Anna Calvi and John Cale - Sorrow (Live at BBC Proms)

Anna Calvi and John Cale perform David Bowie's "Sorrow", live at the Royal Albert Hall, as part of a David Bowie BBC Proms special.
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[@andrewwilliams9599]

I love how much the orchestra loves playing this. Even Cale looks happy.

[@PaulWady]

I was there standing at the front. This was the best song of all. The hairs at the back of my neck stood up, and I swore I was starting to levitate. Took me completely by surprise. That a song can have such an effect - this is to live. The Welshman! Anna!

[@davidratcliffe5000]

Exceptional Bowie tribute. Always up for a listen of this, but especially today, on his birthday.

[@welshcaesar]

Cale is a legend

[@sea-ferring]

Brilliant! So great to see Anna Calvi performing with a living legend.

[@saskiasavage]

OMG i'm crying here. Absolutely amazing. Have heard Bowie since I was a little baby, had my first Bowie Aladdin Sane tattoo when I was 15. And this is amazing. I love the voices, the vibes, the energy. Amazing. I dig the angry look & passionate face by Anna

[@johnmayor2181]

That's not an angry look,that's PMT.

[@jolenegaranzha2477]

Phenomenal Phenomenal Phenomenal !!!

[@erasure65]

goosebumps

[@christinapeter1001]

Toll die beiden stimmen.... Und musiker

[@eziostancich3088]

arte.......nient'altro !

[@stealthaspiestheshow.171]

I was there and this was the best thing that happened. A great evening. Never let Amanda Palmer near Heroes again....

[@seandavies4176]

Dignified, spunky and ultimately fun. A perfect tribute and one that surely will have been sealed with approval from above. How difficult to do - how beatifully executed. Thank you for a top 2016 memory.

[@dwinnera]

Magnificent!

[@classy_dweller]

Such wonderful song !

[@sandypadlock3337]

That's great 👍❤

[@bleckgilbert7875]

😍un petit air Arcade fier❤️🕺⚡️

[@herbertfrieb7714]

EVERLASTING!

[@jaypeckay5898]

THE performance of the night!!

[@branco8792]

Belíssimo!!!!!

[@kimberlyherrmann6324]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@burnybuttadjase928]

Nice ! With this little part of "drums like Velvet underground" :)

[@pigshitpoet]

yes, i hear that in the sound form. it also has that cale casualty

[@kopfkino9101]

Hey anna! Enter the studio with john and do this one! Loved it

[@maureendenham4942]

4 give me pls.. Wats an Anna calvi? Btw, I'm not the only ('band-aid'😢I wish) that took notice of cold shoulder Wikipedia naming adoring colleagues for Bowie minus Maestro John Cale? Okay... very well known Bowie's closet friends and family personally chose the 😮Maesto😮. Just sayin. .WOW Wikipedia 🥺

[@flight1919]

A God and Goddess together.Fantastic!

[@grahamchapple3552]

prince and princess

[@trans_trekker9448]

David would be very happy 😊

[@rolotomassi6613]

and Anna pregnant

[@shaxan]

First thing that i saw in this video was the keyboard guy, and my first though was: visually this probably the closest one can get to Bowie, then the voice seemed not too bad either, then I learnt the singer's name - John Cale - and confessed to myself that i didn't hear anything by him before, although the name was not totally new to me. While I was writing this comment I gradually grew aware that the guy is a legend, which I suspected based on some vague past imprints. Now that I'm through with the preliminary data, next step to take should be probably looking into some of his own stuff. What's among his best stuff except for this? Cheers for Anna too.

[@ThePeaceFrog722]

Personally, my favorite album from Cale solo would be Fear or Paris1919. He was also involved with Roxy Music whose debut self titled is marvelous! Plus he co-founded the velvet underground and his work with Patti Smith+ The Stooges is killer. His avant-garde legacy is legendary!

[@ivanriskin1167]

All his work is worth listening, my favs are paris 1919 and vintage violance and of course white light/white heat

[@leonais1]

Songs for Drella is a very personal album by Lou Reed and John Cale. It gives a great deal of insight into Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground through both the music and the lyrics.

[@murdomacinnes6176]

Fear - " Is a mans best friend "

[@markwilliamwestonwilson1503]

Fantastic show pity it can’t be bought on dvd

[@armandobanha3817]

Thank you Tate....Thank you Anna

[@jimlos11]

It's originally by the MyCoys

[@Diamonddogusa]

Actually, this song isn't Bowie's. It was written by the Merseys. Still, great song.

[@nipitatum]

Actually this song isn't the merseys it was written by Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer, first performed by the McCoys, then The Merseys, then Bowie.

[@Diamonddogusa]

oh. Thanks. I'll check it out.

[@Lefthandbadass]

And quoted by The Beatles on "It's All Too Much".

[@treznik]

Calm down kids. Why do blokes get so anal and contest everything? And I'm a bloke. Just enjoy the bloody song, or not, as the case may be. x

[@grahamchapple3552]

really bowie was a magpie musically where would bowie b without berlin i hope the merseys get heaps for the writing

[@widM_]

with good mixing this would be a great cover

[@Klimexetixs]

I have the same impression

[@boutineaulouis2838]

@@Klimexetixs Same for me ... sorry but this is actually shit

[@marcelvermeulen9550]

Indeed, a terrible job.

[@shepmathe]

Lol hahaha. See "Pin Ups". David Bowie covers record.

[@ChampippleD]

Very “Arcade Fire”ish arrangement. Like someone else posted, with proper mixing this would be a banger.

[@wesley20124]

It's more velvets than arcade fire but get your point

[@pigshitpoet]

at first i thought that old john cale was paul weller.. i'd love to hear calvi and weller do a duet. nevertheless this is pretty hot. over the top! thanks!

[@MisAnnThorpe]

Cale's looking way better than Weller despite being about 15 years older.

[@sovaine]

I personally enjoyed this version....bowie would never have wanted a note perfect rendition anyway.

[@grahamchapple3552]

not a happy song

[@brournemouth]

I play this again and again. Endlessly fresh and entertaining. Cale and Calvi make a wonderful duo. Too bad the mixing board diminished Calvi's wailing slide guitar, though; her playing was rather smothered by the enthusiastic orchestra.

[@davegrant629]

The Reverend approves of this.

[@19Deamon12]

Do u remember "Make your own kind of music" by the mamas and the papas?

[@emmacassidy8482]

You can't here Calvi at all

[@Joel-re1jz]

Can we fire whoever mixed this?

[@vierkanthofdusseldorf509]

great performance but please fire the mixing engineer

[@peterpanek2926]

Prissteens do a great version ....

[@ifn_media]

Sorrow by Bowie? - really ? I rather thought it was recirded and performed(badly) by The McCoys in 1965 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zqqccmp3i9l0fKc and then in 1966 by The Merseys (Nee Merseybeats) Bowie ran up his remake of "Sorrow", recorded in July 1973 at Château d'Hérouville, Hérouville, France. Just sayin' - and his version was indeed the best with the finest arrangement ever by the late Mick Ronson.

[@afterlife4u2]

Surprising how many people it takes to murder a good song

[@benjaminmyles5886]

afterlife4u2 fuck yeah total shit it is

[@pigshitpoet]

LOL yeah, i think cale could pretty much handle that hisself.. )))

[@jtownshend]

Vocals are sol low. I'm not give any opinion because of terrible mixing.

[@EXQCmoi]

Totally fucked up. Tribute from hell.

[@LucyOLastic]

I would rather have heard Bryan Ferry do it. After all, Bowie's arrangement was a tribute to Ferry, whose album "These Foolish Things" was the template for "Pinups." This was truly awful. He would have done better covering "Song For Bob Dylan" Or maybe "Andy Warhol."

[@bradford2806]

Love Anna, she’s just a little off on this one!

[@MyDadsMusic1]

She is really amazing but this song was not the best was it? No......

[@muthatrucka6265]

Did she take vocal lesson from Yoko Ono?

[@christianweise7348]

my God! Master Bowie either turns around in his grave, or his laughing fit kills him a second time! Which nobodies are on stage here? Where were his real friends and band members !? This is shameful and does not do David justice at all! An embarrassing show !!

[@madmark1957]

That was not only the worst version of this song I ever heard, it's the worst I could have imagined. Ranks right up there with Rolf Harris's infamous rendition of Stairway to Heaven. The chick with the guitar may be the worst guitarist ever to appear live at a big venue.

[@fenwayify]

I think you and other naysayers are missing the point; this is a wonderful sendup of a glorious, lesser-known tune Bowie himself did a sendup of. Bowie would have loved to hear such an original take, including Calvi's avant-garde stylings. You don't have to have perfect pitch and flawless instrumentals to find glory. Seeing the enthusiasm of the performers and a new creation is plenty for me AND I believe it would have greatly pleased Bowie...Cale's close friend...

[@madmark1957]

Since you never met Bowie it's more than a little presumptuous to say that something would or would not have pleased him. Original and good is fine, but this is not good. Avant garde is often used to disguise simple bad and that's what this is. As to it being a "glorious sendup" that's an unusual way to describe an inability to play your chosen instrument. Also whether or not you choose to believe it you do have to have great pitch and instrumentals to find "glory" musically. @@fenwayify

[@fenwayify]

@@madmark1957 It's taken me a lot of years to appreciate, even tolerate, atonal sound. However, now in my sixties, there are times, like here, that I actually like it. As a matter of fact, John Cale and his unique cacophony of grunts, groans and screams, sometimes sounds rather wonderful to me. Perhaps I am being presumptuous about Bowie liking this, but he was a contemporary of Cale and a good friend. He also had a diverse catalog, frequently out of the mainstream. He gravitated to unique and original sound. I simply disagree with you, both on the quality of this performance, as well as the necessity of great pitch to find glory...By the way, how do you know I never met Bowie?

[@madmark1957]

Logical deduction is how I know. Just because someone is your friend does not mean you like, enjoy or approve of everything they do btw. I am glad for you that you are able to appreciate this type of music, but I am even more glad for me that I don't.@@fenwayify

[@fenwayify]

@@madmark1957 Ok...

[@christianweise7348]

my God! Master Bowie either turns around in his grave, or his laughing fit kills him a second time! Which nobodies are on stage here? Where were his real friends and band members !? This is shameful and does not do David justice at all! An embarrassing show !!

[@christianweise7348]

my God! Master Bowie either turns around in his grave, or his laughing fit kills him a second time! Which nobodies are on stage here? Where were his real friends and band members !? This is shameful and does not do David justice at all! An embarrassing show !!

[@christianweise7348]

my God! Master Bowie either turns around in his grave, or his laughing fit kills him a second time! Which nobodies are on stage here? Where were his real friends and band members !? This is shameful and does not do David justice at all! An embarrassing show !!

[@tentringer4065]

If you knew anything about Bowie, you would know John Cale was far from a 'nobody' to him and he would abhor slavish cover versions of his songs.