one of the best groups to walk on this earth

one of my favourite prog bands, very underated, superb blend of symphonic rock with beautiful vocals from Annie Haslam, and fantastic lyrics too. Im in my 70s now and been listening to this band for 50 years.

Glad that as a metalhead a lot of my favorite artists grew up with this music and they speak of it very fondly in interviews and such. Discovered Song for all Seasons throu Mikael from Opeth two years ago, and have since then destroyed the entire Renaissance discography. We can't let this music fade away.

I played this last night in full, maybe for the first time in many years. It brought a tear to my eyes after all this time. It's a beautiful track that I have loved since it first came out. I so loved what they did and the way John Tout's beautiful keyboard work and writing was so prevalant.

Lay back, close your eyes and listen to one of the most beautiful voices of all time

From the first time I opened my LP of Novella and heard this track, I was hooked. Still today, the sound from this vinyl album is amazing and one I've treasured since. This live version is just as amazing. Thx for posting!

Wow wow wow. Thank you for posting. Reminds me of why I and many others in the New York/New Jersey area were in love with Annie Haslam. Annie looks great and sounds great! Fantastic to see the guys as well-- John Tout was a brilliant keyboardist and Terry Sullivan was so tasteful on drums. Michael Dunford wrote so many creative, original songs, and Jon Camp added a lot to the signature sound on bass. So nice to see and hear, and of course the forever beautiful Annie. Thanks again!

How much fun it must have been for Michael Dunford and Betty Thatcher to write songs for this band, knowing that, whatever they came up with, Annie and the others could pull it off.

Annie Haslam, the voice from another, perfect universe.

Very beautiful. Annie is precious. Love watching the close-ups of hands playing this form of music. This song is from Novella which was the first Renaissance I bought in '78 when I was in college.

Genuine Renaissance...Wonderful Pure Voice,a Classic...

Novella album by Renaissance is still my favorite of all time New Age Music. They were way ahead of their time. Their music is like no other group ever. They are one of a kind. They are the Pioneers of New Age Music. They put me in a state of isolated limbo. Annie came from above with her wings on to sing with her angelic voice.

Beautiful song, Beautiful voice... Beautiful album , Novella is great masterpiece! Thanks Renaissance.

Classic line up !! Terrance Sullivan is such a dynamic drummer. At their peak.

All fans gather here. This is Renaissance. This is it. Come here and rejoice!

Simply fantastic!

This woman's voice should be placed in the Smithsonian!!!

I remember hearing this when I lived in Toronto, on the radio. This group was played often. I alwYs lived her voice and the abstract style. Never forgot it. Decades later it is one of the most beautiful sounds in my memory.

Another great Renaissance song. After 40 years it still stirs me as it did when I was in school.

A genuine Renaiscence. Annie Haslam has a Wonderful voice and all group is marvellows

This band isn't popular... but very influential for sure! I love them! :D

I love this band! And you're never too old to rock!

I got to know this band while on college in Middelburg, The Netherlands. Been a favourite ever since. Have all their albums by now. Annie's vocals are wonderful to say the least. Unfortunately I never saw them live. The most underrated progband in the business

So far, that concert is my favorite live recording of Renaissance. I saw the whole thing on KZfaq a while back. It really shows them all at their finest.

Amazing what three men can produce. A cake with icing -- the icing being Annie's voice of course. When I listened to this in the 70's I thought I was hearing many instruments on many different tracks. It seemed impossible to me that anyone could produce "progressive rock" like this in a live performance. Unless, of course, they had a few dozen musicians backing them up. It wasn't until just be for the 11:00 minute mark that I finally saw what the drummer was sneaking off to do. I just could not figure out where that sound was coming from. Thanks for sharing! - Reg.

Classic Band ....and classic music

Annie has such a beautiful; voice. I'm so used to the studio version, hearing performed live is a neat treat.

Renaissance are so talented and I love there music

I’ve always loved watching Terrance Sullivan play drums. The visual was always musical.

really a fantastic band playing beautiful music. I will buy this whenever it is released on DVD!!! I wish this group would get back together - Jon Camp is just an amazing presence, bass and vocals. And John Tout is such a huge talent on keyboards! And Terry Sullivan plays the drums so perfectly for this unigue kind of music...what a band, what a band!

Awesome dynamics here from the Queen of voice. Some sorta falsetto for "I call your name" and then a very thick and rich tone for the main verse...and it's live too!

Renaissance Pioneers of New Age/Progressive Music who were so far ahead of the curve still 2 this day.

One of the greatest singers of the human race.

This is simply beautiful. I loved hearing this as a child on quiet winter evenings, just me and my father playing scrabble together after losing my mum back in the 70's. It still evokes those times. The live version here misses the orchestra specifically at the beginning but nonetheless, a great performance.

Very great goth music...very dark...very pensive...emotive.

An amazing song!

just wanted to say you are so right. I loved her for about 40 years also. Saw them more then 25 times. Most of them in the front row. Met her back stage many times also.

Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much. :o) I can still remember my excitment when this was broadcast. I was 16 and had just discovered this amazing band (OGWT May 76) ... then they were on the Telly again … AND simulcast on the radio in stereo. I rigged up the old hi-fi in the living room and it all looked and sounded superb. Can’t believe it’s taken so long to get on KZfaq … but you’ve made my day. Thanks again !

Amazing band , amazing song !

Annie Haslam - Voice of an Angel

They barely had a profile here in Australia...but a local record shop proprietor knew me and my musical bent (plural?) well, thought I'd like them...and played me the first track of an import he'd acquired: cue "Trip To The Fair". Of course I was sold, and what an exceptional talent was Annie Haslam. Have searched out, played and enjoyed the albums 1970-79 ever since. Annie still possesses that golden and glorious voice, and all power to her. Thank you for posting these fabulous mementoes. Annie...ahhh..!

Stunning! Entrancing! Flawless! LOVE! Wow I am enjoying this. Haven't heard Renaissance in ages, but used to have their music on vinyl & have heard them Live several x's. GORGEOUS. Nice to take a 'lil breather and revisit this. Sure brings back memories, and just a re-injection of an Energy that is Good Medicine right now! I used to play this song on guitar, and some of their other songs on piano.....and sing too. Annie, as well as Shawn Phillips, were my "vocal teachers" when I was a teen.

what a voice.

Wow! .... seems like only a few years ago that I would pop the Cassette in the car and listen...nothing finer!

There are a few women whose voices alone can make one fall in love with them. The voice of Annie Haslam has been a Siren's call to me for almost 40 years.

Thank you KZfaq for showing this, Ashes Are Burning and Can’t You Understand. Great songs but even better performances

I like this performance for allowing us to hear more of Annie's range than many of the more well known pieces do. Annie has a 5 octave range. I didn't know until yesterday that a friend of mine who I know is classically trained has (maybe now it's "had") a range of 4-1/2 octaves. They are both a treat to hear in person. Your spine tingles.

Really beautiful

That voice. She doesn't drop a syllable - even on the LA LAs! JC's sonorous bass, and Mr Tout failing to avoid the cameras. Fantastic.

Fantastic!!!!

This was the first in a short series of S and S.. Other memorable concerts that year were Camel and Santana.

WOW !!! WISH,only WISH this whole show was on DVD- Thanks so much !!

My favorite of theirs. I saw this tour for free in Dallas Texas. And got to sit in the front row middle. They were playing in Houston and Dallas for free to try to open themselves up to those big markets.

I wonder if Annie realizes how MANY teenage boys FELL in love like I did!!

Truly a masterpiece!

Clannad is another great band with Enya's, sister, brothers and twin uncles playing. They're still active. Enya was originally in the band too.

When Terry hits that gong, you know the song is good.

Come d incanto questa interpretazione di annie haslam disegna un mondo musicale fantasioso con la sua magica voce bianca ricca di fraseggi e acuti accompagnata dai fantastici amici musicali renaissance ❤😂😅

EPIC

Excellent!

I love her!!!

I saw Renaissance in concert when I was stationed in England, I think it was in Cambridge. I have had a crush on Annie ever since...

Voz angelical!!!!!!!

The performance is very faithful to the studio recording. They make it look easy, but it isn't.

Renaissance live Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver Colorado in the late 70's. Promoting the Novella album. If I recall, the concerted started with "Can you hear me call your name."

Até hoje é uma das minhas bandas favoritas e A. Haslam é simplesmente fenomenal. As canções do grupo são fantásticas e estão a ano-luz das "melodias" da atualidade.

É UMA VIAGEM NO PROGRESSIVO COM MÚSICA RENASCENTISTA, OS CARAS SÃO UMA ORQUESTRA. ESSA MULHER É A COISA MAIS LINDA DO MUNDO. E QUE VOZ.

Never too old to rock n roll!!!

25 years ago I listened to Renaissance's albums and mourned that such excellence could not possibly be reproduced live. I assumed Annie did 100 takes and they spliced together her best notes. I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY CREATE SUBLIME PERFECTION LIVE! It is literally gasp-inducing. Do they get that male-voice-chant effect at 9:55 with a synth?

Jon Camp could make a Bass do things that I've never seen repeated in over 30 years.

GRANDE ANNIE !!!

Desde que escuché esta pieza en radio, allá por inicio de los 80's, la voz de ângel de Anne ha acompañado desde entonces... y desde entonces la he amado como solo a un ángel se le puede amar. Música espiritual, para enriquecer el espíritu.... Thanks a lot... beautiful masterpiece

I have a 1976 issue of Rolling Stone with an article about Renaissance. It said the band (mainly Dunfurd, the guitarist) would make a recording of the music and mail it to this woman Thatcher (forgot her first name-she was not a member of the band) and she would write the lyrics and mail them back to the band. Bought "Novella" in the summer of '77 when I was 17 and fell in love.

Beyond amazing!! Thanks forever for this Upload!!! Greetz from Germany

Sensacional !!

This recording is apparently coming out on CD, I can not wait!!

This is great thankx for the up load

Best of best

A rare, 5 octave voice. I saw them play last year in a small theater. I could NOT believe this woman was only about 10 ft. away from me, singing for us...it was truly surreal. So close I felt like she was singing to me in my living room! The theater only holds 600 and I was in front. Very intimate and a dream come true. I want to do it again!

La reproduccion automatica de youtube te lleva a lugares extraños

I first heard part of this song sampled in "We Ain't Fessin'" by Deep Puddle Dynamics. I thought the way they used it was so pretty and matched their song perfectly. Now I've heard the full song and I think it's just as beautiful.

Hermoso tema

It's been a while since i looked for any Renaissance on YT. Great to see some high quality clips. thanks for posting. This is one of my favorites of theirs. The "I call your name" section always gives me shivers. Too bad they didn't do "Black Flame" on this show. or did they?

WOW.

what a voice..........

Captivating song. It sounds appropriate for a James Bond movie.

Before there was EVANESSENCE, there was RENAISSANCE!

thatcher really pounded them skins during the albums from the later period

fabulous! Love Johnny Denham!

Up there with ELP's 1970 version of "Pictures at an Exhibition" for my all time favorite live prog recording.

Fabulous !!! I have been waiting for years to see this concert. I watched the original on BBC2 and recorded the audio onto a cassette tape. I don't think there were video recorders in 1977. I have always been a fan and always will be, if the reformed line up would tour in the UK it would be great ! Do you have any more of the concert ? A thousand thanx for posting the songs 8-) 8-) 8-)

How did KZfaq algorithm knows about I love this band and Annie?.

nothing finer! ... the way prog rock was meant to be ...

Betty Thatcher (RIP) was their lyricist and did not perform any of the music. Their drummer at the time you mention was Terence Sullivan and he was with them from 1972 to 79/80.

ANNIE HASLAN I DO LOVE YOU!

the vocalist have a voice sweet

Renaisssance... the cream de la cream

Betty Thatcher was the lyricist for the band on most of its albums. Terry/Terence Sullivan was the drummer on nearly all their albums -- well, the ones that mattered, anyway. ;) Betty Thatcher never played drums for the band and they also never had a drummer named Thatcher. But each of them, separately, were masters at their respective crafts.

❤ Alberto Gerbes ❤❤❤❤

oooo shh:)) perfect !!