I was 14 years of age in 1978. I loved this song the first time I heard it. So much has changed in 45 years.....my Mum and Dad are both gone........and London (where I was born and raised) is so different from the London of my teenage years. As I listen to this song, I am transported back to the late 70s, and a feeling of nostalgia engulfs me........how I wish I could go back, just for a short while...............

I'm 72 now and boy do I wish I was back in the70s .Anyone else out there feels the same 😊

Annie Haslam was one of only a handful of very beautiful “songbirds” whose range of singing was immense and whose songs will still shine in another 50 years.

A brilliant single when it first came out and still great 44 years on , thats when music was really good , how i miss the seventies.

Such a beautiful song and Annie Haslam's singing voice is so angelic like an angel. One of my dad's all time favourites

Stunning song..Not only that, but no bloody diva histrionics...just singing..well done Annie!

Remember seeing Annie Haslam holding an audience at City Hall Newcastle with an equipment failure. So charming with such a perfect voice. Also so sad to meet someone who worked with her and find out about her cancer battles. Glad to see she is still with us and so pleased for the memories.

A brilliant Group, a brilliant Lead Vocalist and a brilliant Song. I thought this was brilliant when it came out in 1978 and my feelings certainly haven't changed

I love her voice, her outfit, the way she sings, everything!

I left school in July 1978 and this song was in the charts. I loved it back then and I still love it now. Annie's voice is extraordinary.

Is there anything better than REAL beauty? A voice,face and figure that delights the senses,a song that has meaning and a tune that you want to dance to.just about as good as it's got so far.

Brilliant. What a soaring and beautifully crystal clear voice. Impeccable.

I was 7 years old when this was released. I sometimes whish I could go back. Simpler times back then. Fish finger sandwiches for tea, playing Connect 4 and having 2 parents.

I bought the single when it was released. I’m now 61 years old and had forgotten about this song. So glad to have rediscovered it! What a beautiful song and beautiful lady with a voice like an angel.

Annie has a PITCH PERFECT voice She has a five-octave vocal range with incredible register - THE BEST!!!!! I have played this song every night since it came out right before bed! What about that awesome base line!! When I first heard this I fell madly in love with Annie and I still am!

Annie Haslam and Judith Durham voices of Angels ❤

I was 16 when this was a hit. Now I am 60. Lucky to still feel young and some say look younger than my age. Listening to this I am 16 again!

2023 and still listening. This reminds me so much of hitchhiking with my then boyfriend and the excitement of being together on the road; he lived up north, too, so the everlasting association was made between these lyrics, him and the north. I had such a youthful, all-encompassing desire to be always with him; I was so young (and foolish) and I knew next to nothing about the real world.

There's something ethereal about this fabulous song!

The lead singer is gorgeous and this song is superb. How I miss 70's music.

I was 8 years old in 1978ish when this song was a hit and receiving airplay. I knew then as i do today as a 54 year old that the lady singer had a truly special voice. I would love to see Annie and renaissance play this song today. It is one of them songs that I will never tire listening to

Love the bassline in this beautiful song. It takes me back to my childhood, before life got serious and my parents were still young

Summer holiday in Cornwall with my mum and dad and brother and sister. Boiling hot. I was 13. It was the best holiday ever just because we were together. This played all the time on the radio. My mum and dad both loved this song. How I miss them. 😢

Annie Haslam, what a beautiful voice and a beautiful lady, one of Bolton's finest.. I bought this when it came out in 1978, still play it regularly.

Annie would knock all these so called singers on "X factor/ the voice" for dead with her voice

Beautiful song! So very English! England, we love you!

Such a brilliant song, and from an era when music was worth listening to.

I heard this song when I was maybe 18 or so. It happened to be playing on the radio early one morning as I was getting ready for work. I couldn’t understand why I found it so haunting and familiar. It turns out that it was my mother’s favourite song whilst she was pregnant with me. It’s weird how these things stick with you without even knowing why.

One of the best singles ever made, and Annie is fabulous, lovely voice and all that!

I remember this from the summer of '78........brings back memories of a bygone age.........isn't it!!!!!!!!!!

What a fantastic voice unlike the rubbish we’re spoon fed now. X Factor contestants take note: this is what real talent is.

Annie Haslam has a great voice. This was really their only chart success in the Uk reaching I think a high of 10 and released on the Warner Bros label. However they sold a lot of albums and their concerts sold out very fast. The production on the single was amazing. Lots of close harmonies as well as great musicianship.

Timeless tune, with a beautiful voice and a beautiful lady. Proper english rose... Gorgeous..

Fell in love with Annie the first time I saw her singing this, a magical voice reminiscent of Judith Durham another singing goddess, haven’t listened to music post 2000 absolute garbage,transport me back to the 70s please.

There are few songs so genuinely beautiful they can make you cry. This is one of them, almost certainly one of the best!

Musically & lyrically, one of the best bands in the golden era. And you would be hard pressed to find any female vocalist that can top Annie's octave range, control & pitch. Amazing...

Reminds me so much of the Summer of 1978, what a great time to be young and living in England, some great memories!

Such a cracking singer, and goreous too!

Our parents often may have said "back in the good old days". Now we look back on our own good old days, memories of beautiful music like this give those days a golden glow. Its a cruel world we live in and then we die. So we take to heart the moments that a beautiful voice like this creates.

Brings back so many memories of 1978 when my mam and dad were alive.

Love this song.She is gorgeous.

Sends shivers down youre spine ..absolute classic

One of the most talented singers to grace that period. The band members are all excellent in their craft. Renaissance are one of my favourite bands of that time. Amazing music.

I was in love with this song and its singer.

Truly great song from a great album Song For All Seasons. Even today I can still listen to Renaissance for hours on end..I'm sure they'll live forever!!🥰

Can you imagine something as delightful and as clever as that song, with its striking female vocal, being released under Simon Cowell's media umbrella? NEVER!!

What a fantastic song still sounds brilliant after all these years this is so good from a gifted band😊😊😊😊

Great song performed with astonishing clarity by a lady from Bolton who is a properly trained singer.You can tell by the way she opens her mouth and lets the sound out.It just hits you between the eyes

BEAUTIFUL! Fond memories of being 11 and riding my Purple Raleigh Chopper with friends on the long, hot Summer of 1978....x

still gorgeous and still an excellent song, such a clear, beautiful voice

beautiful song, amazing voice!

I remember this well. I went out and bought the single of it. Thats when there were record shops dotted around the country. I was 19 in 1978.

Beautiful lady, beautiful voice this sort of talent always shines through.

just ticks all the boxes, did then and still does now, perfection in every way, how she can change tones and still make it so amazing

My old dad hated this song. At 14 I saw this on TOTP and fell in love, mostly with Annie but I bought the single and played it back to back constantly until dad confiscated the record player. Mum commented recently that for years he'd change radio station in the car if it came on. He's now very elderly but he and I were popping out for a Tim Hortons and what came on the radio but Annie and Northern Lights, he commented how much he f'ing hated this song, I turned it up and we both sang it at the top of our voices in the car. I still love Annie and have, I think, every recording she ever published. Beautiful lady wonderful voice.

one of the most beautiful songs ever love it and love her

Still a Beautiful Song after all these years.

An English rose at the highest level!!!

Renaissance made the most uplifting and beautiful music to bear the name "rock".

ALWAYS thought this would make a good Christmas song. A few well placed bell sounds in it and a change of lyrics: CHRISTMAS LYRICS: Destination Yultide bound I turn to see the winter flakes behind the wind Horizons seem to beckon me Learned how-to-cry-too-young-so-now I live to sing The Christmas stars are in my mind They guide me back to you Horizons seem to beckon me Learned-how-to-cry-too-young-so-now I live to sing You know it's hard away from you Travelling roads and passing through It's not for money and it's not for fame I just can't explain, sometimes it's lonely Marking the space between the days Early hours pass away I sing to you on Yultide nights I sing for you of Christmas light Past or future, here or there Christmas comes in words from you, so talk to me I hear your voice, it comforts me In winter dreams I take your hand, you walk with me The Christmas stars are in my mind They guide me back to you Peace enfolds the still night air Home again I look for you and find you there Destination homeward now Take-the-easy-way, bring me down Making the hard way now I see Hard to be really free, I'm-missing-you-near-me Marking the space between the days Early hours pass away I sing to you on Yultide nights I sing for you of Christmas light The Christmas stars are in my mind They guide me back to you The Christmas lights are in my eye They guide me back to you The Christmas stars are in my mind They guide me back to you The Christmas lights are in my eye They guide me back to you The Christmas stars are in my mind They guide me back to you

Quality music from a quality band, takes me back to 1978 and a time when music was far more innovative than it is today.

Gorgeous lady with a equally gorgeous voice, please God take me back to those days

South west London 1978,Bjorn Borg and Wimbledon.What a song this was and what a time it was to live.

A voice of an angel and so refreshing

1978. That summer when my baby died. Strangely, this song made me feel better.

what an era for music,space for songs like this +punk+new wave+two tone +disco/dance,+prog rock+heavy metal+..............I was so lucky to be 19 that year

Still a delight in crazy 2021. Real talent lasts forever.

What a beautiful and stunning singer and what a brilliant song

I remember seeing this wonderful band at York University back around that time. Magical sounds like this cross decades with ease, I think.

What a stunning voice that lady has .

Although I liked the song when it was released, I was at the time much more into Punk, Devo, the Ramones, Sex Pistols, etc. Now that music is no where near so perfectly evocative of the halcyon days of 1978 when, at 23 years old, my adventures in this world only just beginning. The Northern Lights were indeed in my eyes. Thanks, very much, for all the wonderful memories. These were happier times, full of hope and promise for me and for the World.

I was always a fan of Annie as she came from my home town Bolton north west England but when I worked away from home a lot it was always my going home song as I sat on the plane especially when we were on final approach to Manchester airport. I love a song for all seasons album and yeah i miss the 80's 90's as well, i'm 54 now and still love all this

1978 was a great year for pop music.

I was 17 and just discovering life when this belter came out. I bought the single - it’s still one of my favourite songs of all time. And I must admit: I was a little bit in love with the lead singer 😊

Amazing song can’t stop playing this❤❤

I was 16 at the time and was just about to get ready to leave school and head out to the big wide world and start work. Now I'm just a few years away from retirement. How time flies.

Such beauty in this woman. Such magnificence in this band! ❤

She's bloody gorgeous loved her voice

One of my favourite recordings of the 70s ❤

Wonderful to see this again, almost 31 years to the day of seeing it go out live in 1978. Very nostalgic, and superb to see Annie looking and sounding so fabulous. I agree with comments below on the addition of trumpet parts to this recording. Lovely.

Beautiful. Just beautiful

Great song, and with Annie Haslam, a beautiful woman and what a fantastic singer.

A teenager with so many hopes and dreams when this song was on every radio,

The BBC had a silly rule thst forced artists to rerecord their songs for broadcasting. They wouldn't allow them to mime over the original recording. This is why this sounds quite different to the single/album version.

Thanks for uploading this. Loved it

I can't believe this was their only hit? A voice like that I thought would have hit after hit for years.

this beauty reminds me of my time with my nanna and granddad on the isle of wight in the early 80's.

Probably the best single line of any song ever written "Shelter comes in words from you - so talk to me"

Amazing track, stunning Annie Haslam , A great time to be young. People were real, music was real . The seventies were amazing . A song for all seasons. God Bless Renaissance

stunning voice , amazing song .... such happy times , unlike todays . pc gone mad , oh kids you have been shafted . when the time machine gets invented go to this year , you will not be disappointed

Im turning my clock back tonight to 1978😊

I was 12 when this was on and I was mildly obsessed with Annie, I taped the song off the radio, complete with DJ talking all over the start and played back to back it until my Dad had finally had enough and it 'disappeared'. I haven't heard it much since but this is really brilliant, she is still a beautiful and talented lady.

A stunningly beautiful woman with the voice of an angel .

BBC Radio 2 was good enough to play this recently ( Jan 2015 ) I was only a wee nipper when it was released but remember it well...such a good song, such a cracking voice and by 'eck, what a BABE!!!!!

I was seven when I heard this song, on holiday in south shields, I was told it was by prelude, took me 25 years to find it, beautiful song ,great holiday!

Annie Haslam is a bird! A perfect singing bird. And what an ass kicker bassist is Jon Camp!!!! One of the most underrated bassists ever...

Whenever I watch this I am reminded of Waylon Jennings’ comment about Linda Ronstadt, which is also so true of Annie « There are two sorts of guy in the world. Those who have a crush on her and those who have never heard of her « !

Only listen 2 Trance Music now but keep coming back 2 listen this beautiful song . It pulls at the heart strings ❤️❤️❤️

Annie Haslam, Judy Tzuke- icons and Goddesses of an era!

Great to hear this one again, takes me back to my youth.