The piano guy is a serious musician indeed, perfect both in piano and in vocals, top notch artist.

This song is one of my all-time favourites, but there's a beautiful harmony between the singer and pianist that is missed in the studio recording. Absolutely beautiful.

This guy is about a thousand times more talented than any of these present day auto tuned pretenders !!.....absolutely great singer and songwriter !!

The way he sings "Oh, I need" gives me goosebumps. This is the best live version of this exquisite song.

That seconds guy singing backup vocals makes all the difference, fabulous!

One of my favorite songs. Such a haunting melody.

Wow! He sounds amazing live after all these years...

you know an singer is really good if they sound good live, and he sounds perfect.

after all these years, it still sounds just like i remember, a mark of a true artist

Those vocal harmonies were tight as FUUUUUUUCK!!!

Richard, the man at the piano.....great voice! I enjoy singing along, I am a" harmony junkie". Your voice is unique and quite lovely.

The pianist Is great, sings great and compliments Richards voice very well ! Sad Richard doesn't get more credit as he's better than 50 or 100 of the so called artist they spit out daily. Btw Richard's voice is so much better by the years, controls it so good! Bravo!

Wish we had more artists like Richard, a singer who can sing live.

So much melancholy, so much sorrow, so much beauty in a song. Loved this song when i was a kid and still love it at 42.

Wow! What an amazing second voice, great harmonization.

Beautiful and the back up singer on the piano sounds awesome

Out of nowhere this song was in my head today. I spent an hour trying to remember the words or even title. Then I remembered Mary being in it . Lol I didn’t a search for songs with Nary in the lyrics. And 💥 bam out of no where it was there. Thankyou for the forever mysterious song. My sister loved you growing up. She sadly is no longer with us. But, the memories will be with me always. God bless

This version IS my FAVORITE! The harmonies between Richard and his BU pianist are incredible. The two of you create magic together, Richard. I hope your pianist KNOWS just how blessed he is to be able to smoothly and effortlessly blend his voice into an incredible song with you that is and ALWAYS will be, A CLASSIC. I got chillbumps when I heard the two of you come together...and I've listened over and over. Masterpiece! 🌹💞

Amazing performance of this awesome song. Richard nails it, but the pianist doesn´t fall short. The harmonies at 3:08 give me chills every time I listen to it, literally.

Omg still classic!! Your voice is still flawless!! And YES the vocal harmonies are on point!! Woo! 🙋🏻‍♀️😊

Rich your wife was right.. Its a great song and this performance is amazing.. The pianist makes it with his effortless harmony

I could listen to your voice FOREVER...NONSTOP!! I start each day with my headphones on...and playing your songs, one after another...after another!! This is one of my favorites...of MANY!! Love you!!! AWESOME!

These two voices together are simply fantastic !!!

Unsung artist and an extremely underrated great song.Their complementary voices are super magnificent. Bravo!

Omg iv been listening to this all day.. absolutely beautiful! them 2 voices together leaves me speechless perfection ❤❤❤❤❤

Magnificent. My fave song he does of all. This song is SO powerful and his voice is unimitable perfection. I am IN LOVE with this song. It needs to be used in a movie. Its so emotionally provocative and haunting. Passionate. Just perfection.

20 years on , this song still sounds great!

Richard was great.. but his piano man carried the spirit of this one and they smashingly killed it together! definitely a favourite!!

It has always been one of my favorite songs

Pra mim a melhor versão ao vivo dessa música , essa batida d violão , o acompanhamento dos violinos , sem falar q Richard é fora d série , e uma menção honrosa pra esse cara do piano q além d tocar muito tem uma voz do cacete .

after all the years, he still sounds amazing. What a amazing talent, voice and song. I miss the 80's. God bless You Richard Marx..Wish He would come close to Alabama so i could see him

I keep coming back for Mr Piano Man's wonderful harmonies...

I love his voice ! SOOO natural !

This song is the pivotal moment when classic rock started incorporating pop motives. Modern rock and pop/rock music is based on exactly this principle. And to think he dreamt the whole thing while riding in his bus at 4am in the morning, it's amazing.

Back up singer is awesome ~

Such a nice live performance.

The pianist is fabulous....great tune....memories....

Just …beautiful !! This Guy us Genius!

He voice is still so beautiful after year❤❤❤

The background singer is amazing!!

Only those who were lucky enough to be around during the 80s and early 90s, and even then!!!! I asked my boss yesterday if he knew Richard Marx and he had no clue lol he is a country fan boy but whatever...Richard Marx 4 life baby!

a song that's too hard to not play regularly.. it just comes into my head so often my computer can read my mind and sometimes just starts to play it before i even sit down. just a truly unbelievably beautiful song....

Straight from the days of creating quality music.

Hi dear, I like the beautiful songs, lyrics and arrangement that you sing. You are blessed by God. Thank you.🇧🇷

Anyone 2024? Love from 🇱🇰 sri lanka

A great hug from Brazil. 28 years after and I love this beautiful and sad song the same way ! And thanks to your wife, Cynthia, lol !

This is a bit more JAZZY than the original .... LUV IT ! The strings and the keyboard are top notch .....

The bridge gave me goosebumps

The synchronicity alone of both tempo and notes during every line of those harmonies is even more work than genius.

Cuándo se une una magnífica voz y unos acordes reales y perfectos, no se necesita más. Una canción qué puede inspirar romanticismo y nostalgia, pero que habla de una tragedia. Maravilloso Richard Marx. Greeting from Spain

Besides singing, Richard is doing some magic with his guitar! And the pianist nailed it man! Respect! It sounds much soothing than the original. I have been listening this since my childhood, it's been almost 17 years when I first listen this song. Till this song is telling me the same story again and again but i never get bored. Thanks Richard Marx for making our childhood so beautiful.

I don't know if it's you for real, or if you'll ever read this posts. But I think you are one of the most exceptional songwriters of all times. My mother used tolisten to you when I was I child, and I kind of grew up with your music. Since English is not my mother tongue, I had to try to figure out what your songs were about and then translate them to mom. This is one of my faves. Kuddos to your wife. Amazing songwriter / singer / musician.

Too bad there isn't a LOVE button. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that one day, I'd open a show for Richard -- and get to see him. But we did. It's been alright.

Homeboy on the keys is talented as can be

Beautiful song dear Richard :-)!

They killed it-awesome

The voice of Steve Hornbeak 🥰🥰🤩😍 gives this song emotion, so my heart melts every time i'm listening to it...

I have loved this song for so so many years im.39 now and its as good as 1st time.

One of the most beautiful song of the world!

Richard, wow, what incredibly pure talent! I grew up with your music however, you've become timeless. Congratulations. Truly an honor to listen to you sing.

BEAUTIFUL!!! WORDS, STORY , BLENDING VOICES AND JUST HIS VOCAL!!!!!! STILL AWESOME AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!!!

Richard Marx is number 1 on my Pandora choice every day! I am a Nurse in a wound care clinic and I play his station every day on my patients young and old love it! 🎼🎸🎹

Beautiful.

Milion liked for Mr Marx , that was a music to love making in 90’s many thanks for a good memories Mr Marx! 😍

Bons Tempos...música maravilhosa!

Awesome song.

Couldn't have expected less, we Richards are extremely talented.

Que VOZ SUAVE! Pensava que era uma música romântica e descobri que é sobre uma tragédia

February 25, 2021. I have listened and watched Richard perform this and yet tears still pour 💔 remembering when I lost a very dear young friend. What I thought a very bright intelligent business mind model. Green eyes and blonde hair. I had introduced him to a friend worried about him and driven a long way hearing him call my name. Then one day his old place he used to work gave me a prayer card with the sunlight on his hair. He committed suicide in his home and had shot himself. We all were torn by it. Even today I at least know I did my best and acted on what I heard his voice calling me and made sure in my mind that he had someone to reach out to not appearing as depressed as he was. His speed of learning was slow. But He always talked to customers.Be at peace love you're with him. When this brilliant star 🌟sings from the depth and brilliant skill I feel like he's carrying me through the memory to ease my mind. RICHARD MARX. Beyond all your classic hits this truly is of a Genius mind and all time TOP POP ARTIST MUSICIAN I feel of all time CLASSIC MODEL performances, presentationcinsisyency brings me to you EVERY TIME. I'm so glad I had the HONOUR of hearing and seeing you live 💕 many years ago and connects me having heard you live. When you've had that opportunity to hear a brilliant Artist as I did with RICHARD MARX, the emotional experience of being brought thru something traumatic as I did you keep that memory and it heals me every time having lost someone I loved and heard him call my name. Love me. 💘 💘😻💜💛💚🧡💘😻💜💛💚🧡💘😻💜💛💚🧡💘😻💜💛💚 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

He sings so effortlessly. Marx aged like wine!:)

I just saw him live for the first time back in June 2013, after being a fan for 26 of my 31 years. HE CAN SING. Will always be a Richard Marx fan.

Fabulous .. Richard Marx .. How much sensitivity ..

One of my favorites. He's a great artist!

Richard,the Hazard was fantastic! You are a genious!

I'm watching this from Malaysia. I've always liked this song, and I always will and always have. I first listened to this song when I was a teenager. Richards still looks as good as he was.

Love your music Richard iv had so many ups and downs in life losing my dad year n half ago. But your songs always make me feel happier. Xx

Richard's voice is like Velvet! I just time machined back into the 80s. That violin adds so much sentiment to the song as well. 👍🏼👍🏼

His voice is still so beautiful, this song gives me goosebumps. He is one of the reason why I never listen the current music styles.

Not only a great musician, An amazing storyteller

Looks like this video was uploaded in 2012. Shame on me! This live version is freaking amazing. The piano man is fantastic. Everything sounds perfect in this version. I wish there were more music and singers like him today.

PURE ABSOLUTE TALENT

This song means so much for me..I will love it till i close my eyes forever..Palle Denmark.

I never get tired of listening to you... Loved you WAY back then...love you now. Thanks for sharing your talents with the rest of us. Lisa...

This is the Kind of Real Music ... Rare Talent ... Unlike NowAdays

Ewww, that "safe and sound" harmony was beautiful!

How good do you want the background vocals and piano to be? Yes

Such a Beautiful song❤ on my play list ever since till now Love it❤❤❤

Perfection❤️

This song is haunting.

Beautifulllllll !!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤ From Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾

A song that never gets old.

Wow! After 30 years your singing is better than ever! Bravo! This one as well is one of my favorites song from Richard! The piano man sings great too! 👏👏👍👍🤘🤘

Love the lyrics in this song. I look back on life and how it has done me wrong. All my rescues are gone.

Que voz e que música linda!😍❤😘

I don't remember the first time I heard this song, but I do remember the 2nd time. It was announced on the radio that it was coming up next, and I ran and grabbed the much ballyhooed tape recorder so I could hold it up to the speakers and get a recording of it. It's one of those songs that in such a short time, grips you in a spellbinding way. I remember I could almost see the entire story unfolding in my 14 year old imagination movie theater as the song played. Even to this day, I become emotionally invested in this song I've heard many hundreds of times, and it has a permanent spot in my top favorites list. I'm so glad you tried to prove your wife wrong. This was a brilliant song, sung by a masterful artist. On a side note, I listened to this song on here recently so I could see the video again, immediately after for the countless time I tried to find the movie this song was from. I am both relieved and disappointed there is no movie. Disappointed I'll never know how it was meant to have ended, and relieved because I can still imagine my own endings as I did those decades ago.

One of my favorites... sublime performance. I've waiting 20 yrs to hear this song live. I was not disappointed

Canta muito ainda,amo as. músicas dele!!❤

Amazing Artist!! ❤❤❤❤

The music follows his voice. This is the real deal. Thanks for posting.

dear Richard I sing your fabulous songs all day