This sax part was added, post-1985. The original, by Ritchie Cannata (find it on YT), is the best version. It's laid back and cool, like the song, itself. The new version screams for attention, and doesn't fit the mood of the song. Compare both versions, but you may have a devilish time finding the original.

I remember this I loved it Just watched JUDITH DURHAM video sing it ,,, I have to say it is very good

Feeling like a part of you is Dion lol private joke there was a dude named Dion in our group of hs friends lmao we loved to change song lyrics

better than I,m not in love

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I bought this on tape a few years after it came out. Wish I'd had it on CD, don't know if this release was offered on CD. I did buy the re-release and enjoyed it immensely. I know Phil probably prefers the re-release, but there were some special qualities to this one that hit me in ways that words just don't convey. I really love the orchestration. The songs are still great on the newer one, but to be honest, 'the radio flyer' takes me places!

I watched his 100th Madison Square Garden show and I think I like his "mature, maybe 1/2 step lower" voice better. He's a grandmaster musician and songwriter with few equals, ever - I Love and admire this guy.

Sold 200,000 copies and only got to number 10.mindboggling

この曲を44年前の高校2年のときに友人の家で初めて聴いて衝撃が走りました。

Remember this as a 13yr old magic

La mujer de voz celestial.Su canto es perfecto,su tono...no escuché nunca algo igual

BACK WHEN WOMEN EXISTED NOT BOTOX LIPPED SILICONE TITTED ASS LIFTED DUMMIES

Camp on.bass

Most people don't have the time to Be In Time !

We'd play this heading back to port, reduce hardened matelots to tears!

Awesome 🎵

Lindo❤pena que envelhecemos😂consequencia do pecado culpa da eva😂

Lifelong Billy Joel fan and I’ve never seen this!

Portadown 1978❤😂

This was playing in a Supermarket in Ireland this afternoon. It took me right back to when I was thirteen. We had a lot more freedom way back in the 70's in the UK. Who remembers when you could buy an Air Rifle from a Kays Catalogue? How times have changed.

Annie was brilliant and beautiful ❤

Way better than Sinatra

I'm in love with this song.....and Annie of course..... ...

I like the Vanderbilt VID better!

this song along with grace slick singing "love too good" were the best female led songs of 1978 but were never heard. donna summer had great songs but was heard non stop. linda ronstadt was a gimmick for redneck bar jukeboxes.

this song is 45 years old in 2023. this song was never aired in 1978 but low class pollution like billy joel and the blues brothers soul man was played non stop. the freaks without any talent always get the most radio play.

It reminds me on my first stay in England,, Summer 1978.

That song stirs me like a bypass to the emotion.the northern lights in itself gives the mind a focus ...high powered song.

This was recorded about nine months after then-President Ford gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York from bankruptcy. New York was in many ways a hellhole back then, yet clearly loved so deeply by so many people, then and now. What a timeless song, really, about nostalgia for a place you once lived in.

Essa música na burracheira é mágica

Always thought Mark Rivera was an original, but he is tad bit younger, so it makes sense.

I remember tigerclaw64's old videos on youtube and looking on tigerclaw64's old deviations from 2013 to 2015 ever since when i was a teenager I remember like it was yesterday!

I can replay this classic in my head forever

I don't care that it's lipsync, that record is amazing after all these years...

Best of the classic s

Saw him with Elton John in concert-they were fantastic, each in their own way! Both great entertainers!

Great work, thanks. Renaissance were great music and great musicians. This song was in the British charts in 1978, not my favourite but at least a commercial success for the band. Listen to Opening out, Song for a dreamer and A song for all seasons (title track) from the same album. These belong to their real œvre...

One of the best songs ever written by Renaissance

Awsome😊

New York isn’t just NYC. We have a beautiful ocean and and a south and north shore people need to explore the whole State not just New York City

我が人生最高の1曲❤❤❤❤❤

From a better less hate filled time.

Annie Haslam vóz fastástica.

I'd be very surprised if Mike Oldfield never asked Renaissance singer Annie Haslam to work with him on one of his own projects, as I'm convinced that they would definitely complement each other and their styles would blend tigether perfectly. The late, great Judith Durham did an excellent cover version of it in 1997 and it is also available to view on KZbin. A timeless, evergreen classic.

Northern Lights was on the news today so I remembered this song.

I remember this song as it was included in '20 Rock Legends' released round about that time and which my sister had bought. It had other songs by other artists such as Cold as Ice, Evil Woman. I've always loved this song which seems to be a mix of pop, rock and folk.

precious...timeless...left breathless

Looking at my comments I think I have a infaactuation ..sorry

She was so beautiful

OMG what a voice annie haslam had what a beautifully sung song it always reminds me of the time i was leaving school about to go out into the big wide world which was in peacetime then and how its changed for the worse now its amazing how music creates memories they dont make music like this anymore what a shame it was a classic in its day