 80s, y solo eea un niño perp siempre la tuvé en mi mente. Hoy la disfruto cada día gracias a la tecnología pero en esa epoca tenías que grabarlos apenas sonaban en la radio y a veces ni las tocaban pq había tanta pero ranta musica de calidad que es increible ver hoy en día el abismo musicla que vivimos.

This band its tight and excellent musically, great bass fingering and great funkyness

Amazing live performance

The best live version of this song.

Best Performance, Best Musician, Best Song!!! Incredible~~

This song can never get old!

Omg. Amazing. Those boys have still got it. That's what I call true talent and true musicians 😍💃

So bad ass band. Incredible.

What a shocking-shower of Energy !!! Wish I'd been there . . Mark U R just Amazing ❤

That's some A+ stuff right there. I started going through their catalog on Spotify after seeing a more recent live performance. These guys are Album Deep great. "Running in the family" and "world machine" albums are fantastic straight through. Better late than never for me :)

This song brings joy to my heart. Bravo.

Precisamos de músicos com essa legitimidade para nos trazer alegria, entusiasmo+ amor, as habilidades, utilidades e presentes que a banda ganhou , significa prá mim que é um legado para toda uma história global e veio prá ficar em corações e mente, obrigado Level 42.

Best live band still to date 🎶👌🎸

Pure talent. Great times as well.

Level 42 perfect Awesome song!!!.

Haven't seen them over 20years cause of medical problems I'll still listen to them love the hair

Pure proffessionals who also can entertain. Much respect

Wow!!! They sound so much better live! I went to their concert in Jakarta, Indonesia back in the 80s, the sound system they had was really great too. Mark is still the best bass player so far!

Scary to think Alan Murphy died 3 months after this gig. That little dink on the tremelo during his solo is sublime 😎

Brilliant. Took me back . Lots of brill memories . Brilliant music. Shame we dont have charts now as they used to be. We miss out on so much these days but thank heavens for U Tube. ⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘

Eu curto a banda desde 1987, eu tinha apenas 19 anos e hoje aos 54 prá mim é a mesma emoção, de um jovem descobrindo o verdadeiro valor da vida e juventude, obrigado Level 42.

Brilliant song brilliant bassist brilliant band,well done take a bow,,well if you want,,,,

I think hearing Level 42 that tíme must have been stunning experience ;-)

Holy shit, Marks musical genius remarkable incredible….no words

He’s always played and sang chewing gum. That’s talent 😂

I love this song and the black guy who does his little part is so cute 🤗

What a great live-version!!!! Best part of it after 4:15, when the brass section came in! :-)

Gary Husband je vrlo dobar na bubnjebima,bravo!

Heard this in 80s movie Hot Pursuit, love it 🙌

Level 42, the best! ❤❤❤

Que linda canción carajo, de mis ya idos años ochentas.

Wonderful! I love you, Level 42. ❤❤❤❤

2020 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Outstanding Levei 42

Still stunning!

RESPECT MAXIMUN LEVEL 42 FROM COLOMBIA Y PANAMÁ CITY

Great performance! Love this band since I was a kid in the 80's :)))

Os caras são muito competentes em suas áreas, verdadeiras feras do enterterimento.

Maravillosos!!.... que ritmo.! ❤ saludos desde Argentina....

One of the greatest bass players his thumb was insured for a cool million back in the day

Muy guapos con traje...hermosas voces...los amo...gracias por existir..lindísima canción..me mueve mis sentimientos por todo lo que no fue y no se construyó..dura lección de AMOR...

I mean.....come on!!!!!! Absolutely unbelievable

GREAT band and what memories 🎉

one of the must-have songs of the 80's

I'm not proud, I was wrong And the truth is hard to take I felt sure we had enough But our love went overboard Lifeboat lies lost at sea I've been trying to reach your shore Waves of doubt keep drowning me All the dreams that we were building We never fulfilled them Could be better, should be better For lessons in love For restless eyes egos burn And the mold is hard to break Now we've waded in too deep And love is overboard Heavy hearts token words All the hopes I ever had Fade like footprints in the sand All the homes that we were building We never lived in Could be better, should be better Lessons in love If we lose the time before us The future will ignore us We should use it, we could use it, yeah Lessons in love Lost without love Lessons in love When will you ever learn Lessons in love When there's nowhere left to turn Lessons in love Don't let your spirit burn Lessons in love I'll wait 'till you return All the dreams that we were building, yes we were We never lived them Could be better, should be better For lessons in love All the fences we're making We should take it We could lose it, we should use it All the homes that we were building We never lived in Could be better, should be better Lessons in love If we lose the time before us The future will ignore us We should use it, we could use it, yeah Lessons in love Lessons in love When will you ever learn Lessons in love When there's nowhere left to turn Lessons in love, lessons everyday Lessons in love when you're ok Lessons in love, I wish you're mine Lessons in love when you're ok

I love this performance

They still sound this good!

These are really talented musicians!!!!!❤ I almost forgot about this group!!

The Best! !! Love! !! 💖

Artists used to work hard. Now, these kinds of artists have been suppressed

BIG Level 42 fan and this was the second of their concerts I was able to get to personally! That slap bass style that Mark played is literally a virtuoso performance!

Just imagine being part of that audience...facing Mark front and centre...and reeeeaaaaly grooving to that base magic! ❤😊

Que banda... y que hermoso recuerdo...

wow, Amaxing Lead singing abd incredible bass lines. Great live . bassist tge main guy

Lindo demais!❤

Still in love of this song! Timeless

Just pureness 👍

Brilliant.

CARAJOOOO. ..PERO QUE TEMON! POR SUERTE SE VAN A ETERNIZAR ATRAVEZ DE LAS REDES SOCIALES Y OTROS....UNO DE MIS PREFERIDOS