And he mocks the one who says she's seventeen, and thinks he's clever, and they tolerate him Apart from that scumbag predator, Sir Jimmy Saville, this is a great video.
@Bri Y Yes, but we should continue to call him Sir in order to bring to light the fact that whoever Knighted him clearly had poor judgement. Maybe the queen and her advisors or something like that. Or maybe they knew but didn't care for all of the reasons you mention above.
@@lorenmiller3797 Why do you suppose none of it ever came out until after he was dead? Because if they had busted him while he was still alive, he could have named a lot of other names, others in high places who were at it too. That's why he was untouchable, he had too much dirt on too many 'pillars of the establishment'.
I loved this song, it was popular just before I started working. Then I was so disappointed joining the Navy because we didn't have unions in there, but one of the cooks was a former meat worker and union man and he bragged about how they went on strike at the drop of a hat. Oh cut my finger, right let's strike.
On reflection, Saville tainted not just pop, but the nation and countless childhoods and memories. Just think of the ones who are hidden by obscurity, and the lives they have ruined. All the bad people spoiled my life. It could have been a happy life... but the bad people spoiled it. Saville was one of them. I wish there was a hell for them to rot in!
From an age when Top of the Pops was a really big thing in this country. An incredible song that really summed up life in the early 70s. People in the present could have no idea of the world then.
Well we had better act soon. Those extra loud planes are the government etc, arming themselves against us for when the penny finally drops and we have to take action or starve or worse. Fake Wars are invented for a purpose.
@@twombley Not at all. It was made in 1973 and is very much a song from a working class perspective and why The Strawbs still play it in working men's clubs and festivals still today.
I honestly never heard of him till he died. When someone defaced his grave I said there's no smoke without fire. Its so obvious THAT EVERYONE must have known
Fabulous song and band. I went to the college where The Strawbs were founded - St Mary's at STRAWBerry Hill. I've often wondered which union was protecting Jimmy Saville, I don't think it was affiliated to the TUC!
@@seansands424 That other Labour-affiliated group known as The Paedophile Information Exchange. Then it all changed in 1979 when Maggie got in and teamed up with Leon. They stood up for Savile instead. Politicians... spot the difference.
According to the writers this song was in support of the unions. It was released in 1973, well before the miners strike of 1981. If you are interested in the miners strike, I strongly recommend you watch the film Pride. It’s brilliant.
I love the candles on the piano , it wouldn't surprise me if we went back to the 1970s. With the country being in the state that it's in . Worst thing to happen was the UK leaving the EU .
Dont be silly, the EU was and is run like the mafia, GOOD RIDDANCE I SAY, the main thing about Brexit was to get control of our borders, FAT CHANCE NOW, MORE TORY LIES, I WILL NEVER BELIEVE ANOTHER WORD ANY "SO CALLED" MP SAYS AGAIN, TOTAL LIARS.
The song was very popular, but the Strawbs split up afterwards as Hudson and Ford left to form their own group, Dave Cousins at the start doesn´t look too happy either. Blue Weaver took over from Rick Wakeman who went to YES, but Blue Weaver later had a great career with the Bee Gees. Saw them live in Cardiff in 1972, fantastic, the Sutherland Brothers were the backing group and had just brought out, ``We are Sailing´´whick Rod Stewart later made a fortune out of.
The strawbs had fun with performing the record but it was written with genuine intent in solidarity with the trade union movement. The strawbs confirmed this on many occasions 👍
@@nbenefielListen carefully, I think it's taking the piss out of "the working man", patronising is the word I'm looking for. It's plainly obvious it's a piss take.
@Gary Smith I was a kid then. I clearly remember the power-cuts! The bin collections not being done. The disruption during the winter of discontent. The fact they were holding the public to ransom suggests they were out of control.
Back in the Seventies I was at a party chatting to a nurse from Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Needless to say, saville got mentioned and she told us then that his roving hands were infamous even then, but that he just brought in too much money. What the Hopital did at the time was quite funny. They had a list of all the Saville Groupies and whenever he was there, they were all picked to form a protective barrier between Saville and the normal nurses. Money talks!
Yeah I heard some stories about him in the early 1980s, I was still at school but my aunt knew people that worked at the hospital. As a teenager I didn't believe it, thought she was talking crap. Even my mum thought she was lying. Guess we were all wrong...
I’m working my first non union job - I’m 54 - and guess fuckin’ what - I’m going to get all the kids on the job to join a union - I’ll be the shop steward - and we can stick it to the man
Shame the comments constantly mentioning someone who should just be ignored. I am here for the song, was that Rick Wakeman on keyboards or someone else?
I can't figure out how I know this song, word for word. I'm in America. It wasn't played here, that I know of. We don't have Top of the Pops. It must have aired on something else..Good song though. My Dad was a union man until the day he died.
Even a little ol' Right winger like me can enjoy this song - thanks for posting ! Pity about the introduction by a "certain presenter" - back in the early 1970s, I can genuinely say Saville came across - to a television viewer like me - as just a bit of a "harmless eccentric" - how wrong one can be !!!!
This song is now 50 Years Old (Half a Century) it peaked at Number 2 in February 1973, during those years if was a lot of Strikes like Energy, television and Bins, Last it was holiday flights abroad and now it's NHS worker's and teachers
“You can’t treat the working man this way. One day we’ll form a union, and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve. Then we’ll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless. And the Japanese will eat us alive.”
And you'll notice we haven't recovered, because the problem was never unionisation - it was that English management style was and often still is lazy and conceited, hating the idea of continual improvement that allowed Japan (and China) to creep ahead. Managers of the 1970s thought they could run their businesses like it was still the 1930s, using desperate labour like it was still the 1930s. Germany's done just fine because it recognises the importance of sustainable industries from efficiency to working conditions. We're about to see this same problem come to a head again because of railways running under nearly three decades of Thatcherite corporate welfare. Again, the problem is not unions: it's rubbish management leading to poor service and terrible prices, because the owners ultimately don't care as long as they get enough cash.
Yes i started work this year as a labouer in a factory. And my father was secretary of the BLF union in Queensland that year. Now 51 years later hahaha
That look on Savile's face when he realises her boyfriend is standing behind her is priceless. Don't understand the significance of the fruit machine symbols in the background though, no strawberries there
Quite right, you have to understand history in the time it actually happened. This is a great song by the way, and captured the spirit of an age in the early 70s.
I honestly don't know why. He's creepy, ugly and grotesque af and I don't care what decade it was. As a child in the late 80s, I felt there was something repugnant about him. I wish to see the people who facilitated him brought to account without brushing it off as, "things were different back then." Survivors of abuse don't say, oh it wasn't too traumatic because it was 1973. You can see how uncomfortable the young woman on the right is with his leering an invasion of her personal space. She's not fine with it, "because it's 1973". If you can't see how uncomfortable she is, you need some lessons on basic human interaction.
You edit evil like that out of history people will forget and yet more evil people will wreak their worst on yet more innocent victims.Imagine removing all trace of Auschwitz and the like.We need to be reminded such evil existed so we can recognise it and fight it
Seeing Savile close up with those young women, all suddenly seems so obvious. The guy behind didn't seem to appreciate the way he was grabbing ... I am not a fan of cancel culture, but if somebody could delete him from all videos ....
This song was a mickey take written by John Ford (acoustic guitar, but normally bass) and Richard Hudson (drums) - Strawbs (not The Strawbs) were not left wing at all. And it's completely unlike their other stuff, which was complex and brilliant.
OMG talk about a song capturing the spirit of an age. Forget the crap about The Strawbs being Thatcherites, they lived off this for the rest of their lives.
This is just SO catchy I can't help playing it, the message is SO crap it's worth a laugh too 😆 On a side note, it was NOT funny in the UK in the 1970's, I was there as a child with the power off !
There was an interview with Dave Cousins shortly after it was released where he implied that it was all tongue in cheek satire. But it became popular with unionists anyway.
Yeah and dance on her grave. There was a saying when she was in power, in America they have Bob Hope and Stevie Wonder we have Thatcher no hope and no bloody wonder.
Me too. Once upon a time, they genuinely represented the members and fought for their benefit. No longer imo. They wield their power in a way to disrupt everyday life with their shenanigans, yet expect public sympathy. They're selfish ba**ards, only concerned with what they can get and f the rest of us.
My political leanings have always been to the right but if only labour had some one with a backbone I’d happily vote for them.Never been a union man but what’s happening today requires the working man to regain his voice and take back his own destiny.Brexit was a massive lie and so many working people fell for it.Just who is running the Labour Party these days I thought they were meant to be left wing with a socialist ideal.Kier Starmer(sir) and his talentless deputy are worse than Corbin and his commies.Labour have abandoned the ideal that made them even possible for middle road voters and a chance to sit in number 10.Thanks Tony Blair things did only get better for you and your barrister wife.Times will never be like they were because the men that made it possible no longer exist.Heavy industry produced a certain type of man and unfortunately the heaviest thing most men pick up these days is a mobile phone or an overpriced pint of beer.(and all those horrified seeing Jimmy savile should remember there’s just as many pedo’s and sexual perverts around today as there was back then.If not more.The BBC is a perverted institution publicly funded.Why doesn’t any political party address this fact .Savile is just the tip of a massive iceberg that includes the highest echelons of British society.Another reason why the working man must grow a backbone and stop climbing over his own and target the real enemy)
