THIS BLEW ME AWAY. JOHN FARNHAM WITH COLDPLAY! UNBELIEVABLE. YOU ARE THE VOICE

[@elizabethscott7660]

The song has an interesting history starting in the UK where it was written by, I think, 3 or 4 musos. One of them was a member of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. It didn't make it onto his album and John picked it up. The rest is history. You're the Voice is known as the other Australian National Anthem. I don't know an Aussie who can't sing the whole song. It's entrenched in our culture. And Farnsey is a much loved Australian son. The crowd in this clip were young, there to see Coldplay, but it only took 5 notes and they knew what song was about to be played. Their reaction to John showed just how popular Farnsey is with every generation of Aussies.

[@grandy2875]

just looked it up, Andy Qunta (Icehouse), Keith Reid (Procol Harum), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann), and Maggie Ryder...

[@BobarissGish]

@@grandy2875 maggie Ryder was also from Manfred Mann's earth band she was a backing vocalist.

[@fotoautomatmusic]

And what a powerful song. it is. Great message, very catchy hook and to add the woah woah in makes it an anthem anyone can joining or recognise.

[@jeremykothe2847]

@@grandy2875 Interesting. Icehouse was Australian maybe? And to the OP... It's not Khe Sanh, but it's the next best thing :P

[@DebraBing]

Wow Farnham killing it in his 70's. I don't care how many chords people play, if you can reach people emotionally through music, that's what matters to me. There really aren't many entertainers who can connect with their audience like John does, or just appear on a stage at an arena concert and somehow manage to make Coldplay seem like your backing band. ( love Coldplay) It's a shame they dropped the ball on the sound a bit, but who cares, it's still Farnham and l am still here for it.

[@donna3465]

I don’t think that Farnham was quite 70 years old there. He was in his 60’s then, I believe.

[@DebraBing]

@@donna3465 just checked and l believe he was 70 when he appeared at Firefight. Either way it's pretty impressive at that age. 😀👍

[@TheBrownlj]

Coldplay are Brits. During a tour of Australia they got Farnsy to come out and sing with them. Your the Voice is a Farnsy classic, Coldplay just joined in.

[@JudeAussie]

Sound Relief was a benefit concert for the victims of the Victorian bushfires in 2009. You’ll pretty much always see Farnsey performing at most Aussie benefit concerts. Wonderful performer and all round good guy.

[@kennykarlsson6691]

John farnham is one of the best male vocalist of all time. End of story.

[@TheBrownlj]

John is 71 now and still rocks out.

[@carolynmck6046]

Freddy mercury once said he is the greatest singer , Celine Dion bows to him when singing together , Tom Jones sings with him and he is very humble he really looks after his band, he always lets them shine an d have their moment

[@DanP_original]

As an Aussie, I feel emotional watching this performance!

[@georgeibrahim7945]

He always gives his respects to everyone especially the band he is always a team player, he is so down to earth recently about a year ago he sang this song with Celine Dion and when he met her he was so humble

[@toddyrocket296]

John is definitely the voice

[@jonss1948]

Tap into John Farnham live performances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and listen to everything he performs at these Concerts. Not only has he one of the world's best vocal ranges, he is a consummate Showman. These will blow you away.

[@1719456]

Along with his amazing vocals, he has an ability to connect with the audience. That is a crowd of youngsters, yet they react to him as though he is a contemporary.

[@howlsatdesertmoon9840]

It's great to see, through American reactions, that John Farnham is being appreciated in a market he never really captured. It reminds me of how great he was and is... And we need to remember that as, over the years, many of us in Australia took him for granted and forgot to value him.

[@loftylloyd4134]

What I love about this is that the audience is all young people who would never listen to John Farnham, but they all know it and are really digging it and jamming to it. The song is older than they are! That’s respect!!!!

[@marynoonan6111]

He's in his 70's here. And all those kids were bought up by us listening to him & they love him too. He was always ALWAYS a person to acknowledge the talents of others. Very very generous entertainer and musician. He always blew up peoples tyres.

[@krystle2312]

I was there that day, from what I remember Coldplay was pretty new back then, I think they were given a 15-minute set but only had 2 songs., and no-one knew Farnsey would be there. What's really interesting is that the majority of people in that crowd were not even born when this song was released. Just those first few notes of the song as we knew what was about to happen. the crowd went electric. This wasn't the end of the day, I can't remember what happened after, but it def went for a few more hours i think. It was a festival type thing, different groups all getting 15 mins each kind of thing.

[@DebraBing]

That intro, with the hand claps is so unique and instantly recognisable, it's a whole vibe on it's own.

[@kanesanders6669]

LOL. By 2009 when Sound Relief happened, Coldplay had released 4 very successful albums, over 9 years, toured the world (including Australia) multiple times, sold well over 50 million albums and were arguably the biggest band in the world.

[@krystle2312]

@@kanesanders6669 they literally say we only have two songs when they start.

[@JaneDoe-se8ku]

I have listened to John since he first started his singing career. It's been a rocky road for John but this just goes to show that this song is still being enjoyed by young people after all these years.

[@michaellincoln3739]

Farnham is one of those very few once a century artists who can sing ANY genre. Opera to Jazz to Rock to Anything. Add to that his chemistry with his band and audience. He's from another planet.

[@justlinsu]

This was held at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney Australia and yes Cold Play are British. John can still belt out a song even at the age of 70. Holy smoke what a singer/performer ....Thanks for 'reacting' to so many Aussie artists Matt....we here in the Land Down under really appreciate it. John Farnham wrote this song and his manager mortgaged his home to release the record. He has since been referred to as The Voice....and who could argue.

[@farnham1949]

sorry John didn't write the song. The Songwriters: Chris Thompson / Maggie Ryder / Andy Qunta / Keith Reid

[@4adgray2]

This was February 2009 a concert pulled together in a week to aid the survivors of our horrendous Black Saturday Bushfires. 50,000 people in the MCG. John did a warm up but there was no rehearsals. Cold Play learnt the song in a week to back him.

[@chrisrowlands5703]

I was lucky enough to go to one of the very first Whispering Jack concerts in Sydney Farnham preformed with the philharmonic orchestra....Youre the Voice, Help, Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll, hollywood nights......my god. If you havent been my words will never describe the vibe and the energy in that stadium...

[@rodfletcher9937]

That’s why this is Australia’s unofficial national anthem and Australia’s national treasure .

[@christopherboothman2405]

There are two songs in Australia that are guaranteed to get every single person in the crowd singing along. You’re The Voice by Farnsey and The Horses by Daryl Braithwaite. You should check out The Horses if you want to hear a classic Aussie song!

[@jjwoody6532]

3 songs, the the is a Daddy Cool’s Eagle Rock.

[@mariadore7000]

4 songs, Khe Sahn

[@itspete1072]

Horses is not an aussie song, was written by Walter Becker and originally sung by Ricki Lee Jones. Daryl released a cover version of it in the 90's which went to no 1 in Australia.

[@sheraleemurdie3637]

5. Am I Ever Gonna Your Face Again ( The Angels)

[@JudeAussie]

@@sheraleemurdie3637 the naughty version? 🤣

[@Chardy27778]

That concert was to raise money for bush fire victims one. They run 2 concerts at same time one in Melbourne and Sydney. It was 2009 then 10 years later he sings the same song at 70 with brian may from queen.

[@wrathnev]

I was there 😃 my brother got us tickets 😊 it was a concert to raise money for bushfires and the people affected. They had two concerts at the same time in Melbourne and Sydney, I was at the Melbourne one, when Farnsey came out to sing this with Coldplay, it was the biggest moment of the day and the crowd went off! Despite so many big bands and singers that were killing it in the music world at the time that were performing, this was the biggest moment. And to answer your question, this is Farnsey’s song, he brought this song out before Coldplay reached puberty 😂 it was an awesome day there. Good job on the reactions and I’m glad you’re finding some Aussie stuff and enjoying it. 👍 🇦🇺 🦘

[@BobarissGish]

80518 people singing "you're the voice" is surreal experience.

[@mssuziquzi]

Just think he started singing in his teens and now he's still pulling thousands to his concerts in his 70's. Who does that and still sounds great? This was one of his last appearances at a concert to raise money for bush fire relief. Farnsy was there doing his bit along with Coldplay and many others. Unfortunately Covid put a stop to his planned concerts. Who knows when or if he will perform again?😞

[@princessannoir3323]

I was at this concert which was for Bush Fire and Flood Relief. It was run in Melbourne and Sydney at the same time.

[@Lisa-zs9vz]

John Farnham is absolutely magnificent I’ve been listening to this song for the last 2 hours keep up the good work mate

[@HDvids101]

Voted Australia's best song of all time in 2019 on some radio national vote.

[@sueaddison9958]

There will never be anyone like John Farnham. I so wish I was there 🌏🪐🍀🌕🙏🦜🐝🦋🇦🇺🦉🏡👣

[@michellelang2142]

Hi Matt. I am Australian also. A great John Farnham song is ANGELS live Thanks for your hard work. Love Michelle.

[@janegilmore102]

Matt this is when the Worlds music come to Aussie because our country that year nearly burned down so this was to raise money for our farmers who lost everything a lot of people lost everything. So they put this concert on.. there was 7000 rows as Chris said. If u listen to him while he intro John ( u were talking lol) and Chris said how they had to think of a song that would reach back to the last 7000 row and Ir goes something like this and they start the music. Gave me goose bumps when I first heard that 😀

[@pawsndclawz]

I'm really enjoying your channel!! I've been going to JF concerts for over 30 years now and I can tell you Matt, he is always the same genuine, funny guy with golden pipes! OH! And Ive met him too! And I am SO happy you have discovered our John!

[@Fish29077]

That’s incredible. Awesome!

[@Sunflower.aussie]

He also got asked to sing this with celine dion at her concert when she was touring here in Aus. Worth checking out.!! Oh and he's our godfather of music in australia

[@Spankedchicken]

There’s video of Farnham singing this with Celine Dion a couple of years ago. He’s 70 and blows Celine off the stage!

[@AussieDebb]

Hi Matt ❤ Farnsey is the G.O.A.T. Love him ❤

[@kismet52]

I was there it was absolute magic. John Farnham became know as the Man O The Hour (MOTH) there is a song of the same name. Came to your JF reactions a little late, love them.

[@melbal2]

Chris Martin of cold play would have been maybe 9 years old when Farnsie released this ha ha.

[@jano9091]

This concert was at the Sydney Cricket Ground, which has a seating capacity of 48,000 for a sporting event. With the actual playing field filled up.....? John was about 60 here. His voice changed in later years because he gave up smoking.

[@Dr_KAP]

We love that you love our Barnsey and Farnsey !!

[@carolynmck6046]

Please watch Farnham do burn for you......he wrote it about missing his wife on the road......insane.....and yes I was there and it was incredible

[@nikkolia]

It was the worst kept secret in the weeks leading up to this that Coldplay were going to bring him out to sing You're the Voice, reported in national newspapers a good fortnight before the concert happened, but everyone still went nuts over it when it happened!

[@roarsomemum5830]

was there! it was beyond awesome. he really made the music happen. keep looking back at your band.

[@rickandersen2284]

Wow

[@roarsomemum5830]

Don't let my kids know! It was an awesome concert

[@karenstrong8887]

They all performed for free to raise money for fire and flood victims. Same time in two Cities. John always turns up, he cares and even if we weren’t fans in the beginning he is loved now. Even John won’t sing his first hit song but he was 18 and he grew into who he was and is. He is kind and funny. I don’t think anything bad has ever been said about him and you cannot ignore that voice. My daughter was at the Melbourne one but she is a Muso. She came home from one concert with bruises all over her including her chest and stomach. She isn’t tall and she was at the barricade in front of the stage. The crowd moved forward and squashed her, I was a bit upset and she knows that is dangerous. She told me it was cool Mama. Two security guards grabbed my arms and lifted me over. I got to watch from the stage and then I got to hang out with the guys. That is a pretty normal crowd for this kind of concert here. My husband and I went to John’s first farewell tour. He is 72 now and the voice is still going strong.

[@alyn927]

Fabulous thankyou

[@jgsheehan8810]

I always notice that John Farnham has to take the microphone away a long way from his mouth when he belts it out. must have some real power.

[@julieholland9639]

I've seen him live here in western Australia, apart from humility and a great voice, he is a funny guy, always used to make jokes about his mother in law (whom he gets on well with)

[@tonyb4115]

Hi Matt this was an amazing performance. The crowd really took hold of the song and joined in every note. Great performance from John and Coldplay.

[@sharenedrennan1602]

It's always good with John 😁!! And this is his song!!! Nick-named australian national anthem

[@eala9800]

Sound Relief was a benefit concert for the Black Saturday bushfires that ravaged Victoria. I was at the Melbourne concert that ran at the same time as this one in Sydney. The MCG (Melbourne) stopped their concert and sat linked to Sydney just for this song. There is nothing like the whole of the MCG audience singing along with everyone in Sydney. Check out Ali W's video of the MCG singing along kzbin.info/www/bejne/d37RemeNgNqJpqc

[@markflint2629]

Was there, electrifying

[@angelawalters8453]

Cold Play are only guests at this concert. The song was created with John and his Promoter Glenn Wheatley. Glenn died about a week ago, God bless him

[@kiwinewz2042]

Lol yep he did overload the mic. They all did. Nobody was shy about belting it out in Oz and Kiwi music then. eg Noiseworks, Dragon etc ❤️your reactions. You gotta be in the audience singing, or side stage. Dude you play jazz. Vince Jones enough said ok. Nice dude awesome musician, jammed with him and Bruno Lawerence. Both just cool dudes, down to earth. Ozzy Audience participation 200% plus all gig’s.

[@heatherwickstead7980]

That comment about jazz musicians and rock musicians is very clever!

[@bmack24674]

He is not the man Matt! He is the " The Voice", well at least us Aussies call him that anyway....

[@janegilmore102]

That look of his was to me is him sating……………They know me ……he was late 60s here. Noooo I wish! Chris Adores John. I saw you react to him I cried lol. I’m not a Rod Stewart sorry. Yes to still do that @ 68 he truly IS THE VOICE.

[@CecilMuffin]

This is one of my all time favorite videos. Like the whole crowd knows within second, what the song is, thats what this song means to Australians. So it gives me a sense of major pride. Also no, this is a johm farnham song. This concert is in Australia. The crowd is there to see coldplay and to impress the crowd coldplay played a john farnham song from the 80s that absolutely almost every aussie knows hence why everyine sang along.

[@AnnQlder]

Loved this

[@dee-smart]

"You're the Voice" is a song written by Andy Qunta, Keith Reid, Maggie Ryder and Chris Thompson, and recorded by the Australian singer John Farnham and released as a single in September 1986 ahead of his album Whispering Jack.Wikipedia Recorded: 1985-1986

[@meganlawson4575]

How can you not know Coldplay? At one time they were the biggest band in the world. They are from the UK.

[@sharenedrennan1602]

I love jazz, and i love that saying about the thousand chords 😁 there is a great jazz venue in Brisbane, Queensland overlooking the river which certainly attracts more than 4 people, but yeah! Not nearly as many as John!!

[@strayandrongo7461]

Makes me laugh how hard the crowd goes to this song, but to be honest put it on at any Aussie party and everyone sings like a lunatic! Ha!

[@AmandaHallPsychic]

This was a benefit concert for the big Australian Bushfires in 2009 and brought John Farnham back out of retirement to much delight of his fans since the 1960"s. He sang with Cold Play from England . was a multi-venue rock music concert held on 14 March 2009, which was announced by the Premier of Victoria, John Brumby on 24 February 2009. The event was organised by Michael Gudinski, Michael Chugg, Amanda Pelman, Joe Segreto & Tom Lang of IMC/Homebake Festival and Mark Pope to raise funds for those affected by the February 2009 Victorian bushfires.

[@ingridbaasbecking2999]

In his 70s here! Wow! This was the concert for bushfire aid, is that right?

[@leannemayor5755]

This was at the Sydney cricket ground and cold play are English or Irish and I just insulted one or another country but who cares it’s our John . He is in his 70’s now here in 2021 but we still adore him and always will xoxo btw I adore jazz . My dad made me listen to it every time he took me horse riding . He made me listen hooked on swing hooked on classics and I grew up with glen miller the sound track of my life John is Aussie soul at its finest xoxox cold play are good but have nothing on him

[@hannahmm5889]

I was there that day and it was incredible 🙌🏼

[@wallywombat164]

Great bloke is John. He's getting on a bit now but still gives 1000% every performance.

[@roarsomemum5830]

he is indeed awesome!

[@fourocker]

Kudos to you for digging up so much interesting stuff on John, he has the best singing voice in the world.

[@lmaree200886]

Dude Matt, did you forget that this is John's song? You literally did a reaction video on this song (the official video) 5 months ago!

[@mattcriscuolo1541]

Hey, thanks for letting me know. I didn’t realize that. Every once in a while I duplicate a video because I’m so short on time that I don’t do the research, and sometimes I simply forget. I’m sorry about that :-)

[@lmaree200886]

@@mattcriscuolo1541 Ah okay, no problem! I've been skimming through your videos, you definitely make a lot in a short time! Love that you're doing more Aussie artists too. Gosh, I remember Guy Sebastian winning Aus Idol all those years ago and when I met him at Hillsong Church in Sydney not long after 😁 Also my mother was a BIG John Farnham fan in the 90's. She has so much personal memorabilia and notes. He knew her by name as she went to every Sydney concert and TV appearances he did. If you can find it there's a 10 min video of him on The Ray Martin Show (Aus daytime TV), where he sings an acoustic version of Burn For You and my mum appears in it a few times sitting in the audience holding one of his vinyl albums dressed in red and her big pouffy perm! I've even met him as a young kid, I have the pic on my Facebook page 😁 I think my mum has also snuck in a few drunk pashy kisses with him too! 😂 His wife Jillian knows what his fans are like but she trusts him.

[@narellesmith7932]

Do it . Do create a Farnsey playlist. You won’t regret it. Check out Ray Charles and John singing Imagine you’ll love it

[@jenniewilliams6392]

Half the crowd weren't even born when.he release this song and yes he's in his 70s

[@4adgray2]

"You're the Voice" was written for John by Chris Thompson / Maggie Ryder / Andy Qunta / Keith Reid

[@kane29842]

lmao Farnsey. Honorary Citizenship granted.

[@barboblisk1029]

Sydney Cricket Ground, very historic structures. About 350m diameter!!!

[@helenmckee4646]

This concert was held at Sydney cricket ground and Melbourne cricket ground with over 120,000 people attending to raise money for bushfire victims 2009

[@christineyates2618]

You love John? You don't know he is recovering from mouth cancer? He's doing well and has progressed to therapy, he started singing at 19 yo, and is 73yo, at this time.

[@janegilmore102]

Lol Farmsy goodonya lol. Cold Play =UK but Chris Martin Love Farmsy. Lol. He was hitting 70 in this. I love seeing his face looking at the young generation knowing his song…. Proud moment for him. No John wrote it

[@phillipsmith5405]

He is a living legend

[@mareekelly1579]

There is another singer called Jimmy Barns that we call Barnsy, so it sounds really strange to hear you call John Farnham, Farnsy. They even sang together at times and were the best of mates.

[@lmaree200886]

The duo have always been called Farnsey and Barnsey since they did 'When something is wrong with my baby' duet which this dude has already done a video for.

[@dee-smart]

Just so you know, the SCG is the Sydney Cricket Ground in New South Wales.

[@AngelaWalters-xr5wx]

Coldplay is from UK but was here on tour

[@ptd0123]

All Aussies know this song

[@krystle2312]

It was written by some song writers back in the 70's. John has the rights i think.

[@jeffwilson7100]

It's at the Sydney Cricket Ground, which has a stadium capacity of 48000. That doesn't include all those that are on the field. Safe to say that it's a f**k ton of people.

[@felicitymoore7340]

Sydney Cricket/Football Ground. Huge crowd. We're talking close to 100,000 people. Benefit Concert 'Sound Relief" for victims of the 2009 Australians Bushfires.

[@felicitymoore7340]

@@lmaree200886 it was Televised in Melbourne, but from the Sydney Cricket Ground. Note Live from SCG on Video.

[@holgervoigt4315]

This was a smash hit back in the late 80s - in a different version. I think there was a bagpiper in the video. Good to hear that song again. Btw, here´s a little piece I think you might find interesting to react to kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5KsZ2WZqr15iqc

[@wallywombat164]

John Farnham is 71 years old/ young now.

[@AngelaWalters-xr5wx]

Coldplay was on tour He's from England

[@rickandersen2284]

Most of them were babies when this came out and some were just a twinkle in someone's eye.

[@Kevin89866]

That is a 60 year old man singing a 30 year old song for 20 year olds with one of the most current legendary modern bands of the 2010's

[@rodentcafeteria]

In what universe is Coldplay considered a "legendary" band? They were certainly hugely popular for a brief period I'll give you that. But legendary? Not even close.

[@flamestergirl]

This was a charity event held across Australia to raise funds for those affected by the black Saturday fires in Victoria and the devastating floods in Queensland.

[@jenniferjacobs228]

This was a charity concert so a lot of people.

[@amandameale6000]

The audio is not great. If you want to see older John, the audio is good on the Hay Mate concert.❤ PS When Australians say Farnsey, it sounds more like : Faaahnsey. No R.

[@sallieb6435]

are you serious? LOL COLDPLAY

[@jamesluby6705]

The hair might go, but the voice doesn't...

[@AngelaWalters-xr5wx]

This song was created by John Farnham NOT Coldplay

[@ChrisFirth-do2sm]

It was created by 4english people, who said no to John singing it. He did it anyway. And the rest as they say, is history.

[@judgey79]

Typical jazz player trying to make money off you tube … when does it end 😭

[@mattcriscuolo1541]

Lol. Just rakin’ it in….