David⚡️Bowie - America (Simon & Garfunkel cover)

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A song by Simon & Garfunkel performed by David Bowie on The Concert for New York City in 2001.
A self made clip created entirely from the footage of the original video by means of rearranging it.
More Bowie stuff on my older channel: / @shaxan

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@ncooty Жыл бұрын

That lovely man was gloriously unafraid of art.

@slyasleep 4 ай бұрын

That‘s beautifully put.

@Ryan-on5on 2 ай бұрын

Well stated. Bowie belongs to that rarefied class of popular talent unafraid of trying new paths and courses they feel might lead to aesthetic sublimity. Sure, not all these journeys turned up gold or even silver, but they made one appreciate their boldness and lack of fear of failing all the same. Us aesthetes gained so much from David's myriad explorations to the limits of artistic expression!

@evelynevantol4814 2 ай бұрын

Zo mooi hoe je dat zegt ❤❤❤

@evelynevantol4814 2 ай бұрын

Hij was niet bang voor usa om het zo maar te zeggen

@Nicksonian Ай бұрын

Indeed. Paul Simon and David Bowie were two of the greatest songwriters of their generation. So inspiring to watch this lovely, talented man honor his fellow musician.

@XvrAntoine 4 ай бұрын

So perfect in his minimalist interpretation

@scottmckenzie3642 3 жыл бұрын

In tears there is such beauty in the understated. Only David would flip the expected. And what does he do. This. An absolute gem. And I miss him my heart still aches

@chriscorman734 3 жыл бұрын

We sure miss his insight

@kellycampbell5618 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@halflanding1900 2 жыл бұрын

agree 100% Scott. couldn’t stop my tears. he wasn’t just a pop star / fashion icon otherwise he wouldn’t move us so deep

@lonewolf5238 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Didn't think it could hurt so much losing someone I never met and never knew.

@upthehill1 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful version

@mtnstpt 4 ай бұрын

Ret .NYPD, David Opened The Concert for New York with this magical ,chilling song. God Bless David Bowie.

@allanking6833 3 жыл бұрын

god i miss this man.

@1060michaelg 3 жыл бұрын

allan king My EXACT thought. The humanity in his voice...the expressions on his face, all show you the depth of what he's feeling.

@WolfKing-dv6xd 2 жыл бұрын

We all do.

@fishwhisperer3495 2 жыл бұрын

agreed

@muller_to_x5283 2 жыл бұрын

All of you are right greets from Bavaria

@WolfKing-dv6xd 2 жыл бұрын

@@muller_to_x5283 hello!

@nobbygecko 5 ай бұрын

the man was a genius.. a beautiful rendition and what balls to play this song as the opener to a televised charity concert.. he has so many hidden treasures in both live performances and rare album tracks... bless him

@Spacejunk57 2 ай бұрын

A great tribute to NYC's people and America at its worst of moments. Rest in Peace to the lost on 9/11 and you David Bowie.

@Nicksonian Ай бұрын

I still can’t believe that David is no longer with us.

@GrantTarredus Ай бұрын

I never will. He’ll always live in my heart though, as he so clearly will in yours.

@Anne-Crosby2020 2 ай бұрын

Raw…as only David Bowie could do. Gut wrenchingly beautiful😢😢😢

@kategleason6481 Жыл бұрын

"I'm empty and aching and I don't know why" His phrasing and the simple keyboard made this version so emotionally charged.

@lanabanana68 7 ай бұрын

indeed.

@globule2 4 ай бұрын

That’s the key phrase right there

@lavachevolante 3 ай бұрын

And the way he says it… 😮❤

@Nicksonian Ай бұрын

I so much agree. And David knew. He knew what it all meant.

@MrSteverossiter Жыл бұрын

I've been telling my kids about this for years. This is how the concert opened...how utterly profound. Bless you David!

@scm0717 10 ай бұрын

THEN he sang "Heroes". Beautifully understated "America" in Bowie style.

@Jeanetteinnes 9 ай бұрын

Beautiful 😢

@Dandyd47 9 ай бұрын

Where and when was this particular concert?

@MrSteverossiter 9 ай бұрын

@Dandyd47 this was the concert for new york right after 9/11

@d4ves363 7 ай бұрын

This was one of Bowies finest moments (there's been a few!) But I didn't know he actually opened the concert with this x

@brrryan2908 Ай бұрын

You can see the emotions of the next lyrics on his face well before he says them. A brilliant artist and communicator.

@wengrrrl1 8 ай бұрын

This just sent me spiraling into tears. I miss normal. I miss Bowie. I miss what America used to be. The way he does this pulled every heartstring this morning… My transcendent, lovely Prince Bowie… how the world misses your genius…😪🙏🏽🎶

@macanbhaird1966 8 ай бұрын

"the moon rose over an empty field" gets me every time. Pure genius...I think I am always expecting the "look for America" line and the detail is so beautiful. Testament to Simon & Garfunkel writing/music and Bowie's interpretation.

@goofe.washington953 8 ай бұрын

“counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, they’ve all come to look for America”. What a profound line. At 71, I too miss what America used to be. Maybe I should get in my car and look for it, but I’m scared it’s not there anymore - and even more scared it’s not coming back.

@jayatfreelance 8 ай бұрын

AMEN.

@31Alden 8 ай бұрын

Amen … I share every one of your sentiments.

@lanabanana68 7 ай бұрын

I think I love you; what a perfect comment

@wildheliotropes8453 3 жыл бұрын

I love Bowie's rendition of this song. It's profoundly sad and describes that horrible feeling we all have had when you are trying to act like nothing is wrong but you are completely shattered inside.

@barbaralynch3015 2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes totally!

@jamessollazzo4860 2 жыл бұрын

sounds like a circus tune!

@Tom-xx1om 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamessollazzo4860 you don't get it, do you?

@sexypoetry 2 жыл бұрын

...yap...one can hear overtones of "this is not america"....

@TinyDancer250 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tom-xx1om What did he mean by it? Serious question please. I understand the choice of song, but why that music accompaniment?

@jules-yi8rn 3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday David...the whole world misses you💔.

@DougWJ 3 жыл бұрын

I will never forget that day - seeing the tower fall from a train - and i will never forget this opening song at the 911 concert at MSG. I was never a big Bowie fan, and he came out playing this crazy little contraption whatever it was - doing this Simon & Garfunkel song - and just set the whole tone that this was going to be a serious and very heavy night of music, pain and hope.

@morganfisherart 2 жыл бұрын

Well said. He's playing a Suzuki Omnichord, made in the 80s. They're lovely - I have three.

@Charleybones 2 жыл бұрын

@@morganfisherart One isn't enough?

@morganfisherart 2 жыл бұрын

@@Charleybones I own three different models - OM27, OM84, OM200M - each with different sounds and functions. Pro musicians (and nutty obsessives) do this sort of thing! :-)

@jonathanhadden7157 Жыл бұрын

I was there also! When *THIS* was the opening song, performed this way, we *KNEW* that we were in for an amazingly special, emotional, and unique show. We were both lucky to be there!

@onemanmatt Жыл бұрын

JUST INCREDIBLE !!!!!!

@reillypw 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely perfect. The tone , the phrasing , the physical and facial expression, the calliope like music.😢😮. I have never witnessed such a moving reincarnation of a song. That man was a genius.

@JF-kv1gm 9 ай бұрын

For some reason I have seen this for the first time only now. It really gave me goosebumps. So sorely missed.

@daveburns3886 9 ай бұрын

His unique creativity was a gift to us all.. his voice was always so emotive

@helenepineau4636 8 ай бұрын

I usually do not remake, but this is so very special. Oh, I miss him 😔

@amberackerson5916 8 ай бұрын

Me too 💔

@BlueBeeMCMLXI 8 ай бұрын

You probably had not seen it until now, then.

@janepinard9835 7 ай бұрын

@@helenepineau4636 He is sorely missed. He was a gift to us all!

@kathleenreynolds5380 2 жыл бұрын

His voice makes me cry. We all come to look for America. Priceless.

@ledeyabaklykova 6 ай бұрын

Now pls all of you return to where you all came from. Except me. Of course.

@trevorpugh6475 9 ай бұрын

Perfection….still hard to believe he’s gone…

@TVC15ohoh 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible. The emotion in that song alone - PLUS the emotion surrounding the context of the performance - is almost too much to bear. That man was a gift to the planet.

@QHarefield Жыл бұрын

A song, written by an American, about America, sung by an Englishman, with a South London accent. I Love it! (I like his chord choices, too.)

@toddtrulock6809 Жыл бұрын

he's playing an omnichord, one of the coolest instruments that I want, if you look into them.

@RobinHartJones 10 ай бұрын

To be fair, it is not a total contrast. It was written by an American who was living in England and took his English girlfriend, Kathy, for a low budget tour of America and realised it was not the America he remembered.

@richardjames1946 9 ай бұрын

Bunch of hitchhiking hippies discovering themselves while lost in the wilderness (and at heart)

@niccymak8243 9 ай бұрын

Anthony Newley would be proud.

@SmaHuff-ms7mu 9 ай бұрын

American means A miracle... everybodys looking for that.

@asafbeeri4037 3 жыл бұрын

Every word with the right nuance. This one is the definitive performance.

@BCD1964 4 ай бұрын

One of the last of the great artists...rip.

@flashflame4952 9 ай бұрын

No one else but David could have done this. I miss this guy every day.

@alabhaois 3 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful rendition of the song. Rest in Peace, David.

@kevindavitt659 7 ай бұрын

amen...

@randolfarriola 2 жыл бұрын

One of my all time favs! David Bowie’s incredibly understated artistic live performance of Simon & Garfunkel’s “America” This to me is classic Bowie performance art stripping away all musical props and zoning in stripping the veil of musical form and familiar expectations revealing through his unique intimate delivery the complex layered mixed emotions of worn hope and buried despair while trying to maintain visibly undefeated unaffected. We miss you David!

@martinpercival63 Жыл бұрын

We really really do - he's still out there somewhere though. "There's a Starman......"

@peterchristopher2285 Жыл бұрын

America was gone by the time I got there from the UK .Now I’m lost ,like Cathy , I guess it’s part of the ageing process . Life is memories , the only reality is the present and that flies past so fast , you’ve not time to take it all in

@gwynnielsen5081 4 ай бұрын

I never knew Bowie covered this song. He brings something very different to it.

@altarofkubrickfloyd 3 жыл бұрын

Incredibly moving, especially given the events of this week. Bowie forever.

@TheKonga88 10 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha hee hee hee I'm the laughing knome and you can't catch me 🥳🥳🥳🥳💃🏼🎄🧎🏻☃️🚌🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️

@MegaSickcat 2 жыл бұрын

His voice makes my goosebumps have goosebumps. I miss him...

@regretto 2 жыл бұрын

One of his best and unique performances of all time.

@antoniopintoribeiro6347 2 жыл бұрын

Such intelligence. Such a unique voice, such a unique glance at the world. Love u David

@PortofinoArts 3 жыл бұрын

"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together I've got some real estate here in my bag" So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies And walked off to look for America "Kathy", I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seems like a dream to me now" It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw I've gone to look for America Laughing on the bus Playing games with the faces She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said "Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera" "Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat" "We smoked the last one an hour ago" So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine And the moon rose over an open field "Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America All come to look for America All come to look for America Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Paul Simon America lyrics © Paul Simon Music, Edition Falco Privatstiftung

@angeloiodice9304 9 ай бұрын

Bowie always gives you his soul.

@davidmack4495 Ай бұрын

well put...yes, he does...I'm still sad I never saw him live...

@WorldwideWyatt 2 жыл бұрын

He was such a beautiful man. Rest In Peace Bowie, and Rest In Peace to all the victims of 9/11.

@hunterhilton709 2 жыл бұрын

The world misses David Bowie Beautiful

@detruty 2 жыл бұрын

David Bowie was a genius and proved it by opening The Concert for NY with this after 9/11.

@williamjueschke9960 9 ай бұрын

His voice, such a beautiful touching rendition, he’s well missed😢

@helenepineau4636 8 ай бұрын

I miss him too.

@corymcdiarmid3494 9 ай бұрын

I’ve HEARD this song a hundred times before but hearing Bowies version just now is the first time I’ve FELT this song. Wow!

@ryanaball 8 ай бұрын

When it gets you, better than anything.

@chriscorman734 3 жыл бұрын

Where is this genius we have need of his wisdom. Our Country was so united after the 9/11 terrorist attack now some 19 years later I listen to this and cry. We can all do better some way some how

@spmoran4703 Ай бұрын

Paul Simons lyrics and music plus David Bowie . Perfection.

@stevemale9936 8 ай бұрын

As a lifelong Bowie fan, I am disappointed that I have heard this for the first time in 2023. I recall a review of "Cat People" where the critic said David could sing a shopping list and make it a hit. This is simply sublime and made all the better for him singing in the London accent of his younger days. Beautiful.

@rorymacgowan4541 7 күн бұрын

It was off KZfaq for a couple years then back. It's extraordinary.

@stevemale9936 7 күн бұрын

@@rorymacgowan4541 Thanks, Rory. I am always happy to listen to David singing anything live. A true talent who never needed electronic augmentation for that fantastic voice.

@jimrebr Жыл бұрын

My favorite Simon and Garfunkel song, covered by my favorite artist, what more can I hope for. I’m so glad to have been alive for all of Bowie’s amazing career. His many different styles, his paintings, his acting & his music, David Bowie, Forever our Black ⭐️

@johnnywires943 4 ай бұрын

Not only was he a most talented human being,up there with the best,he had so much style.

@freddymacattack961 3 жыл бұрын

I wept the night of the concert when he did this. So personal and simple, so beautiful!

@31Alden 8 ай бұрын

Proving less is more as only David could with his inimitable style and grace.

@missbritt288 2 жыл бұрын

He sang that very sincerely ... He Defiantly was "there" in that vision

@sturmreiter8402 2 жыл бұрын

Could there have been a better way to adress the audience than with this song in just the way Bowie did it? I cant't think of any.

@matthewtaylor6533 2 жыл бұрын

Address

@d4ves363 Жыл бұрын

Only Bowie could pull this off and at such an emotional event! Only Bowie!!

@moc7302 7 ай бұрын

In all of his genres, and I'm old enough to have lived through them all, he is just mesmerizing and it's always, just him, indescribable. Talent, intelligence and those eyes. Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together. I love the romance between he and his Cathy. Picture a very young couple so in love, wanting to go on a lark to get away from it all to be alone with each other. Destination doesn't matter, the experience of it does.

@dkjazzz 7 ай бұрын

Ya, from Ziggy to this ! Incredible! What a long strange trip it’s was ❤️

@queenslanddiva 6 ай бұрын

yep, there from the beginning. Wonderful iconic man

@suecorrado9865 6 ай бұрын

perfectly stated

@moc7302 5 ай бұрын

@@dkjazzz Suffragatte City! Wish I had a Time Machine and we could all go back. Also his accent is so charming. I love how he says And the moon rose over an open field. I never appreciated this song so much until his rendition. Can't you just visualize better his way? I boarded a couple of Greyhounds back in the 70's and can relate to that whole experience. Darn, those were great times. Young and head full of dreams.

@TCgirl 3 ай бұрын

I miss this beautiful man being on the earth. 💔

@hoisin75 9 ай бұрын

I'd never seen this until now, all these years later. I still mourn the towers, I still mourn Bowie. Both their demises marked a huge sea change in the world - and not for the better. This performance is overwhelming

@paulwood5803 Жыл бұрын

The marriage of two musical genius', Paul Simon and David Bowie. As close to perfection as you'll ever get.

@billinawe 3 ай бұрын

Just no words.

@scottbouchard2673 9 ай бұрын

One of the greatest ever. Can’t believe he’s gone.

@MikeFowlerguitars 9 ай бұрын

Can you imagine Paul McCartney being able to do this? Or Roger Waters? Or Mick Jagger? Bruce Springsteen? Bowie brings something else to his arrangements. There's an otherworldly quality, a beauty. Possibly the greatest pop musician of the twentieth century and beyond.

@juancarlosavila1853 8 ай бұрын

He was the Da Vinci of our era.

@Bo-tz4nw 8 ай бұрын

Yes, I can.

@joeysn7hvn 8 ай бұрын

A bj is in order

@thejoyofthemusicinmylife7897 Жыл бұрын

Bowie putting his own spin on this Simon and Garfunkel classic. Amazing

@theoverunderthinker 23 күн бұрын

David makes you fall in love (with his voice) and breaks your heart (with his sincerity) at the same time.

@Mikeecol 6 ай бұрын

i keep coming back to this. Outstanding

@alanlamb7062 Жыл бұрын

The way that he flirts around the beat at the beginning, just beyond amazing, miss him every day

@herbieshine1312 8 ай бұрын

Its so strange that i miss David Bowie. I never met him, I never even saw him live. Lets dance was the first Bowie album i bought and from there i searched out each of the older one's. Its so strange to feel a loss for someone i didnt know. As far as i can remember i havent heard this before. Its an absolute gem. Thanks for unloading

@adrianbray4025 2 жыл бұрын

Well there you have it. A genius sings a geniuses song and hey presto - brilliance. Nothing more nothing less. Just pure brilliance.

@rotagorretni 7 ай бұрын

Such a powerful, meaningful choice of song. Just when you have felt the evil of the world, breaking in, trying to weaken you, here comes Bowie, like the prophet, to remind how better souls from all over the world have long come to you in hope, in admiration, of your very strength

@hArtyTruffle 8 ай бұрын

I’ve loved this man’s music since I was a small child. I miss him and his sensitive creativity, as do so many millions. R.I.P. David ❤

@thx4dluv 7 ай бұрын

... and the moon rose over an open field. This line is so beautiful in context.

3 жыл бұрын

He sings it like a hymn. A melancholic hymn (without nationalism) about a problematic country.

@drunkenmasterii3250 3 жыл бұрын

It’s not a nationalistic song.

3 жыл бұрын

@@drunkenmasterii3250 Oh, really?! I know, I wrote exactly that. 😒 HYMNS usually are nationalistic! You need to improve text interpretation.

@drunkenmasterii3250 3 жыл бұрын

@ I'm pretty sure my comment had a reason and made sense at the time, I don't know why 3 people would've upvoted it if it made no sense, but I have no idea what your comment looked like at the time as you seem to have edited it and can't make sense of my comment in the present context.

@fobbitguy 3 жыл бұрын

Was the original version nationalistic? What makes it "nationalistic"? Curious why you would say that?

2 жыл бұрын

@@fobbitguy Well, maybe the confusion is in the word I used - "hymn", rather than national anthems, which are generally nationalistic, as opposed to Simon's lyrics. Therefore, why sing “America”? Well, the title was a good applause line for 9/11 context and Bowie “was looking for something which really evoked feelings of bewilderment and uncertainty, because for me that’s how that particular period really felt. And I really thought that Paul Simon’s song in this new context really captured that,” he said in a November 2001 web-chat. So, it seems like the reverse side of a hymn/anthem, certainly in tones of dystopia, but with a strange hope/hopelessness feeling on the search for "America".

@dannymachado1 6 ай бұрын

The world misses you David bowie, you were one of a kind .God speed.

@keithgoodrick-meech3921 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes when you hear a song, even when it's the original you just don't get it. ....and then, sometimes, someone makes it all so clear. !! Well done David 👏

@tomandaj1 9 ай бұрын

I miss him so much …

@craigwalker7415 Жыл бұрын

WOW !! THis gave me shivers ! ~

@heliotrope3345 Жыл бұрын

I don't think most people see how beautiful this version is. The circus background music is very meaningful. The dream we are all looking for is a farce, just like a circus.

@neilgordon8145 Ай бұрын

I don’t think that a lot of people really listen properly and understand the lyrics. What an interpretation by Mr Jones.

@tomohawkkid 4 ай бұрын

What a genius he was

@matwood1122 3 жыл бұрын

He sang many great songs. This was the most meaningful to me.

@danielcarlson5380 Ай бұрын

The world a true gem…I don’t say “true gem” lightly! Many years of musical brilliance…what a nice turn for this tune!

@toomuchrose 7 ай бұрын

There really are no words that can do justice to this performance. Pure beauty.

@siberianbreaks979 3 жыл бұрын

America is one of my favorite songs of all time hear bowie's version of this song is really beautiful to me ❤

@WinstonOBoogie007 2 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this live, it touched me deeply. I also remember The Who coming out and channeling the anger we all felt. I will never forget this concert.

@patrickhughes4914 3 ай бұрын

Pure genius.

@waltermameli2026 8 ай бұрын

Bowie was truly a spokesman for Humanity from the Worlds greatest Venue....That performance that night from MSG in NYC doing that song is forever frozen in space and time of all our lives.....amazing.....

@KristinPedemonti 9 ай бұрын

Tears streaming. Oh my heart, what a deeply moving, beautifully aching and haunting rendition of America in 2001 post 9/11. As only David Bowie could do.

@artysqueezy184 8 ай бұрын

He is still here with us, around us, behind us, before us…an ascended master. I miss him so much on our earthly plain, but he is here amongst us just in different form of pure energy

@mulvavroop 2 жыл бұрын

Once in a lifetime performance.

@DudeSilad 2 жыл бұрын

Gives me the chills.

@Scotlanz 9 ай бұрын

I never saw this before…and I love it. It sounds remarkably like Bowie’s earliest Tony Newley style songs. Beautiful.

@krizalidstayaway 2 жыл бұрын

What a performance! Can’t believe it’s been 20 years since this.

@Dlr7114 2 жыл бұрын

They cheer mindlessly every time lovely David sings America, but they, and we, missed the warning and the comfort. I look back and see this moment as prophetic. Tears. Many tears.

@Ryan-on5on 2 ай бұрын

A truly haunting cover made all the more poignant by the backdrop of scenes/vistas from a city that only weeks before had witnessed a rain of death and destruction from the sky as well as by Bowie's exquisite, emotion-laden phrasing. We lost a tremendous giant with his death!

@bizfix11 6 ай бұрын

4am, I'm seeing this for the first time.... absolutely blown away

@detruty Жыл бұрын

Bowie’s creative genius & Paul Simon’s words create a sad, magical moment.

@ThatMichaelTGuy 9 ай бұрын

It floored me then and today it brings a tear and it brings thanks. Thank You David, it was an honor.

@robmclaughjr Жыл бұрын

This was an unforgettable moment for me right after 9/11. It felt like Bowie really felt the alienating zeitgeist of those times and the pain.

@ThefightingCelt 3 жыл бұрын

Bowie : class personified

@Bassplyr2006 Жыл бұрын

My dad died on November 4, 2022 unexpectedly. This song has been in my head since and I am now finally listening to it once again. I miss you dad where ever you are. I love you. And I like this version of the song by Bowie alot!