Thumbs up if you're listening to this classic in 2024

I was 20 years old and my first love said she wanted to see other people. This song came out the same week. It was excruciating. After pining away for her and exercising for a full year I walked into a bar and saw a gorgeous brunette. She gave me two great kids and is asleep beside me 45 years later.

Don't care what anyone says, the 70's produced the best music ever!

Was 15 when this beautiful song hit the airwaves... It is march 2024 now and still enjoying as it sent me back to my teens. 😢

These songs brings tears of joy and sorrow at the same time . Back when music had a heart and soul

Like many the 60s, 70s, 80s were the best years for songs and artists. The variety there for everyone. Something that this generation is in need of.❤️

I was 17 when this song came on the radio. I'm so grateful to have spent my teenage years in the 70s. Would love to return!! Such a great time.

Possibly one of the most perfect songs ever crafted. Timeless.

one of the best things about 64 years old,is the fact that i lived my teenage years in the 70's that is priceless and I am grateful!!!

I believe that somewhere in the world, there are people who feel the same emotions that I feel when I listen to masterpieces like this song.

Peter Cetera’s voice is incredible…..just shoots through the soul.❤

This was the song played at my High School Homecoming Dance that I had taken a beautiful girl name Mimi. Hearing this song always reminded me of her and just last month while visiting my mothers grave I noticed Mimi's gravestone just 2 graves away from my mothers. I was shocked at her untimely death and heart broken to see she had passed away and buried so close to my mother. Mimi had passed away 11 years ago while my mother had passed away 20 years ago. Even though we had not seen each other since High School I always thought of her and will always think of her when I hear this song.

This 1976 hit doesn't age much. This is TIMELESS until 2021 and still counting!

This song has always fascinated me. Not because of the lyrics, but how the instruments are used so subtle and simple, yet so perfectly. An instrumental masterpiece.

i am 60 and cant believe where the time went ?? i look back and think we had so much great music x

No matter what era, this diamond of a song is purely timeless.

Here in 2022. Great music never dies 🙏🏿 I was 4 years old when this came out. My parents were going through a divorce. My dad was in the basement, crying like a baby and playing this over and over. Till this day he doesn't know I saw him at one the lowest most heartbreaking moments of his life. I love both my parents but I'm glad he eventually found someone who he didn't have to play this for again. He just listens to it now because, again, great music never dies 🙏🏿

If this song was released today, it could easily break the record of the longest stay at number 1

I'm so glad I was born in 1958. I wouldn't change a thing.

I was 11 when this came out and remember first hearing this out in a store with my mum she smiled at me as I said I loved this song shes passed on now but memories of that day will stay with me forever best days of my life I wish I could go back life was better in the 70s ! 😢❤😪🙏

40 years later and it sounds just as good as it did then. The 70's were the greatest decade for music!

It's one of those songs. In my adolescence I thought it was OK. Listening to it again after more than 40 years, I realise it is a masterpiece.

Music from the 70's and the 80's touched your heart, allowed you to express your love to your soulmate, and had meaning behind their lyrics! Music today doesn't even get close to what and how we felt and enjoyed during those times.

I was. Kid in the 70s and a teenager in the 80s. Chicago was a great band. 70s & 80s were the best decades for music 🎶.

This song has been the number one in my "Top 10 list" for almost 20 years and I still love it!

I was 6 years old when this charted. It moved me then the same way it moves me today. I became a HUGE Chicago fan in the mid 80's during their ' comeback ', but the Greatest Hits II cassette with this song got the most attention. During my crazy single 20's, I played this as my late night guilty pleasure, drunk ,alone,sing along . Married with a career into my 30's, I took advantage of technology and downloaded every Chicago album, through 18, onto my ipod(!) , enjoying every period of their incredible catalog of progressive jazz/prog rock to .....disco?... Something about this song, though, always makes me stop and start singing. My wife of 22 happily married years wonders why such a melancholy song would make me so emotionally HAPPY. It's just the SONG.... It's perfect

I was only 7 yrs old. Always loved this song. The instruments are phenomenal. ❤❤❤

This song has made me cry since I was a little girl. I vaguely remember hearing it on the radio as a preschooler, when we lived in a two-bedroom apartment in the projects. My one memory of this song was when my brother and sister’ dad took my mom and us to her father’s gravesite, and she couldn’t find it. Then we drove around the neighborhood…My mom is gone, their dad is gone, and the neighborhood has changed so much. It’s just sad how the older you get the more people you lose

I’m 59. I did all me high school in the 70s. If I have to choose a decade to spend my teenage years again, it will be 70s over and over a million times.

One of my all-time favourites. How time has flies and I'm going into my 60s now.

Us old people are watching for a quick trip down memory lane😊

I was 12 when this came out now I'm 53 wow what a change in music God bless the 1970s

Cetera voice amazing. No auto tune, no bullshit. Just talent

I lost my husband 6 months ago, this song hit me hard. Beautiful song, brought me to tears during their concert tonight. I've heard it many times but today, I felt it.

Crazy how this song so deeply brings back the pains of young love.

Peter Cetera é extremamente talentoso! Ele simplesmente reproduziu ao vivo a versão de estúdio. Absolutamente incrível!

This song is a masterpiece & I love it just as much now as I did back in the 70's.

After Peter left Chicago they have NEVER had a replacement singer as good as Peter !!!

Who is watching in 2024

I'm a millennial, this song was before my time, but i love it. It reminds me of the most precious thing i ever had in my life.. My mom. She use to sing it all the time. So this song stays in my heart where she remains eternally.

Ughhh, That voice!!! This surely is a timeless hit. I can never just listen to it once. I have to have it on repeat for a while and just let it sink in. Peter Ceteras voice captivates you. Definitely one of my top 10 best of all time. I'm 51 now and glad to have been alive during it's release. ❤

Omgosh- 82, just discovered Chicago- friends telling me it was ungodly music- kicked out of Bible college for listening to it … such great memories 🥹

One of my favorite Chicago songs when i was a teenager in the 1970s. 🕊 🌻

1977, when I separated with my girl, on d last day, she gave me this cassette. Then I worked abroad for almost 3 years. But, she has been my wife for 38 years now. What a world...

Abril de 2023 estou ouvindo essa música lindíssima. Saudades deste tempo que não volta mais 😢😢

30/04/74, com apenas 03 anos eu me lembro dos meus pais dançando romanticamente e ouvindo essa música! Estou fazendo 49 anos hoje e ainda me lembro da linda cena e carinho! Amo essa música por demais!!! Alguém em 2023 ouvindo tb??? Amor! Jana 🇧🇷❤

I am 47 and when I look at this crazy world now I feel sorry for the young people of this generation. We were so much at ease and free when I was a kid. We could run, play and ride bikes and did not have to worry about getting kidnapped. The whole neighborhood stood together and watched all the kids when they roamed. Such a wonderful time. It is a little sad for me when I listen to the music because so many people I loved, friends and family, are now gone. Just 24 hours to be young and care free again. I remember my parents and the extended family being so young and dancing to these songs.

very special classic, Peter Cetera and Chicago, solid gold standard of excellence for 50 years, great music & great memories of life

La canteremo ancora per 100 mila anni, Immensa,super meravigliosa ,fantastica, dove una volta si faceva musica di straordinaria qualità.

Keep loving.♥️🤙😇If they walk they will know what they lost later.Hearts never forget but they forgive. That’s real love. Thanks for sharing.

Music does not get any better than this, wow

One of the most beatiful love songs ever writen,,,,,,,, thanks Peter Cetera

This group was absolutely phenomenal. I'm 44 yrs old and I appreciate the passion that they put into music. This arrangement is so soothing. ❤❤

Over 40 years ago but I remember this like it was yesterday - some performances just stay with you. Peter Cetera, so expressive and watchable - lovely hair too! Beautiful, heart-rending song with a sublime orchestral blend, yet managing a focus on the guitars - a real masterpiece. Sheer class 💜🇬🇧

I know this came out in 1976, but I was born in 1981. And when I first heard this I was 11 years old. My eleven year old heart was breaking over a love I never knew about. Lol I absolutely love this song and this group.

I heard this around my elementary years. I’m 27 now. This song came out in the 70’s! Thank you dad for showing me diversity in music. Got this on my repeat list in 2021.

This damn music suddenly drags me back in time when I was still in high school. The times of my life where everything is good and carefree.

Remembering my sweet husband got married in "76" this was always playing on the radio. Thinking of u Tom!

Beautiful Songs.....Love Chicago!!!

The strings, horns, and Peter's voice really set this band apart from others!

Essa musica me emocionava quando eu tinha 16 anos e me emociona hoje que tenho 59. Da mesma forma

So many parts of the is song are beautiful. The strings, the brass exclamations, the lyrics.

Great version! Cetera killing it! Hard song to sing too!

I feel you Trevor...

The vibes they created with this song... are something special!✨

So thankful I can watch this this

I miss this kind of music

Such a distinctive voice. Love Cetera and Chicago!

I was 10 years old when I heard this song on TV on a Saturday morning. I was playing chasey in the house and outside at the time. I stopped and heard how beautiful this song was and looked at the TV. I think this was the first song I liked. I thought the singing and the instruments sounded so smooth and soft like silk. It seemed like perfection.

The most beautiful ballad which the pop has ever produced. An absolute masterpiece. No musical group has surpassed this composition in brilliance and beauty. I grew up during this time and associate the most wonderful memories with this song.

My favorite Chicago song. Peter has great vocals for this song.

Anyone growing up in the 70's as soon as you hear those first few beats, you know what's coming ........

I never tire of this song, it kinda takes me back to a time of innocence in my youth, a hopeless romantic trying to find love

I was in school and there were hard days. I remember that if I heard this song on the radio before I left for school, I took it as a good omen because it meant so much to me. What a beautiful and delicate song this was.

I agree with so many comments on here, the 70’s was a great time for being a teen. We use to couple roller skate to this song. Loved it!! Brings back special memories.🥰💗

Always loved this song, although i was born in 1979. Music from the seventies is the best ❤️

Trevor Philips 🥹 GTA 5 was such a lovely game and made me fall in love with this music ♥️

March 2023. Song is still as fresh as ever and I'm 76 ffs!!

Dammit Butters, putting this song in my head...

Let me close my eyes then open them to have me back in 1977 just for a day or so. The music was so great back in the day.

Chicago.....doesn't get any better.....

I was born 1968, in 1977 i witnessed my eldest brother and his wife argued all the time, my sister in law then played our toshiba player with this 45 single titled "if you leave me now"

Wow... sounded exactly the same live as on the radio. That voice was such a gift and so effortless! ❤️

The best part is having a 71yr old mum who used to listen this with me when I was young..she indicted me to this priceless music..at 33 i can't just get enough.

Listening to Peter you return to the past with a tear you return from the past and continue crying. Peter Cetera You are already a legend.

Peter Cetera is such a great talent! He sounds just like the record.. Absolutely Amazing!

When people had a song tell a story…😔

CETERA STILL TOURS WITH HIS OWN BAND. SAW HIM AT FOXWOODS LIVE. HASN'T LOST A THING. DOESN'T USE AUTO TUNE, PRE RECORDED TRACKS, OR ANY TECHNO GIMMICKS. JUST INCREDIBLE TALENT AND VOICE. THE REAL DEAL. DON'T MISS HIM

An most beautiful Song with an most beautiful Singer with an most beautiful voice.❤Chicago❤ forever.🤗🥰😘❤💛💙🧡💜💚👍

Tenho 63 anos, Vivi tudo isso, simplesmente fantástico. Agradeço a Deus por ter vivido tudo isso. 🙏🙏

Love the 70s. The best music ever. I'm glad I got to experience it. Now this stuff is on oldies stations and that weirds me out. It doesn't feel that long ago.

I still have a wooden plaque I made....( in junior high) ...the best group around for its time. You can't find music like this anymore ......

beautiful masterpiece, solid gold standard of excellence for 50 years, priceless music & video, phenomenal sound

Outstanding! I was born in the 1960's. This is real music.

Saudades desta música tempo foi rápido para nossas vidas a música é um intervalo deste tempo onde podemos lembrar as boas ou triste lembranças obrigado tempo

I was three years old when this came on the t.v. and i can still remember to this day that what riveted me to the spot, was the presence of all the other instrumentalists. I can also remember walking and sitting right next to the speaker, as to ( in my mind) hear all the instruments better & how they blended in with the vocal. That held me in good stead in later years when i worked with music ( my own and other people's) and with other musicians. It remained one of my favourite songs for years, and even when i became old enough to realise it's a plea and quite an angst laden lyric, the music never failed to move me. That remains to this day.

My mom introduced this to me as a kid and I’m still listening in 2019, anyone else?

I was 12yrs old and it was Christmas holidays in Australia when this song became popular. We had family visiting from interstate and it always reminds me of that time. More so as I get older because so many relatives have passed away and listening to this songs makes me take the time to stop and think of them and the family times that we shared.

Fermons les yeux... Remontons le temps...... Ce temps qui ne revient jamais.. Mais la mélodie de ces années restent. Merci 🤗🙏💖

Having spent the weekend away with my then boyfriend in 1976, going home, this song came on the radio and at the time, I thought I was losing him to a former girlfriend. Two nights later, I told him that if he chose to leave me, he was making the biggest mistake he could possibly make. Instead, he proposed. We got married March 18, 1977 before he was depoyed to Israel on UN Peacekeeping duty. We would have been married 45 years this year. I lost him to lung cancer, February 2, 2015, 44 days short of our 38th anniversary. Oh how I miss him.