Wreckless Eric - "Whole Wide World" 1980

[@toddhyatt4778]

I'd go the whole wide world just to hear "Whole Wide World" (1977), by Wreckless Eric.

[@Oldskaterguy101]

Saw him last night. He's still got it 😊

[@shaeedjony5002]

Is he still alive?

[@shelleyc1897]

Jealoussssss

[@stephenwivverP]

Wow that's brilliant, might have been 2 year ago you posted that but I cant believe that they were still performing. Absolutely timeless punk classic. 👍👍👍

[@vampirrecs]

check this out:kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4bSc2yFqNCWfqs

[@goodtimes7128]

I saw him two nights ago, MOTH club, fantastic 🙂

[@trinity3422]

More bands and artists should be wanting to cover this song and making new versions of it to live on for ages. I thought that Cage the Elephant did a great job. This song must stay alive is my point!

[@richardwarner3705]

Will Ferrell.😎🤩😜

[@trinity3422]

@@richardwarner3705 absolutely, Stranger than Fiction!

[@richardwarner3705]

@@trinity3422 Truer words were never spoken.🤓😎🖖

[@Dulcimerist]

Die Toten Hosen did a great one, and they had Wreckless Eric with them on it.

[@jamesmaxwell3933]

As it happens Cliff Richard asked to do just that but wanted to omit '...caressing her warm brown skin...'. Wreckless said no (obviously).

[@lynnmontoya7708]

Makes me happy !

[@gregwarner6319]

probably the greatest song of the 20th century

[@acejames-tu8if]

really?

[@marshsherrif2824]

best love song. no doubt.

[@tb7669]

YES.

[@johnashburne6323]

oh yes

[@grahamboffey457]

Completely agree.

[@beantown_billy2405]

Saw him open for Bosstones, good performance

[@geoffwilkins5274]

As previously stated here, this is better than the studio recording.

[@1956dannyboy]

Fantastic

[@steveclark5206]

My teenage daughter heard the cover version by Cage the Elephant and when I told it was a cover, she is now is interested in “classic” rock (am I really old enough that the music of my youth is now considered classic? Lol). Hey, however kids get into loving REAL music I’m all for it!

[@cs292]

Tell her its badass Powerpop, not classic anything.

[@pierrealexandre5701]

saw Eric in Perth,West Australia in 1981,one of the most charismatic live performers I have had the pleasure of being entertained by.........

[@billgrundie8478]

Good Lord - I was there too! Hotel in South Perth somewhere. Brilliant

[@bealetm]

@@billgrundie8478 The Raffles. (Actually Applecross rather than South Perth.) He's back tomorrow. Weird to think I'll be seeing him perform here again after 38 years.

[@elvisking4742]

@@bealetm I saw Mr. Wreckless on the same tour in Canberra - Yes I agree one of the best live performances on the 80's. I still have the live double vinyl album.

[@marcraygun6290]

That bass player john brown lives in my small west wales town , used to see him doing gigs round here , had ago on that thunderbird bass in this video and it was great

[@Kammler03]

Unbelievable that I can watch this !!! THANX !!!

[@jburma]

Thank you for uploading. I had forgotten what a great song this is.

[@BookimCrocker]

Rough as......brilliant.

[@TheGhostFisher]

it's a great song, but damn, that hiss........

[@richardjewett]

that his is what we had to deal with back then. The recording tech was what what it was

[@johnmitchelljr]

What a live version of a great song should sound like . Thank you.

[@peterescue]

From memory he was working as a trawlerman and had just returned from being at sea for a couple of months.

[@AguirreFurorediDio1]

it is true, conveys the joy of playing .... And it is nice to know That it is still playing around

[@solotravis9427]

this is greatness

[@bosco3131]

Classic!

[@andymac1873]

What a great song

[@higgme1ster]

The whole Earth is in this kid.

[@thesilenthome9500]

Chorus TV animated by rock-critic Antoine de Caunes was so ahead of its time choosing an underground like him back in the day, but how bloody brilliant!

[@KurtKnutsen]

thanks

[@trendtalklive]

I would have loved to have heard the Ramones cover this.

[@mbogucci1]

pass

[@themillwall442]

Legend

[@lucvanhemel5868]

Saw them live in the 70’s in Herenthout belgium

[@marknorris3769]

wow

[@ROUBA33]

BRLLIANT!

[@lindalovesmusic9091]

Reckless Eric Rocks.

[@middy2703]

Love this

[@elchappio305]

Bands from those years looked fucking great...real geezers playing a 2 chord song

[@christopherscotellaro5027]

Nice n epic

[@richwiz2]

He was a trip, indeed.

[@ARISTOILET]

He still is!

[@mbogucci1]

you lost me at "was".

[@jamesgower1601]

great song

[@arpionatore]

Anna Oxa,Italian singer,covered this song in the 1978 as "Un cielo a metà". Listen and see the video on "KZbin"!Ciao.

[@Baltimore1894]

Great song!

[@javiervidal71]

Gran tema!!!

[@nollaigo]

brilliant

[@kennywinston8025]

I like the way that both The Monkees and Mental As Anything covered this song. Both did some justice to the song ,not saying that Eric didn't do a good job because he did.

[@thomasbarr5940]

He wrote it lol

[@marshsherrif2824]

SouthSide Johhny, Graham Parker and this guy.

[@amcclay415]

I'm here Eric !

[@EkafEmanresu]

Stranger than fiction, anybody?

[@ZoroHayoung]

Htims Senoj Ominona me lol this film is a masterpiece! And that scene... when he start to play this... it's lovely one of the best love scene.

[@heftyalan1152]

Htims Senoj Ominona No Ade for me

[@DR-lh9rm]

Yep. Just watched it last night for the first time.

[@andyroberts8427]

@@DR-lh9rm she lunges at will as he's playing this song....

[@RickyRayPhotography]

"Whole Wide Bworld."

[@dollreemappmmk14]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@dustindetwiler6041]

Are you here?

[@lindalovesmusic9091]

John Gallagher Jr rocks this song!

[@helamasoares2319]

Clássico

[@morondes]

2:30 Napoleon Dynamite?

[@mentirosoduarte]

Looking for this exact comment. Thanks!

[@pooney1646]

@Greg: it is.

[@jeffreylowe5694]

Is that Larry Wallis on guitar?

[@controlledburst]

My wristwatch brought me here

[@shelleyc1897]

🤟

[@bigredbigirish4027]

Would you go that far?

[@1964jazzbass]

over goodness

[@doctorlechit]

Зажигалочка)

[@clivewillis3971]

Only one girl in the world ..............she lives in ? im still looking

[@gravytopic]

Probably Tahiti

[@vampirrecs]

whole show in 1980 U.C. Berkeley FREE lunch time concert outside:kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4bSc2yFqNCWfqs

[@rowjoh3933]

its 2 chords... 'emperors new clothes' ?

[@Wildmanbrown123]

Doesn't the Bass Player look SEXY!

[@ouFabLseK-LLangir]

no idea

[@ptbread6217]

Bad sound

[@mbogucci1]

sucks to be you feeling the need to make this comment.

[@WilliamBell-vg6wk]

Great song