Today I was watching this cute little Netflix original movie, 'Like Father' with Kelsey Grammer and Kristen Bell, and during the last scene of the movie, this familiar intro starts to play. I think, ah, 'Save it for Later' by The Beat (or rather The English Beat in the U.S.A.), and when the singer comes in....wait! That's not the original version. That's Pete Townshend singing! Hmmm! I've never heard this cover, and I love Pete Townshend. How did I miss this back then?
So, I break out the ipad and google "Pete Townshend Save it for Later" and see that he recorded it in 1986, and said it was one of his favorite songs. So, I look it up on YouTube and give it a listen.
Gorgeous cover of a great song.
So then, I'm sending the video to my husband and telling him about how I heard it in the movie, yadda yadda. Then, I tell him that in the comments of the above video someone mentions how Townshend called up Dave Wakeling back in the 80s, and told him he (Townshend) and David Gilmour (one of my husband's favorite artists) were trying to figure out the chords to 'Save It For Later'.
Not five minutes later, my husband sends me this video, where Dave Wakeling recounts the exact event mentioned above...
...which leads me to this video of Pete Townshend's live performance of the cover, which Dave Wakeling mentions in the video above...
And just to circle back to the beginning, and because we need more good music, here is the original "Save it For Later" video from The Beat.
I was a child of the 80's and I always talk about how happy I am that I never grew up with the internet or social media. Being a teen was hard enough without it. But what I would give to have had google and YouTube when it comes to music. One of our favorite things to do is sit around and queue up videos on YouTube and play video DJ. We get lost in all the nostalgia of the music we grew up with, and discovering new/old music we missed, just like the above chain of events. This is when I love the internet.
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