Almost 20 years ago my father was in Europe and listened to this song for the first time on the radio. At that time I was living in South America, so he sent me an email saying he just listened to this amazing song, but he did not know the name of it neither the singer. As he is not native english speaker, all he could tell me was that the refrain had something like "flying home, flying home". He asked me if I could find this song for him. I started to look for it on the internet, in a time where RU-vid did not exist. So, whenever I found a lyrics with "flying home", I had to download the mp3 song using Napster and listen to it (sometimes it could take hours to download). It took months until I finally end up finding Peter, Sue & Marc's song. When I listened to it for the first time, I liked it so much that I immediatelly thought "it has to be this one!". I sent him the mp3 by email and he then confirmed this was exactly the song he was looking for. He got super excited that now he could listen to it on the train while commutting to work every day.
oh yeah, I understand your pain. I was in a similar position, also around 2004-ish when I heard Harpo's Jessica song for the first time on the radio and fell in love with it immediately but couldn't find out anywhere what the song was, or who sung it. All I remembered from that first listening of the song were 2 lines: "When I walked down on Champs Elysee" and "Jessica love, I'm feeling so sad, 'cause the dreams that we've had....".... Only these 2 lines I could remembered from that song and I looked them up in google frantically for like several weeks in a row, but couldn't find anything (back then youtube didn't exist... or it hadn't been purchased by google yet anyway), so all I had were some lyrics sites but even those didn't have lyrics for old or little known songs. I think that I managed to find the song around 2013 if memory serves me well, and I found it on youtube because in the meantime YT had grown quite big and even 10 years ago you could find on YT a lot of stuff that was previously non-existent on the internet, and that's how I found it. Needless to say that as soon as I found the song I had scarcely downloaded it so that I can have it with me for all eternity and I've listened to it like crazy in those days. I think that I've put it on loop and listened to it for like 5 or 6 hours straight xD ... As a matter of fact, I'm just going to listen to it again in a moment, because I just got into the mood just because of typing this LOL
I heard this the first time 5 years ago in Austria while in our honeymoon. We were driving at rainy night going home and since then me and my wife we call it “our song”. Flying home flying home ...
For anyone interested, Soviet avant-garde band Kommumizm do a beautiful cover of this song. It’s much more stripped back and rough around the edges and it’s sung through Yegor Letov’s thick Russian accent, but I think the bleak atmosphere of the recording compliments the song wonderfully.
Actually, Yegor Letov did not take part in recording. Guitar and voice were performed by Dmitri Selivanov, talented siberian guitarist who, sadly, killed himself in 1989, hanged on scarf. The bongs were silently played by Arkady Klimkin, drummer for Grazhdanskaya oborona (Civil Defense) and other side-projects like Kommunizm.
KFOR Heimflug 🤩 die Tränen stehen mir jetzt noch in den Augen 😥 Achja 😀 Heim Heim zu Tochter und Eltern Einfach nur Heim....aber ☝️ es war eine schöne Zeit.
@@Mayhem228 Интереснее тем, что из его уст эта песня прозвучала по-битловски и по-хиппенски, очень мягко и душевно, по тем временам, когда мы слушали грохочащую и жужжащую Гражданскую Оборону, с надрывным и рычаще-хрипящим голосом Егора. Очень сильный контраст, который сам по себе, произвёл очень внезапное впечатление. Но, видимо, ты это всё проспал тогда.
@@cosmoviking5089 Чего? По хипповски? По битловски? По моему вы совсем дилетант, если такие вещи пишите. Да и битлы и хиппи это разные вещи. Да ииначинали играть в 60 ые, а хиппи это 70 ые. Там даже звучание разное
@@cosmoviking5089 не я прекрасно понял: пук пук акустика три аккорда контраст мм гений. Вы просто слишком идеализируете акустику, что я вам и доказал на том, что вы не понимаете, что такое битлы или же музыка групп хиппи. Я только не понял зачем коменты удалили
@@Ourobrbr Не переживай, я долгое время думал, что эту песню в "Хронике пикируещего бомбардировщика" исполнял Кузя УО, значительно позже уже узнал, что это был Дмитрий Селиванов. Зато, благодаря Селиванову я полюбил эту песню, а когда нашёл оригинал, то и оригинал полюбил всей душой, благодаря ему.
Peter, Sue & Marc виконали цю пісню у 1980 році, а твій комунізм просто сраний ремейк як і все у вашій проклятій рашці. Перед тим як писати, варто поцікавитися темою, щоб не виглядати ідіотом.
