One of my favorite live performances ever captured.

Definitely one of the Greatest Songs ever written/sang. 2024 anyone????

It's 2022 and this song is better than 99 %of what's in the Billboard today.

one of the best songs ever written

Really love how many people come back to this song. There's something fundamental about it.

This song takes my breath away. since I was 18 years old, when I heard it for the first time, it marked my life. Today, over 50 years old, I still suffer from it...

2:52 Brother breaks my heart seeing the pain behind your eyes and knowing you’re gone and never got the help you deserved. Having Chronic Depression and I can tell you I wish it on no one but hope that all of you who may or may not be fighting to know we are all in this together. Talk to friends or family don’t try to fight it alone. Stay safe and stay strong.

Neil's voice is so effortlessly amazing. Everything about it, his tone, control and pitch, just so good.

My dad, the most stable person in my life and my best friend, died yesterday in corona. He was by himself in the hospital. I could not say goodbye to him. Listening to this song and crying, how can I live without him...

I’ve got friends who finished high school and flew to Sydney for this concert straight after graduation, they were such die hard fans that they were in the first few rows and you can see them in various songs in this concert as the camera pans to the audience, immortalised in video, and forever young. After 27 years sometimes you just go through life with questions, and memories…

The world got darker when we lost Paul Hester. Sparkly on the outside and battling demons within. RIP Paul

My husband of 43 years died 3 months ago and I feel like a crushing weight is sitting on my chest waiting for my heart to finish breaking. Music is a balm to my soul.

So nice to see no cell phones in hands, just soaking in the music and feeling the moment

This performance was close to 30 years ago. My oh my, how time and life do fly so quickly by!

Its May 2022 and this is still the greatest concert I have been at and will ever go to. Damn the black dog, Paul Hester, you were taken too soon.

I have listened more this song in the last 3 months than I did since the song was written and I do not know why but it brings me to tears

03/26/05, Paul Hester 46, drummer in this video, committed suicide by hanging in Elsternwick Park near his home. If you are worried about a loved one or just a friend. Please try and persuade them to get help. You may be their life saving rock.

This song never gets old.

A timeless song that holds more meaning as the days and months roll by.

Great song. If you think this a love song, then YOU MISSED THE GIST. Its a UNITY song and coming together as a humanity song....

R. I. P. Paul Hester. And thank you for being a part of so many great memories.

This song plays over and over in my head thinking of the loss in Texas, I feel old and sad all over today...then I think 'don't think it's over'

Evil never wins. It only takes souls. Thats so sad. Never let Evil win because in the end it never does. Keep your Faith in God. 😔🙏💙❤️✝️

Seeing Hester looking so emotional and hearing the crowd sing 'don't dream it's over' is one of the most moving things ever.

Paul cried through the whole song. It was the end. He never recovered. RIP sweet soul. This song was for you.

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All this time. I keep coming back. So wonderful to see this performance.

RIP Paul Hester, always get chills when he pops up in this video

There will never be a better Decade than the 80s! GenX rules 🤟🏽

Why can't music be like this anymore

Without doubt, one of the best songs ever written, Truly wonderful.

RIP, Paul Hester. The sadness is noticeable even at the onset of this song ... you're hopefully at peace now, mate, and I'm glad your friends all hugged you at the end of the show. A great song from a talented band.

Oh Yeah 1996! Nobody holding their stupid cellphone recording this, just enjoying the moment. Jesus, life was so much better!

I've got chronic depression. I lived the best of life when this song was released, the year after I started to have episodes. Melancholia and nostalgia in a deep sense. This is what this wonderful song brings. The time I was really alive. I believed my life would be full of achievements. I sense this in the song, the sounds. Now I can function, work and earn a living. But things were never the same. Today I slept all day cause I had not to go working. I found no reason to stand and live my day as it happens every weekend. I am beat. The dream is over after fighting decades. 💔 But the song refreshes my soul. It is something notably amazing. The way it touches within is pure magic. 🙂

This was an example of the time it came from....beautiful, full of hope, serious stories of love....an explosion of talent and gifted music to all of us....time stands still with this song.

As a youngster just moved to NYC I saw Crowded House LIVE in early Spring 1987 with a group of friends at The Bottom Line in The Village in NYC. It was toward then end of Crowded House first live American tour. This tune was climbing the music charts in the USA at the time. When Crowded House performed this tune the place went wild. EVERYONE knew the lyrics and the sing-along was AMAZING!! Just like then, the spirit of this tune lives on STRONG today! Thank you Neil Finn for introducing the World to your musical brilliance!

How fitting that this was the last song that Hessie ever played with his mates❤️ RIP Paul.

Somewhere in that crowd was me. I was in Australia on my own aged 19, and this was not to be missed. I am now living Australia and this band are just musics icons in this corner of the South Pacific. 26th March 2005 we lost Paul. Time really is flying. RIP Paul Hester.

One of those few videos that I can say “I was there” still gives me chills at the end with that guitar lick…..

I've loved this song since it was first released. I'm also thrilled to hear them sing the original song that most of us love... and not change a verse, the beat of the drums.

Good memories from a decade when life seemed much better than it is today, and the music was an integral part of what made those times as great as they were.

Paul Hester....miss you bro😞

One of the best performances of all time . Not many bands would get a send off like that .

Don't dream the time it's over....in meddle of war in 2022.....we continue listen this amazing music😢😢

A very emotional performance from the band and brilliant lead vocals from Neil as always. Each time Paul the drummer cries it gets me deep down, especially as he took his own life a few years later and he had two young daughters. I can't begin to imagine what losing a dad as a kid would feel like. Such a troubled soul, suffered with depression for many years but his fans loved him to pieces and his legacy lives on. We still love you Paul. RIP brother! ❤ Edit: wow didn't expect so many likes for this comment. Thanks guys. Hessie will always be in his fan's hearts and I know he's watching over his family everyday ❤ this live performance always moves me xx

This song is such a bittersweet memory for me. The song is just beautiful. I danced in my momma's kitchen to this song in 1987 with my then girlfriend who later became my wife. Sadly we broke up and it was a bitter end. But I wouldn't trade that dance with her back when we were so in love for anything. Makes me cry every time I hear it.

I keep coming back to this video again, over and over... there will be a gap and I'll remember and come back and it's the same set of emotions each and every time. Put simply, this is one of the greatest songs ever written. Lyrically. Musically. Emotionally. While we are all mortal people, and we cannot last forever, some things are too beautiful to not. This song is one of those things... Don't dream, it's over... don't dream it's over... two ways to hear the same words, meaning two entirely different things. What I love in particular about this video is that when the song ends, they partially open it up, get the crowd singing it, and then end it again. You can feel the energy pass from the band to the crowd... It's as if Neil and Crowded House are "giving" this song to the world. It is an acknowledgment that they know they won't be here forever... but that the powerful, sublime song will live forever.

these groups are Icons....im so glad ive live 70 years to be around these amazing songs

In case anyone was wondering, this concert was on November 24th, 1996, called the "Farewell to the World". This was the last song they played, which is why the drummer, Paul Hester, was a little tearful at 2:53. In 2005, Paul committed suicide from depression - Crowded House went on to start the band back up in 2006. So this was Paul's last song he ever played with them.. RIP.

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You can tell Paul Hester was hurting in this video. RIH brother.😢

This song is a song of hope that will lift you up as the world grows colder so stay strong and never give up.

This is the best, absolute best performance of all time. Don't dream it's over

This brings tears to my eyes, and l find myself having to hear this song it gets me through all this hatred and killing, and yes it's a battle ahead, but.... DON'T LET THEM WIN!!!!!!

I was there! Front row! Concert was cancelled Saturday, the day before due to bad weather, till Sunday. It was worth the wait! As I will never forget it. And sadly the last time I saw Paul Hester play live. What a concert it was!

Paul Hester, he took his own life! But was a great part of CH that's for sure, he is Rocking In Peace

This song is truly beautiful. There are hardly any songs these days with worthwhile lyrics that MEAN something! Feel the walls between us; we know that they won't win! Love, Light, and Peace to all here! xx

There is freedom within There is freedom without Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup There's a battle ahead Many battles are lost But you'll never see the end of the road While you're travelling with me … Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win … Now I'm towing my car There's a hole in the roof My possessions are causing me suspicion But there's no proof In the paper today Tales of war and of waste But you turn right over to the TV page … Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win … Now I'm walking again To the beat of a drum And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart Only shadows ahead Barely clearing the roof Get to know the feeling of liberation and release … Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us You know they won't win … Don't let them win (Hey now, hey now) Hey now, hey now Hey now, hey now Don't let them win (They come, they come) Don't let them win (Hey now, hey now), yeah Hey now, hey now

Still listening to this beautiful song March 3, 2023

I know what it's like to lose a father without saying goodbye. It's gutwrenching. You never want to say goodbye. Feel your pain

1. Crowd shouts 2. The hand in the air clapping 3. Drummers shots 4. Bassist face 5. Keyboardist face 6. Guitar solo Cool super cool stuff

This song takes me back to the days of my youth. Why do we cry when we remember Such Beautiful times and Beautiful music? Nostalgia gets us all.

Best song ever. They don't make them like this now.

54 Million views...quality-unlike any music today.

My ex-wife just passed away Monday September 24 2018 She was only 52 years. She was the light in any function,we were good friends until the end. She loveed this song so very very much!

Should be an anthem for all of humanity

No one makes good music like this anymore

You come here when you‘re feeling sad and you find a litte healing. I bless you all.

That iconic shot of Hessy at 4.28 and the little head tilt and smile through the tears - whenever I hear his name, that is the picture I see in my minds eye. RIP Paul Hester, a truly loveable Aussie larrikin :(

The band knew this would be the last time they played this song together, the song that gave them so much. Couldn’t have done it any better!

This has to be the best final performance (unofficially) ever. Because when you here this song its never the end it just another day

Hard to believe how long ago this recording was made. And no surprise at all that this is the best version of this song and has withstood the test of time.

Why am I in floods of tears right now? Because I’m watching Paul Hester hugging his brothers as the crowd applauds them and he’s smiling. He looks so happy and it just breaks my heart.

One of the most beautiful song ever!

I just love that moment at 4:30 when everyone is ready for Neil to signal the last chord......and he can't let the song go, he thinks it over ....and just goes one last time. The band are not expecting it. Hester goes with it first, then Mark adds some keys. Nick lets it go and removes his bass before Neil and Paul share that final send-off. It's poetry.

Put it on loop and never turn it off. Sad to know that one of these musicians is no longer with us.

Wow, this brings back so many wonderful memories, and also some sadness. I wish I could go back in time and tell my friend David (who unexpectedly passed away) that he made the world a better place. He loved this song.

He sounds EXACTLY like the studio recording. True talent here

It's nostalgic song...Thanks for the nice lyrics... RIP sir Paul

Seeing Paul Hester in tears here brings tears to my eyes. RIP brother from one musician to another . RIP Paul Hester

When MTV was about music, and music was about music. People cared about the lyrics, melody, telling a story about life. Beautiful.

2019 and I'm listening to this song and my mind went back to mid 80's my days in high school, the song sounds really good,his voice sound just like it did back then,thank you guys.

one of the best songs ever

That song is something... I've listened to it a thousand times, and every time it gets better. It is really hard for me trying to understand why someone would take his own life. But the song is there for us to enjoy...

I play this as a tribute to my beautiful niece who passed away at age 46. She once sang with Randy California and Spirit. I miss her so much.

Great song RIP our dear Paul Hester. Gone but not forgotten

Love the opening of this song. That bass is very distinctive. Classic song with a great hook....

My wife and I were just dating when this came out. Everytime I hear it, it takes me right back to 1987 in Austin Texas. Good days with her.

I LOVE THIS SONG! TAKES ME BACK TO 1987 RIDING MY BIKE WITH MY LIL BROTHER AND FRIENDS THRU THE NEIGHBORHOOD. PLAYING AT OUR FRIENDS HOUSE AND HAVE STAY OVERS AND NINTENDO! LONG LIVE THE 80'S!!!

Still in the year of our lord 2023 One of the greatest songs of all time! Terribly sad when your meant to feel on top of the world & have a massive audience around the world who loves you! but still feel lost and alone. This song and Drummer will never die!

wow i love this song when it came out fk 1986 . wish it was 86 again lol 😀

All this great music rediscovered during quarantine in 2020 !

In my darkest moment I called on God , All my old band mates were dying , ... understanding my freedom in faith this song also rang true to my soul , yes there is freedom without and Don't Dream It's Over !!

One of the best pop songs ever

I don't care to ask questions, like: "Who is still listening in whatever year it is?!" Because great songs that cause you to feel and/or think will always have someone listening. "Don't Dream It's Over" is a great song. So, listeners, please continue to think and feel. Peace!

I had the pleasure of seeing these guys live in concert.

I watch this video often. My wife introduced me to Crowded House over 30 years ago and we're still together to this day and we both love them still. I cannot imagine being with anyone else ever.

No other song in the world as easily recognizable by the first two guitar notes.

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One of the greatest songs ever written