The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way | The Story Behind The Song | Top 2000 a gogo

[@Top2000agogo]

Something clearly went wrong here, this is not the video about Vanessa Carltons song. A thousand ̶m̶i̶l̶e̶s̶ apologies!

[@ludochem]

This is a thousand miles from Vanessa Carlton.

[@ernestfrost7015]

Maybe so, buy I enjoyed it!

[@Zetep]

Richard Coles being his genuine self makes this the best clip in the series for me.

[@relativenormality]

He's hilarious

[@LFOVCF]

Man, I would give £100 to his church to watch him play that in front of me. This song was everything to me back then, even down to a pretty good Jimmy dance. Thank you both for brilliant music, and the score to my club life.

[@catherinetimmerman9107]

Ooohhh how I LOVED The Communards back in the day!!! 39 years later, their version of Don’t Leave Me This Way is still one of my top 10 FAVORITE songs!!

[@TheOBOM]

Wauw man, deze gast SPOORT. Heeft alles meegemaakt en gedaan wat wel en niet kon, heeft een soort van inzicht gehad en heeft toen zijn eigen, eerlijke keuze gemaakt ... dat is echt heel mooi en puur. Top gozert, wat mij betreft, en leuke muziekskes hebben ze ook gemaakt; soort van 'guilty pleasure' voor mij als ouwe Hippie-Punk, opgegroeid in de jaren '70 en '80.

[@dan_gabriel]

So much good memories about this music! 80's were great!!! The coolest priest ever!!!

[@Oooo-bi7bi]

The first song I learnt all the words. Remember reading them off the back of the single sleeve. The 12 year old me and my 14 year old sister. Would play it loud and sing at the top of our voices. Still makes me feel as happy today.

[@simonnash9563]

As always, great stories. Love the bit about bringing down Thatch with 70s pop covers “Ambitious” 😀 Reminds me when I was at Uni in Edinburgh in the 80s and there was graffiti in the bogs in the library which has stuck with me: “Anarchist student today Tory accountant tomorrow”

[@raginranga3494]

🤣😂🤣😂👏

[@mistermatix8241]

There's something amazing about Rev Coles playing a 70s disco classic on an vintage church organ with a clergy collar on.... I love the disparity of it! He seems such a top bloke

[@JustRob_NL]

I love the sound of this band and special Jimmy Sommerville, good memories, and still these days i going mad on this music 😄😄😄

[@storm1968eu]

i know and have learned to respect Richard Coles from his appearances on BBC's Qi and Hignfy, but i never figured him as half of the Communards or him being gay. i respect him even more now.

[@AC-ih7jc]

I may be a straight little old Italian-American lady, but I've always friggin' *LOVED* Bronski Beat and the Communards!!! 💖 🎶 💖

[@diskopoko]

Nothing wrong with straight little old Italian-American ladies. We’re all God’s children after all. ❤

[@MultiBoomer64]

Such a great guy. And so genuine too.

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

His humour always makes me smile.

[@damiennota5446]

What a lovely human being

[@timames4405]

Good interview.

[@haydoncooper3744]

Love Richard. Always a joy to listen to.I saw him once in Covent Garden just walking and not making a fuss

[@soin74]

This is amazing, this series is the best thing that has happened to me since the first 3 minutes of the first lockdown, thanks guys!xx

[@NoelDaly-hf2cz]

Beautiful,beautiful man

[@stefanhaling2606]

zeer mooi verhaal van een top groep , allebei

[@troyberber2324]

What a story. I truly love both versions of this legendary person.

[@troyberber2324]

Wonderful story! Amazing voice also

[@juliaconnell]

I came here, as notified, for the Communards story behind their still awesome song 'Don't Leave Me This Way' - pleased I did as usual - seems to be a bit of confusion in the title/description - Vanessa Carlton tells the story of her enormous breakthrough hit 'A thousand miles'.???

[@NeweyAdrian1]

They made stories about both so probably a mistake by the intern😛 Vanessas one will be probably uploaded soon cuz ive seen it

[@Top2000agogo]

yeah, our mistake we fixed it. Vanessa will come later!

[@PaulDrinkwater-d1b]

What a wonderful, lovely person.

[@deborahwright759]

Nice man you are ❤ i did nt even know you were in the band all these years later 40 odd yrs i find out on tv by you ❤

[@thomashusted]

Beautiful story going full circle as we all will when we pass on “earth to earth ashes to ashes”.

[@procta2343]

i wonder if him and Jimmy would come back again for a one off, if there was an 80s thing at Glastonbury, i recon people of the 80s era would love it.

[@franciscoquero459]

muchas gracias don richard coles por tantas grandes canciones

[@geraldthesaint5457]

Richards coles for sure was one o the greatest musicians in Britain and the world. He’s way much more of the sounds of communards 🙌

[@theRandy712]

Vanessa Carlton's history is so much different than I expected

[@Top2000agogo]

Something went wrong there, sorry! Carltons video will be uploaded next Thursday.

[@robwembley]

Fascinating pop history lesson !

[@a120068020]

Wonderful story from a wonderful man.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

I never realised Vanessa Carlton was a gay, British vicar. 😅 Super interesting video regardless but perhaps correct the title and description!

[@Top2000agogo]

Something went wrong there, sorry! Carltons video will be uploaded next Thursday.

[@Axess-sv8nq]

Whoopsie! Better re-title this!

[@TomGodson95]

Why's that?

[@tonywright8294]

Top man 👍

[@Annomous-58]

Hope Richard wins I’m a celebrity tomorrow

[@peterbustin2683]

What a sweet man!

[@robjohnson1189]

Saw Richard on tour at the Lyric, grest story teller

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

When you meet Richard you greet him and when you leave you say Never can say goodbye

[@citroen-fan]

A very interesting video about a musician from the 1980s. I never thought that a gay member of the Band "The Communards" would become a priest. He has found his way and seems happy with it and that is the most important thing!

[@scottakanumba1heathen379]

Richard Coles - long time, no see!

[@gcooper642]

Vanessa Carlton was in the Communards? I never knew that 🙃

[@tobelikenobodyelse]

Lol 😂 top secret fun fact of the music industry 🤫 🎶🎵

[@Burps___]

Next up: Rick Astley's first group, The Smiths. lol

[@raginranga3494]

Rick rolled in a great way

[@cd78]

Amazing

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

Jimmy had a unique voice

[@thankyouforyourcompliance7386]

Great Interview like the one with Jimmy. Both seem to be very nice and intelligent persons. I grew up in the 80th and liked their music a lot. Shaped my perception to gay people.

[@allanjcarpenter]

Puts an smile on my Anglican face, but I really didn’t learn much about Vanessa Carlton.

[@davidmcdonald6530]

I am interested in the Vanessa Carlton video. Will that be made available?

[@kerryn6714]

I thought it was The Proclaimers who sang "A Thousands Miles". Have I got that song mixed up with another one? 😁

[@73Goodfellow]

@@kerryn6714 That’s 500 Miles

[@kerryn6714]

@@73Goodfellow That's it! I thought I got it mixed up with another song. Thanks for setting me straight ✌😁👍

[@vlantrot1163]

But they would walk 2x 500 miles, so technically you are correct

[@73Goodfellow]

@@vlantrot1163 That’s true. “1000 Miles” would have worked for that song too.

[@gertjanvandermeij4265]

I really liked this, but it was really TOO SHORT ! I think there was so much more to tell !

[@shed23]

My youth What great songs Keep safe Richard

[@tedkay_music]

amazing!

[@Jeff_P-1988]

Wrong title. Edit: It's fixed now.

[@jerryfields4837]

and?? the story behind the song is where?

[@davewatkin]

Is there another video somewhere about Vanessa Carlton?

[@NeweyAdrian1]

It will come, keep watching the channel

[@laurensparanormalreviewsan860]

i love richard

[@AalbertTorsius]

This was originally posted with the correct title, it seems. What went wrong?

[@kissesbloody]

Why did Jimmy leave Bronski Beat?

[@peterschreuder2600]

Amazing story!! Always hated these covers tho😅

[@kiereluurs1243]

Who the hell is Vanessa Carlton?

[@thequintanashow5058]

Interesting but I really wanted to heard about the song in the title … spoiler alert: barely touches on it

[@elainewallace-e1o]

Richard,I thought you were a bit of a prat until I watched you in the jungle...But you're a nice likeable bloke.Hope we see more of you.

[@troyberber2324]

Cheers if you ended up here somehow and just found out about this, like me.

[@hesselklijnstra4188]

❤

[@Dirk-van-den-Berg]

In retrospect you can hear Jimmy Somerville was an excellent singer with high-pitch. Like his voice never matured (as usually happens) from childhood. We in Netherlands didn't know about the gay-thing, we were too young for that.

[@I.Toverheks]

I think that is your personal reference. Perhaps it was just you who were to young to understand. I knew. (born in 1972, teen in the 80's in the Netherlands) Thought it was kinda cool that Bronski beat was the first openly gay band at the time. (or so it seemed) By the time they started the communards it really wasnt a secret.

[@Dirk-van-den-Berg]

@@I.Toverheks Nee, dat was het niet. Het speelde gewoon helemaal geen rol toen ik opgroeide, ik ben van 1968. Althans niet in mijn persoonlijke omgeving.

[@I.Toverheks]

@@Dirk-van-den-Berg Misschien ligt het aan de omgeving dan, bij mij op school (randstad, boven rook Amsterdam) was het een stukje kennisgeving. Feitje stond denk ik ook in de pop-agenda.. en zeker in hitkrant. Was ook niet iets waar we heel lang over nadachten. Was gewoon een cool feitje. (al waren er natuurlijk ook altijd wel mensen die t niet konden handelen en er k*t opmerkingen over maakten) Het hielp misschien ook dat ik gay vrienden had... Voor hen was het fijn dat er meer mensen kwamen met wie ze zich konden identificeren.

[@oscargr_]

I haven't the slightest why you say that.. His voice was great on the first album, and it was very clear from the title of their first album ("the age of consent") what the band stood for.

[@MrDaddynomates]

I saw you guys live at Glastonbury. It was 1986 or 87 maybe. Jimmy lost his voice 😂 it was still a great gig tho

[@proclaimed75]

Why the title says this is the story of Vanessa Carlton's A Thousant Miles while it's actually the story behind The Communards????????

[@TheStraatjutter]

It only says that on English YT

[@reknakfarg7252]

@@TheStraatjutter Is er nederlandse youtube?

[@TheStraatjutter]

@@reknakfarg7252 er zijn videos die een andere titel hebben als je vanuit Nederland/belgië of met een account wat daaraan gekoppeld is kijkt ja. Er zijn ook video's die wij niet kunnen kijken vanwege gedoe met auteursrechten.

[@Top2000agogo]

Sorry about that!

[@AssortedBits]

Jullie hebben een video over de Communards geupload met een Vanessa Carlton titel en beschijving.

[@Top2000agogo]

Sorry, daar ging inderdaad iets fout. De video over Vanessa Carlton komt komende donderdag online.

[@AssortedBits]

@@Top2000agogo Kan gebeuren! Succes en bedankt! :-D

[@f1fanatic157]

Please I hope you win in I’m a Celebrity 🎉❤

[@RealityVonTrapp]

Wasn't really about the song Don't leave me this way. If anything we hear Never can say goodbye more! But apart from that it was about a call to religion.

[@oscargr_]

This interview is too short.

[@MithunOnTheNet]

@Top 2000 a gogo - You have the wrong title for the video!

[@Top2000agogo]

yep, we fixed it. Vanessa will come next week!

[@klaasvanmanen8214]

The title suggests that we are going to see a video on Vanessa Carlton. In fact it is about something related to the Communards. I guess a lot of people will be disappointed. At least I was. Can the administrator of this channel either change the title or change the video?

[@Top2000agogo]

Something went wrong there, sorry! Carltons video will be uploaded next Thursday.

[@jacquelineboeuf8842]

👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@therookiesplaybook]

Vanessa Carlton?

[@chrisbardell]

That Vanessa Carlton has let herself go, etc. Richard Coles is a wonderful fella, however.

[@troyberber2324]

Ember remains.

[@wich1]

I was wondering what reverend Coles had to do with A Thousand Miles….

[@dubmoyet]

Can’t see where, in this video, he told the story of Don’t Leave Me This Way. Nonsense. 🥴

[@procta2343]

might have been him going into the church side of things why they spilt up? Basically walking away from the pop music etc. Hence the song don't leave me this way. I maybe wrong though.

[@leonardpattison2816]

Am with Madonna

[@misophoniq]

Today I learned that the Communards' drummer was a woman. Not the subject of this video, but informative nonetheless.

[@Shelsight]

Their whole backing band was female. All professional musicians who played for a few other bands in the 80s... :)

[@procta2343]

@@Shelsight i only thought there were the two of them, but then again i don't know much about the band other than they had some up lifting tracks at the time. My mam really enjoys their songs.

[@brianingham4759]

June Miles Kingston, also played in the Fun Boy Three and Everything But The Girl amonst others. Great singer and drummer.

[@TheTwan85]

Vanessa is er wel op achteruit gegaan de afgelopen 20 jaar

[@maxmery_drums]

Where's Vanessa Carlton?.

[@Top2000agogo]

Her video will be uploaded next Thursday

[@jimmydroid7838]

I clicked for Vanessa Carlton. Is this click bait?

[@Top2000agogo]

Something went wrong there, sorry! Carltons video will be uploaded next Thursday.

[@cuzzindave]

I didn't even hear Vanessa's name once! 😂

[@bluejay313]

TIL Vanessa Carlton was in the Communards 🤔

[@youarewhatyouare]

He said to the barber

[@DanTheMan007]

It's not even their song . People, in general, don't give the original artists the credit they deserve !

[@emilegeorge6225]

Starring Jerry Seinfeld as the vicker

[@troyberber2324]

Box…checked.

[@chdimas]

Yezsssss

[@thefirstdutchguy]

wow, Vanessa Carlton!😂

[@mijnnaamisaaron]

A gay priest walks into a bar

[@LETTYONLY1]

Like Brian Cox Ends up back in the limelight again 🙄

[@robinsonfriday]

Ding Dong the witch is dead....

[@Evertb1]

Strange. He does not look like Vanessa Carlton at all.

[@philia12]

'Ik besefte me'.....kom op, mensen.

[@sandoumir4348]

Ik ben aangereden. Nog zoiets.

[@kiereluurs1243]

Oh man... What are you doing there? Wise guy, except...

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

Richard Coles gives me the creeps

[@pit6055]

Why is that?,

[@sandoumir4348]

@@pit6055 probably because of how insecure he is about himself and will look for any misguided excuse to feel better than others. Usually.

[@nederlanditism1154]

Rather at the end, that juxtaposition isn't correct. It's not sex, drugs, rock'n'roll as the opposite to a clergy life; it's only openly vs. clandestine. That is still in the papers every once in a while.

[@AntoineGeorgiev]

You may not believe, but Communards were huge in socialist Bulgaria 🤣🤣🤣

[@rabbitcaroline666]

It still is hostile.